TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES MARY ELLEN BRUCE LARGE, P.E., D.GE, TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES MANAGER Technical Activities Update DFI thanks the following outgoing technical committee chairs. Their service and contributions to DFI and their committee are gratefully acknowledged. • Deep Foundations for Landslides/Slope Stabilization – Vern Schaefer, Ph.D., P.E., from Iowa State University • Driven Pile – Andrew Verity from Terracon • Soil Mixing – Dennis Boehm from Hayward Baker DFI is pleased to welcome new chairs for these committees. • Deep Foundations for Landslides/Slope Stabilization – Chris Ramsey, P.E., from Amec Foster Wheeler Environmental & Infrastructure • Driven Pile – Ben Vance, P.E., from Strata • Soil Mixing – David Miller, P.E., from ADM Consulting Chris Ramsey, P.E., received his B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and is a licensed professional engineer in Connecticut, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia and Washington, D.C. Ramsey is the team lead of Amec Foster Wheeler’s geostructural design group, part of the infrastructure engineering design division. As senior engineer, he performs foundation and pile cap design, deep foundation designs, ground modification, underpinning, permanent and temporary retaining wall and shoring designs, finite element analyses, slope stability analyses, and designs for repair. Ramsey is a past president of the ASCE Cincinnati Section and former chair of the ASCE Cincinnati Section geotechnical group. Ben Vance, P.E., received his B.S. in civil engineering from California Polytechnic State University, and is a registered professional engineer in Wa shington, Ca l i forni a and Colorado. He serves as a project manager of civil and geotechnical engineering, with expertise in retaining walls, support of excavation, slope stability, settlement, shallow foundations, rock bolts, liquefaction, geogrids and geosynthetics, driven piles, pile driveability, ground improvement, and predicting and mitigating stress on utilities. David Miller, P.E., has 30 years of experience in the contracting business, specializing in deep soil mixing and other geotechnical projects in the U.S., and international projects on jet grouting, deep and shallow soil mixing, and other ground improvement and cutoff wall technol- ogies. He has a B.S. in architectural engineering from the University of Texas, and is a registered professional engineer in Texas. Miller has been a long-standing active member of the Soil Mixing Committee, and has served as the ADSC Soil Mixing Committee Chair. Members Honored with First President’s Awards At the 2016 Annual Conference, DFI President John Wolosick, P.E., D.GE, of Hayward Baker honored four DFI committee members with the first DFI President’s Awards. This newly-established award is given at the discretion of the president to recognize the efforts and service of members to advance the work of DFI. Lori Simpson, P.E., G.E., of Langan Engineering and Environ- mental Services, chair of the DFI Codes and Standards Committee, received the award for leading the multi-society effort to improve building codes and foundation practices through modifications to DEEP FOUNDATIONS • JAN/FEB 2017 • 95
