Elizabeth Blackwelder, engineer
Years with company: 13
Sometimes you just know it's right. From joining as an intern 13 years ago, working five years as an Engineer-in-Training, earning my Professional Engineer's license, and working on large infrastructure projects, Freese and Nichols has been exactly right. It was right when my daughter Victoria arrived and Freese and Nichols accommodated my part-time schedule so I could balance work and family. Now that she's a first grader, Freese and Nichols is the right workplace for her to visit and see what I do at work. Freese and Nichols is also the organization that supports my passion for sustainable design and the national Envision certification program. I have been privileged to work on the team that designed the first Envision-rated pipeline and then the Envision-rated (Platinum) integrated pipeline project, bringing water to North Texas. Freese and Nichols even provided a Research and Development grant to develop sustainability practices. As a young student from Colombia, I did not know that Freese and Nichols would lead me to all this. But I have always known that this was the perfect place for my career and professional development, my community work, and my family life.
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