Kim serves as Protean’s President and reviews all projects before they’re submitted to the client, ensuring our quality standards have been followed.

Kim specializes in structural design including curved, continuous steel girder, prestressed AASHTO beam, and cast-in-place (CIP) flat slab bridges, as well as miscellaneous structures. She’s versed in drainage and permitting, roadway design, signals, and signing and pavement markings and has worked on numerous major and minor design projects.

Fun Fact: Kim has a small, domestic zoo at home consisting of two dogs, four cats, two bunnies, and some fish. She read about 60 books last year. Most of them fiction. Most of them digital. She has watched the Academy Awards every year since 8th grade and tries to watch all the best picture nominees—though she doesn’t always succeed!

Having served as project manager or project director for more than 100 projects throughout his career, Scott has developed expertise in a broad range of transportation design components. His diverse background includes roadway design, drainage and permitting, lighting, signalization, and traffic operations engineering. He has worked on numerous major, minor, and limited access projects throughout his career, consisting of widening, reconstruction, milling and resurfacing, interchange design, signalization, signing and pavement markings, sidewalk and ADA improvements, and drainage improvements. Scott has managed numerous mobility and complete streets projects, that bring multiple agencies together (city, county, FDOT, metropolitan planning organizations, and other funding sources) to address all means of transportation applicable to the given network.

Fun Fact: If Scott were to start his college education over again, he would seriously consider becoming a particle physicist.

David oversees all roadway-led projects. He has extensive highway design experience ranging from complex interchanges to pedestrian and ADA improvements. He has led major, minor, and limited access efforts encompassing new interchanges, capacity improvements, resurfacing and innovative pavement failure techniques, design-build request for proposals (RFPs), award-winning roundabouts, temporary traffic control plans (TTCP), and various safety improvements.

Fun Fact: David started working on cars at the age of five, handing wrenches to his father as he worked on his Triumph TR-3A, and he’s been “turning wrenches” ever since. His most recent project was the restoration of a 1968 Corvette that David trailered home from Tampa in pieces.

Karen is versed in roadway design, drainage design, and permitting; providing her unique insight into any transportation project. She has worked on numerous major, minor, and interstate design projects including drainage, permitting, roadway widenings, reconstructions, milling and resurfacings, signing and pavement markings, shoulder construction, signalization, sidewalk and ADA improvements, and guardrail improvements throughout Florida.

Fun Fact: In her free time, Karen plays on two bowling leagues and participates in bowling tournaments throughout Florida.

Alex oversees all traffic engineering and operation functions. He has provided lighting, signing, pavement markings, signal, and intelligent transportation systems (ITS), as well as roadway and temporary traffic control plans (TTCP). Alex offers clients strong leadership qualities, as seen through his successful management of multiple assignments under our districtwide, design-build, and push button contracts. He has led complex traffic operations projects including safety and intersection improvements, signal reconstructions, systemwide dynamic messaging sign (DMS) upgrades, concept and master signing plans, lighting design, and standard and complex signalization design, which included development of the State’s first modified partial restricted-crossing U-turn intersection. He has developed knowledge of client-specific requirements and preferences and has relationships with key personnel to streamline the decision-making process.

Fun Fact: In his free time, Alex enjoys spending time in the water. His passions include scuba diving and wakeboarding.

As the group leader for Protean's transportation planning group, Todd brings experience specializing in traffic operations, transportation planning studies, and concurrency management systems (CMS). Specifically, he has managed and led developments of regional impact (DRIs) and comprehensive plans, corridor- and area-wide planning studies, signal warrants, traffic impact studies, impact fee studies, and data collection efforts.

Fun Fact: Todd knows calligraphy and in his free time he is an avid baker. He is also a sports fanatic, enjoying watching, playing, and coaching all sports.

Drew serves as a project manager in our Punta Gorda office. His diverse background includes minor and major roadway design; limited access facilities including new facilities, ramps, interchanges, and design-build RFPs; drainage design for a multitude of projects including resurfacing, reconstruction, new alignments, and private developments; utility coordination; and public outreach programs.

Fun Fact: Drew also passes his time watching, and re-watching, Parks and Rec episodes, where he’s found his newest life motto: “Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don’t teach a man to fish…and feed yourself. He’s a grown man. And fishing’s not that hard.” – Ron Swanson

Laura brings a wealth of experience in roadway, stormwater, and stormsewer design. She is skilled in all aspects of geometric design, including vertical and horizontal alignments, rural and high-speed urban designs, temporary traffic control plans (TTCP), and signing and pavement markings. She also has experience with modeling stormsewer systems and the design of wet detention ponds, retention ponds, and floodplain compensation sites in compliance with Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) criteria. In addition, Laura is experienced with conducting traffic impact statements for proposed developments.

Fun Fact: Laura unwinds by watching her favorite shows, Parks and Rec and The Office. Her most relatable quotes include:
"Guys love it when you can show them you're better than they are at something they love."
– Leslie Knope
“You know what they say, ‘Fool me once, strike one, but fool me twice…strike three.’”
–Michael Scott

Michelle specializes in project management, 3D modeling, and design of major/minor roadways, limited access facilities, and interchange designs. She brings forth her capabilities to deliver constructible projects for clients statewide.

Fun Fact: Take a close look at the goalie in the Grubhub commercial with Alex Morgan and you will spot Michelle putting her defensive moves to action!

Jeff is responsible for leading Protean's structural design group. Whether it is new, widening, or rehabilitation of bridges, retaining walls, or other structures for design-bid-build or design-build delivery methods, Jeff brings his diverse background to provide clients with a unique perspective for their structural needs.

Fun Fact: Jeff is a passionate fan of UCF football and has been a season ticket holder since graduation. He goes to every home game and some away games (including one in Dublin). Plus, Jeff has attended every UCF bowl victory (well, and some of their losses).

John leads our Tampa operations and has depth of experience in roadway and structures design, project development and environment (PD&E) studies, construction engineering, value engineering studies, and bridge inspection and ratings. This diverse background affords him the knowledge to perform constructability and biddability reviews on all projects Protean produces.

Fun Fact: John loves to fish for redfish and snook in Tampa Bay. In 2011, a shark turned things around a bit and nibbled John on the leg, resulting in him in the hospital for a week; John not the shark.

Fun Fact: Emily has been skydiving twice and loved it (but will never go again).

Fun Fact: He lived in France for four months, taking classes, exploring Europe, and learning the joys of delicious French wines and cheeses. A big thing he didn’t do was learn French, after four months he was able to speak one phrase: “Je ne parler pas français.”

Dillon is located in our Punta Gorda office, where he supports roadway and drainage design projects and traffic studies.

Sonya manages the day-to-day office accounting for the firm. She establishes and oversees the firm’s financial status by developing and implementing systems for collecting, analyzing, verifying, and reporting financial information. Sonya supports the preparation of the firm’s annual budget, scheduling expenditures, analyzing variances, and initiating corrective actions. She confirms financial status by monitoring revenue and expenses; coordinates the collection, consolidation, and evaluation of financial data; and prepares special reports for the Board of Directors. Sonya also assists project managers firm-wide with automated fee proposals (AFPs), certified payrolls, and weighting averages for project wins. She reviews all contracts and subcontracts for accuracy. She performs revenue adjustments and updates project budgets, as needed.

Sonya oversees the billing and accounts payable departments, directing staff and providing guidance on best practices for billing functions, such as distributing monthly billing reports and processing labor transfers. Sonya ensures that the team accurately processes invoices to clients. She works with account payable auditing invoices received from vendors and subconsultants. Sonya is responsible for payroll, taxes, annual audits, and filing sales tax.

Fun Fact: Every February, Sonya takes her two-week vacation to volunteer at the Osceola County fair.

Kim oversees human resources at Protean; her primary responsibilities are all things “people,” including recruiting the best in the business, helping them be successful by supporting their professional development, providing an A-class benefits package, and rewarding peak performance while creating policies that support work-life balance.

Fun Fact: Kim spent several summers as a tour guide at SeaWorld Orlando in high school and college. She had to memorize everything from facts about every animal to all four types of grasses found in the park and she can still remember a lot of it. It also provided her the opportunity to meet Burt Reynolds, Pee Wee Herman, Teddy Gentry (the bass player for Alabama) and several politicians and their families while providing VIP tours of the park.

Noel supports us in making our ideas come to life through powerful graphics, showcases the daily activities at Protean on our social media channels, and leads proposals and presentations to win work for the firm.

Fun Fact: Kimberly loves to cook