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Our corporate podcast brings a 360° perspective to issues and topics that concern the diverse industries within our Client portfolio, offering a variety of professional insights, fueling a greater understanding and awareness of Fenstermaker's unique expertise. www.fenstermaker.com

EWeek 24: Andy Sellers, P.E., hosted by Rhett Hebert, E.I.
02/23/2024

Andy Sellers joined Fenstermaker’s Lafayette Engineering group in December 2006 and gained professional engineering licensure over a decade ago in 2013. Andy specializes in civil projects for municipal and parish clients. Currently serving as the Engineer for the City of Carencro, Mr. Sellers manages client relations, engineering services, and infrastructure projects. His responsibilities span the design and enhancement of drainage systems, floodplain management, roadway design, utility design, site design, construction administration, and plan review for commercial and residential developments. 

In his capacity as a Certified Floodplain Manager, Andy collaborates closely with the City of Carencro’s planning department to ove...


EWeek 24: Dustin Guidry, P.E., hosted by Marina Saad, E.I.
02/23/2024

Dustin Guidry is a licensed professional engineer in Louisiana with extensive expertise in civil engineering and construction management. Dustin began his career with Fenstermaker in December 2012 as a construction inspector. In this role, Dustin collaborated closely with contractors and engineers in the field, ensuring projects adhered to plans and specifications. 

Evolving within the company, Dustin transitioned into the role of a CADD Technician, where he collaborated with engineers and surveyors to generate construction plans, survey plats, and project exhibits. With a solid foundation in Civil Engineering, he furthered his career as a project engineer, shouldering responsibilities for C...


EWeek 24: Nick Castille, P.E., hosted by Holden Landry
02/21/2024

Nicholas Castille joined Fenstermaker in November 2019 after graduating from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He then gained his professional engineering licensure three-and-a-half years later in 2023. As a civil engineer, Nick brings his expertise in design, planning, and hydraulic modeling to our Engineering division.

Nick actively contributes to roadway plan preparation, horizontal geometric design, inspections, design of geotechnical features, and the implementation of open and closed drainage systems. His primary focus and expertise encompass various areas, including drainage design, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling and reporting, roadway design and plan production, civil site design, and construction administration.


EWeek 24: Anna Doucet, P.E., hosted by Braden Dauphine
02/20/2024

Anna Doucet began her career at Fenstermaker early in 2015. Subsequently gaining her licensure 4 years later in 2019, Anna is now a Professional Engineer specializing in roadway design, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, and project management within water resource and transportation sectors.  

In her current role, Anna oversees civil design projects, strategically managing multi-million-dollar projects for both public and private sectors. She has collaborated with various agencies, including LADOTD, FEMA, GOHSEP, along with local municipalities, showcasing her coordination skills in diverse project environments. 

Anna has successfully brought many water resources projects to completion, incorporating numerical hydrologic and hydraulic mod...


EWeek 24: Ian Trahan, P.E., hosted by Mason Macaluso, E.I.
02/19/2024

Ian Trahan, P.E. is a Senior Engineer, he joined Fenstermaker in April 2021. Ian obtained his professional licensure first in Illinois in 2002, and then 2 years later became licensed in Louisiana, almost 20 years ago now.  

In his prior role, Ian served the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD) as Program Manager for their involvement in the Louisiana Watershed Initiative (LWI). 

There, Mr. Trahan oversaw the DOTD/LWI Statewide Modeling Program, managing four out of seven modeling teams across the State of Louisiana. His active participation in various LWI Technical Advisory Groups, representation of DOTD on the...


Ehab Meselhe, PhD, PE, on the Louisiana Watershed Initiative
04/27/2023

Dr. Ehab Meselhe is a Professional Engineer and Professor in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering at Tulane University. Born in Egypt, in a small town at the tip of the Nile Delta, he spent the first part of his career studying the Nile basin. Ehab left Egypt to study Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Iowa, there earning his master’s and PhD.

It was the University of Louisiana at Lafayette that brought Ehab to Louisiana, where he was a professor in the Department of Civil Engineering for 15 years.

One of Lo...


Billy Williamson, PE, on the Louisiana Watershed Initiative
04/13/2023

Billy Williamson is the Statewide Flood and Watershed Evaluation Programs Administrator with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. Prior to his near 9-year tenure with LADOTD, Billy worked within the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources as a Professional Engineer upon graduation from Louisiana State University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

In his current role with LADOTD, Mr. Billy Williamson provides management and oversight for the Watershed and Flood Protection Programs in the Public Works and Water Resources Division, including the Louisiana Watershed Initiative (LWI), the Statewide Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling and Statewide Flood Co...


Austin Doucet, EI, on the Louisiana Watershed Initiative
03/30/2023

Austin Doucet began his career at Fenstermaker in 2017 as a Civil Engineering Student Intern shortly before his graduation in 2019 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he earned his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. For the duration of his now 6-year tenure with our firm, and through his current position as an Engineer Intern, Austin has been working toward obtaining his Professional Engineering Licensure with mentorship and supervision from Engineering Director, Jeanne Hornsby, who leads our Water Resources team.

Austin has been involved in reviewing and developing flood study analyses, the designing of open channel...


Bradford Habetz Millett, PLS, EI, on the Louisiana Watershed Initiative
03/20/2023

Bradford Millett is a Licensed Professional Land Surveyor in the state of Louisiana with a decade of tenure here at Fenstermaker. Bradford’s career at Fenstermaker began in 2013 when she joined us as an Engineer Intern, coinciding with her graduation from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette having earned a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering. Serving in a dual capacity as both engineer and surveyor, Bradford combines her training in civil engineering with her exceptional proficiency in survey work to engage in cross-disciplinary projects such as the Louisiana Watershed Initiative, the topic of this season of FUELED, our corp...


Jonathan Breaux on the Louisiana Watershed Initiative
03/02/2023

Jonathan Breaux began his surveying career at Fenstermaker as a Rodman in 2007, now, almost 16 years later, Jonathan is a Party Chief III, having worked his way through the ranks of our field operations. As a survey party chief, Jonathan coordinates and supervises the activities of his crew, including instrumentmen and rodmen, as directed by project managers and under the supervision of our Field Operations manager along with a Licensed Professional Surveyor. Throughout the years, Jonathan has exhibited excellent time management, conflict resolution, and teamwork skills, has held himself and crew to a high standard of operation, demonstrating accountability, independence...