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Uniontown Firm announces engineering advances
McMillen Engineering of Uniontown has announced that Chad Stafford has passed the “Principal and Practices of Engineering Civil Engineering’ professional exam with structural discipline making him a Pennsylvania registered professional licensed engineer.
The engineering firm also announced that Ron Herrington has successfully passed the engineer-in-training (EIT) examination.
Stafford is the fifth professional engineer at McMillen Engineering. He joined the company in August 1995 and was later promoted to the position of survey coordinator. Recently, as project engineer, Stafford has shared in the responsibilities of overseeing all of the engineering projects, which entails estimating of engineering services and fees; managing and distributing the firm’s projects; and designing and reviewing land development, planning and other civil engineering projects. As the primary structural designer at McMillen Engineering, Stafford is involved in the analysis, design and detailing of structural projects; from small retaining walls to full structural building design. He also specializes in environmental work including wetland delineations, sanitary sewage designs, phase I environmental assessments and waterway analysis.
A previous part-time instructor in the engineering department at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, Stafford graduated from Pennsylvania State University and holds a bachelor of architectural engineering degree with a structural discipline option.
Stafford is originally from Hopwood, and now resides with his wife Leslie and their son Jakob in Washington.
For Herrington, the EIT exam is the first step on the road to a professional license in civil engineering. After a certain number of years of experience, EIT’s may take the P.E. test to become licensed civil engineers. Herrington joined McMillen Engineering last year. In 2005, he graduated from Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering. Herrington resides in Brownsville.
Specializing in land development, McMillen Engineering is a full service civil engineering firm. Founded in 1977, McMillen Engineering is located at 115 Wayland Smith Drive, Uniontown, Pa. 15401. For more information, call 724-439-8110 or visit their Web site at www.mcmilleng.com.
Uniontown
Group schedules OSHA meeting
Tri-State Society for Human Resources Management will host “OSHA: What Every Employer Needs To Know,’ from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Holiday Inn, Uniontown.
Guest speaker will be Robert Szymanski, area director, Pittsburgh Office, Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA).
The focus of the meeting will be on federal safety regulations, recognizing common workplace hazards, discovering tips for maintaining a safe workplace, verifying record keeping and notice requirements and learning about recent enforcement developments.
Lunch and networking will be held at noon.
Those attending must RSVP by Tuesday at noon. For more information on fees or to resister, call Sally Griffith Cimini at 412-394-6966 or email at scimini@bccz.com.
Philadelphia
Local man named to bar position
Former Uniontown resident A. Michael Pratt, a partner with Pepper Hamilton LLP, Philadelphia, has been elected vice chancellor of the 13,000-member Philadelphia Bar Association. He will serve as chancellor-elect in 2007, and lead the bar as chancellor in 2008.
“Mike is a natural leader and a terrific representative for the profession, the city and our firm,” said Robert E. Heideck, Pepper’s executive partner. “We are proud of his efforts on behalf of the bar.”
Pratt is a 1977 graduate of Uniontown High School and the son of Joan Tracy of Uniontown.
“It is indeed an honor to have been elected to this post, and it is a privilege to work with the current chancellor, Alan Feldman, and chancellor-elect Jane Dalton, who are truly visionary leaders of this bar association. I look forward to working with them over the next several years on issues affecting our membership and legal community, including initiatives to increase funding for legal services and to promote diversity,” Pratt said.
Pratt concentrates his practice in commercial, product liability and mass tort litigation. He represents clients in a range of commercial and product liability matters involving contracts, affirmative action and civil rights policies, legislation, toxic tort, industrial and consumer products, and pharmaceutical devices and drugs.
Pratt has held many leadership positions in the Philadelphia Bar Association, including serving on its board of governors and as chairman of the Young Lawyers Division. He also has served as president of the Barristers Association of Philadelphia Inc., a local organization of African-American lawyers.
He is actively involved with the Pennsylvania and American bar associations, serving as a member of the PBA’s House of Delegates since 1995, and as a member of both the ABA’s Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants and the Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service.
Pratt will be the sixth Pepper partner to lead the Philadelphia Bar Association.
The Philadelphia Bar Association (www.philabar.org) is America’s oldest chartered metropolitan bar association and Pennsylvania’s largest local bar association. The 13,000-member organization, founded in 1802, is a keystone in the ongoing developments of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania legal systems.
Pepper Hamilton LLP (www.pepperlaw.com) is a multi-practice law firm with 400 lawyers in six states and the District of Columbia. The firm provides corporate, litigation and regulatory legal services to leading businesses, governmental entities, nonprofit organizations and individuals throughout the nation and the world. The firm was founded in 1890.