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Project Team

	Steve Blaine, P.E. is an electrical engineer specializing in factory automation. It turns out that this was perhaps not the most useful skill in Les Anglais, Haiti, where electricity is very scarce and the biggest problem is broken pipes. Steve has worked on large engineering projects in many countries, but found that gluing pipe together in Haiti may be the most satisfying.
	Jim Calnon
	Travis Hultin, P.E. is a Civil Engineer with 13 years of experience in municipal infrastructure engineering and management including water, transportation, storm water, sanitary sewer, project management, right-of-way management and public administration. As a long time city engineer, he has a particular appreciation for the stark contrast between the management of public infrastructure in Les Anglais and cities in the US. He has been a member of the Les Anglais, Haiti team since its beginning in early 2008 and has traveled to Haiti on both of the team’s two trips. As the designated Tech Lead, Travis has made the team’s technical presentations to the EWB Technical Advisory Committee and collaborated with other team members in preparing and executing implementation plans.
	Dave Kelly
	Heidi Kriz, MPH, is a registered dietitian and has worked in many different settings including in-patient and out-patient care, and non-profit community clinics. This work is predominantly with individuals living with HIV/AIDS conducting nutritional and treatment adherence counseling to HIV medications. Heidi worked for the largest HIV/AIDS health provider in South Florida and had the opportunity to work with immigrants from around the world including the Haitian community. Heidi volunteered for various short duration projects in Southeast Asia and has a passion for international health that will be a great benefit to the Les Anglais community.
	Aimee Lavarnway, E.I.T, G.I.T. has been actively involved with EWB and this project since early 2008. Her first trip to Haiti was in June 2009, but she plans to continue to return as often as possible. She has degrees in Civil Engineering and Geology and works in the geotechnical engineering group at Shannon & Wilson.
	Kay Mattson, MSW, MPH has worked in human services, housing and health for 20 years. Her travels to Ecuador to white water kayak in 1999 led her to a career change towards international health and development. She received her MPH in International Health focusing on water and sanitation and epidemiology of water related infectious diseases. Her wat-san projects have included internships with Mercy Corps in their headquarters office and in the slums of Jakarta, Indonesia and as health advisor to the OSU EWB Student Chapter drinking project in El Salvador. Kay serves as the health team lead for the Haiti project. Until she can work fulltime in international health she works for OHSU’s Center for Evidence-based Policy as a Program Administrator.
	Dick Raub
	Carolyn Shapiro, P.E. is a mechanical engineer with 25 years of professional engineering experience covering design, field engineering, environmental consulting, product and technology development, and project management. Carolyn has traveled solo around the world on her bicycle, which was good preparation for navigating Haitian highways. Carolyn has served as the Les Anglais project lead since its inception in 2008.
	Kim Slack has a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from Montana State Univeristy with a minor in Spanish. Professionally, she has 3 years of experience in stormwater and wastewater treatment. Her involvement with Engineers Without Borders began in 2003 as a founding member of the Montana State University EWB chapter. She traveled to Khwisero, Kenya in 2006 as project leader for the chapter’s first implementation trip. Her international travel experience includes Ecuador, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Mexico, Europe, Kenya, Tanzania, and Haiti, of course! Kim served as president of the EWB-Portland Professional chapter in 2007/2008. She continues to be involved with the Montana State chapter's Kenya project and has served on the Haiti project team since 2008. Kim currently works as a project engineer at Kennedy/Jenks Consultants.
	Grace Weatherford
	Cheryl Weyant has a B.S. in Agricultural Engineering from the University of Illinois. She joined a student EWB chapter in while in college and worked on water and sanitation projects in Nigeria and Kenya. She has done various volunteer work in Mexico, Guatemala, and Ecuador and is currently working as a GIS coordinator for a local environmental non-profit. She has been a member of the Haiti team since January 2009 but has not yet traveled to Haiti.

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