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Rosendin’s Carlie Cook dinner is without doubt one of the trade leaders being acknowledged within the ENR Mountain States & Southwest’s 2026 Class of Prime Younger Professionals. Cook dinner serves as website supervisor for a big information middle challenge within the Phoenix Metro space, overseeing 300 workforce members establishing six buildings.

We’re happy to announce the 2026 Class of Prime Younger Professionals for the ENR Mountain States & Southwest area. The popularity program, held yearly by every of ENR’s regional editions, acknowledges younger trade professionals, all beneath 40, who’re attaining excellence of their skilled lives by exhibiting qualities of profession and trade management, and group involvement. Every of the Mountain States and Southwest awardees will probably be featured within the March problem of the journal, detailing their successes and careers thus far.

The judges for this yr’s contest are every former Prime Younger Professionals: Lindsay Bruckal, Challenge Government, Clayco; Daniel Jensen, Regional Technical Supervisor / BIM for Bridges, Michael Baker Worldwide; Jennyfer LaBuff, Director of Information Engineering, Sundt Building; Yanling Leng, Chief Bridge Engineer, IMEG Corp; and Ethan Walton, Challenge Director, McCarthy Constructing Cos. A honest thanks to our judges to your time and expertise, as we couldn’t maintain this competitors with you.

Judges didn’t rating purposes from people working at their identical agency or with whom that they had any conflicts of curiosity.

The regional winners are robotically entered into ENR’s nationwide Prime 20 Underneath 40 contest. Congratulations to this yr’s awardees who’re listed alphabetically under:

Logan Brandenburg

Vice President, Site visitors & Transportation

Bohannan Huston

Albuquerque, N.M.

Kayla Briones

Director of Security Compliance/Coaching

Ward Electrical

Longmont, Colo.

Carlie Cook dinner

Web site Supervisor

Rosendin

Tempe, Ariz.

Justin Cooper

Aviation Chief

Garver

Englewood, Colo.

Eric Gunderson

Vice President

Kimley-Horn

Colorado Springs

Kyle Haas

Managing Director

1898 & Co. (Burns & McDonnel)

Englewood, Colo.

Ryan Hankins

Challenge Government

Clayco

Phoenix

Chad Harris

Associate/Co-Founder

FH Building Group

Denver

Adam Hester

Senior Director of Engineering

Primoris Providers Company | Primoris Renewable Power

Aurora, Colo.

Michelle Hoysick

Larger West Transportation Enterprise Improvement Director

AECOM

Denver

Tara Jones

Expertise Acquisition Supervisor

JE Dunn Building

Denver

Jane Lin

Senior Challenge Supervisor

Redmond Building

Denver

Will McCord

Electrical Dept. Supervisor

Burns & McDonnell

Phoenix

Austin Mouw

Senior Preconstruction Supervisor

Adolfson & Peterson Building

Johnstown, Colo.

Sunny Natekar

Water & Wastewater Therapy Technologist

Garver

Tempe, Ariz.

Matthew Nguyen

Senior Director of Operations, Photo voltaic EPC

Primoris Providers Company | Primoris Renewable Power

Aurora, Colo.

Dhruv Patel

Chief Working Officer, Renewable Power

McCarthy Constructing Cos.

Phoenix

Amber Smith

Advertising Director

Kiewit

Lonetree, Colo.

Zac Taylor

Bridge Engineer

Kimley-Horn

Salt Lake Metropolis

Sandy Thoms

Vice President Site visitors Engineering

WSP USA

Tempe, Ariz.

Stephanie Tjan

Challenge Supervisor, Environmental Engineer III

AECOM

Albuquerque, N.M.

Gayatri Umashankar

Enterprise Improvement Chief

Digital Constructing Parts

Phoenix

Jennifer Seward is editor of ENR Mountain States & Southwest, which covers Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. She has greater than twenty years of expertise writing for the AEC trade and stories from Denver.

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