Kathleen works in the Timmons Group Prince George office and has over 20 years of experience in site civil engineering and land development. She has worked on a wide variety of both public and private development projects and has experience with a mix of uses, including commercial buildings, multifamily housing, large industrial sites and parks, and single-family residential subdivisions, to name a few. Over the years, Kathleen has become very familiar with both State and Local design requirements, including DEQ stormwater management, VDOT road and storm sewer design, State erosion control requirements and the design requirements of several localities, mainly in Central Virginia. She has spent the years developing relationships with state and local reviewers and strives to maintain positive lines of communication in order to achieve her clients’ goals.
In addition to managing projects and client relationships, Kathleen is still very involved in the hands-on design of her projects. She enjoys training the younger engineers who work with her and helping them to advance and grow their careers as they strive to meet their client’s needs and expectations together.
Kathleen lives in Chesterfield County with her son and dogs. When she is not working, she mostly enjoys spending time playing with her son. She also enjoys traveling to see family scattered throughout the US, swimming, and volunteering at her church. Kathleen’s son is adopted, so she is very active in an adoption support group, adoption education and helps to support Commonwealth Catholic Charities in various ways. She is also enjoys serving on the Board of her son’s preschool.
Q&A
What was your first job? When I turned 15, I immediately started working at the Garden Center where my mom worked. It was a small, family-owned business. Interestingly, through working at that Garden Center, I got a second job working for a landscaper who did the landscaping for a handful of local subdivisions. When I was in college at a job fair, one of the subdivisions I had helped landscape was pictured at a Timmons Group table as one of the subdivisions they had designed and that is what made me stop and talk to them!
What’s your favorite sports team? I am a Hokie fan through and through! I went to Virginia Tech during some of the best Beamer Ball football years and still love watching VT football. I am also a Chicago fan of professional sports (Cubs, not White Sox) and I know what it means to be a fan through the good years and the bad.
If you were not a civil engineer, what would you be? My childhood dream was to be a figure skater. I remember watching Kristi Yamaguchi and Nancy Kerrigan skate. I am convinced that if I had spent more time skating and less doing math and science homework, my Olympic dreams would have been realized. Probably.