During thriving and challenging economic times, our firm’s support of education has been an honored practice on various levels including annual contributions, endowments, event sponsorships, career fairs, lectures, and internship opportunities.
Internships have been one of our most influential and beneficial programs in terms of educational support and outreach. This summer, we hired three interns to work in our administration, environmental and geotechnical groups. On behalf of the entire firm, we’d like to thank the individuals below for their contributions:
Shant'e Austin
Shant’e Austin
Shant’e works in our San Francisco office supporting the environmental and marketing groups with various projects. She is in her junior year at San Francisco State University and expects to graduate in 2012.
“My goal is to work in the environmental field whether it be for a small non-profit organization or a prestigious private firm such as Treadwell & Rollo,” Shant’e said. “The most important thing I have learned here is the significance of paying very close attention to detail.”
Zac Koehn
Zac Koehn
Zac is based in our Oakland office, and he assists our geotechnical group on various projects throughout the Bay Area. He earned his B.S. degree in 2009 from UC Berkeley, and he will be returning to finish his master’s degree this fall. He hopes to graduate from the geotechnical engineering program in 2011, and then to possibly pursue a doctorate degree.
“This internship has been ideal and will serve me well as I go back to UC Berkeley in the fall for Graduate School,” Zac said. “I enjoyed my time at Treadwell & Rollo and I credit the engineers I worked under as a large reason why I learned as much as I did about the geotechnical significance of the construction process.”
Melanie Penn
Melanie Penn
Melanie currently assists our Oakland office’s administrative group with electronic archiving of historical reports. Melanie just started her senior year at Berean Christian High School in Walnut Creek. She plans to graduate in 2011 and continue her education at Boila University in Southern California. Her long-time career plans are currently undecided.
“I want to thank everyone for making my work experience at Treadwell & Rollo such a positive one,” Melanie said. “I’ve learned how important it is to get along with my coworkers and to go with the flow.”
