Meet the Team

Associate Director

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Jennifer Halleck has 17 years’ experience working with school operations and construction. Her expertise is in school district capital facilities master planning and bond program execution. She has proven success in performing key milestones activities such as rigorous and detailed pre-bond preparations, portfolio management, project management, long and short-range planning, state study and survey writing, grant writing, resource conservation and community services. Before joining CSG, she was a key team member for Vancouver School District in planning, passing, and facilitating their $458M general obligation bond, $43M grant, $66M state assistance and $12M impact fees for an overall projected $579M bond program.

Associate Director

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Dolly Ramminger has over 30 years of construction management, contract management, accounting, and human resource management experience. Over the past seven years with CSG, she has provided construction management services for a variety of school projects throughout Eastern Washington including projects in Colton, Davenport, Moses Lake and North Franklin School District.

Associate Director

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Heidi Hansen has two decades of experience managing capital construction programs in the Puget Sound region, overseeing projects from design and permitting to construction and occupancy. With over 15 years of experience as director/manager of K-12 capital projects departments at Monroe, Arlington and Mukilteo School Districts, she has expert knowledge of how K-12 bond projects are managed, including contract negotiations, budgeting, state funding assistance and community engagement.

Associate Director

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Ken Kuiken has over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry, with over half of his time spent on K-12 or higher Education projects. Most recently, Ken served as project superintendent for the new Bellingham, Washington SD Sehome High School, which opened in the Fall of 2019. Ken is a subject-matter-expert in developing project schedules, efficient construction sequencing, and construction budget management.

Associate Director

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Mike Melling is a CSG Associate Director in CSG’s Eastern Region, and is recognized as a K12 school facilities project expert and leader entirely committed to each school district’s success.  Mike knows that every school district and every project is unique and that no single approach will work as a “one size fits all” solution.  By understanding what is most important to your school district, he is able to direct his expertise and experience in the areas which bring them value.  Under Mike’s guidance and leadership, project teams have successfully completed projects on schedule, within budget, and the quality expected from your school district teachers, staff, and students.  From pre-bond planning to project completion, and to the periods after your project is completed, Mike is with you every step of the way to ensure success

Senior Project Manager

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Tex Ladish has over 40 years of construction management, project management and facilities construction experience. Over the past 18 years with CSG, he has effectively provided project and construction management services for a variety of public school projects including Nooksack Valley, Lynden, Meridian, Ferndale and Marysville School Districts.

Senior Project Manager

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Dan Purefoy has worked with CSG for the past decade and has managed a number of complex projects for school districts throughout Eastern Washington. He has extensive experience and a thorough understanding of the school construction process and has managed projects in school districts including Walla Walla, Othello, North Franklin, College Place, Liberty, Royal, and Brewster School Districts.

Senior Project Manager

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Dan Gordon is a Senior Project Manager for CSG’s Eastern Region. A subject matter expert in K12 school construction, his professional experience includes 20 years with the U.S. Naval Seabees and 21 years in the private sector, providing school construction administration and project management in CSG’s Eastern Region. Dan’s recent project management leadership includes K12 school projects for the Pullman, Colfax, Ritzville, Freeman and Moses Lake, Washington school districts.

Project Manager

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Troy Lomax is a project manager with CSG. Troy has over 25 year of experience in the construction industry working as a foreman, superintendent and project manager. Troy has a diverse portfolio of projects including single family housing, multi-family housing, small and medium size commercial and industrial projects for a wide range of clients. Clients include the Department of Defense, State and Federal Court Systems, Army Core of Engineers and a number of school districts in three different states. Troy’s lasts position before CSG was working as the Facility Manger for the Longview School District.

Project Manager

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Karen Soderquist is an experienced project manager located in Brewster, Washington. She and her husband owned an architectural metal building construction company for over 20 years before she became a professional project manager. In her time with CSG, Karen has helped to manage projects at Brewster School District including the modernization of its elementary school, additions to its middle school and the construction of a new high school, along with a New modular unit and procurement of multi Grants for this District. She has also helped manage the Bridgeport School District modernization of the ES and MS, procuring grants along the way to help with mold mitigation and roofing issues. Her most recent enjoyment with the Brewster School District is a Transportation CO-OP and at Bridgeport school district an Animal Barn for FFA and CTE classes along with a HS modernization project!

Project Manager

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Tom Eller is a project manager for CSG’s Eastern Washington Division. He has been involved in both the residential and commercial construction industries for over 28 years. His experience ranges from custom, single and multi-family homes, to private and public sector commercial construction projects such as casinos, health care, dormitories and modular building projects. He also has extensive experience within the land development-master planning arena as well. Most recently, Eller worked for the Department of Energy Hanford site as a senior estimator assisting with the development of the upcoming prime contracts that range from $4 to $13 billion. He has also previously worked for a modular building company providing both relocatable and permanent school buildings (Richland SD – Three Rivers Homelink) at school districts throughout Eastern Washington.

Senior Project Manager, VE Manager

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Phil Iverson is a senior project manager and leads the CSG Value Engineering Team. Phil is an Air Force veteran with eighteen plus years working in Montana for Cut Bank Public Schools, Montana State University Bozeman and most recently in Washington for the Centralia School District, serving as their director of facilities.

Project Manager, VE Manager

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Andy Twyman is a Project Manager for CSG’s Western Region.  His background includes more than 20 years of experience as both a designer and project manager in architecture and project management firms. His diverse portfolio includes successful projects in K12 education, healthcare, commercial, multifamily housing, and both public and private sector master planning. Andy is a certified Value Methodology Associate (VMA), and, in addition to his project management and project prebond planning services, is a member of the CSG Value Engineering and Constructability Review teams.

Senior Project Manager

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Steven Nunez has more than 30 years of experience in the area of building commissioning. He is experienced in project management estimating, training and quality assurance to deliver the highest quality mechanical system. Steven is AABC certified and a Qualified Commissioning Provider (QCxP).

Project Manager

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Vlad Tyutyunnik has 15 years of experience in construction quality and building commissioning, particularly building controls systems. The many projects he has worked on include Pasco High School, Liberty High School and Kamiak Elementary School.

Project Manager, Regional Business Development

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Peryll Gray-Ayersman leads CSG’s furniture, fixtures and equipment (FF&E) team and she brings 25 years of industry licensed interior design experience. She has her bachelors of fine arts degree from the University of Idaho and some of her most notable projects prior to CSG include interior design of the Clark County Public Service Center, and work with North Clackamas School District and Gresham-Barlow School District. Her impeccable follow through and organization is what sets her skills apart from the rest. She is here to help districts from conception to occupancy and every step of the way.