Neel-Schaffer Inc. has added Keith Carr to its structural group located in Jackson. Prior to joining Neel-Schaffer, Carr was employed by the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT) where he recently retired as Mississippi’s state bridge engineer with 25 years of state service. While at MDOT, Carr was responsible for bridge, structural and hydraulic design, construction [...] [...]

Andreas Moffett has joined the Neel-Schaffer Inc. team in Hattiesburg. Moffett was hired as a full-time employee in January 2012, but has been a part of the Neel-Schaffer family for several years now as a recipient of the Neel-Schaffer Scholarship and as an intern. In 2008, Moffett was a member of the Downtown Rotary Club [...] [...]

Saunders Ramsey has joined Neel-Schaffer Inc. as a project manager in its Transportation Engineering Department. For the last five years, Ramsey served as a project manager and a design engineer at Smith Seckman Reid Inc. (SSR), a Nashville-based engineering design and facility-consulting firm. As a project manager at SSR, Ramsey was responsible for the business [...] [...]

Neel-Schaffer Inc. has added another face to its staff of engineers and professionals. Steve Twedt joined the firm as South Mississippi area manager. Twedt, a long time Mississippi resident, graduated from Mississippi State University in 1986 with a degree in civil engineering. After graduating, Twedt went to work for Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), where [...] [...]

Six Mississippi firms were awarded top honors for their excellence in engineering at the 2010 Awards Gala at the Fairview Inn. The awards are as follows: Grand Conceptor Award Winner Michael Baker, Jr. Inc. for Stack III Design and Construction Management Under an $8.9-million contract for the Mississippi Department of Transportation (MDOT), Baker served as MDOT´s [...] [...]

The year was 1983. President Ronald Reagan was gearing up for his re-election bid, Sally Ride was flying into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle as the first American woman in space, Michael Jackson was performing the first of many “moonwalks” and two Jackson engineers Hibbett Neel and Gordon Schaffer were opening their first office. In [...] [...]
Neel-Schaffer Inc. is pleased to announce the promotion of two of its staff members. R. Scott Higginbotham, RPG, has been promoted to senior project manager and Environmental Science Group leader for the Central Mississippi area. Prior to this position, Higginbotham served as one of four registered professional geologists in the Environmental Science Group of Neel-Schaffer. [...] [...]

Neel-Schaffer Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Walter Huff, PE, BCEE, former chief of the Mississippi Underground Storage Tank Program, to its environmental science group located in Jackson. Huff has over 30 years of environmental regulatory experience. He received a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering and a master’s degree in civil [...] [...]