Maureen holds undergraduate degrees in Civil and Architectural Engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology (2005) and a MBA from University of Nevada-Las Vegas (2011) she has over 11 years’ experience in construction engineering and management for both vertical commercial construction and buried pipeline construction.

Maureen received her Ph.D. from Arizona State University in December 2014 in Civil Engineering with an Emphasis in Construction Engineering and Management. At Arizona State, Maureen become involved with trenchless technologies and NASTT while working closely with her advisor Dr. Samuel Ariaratnam.

Under his advisement, Maureen spent extended time in mainland China developing her dissertation studying horizontal directional drilling methods in China compared to North America. She is former NASTT No-Dig Show student chapter presentation and student poster competition winner from her time at Arizona State.

During the summer of 2014, Maureen moved to Houston, TX to join Laney Directional Drilling as a project engineer and to complete her dissertation. Since then, Maureen has continued to work in the estimating and engineering department at Laney and was recently promoted to Strategic Marketing Manager at Laney.

Wow, Maureen! The North American Society for Trenchless Technology’s Student Chapters, working to build the future of trenchless!