ATC Elects Officers and Sets Dates and Places for 2000 Board Meetings

NEWS RELEASE
January 25, 2000

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New Officers and Committee Members:

At its annual Organizational meeting on January 15, 2000 in Berkeley, California, the ATC Board of Directors elected Arthur N. L. Chiu (University of Hawaii at Manoa ) as ATC President, replacing Edwin T. Dean (Nishkian Dean, Portland, Oregon), who will now serve as Past President. Andrew T. Merovich (A. T. Merovich & Associates, Inc., San Rafael, California) was elected as Vice President., and Stephen H. Pelham (Barrish, Pelham & Partners, Inc., Sacramento, California) as Secretary/Treasurer. Each will serve a 1-year term.
Arthur N.L. Chiu Andrew T. Merovich Stephen H. Pelham During the same meeting, the following committees were appointed:

Executive Committee: Arthur Chiu, Andrew Merovich, Stephen Pelham, Edwin Dean, and James Cagley (Cagley & Associates, Rockville, Maryland)

Bylaws and Policy. Edwin Dean

Design Guides. Maryann Phipps (Chairman) (Degenkolb Engineers, San Francisco, California), Ronald Hamburger (EQE International, Oakland, California), Robert Dean (University of Florida, Gainesville), and Richard Hess (Hess Engineering, Inc., Los Alamitos, California)

Endowment Committee. James Cagley (Chairman), Arthur Chiu, James Delahay (Lane Bishop York Delahay, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama), Edwin Johnson (Atkinson, Johnson and Spurrier, San Diego, California), Newland Malmquist (Larsen and Malmquist, Salt Lake City, Utah), Maryann Phipps, Richard Phillips (Hillman Biddison & Loevenguth, Los Angeles, California), Jonathan Shipp (EQE International, Irvine, California), and Charles Thornton (Thornton-Tomasetti, New York City, New York)

Financial Statement Review. Stephen Pelham (Chairman), Edwin Johnson, Andrew Merovich, Maryann Phipps

Multi-Hazard Mitigation. Robert Dean (Chairman), Steven Baldridge (Baldridge & Associates, Honolulu, Hawaii), James Cagley, James Delahay, Maryann Phipps

Personnel. Andrew Merovich (Chairman), Patrick Buscovich (Patrick Buscovich, Structural Engineer, San Francisco, California), James Cagley, and Edwin Dean

Publications. Edwin Dean (Chairman), James Delahay, Stephen Pelham, and Lawrence Reaveley (University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah)

Seminars. James Delahay (Chairman), Patrick Buscovich, Edwin Johnson, and Stephen Pelham

Strategic Planning. Edwin Dean (Chairman), James Cagley, Maryann Phipps, and Lawrence Reaveley

Liaison Assignments.

American Society of Civil Engineers:	L. Reaveley
Building Seismic Safety Council:	C. Thornton
Earthquake Engineering Research Institute:	C. Comartin (tentative)
Institute for Business and Home Safety:	D. Kim
National Council of Structural Engineers Associations:	J. Delahay
Structural Engineers Association of California	R. Hamburger
Structural Engineers Association of Central California	Stephen Pelham
Structural Engineers Association of Northern California	P. Buscovich
Structural Engineers Association of San Diego	E. Johnson
Structural Engineers Association of Southern California	R. Hess
Western Council of Structural Engineers Associations	S. Baldridge, Edwin Dean

Meeting Dates and Locations

Saturday, April 15, 2000	Washington, DC
Saturday, July 22, 2000	Newport Beach or Irvine, California area
Saturday, October 28, 2000	Hawaii
Saturday, January 20, 2001	San Francisco Bay area, California

Welcome to the ATC Team!

Michael Valley

As a former Principal at Magnusson Klemencic Associates in Seattle, Mike Valley comes to ATC with more than 30 years of structural engineering experience in new design, evaluation and retrofit of existing buildings, applied research, and codes and standards development. Mike’s design experience includes the landmark Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, and his research and development experience includes the FEMA 356 Prestandard and Commentary for the Seismic Rehabilitation of Buildings, FEMA P-2012 Assessing Seismic Performance of Buildings with Configuration Irregularities (ATC-123 Project), and NIST GCR 10-917-9 Applicability of Nonlinear Multiple-Degree-of-Freedom Modeling for Design (ATC-76-6 Project).

Mike also has extensive experience as an ATC consultant serving as a reviewer, a technical contributor, and Project Director on multiple ATC projects. We look forward to how Mike’s unique experiences as a successful team member will contribute to ATC projects in the future.

Michael Mahoney

Retired from federal service as a Senior Geophysicist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Mike Mahoney comes to ATC with more than 30 years of experience in hazard mitigation program management and policy development, post-disaster response and recovery, and problem-focused research and development in support of FEMA’s efforts under the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP). He has led FEMA’s earthquake-related work with the International Code Council and has been involved with the development of national model codes and standards since 1984.

In his career at FEMA, Mike has led the development of countless major FEMA publications, including: FEMA 350 Recommended Seismic Design Criteria for New Steel Moment-Frame Buildings and its series of companion reports (ATC-41 Project series), FEMA P-58 Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings, Methodology and Implementation (ATC-58 Project series), FEMA P-695 Quantification of Building Seismic Performance Factors (ATC-63 Project), FEMA P-2018 Seismic Evaluation of Older Concrete Buildings for Collapse Potential (ATC-78 Project), and FEMA P-2090/NIST SP-1254 Recommended Options for Improving the Built Environment for Post-Earthquake Reoccupancy and Functional Recovery Time (ATC-137 Project). With Mike’s extensive knowledge of federal government programs, and past collaboration with state and local agencies, hazard mitigation partners, and code development organizations, we look forward to how his unique experiences will help serve ATC’s client needs and objectives in the future.