R&M Staff Promoted to Senior Level Positions

Employees at engineering firm R&M Consultants have been promoted to senior level positions, reflecting years of experience and expertise in their respective fields.

Ryan Goentzel is now a Senior Project Engineer. Goentzel has been with R&M since 2007, starting as an intern in the firm’s Engineering Department. His most recent position is surface transportation project engineer. With seventeen years of experience, his focus has been leading and coordinating the design of highways, roundabouts, pathways, culverts, grading, drainage, and signing and striping plans. Goentzel has worked on projects for clients at the local, regional, and state level across Alaska.

Josh Chaney is promoted to Senior Project Engineer in R&M’s Structural Engineering Group. Chaney has been with R&M for two years. He has sixteen years of structural engineering experience, with thirteen years in Alaska’s oilfield services industry. Chaney’s engineering responsibilities have included producing engineering calculations, creating design drawings, providing budget estimates, generating scopes of work, creating material requisitions, reviewing fabrication drawings, conducting field visits and preparing reports, building inspection, and providing construction support.

Lisa Morris is now a Senior Graphic Designer. Morris has twenty-two years of professional design experience, eighteen of those in Alaska’s A/E/C sector. She has been with R&M since 2020 and specializes in developing custom graphics that persuade and inform end user audiences. Morris’s skills include corporate and project branding, collateral design, project visual identities, report design, infographics, historical displays, copywriting, and editing. She has a proven ability to efficiently execute simple or complex ideas in graphic form and enjoys collaborating on projects from concept to completion.

Courtney Maillet has been promoted to Senior Project Accountant. Maillet has sixteen years of financial experience and has been with R&M for twelve years. She is knowledgeable in all aspects of business accounting. Maillet’s responsibilities include maintaining contract compliance, managing and reporting project financials and budgets, managing accounts receivable and payable, and assisting with database configuration. She also provides project management support for budgeting purposes and supports other accounting tasks as needed.