The Moles Announce 2024-25 President, New Members
John F. McNamara, Vice President of A.A. Will Corporation, has been elected to serve as President of The Moles for the year 2024-2025. The “official” passing of the gavel occurred at the May 2, 2024, Members Dinner and Annual Business Meeting held at the New York Marriott Marquis.
Additional 2024 Moles executive officers are: First Vice President, Michael A. D’Annunzio, D’Annunzio Group, Inc.; Second Vice President, John H. O’Keefe, Underpinning and Foundation Skanska; Secretary, Michael Ryan, Yonkers Contracting Company; Treasurer, Thomas J. Groark, and Sergeant-At-Arms, Vincent A. Sambrato, Parsons. Trustees newly elected this year are Francis Arland, Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers and Anthony Del Vescovo, Walsh Construction.
John F. McNamara III was born in Boston, MA, in 1958, and moved with his family to western Massachusetts in 1968. He attended Agawam High School, graduating in 1976, and went on to study Civil Engineering at Northeastern University. He was attracted to Northeastern by the CoOperative education program; while taking five years to graduate, the required internships provided students with invaluable work experience in their field of study with the added bonus of earning enough to pay for a large portion of educational expenses. John’s first co-op assignment was in the estimating department with PreDesigned Structures in Bloomfield, CT, where his passion for the field and infrastructure work became apparent. His most impressionable co-op assignment was with The Barletta Company as an assistant field engineer on a road and bridge project rehabilitating the interchange of I-290 and I-495 in Marlborough, MA and extending a connector road to Rt 85 in Hudson; ironically, about 5 miles away from the site of The Moles New England Student Day project for both 2023 and 2024, hosted by Barletta at the MassDot’s I-495/I-90 Interchange Improvements Project. John recalled that his co-op with Barletta was an invaluable exposure to all aspects of highway and bridge building and was instrumental in propelling John’s career after graduating Northeastern University with his BSCE in 1981.
John joined Modern Continental Construction Company in August 1982, as a project superintendent, where he progressed thru the ranks serving as project manager, Vice President and ultimately promoted to Senior Vice President in 1998, remaining there until joining A.A Will in 2007. He has overseen over 200 Public and Private Infrastructure Projects throughout the northeast including reconstruction of Massachusetts Avenue over the Charles River in Boston & Cambridge; numerous contracts on Boston’s Central Artery Tunnel Project including the $320M Bird Island Flats tunnel section of I-90 thru Logan Airport; the $420M Fort Point Channel I-90 crossing, which was the first concrete Immersed Tube Tunnel Project built in North America, and the first Segmental Viaduct in MA constructing I-93 over I90. Other notable projects included reconstruction of Nantucket Island Historic District, the Reconstruction of the Long Island Expressway from the Midtown Tunnel to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens and the capping of the Fountain Avenue Landfill in Brooklyn.
John’s dedication to the construction industry extends to his involvement in groups that support heavy construction. He has been an active member of The Moles since induction in 1995, where he has served as a trustee, secretary, and member of the Executive Committee. He also serves as a board member of the Moles Charitable Fund and is its liaison to Northeastern University, where he also serves on the Northeastern University Industrial Advisory Board. He is the past Chairman and Board Member of the Construction Industries of Massachusetts (CIM), a past Board Member of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ATRBA) as well as past Executive Committee member of the General Contractors Association of New York. He is also a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Boston Society of Civil Engineers (BSCE), and the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME).
John and his wife Cathy celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this May, reside in Scituate, MA, where they enjoy spending time with their four children and three grandchildren. John is a passionate saltwater angler and enjoys fishing and boating with his family and friends on Cape Cod in the summer and wintering in Marathon in the Florida Keys.
The Mole also announced their “Class of 202.4” Their induction at the May 2, 2024 Members Dinner and Annual Business Meeting marked the milestone of passing over 2,500 members since The Moles’ humble beginnings in 1937.
The new members are:
- Daniel N. Adams, Delve Underground
- Robert L. Baccala, Richard E. Pierson Construction Co., Inc.
- M. Rizwan Baig, Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
- Amy Benbrook, CohnReznick, LLP
- Scott Blair, Engineering News Record
- William E Bodnar Jr., Kiewit Infrastrucure Co.
- Lek Boonpektrakul, Skanska USA Civil
- Michael A. Campana, Skanska USA Civil
- Michael A. Capasso, C.A.C Industries, Inc.
- Wayne P. Capolupo, SPS New England
- Dong Chang, Tutor Perini Civil East
- Frank Corallo, Walsh Construction
- Bradley A. Crenshaw, Richard Goettle, Inc.
- Patrick J. Cumiskey, The Walsh Group
- Chris Dawson, TC Electric
- Thomas J. Day, Skanska USA Civil
- Anthony M. DeVito, Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers
- Neal W. DeWitte, Perfetto Contracting Co. Inc.
- Kerry P. Donovan, Amtrak
- Steffen Dubé, Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems USA
- David T. Earp, Walker Diving Underwater Construction
- Phillip Eng, Mass. Bay Transportation Authority
- Alex Ferrara, H.O. Penn Machinery Company, Inc.
- Vojtech Gall, Gall Zeidler Consultants
- Jared M. Green, Langan Engineering
- Taylor F. Grossenbacher, The Middlesex Corporation
- Paul J. Headland, Aldea Servivces, Inc.
- Brian J. Hegarty, Gannett Fleming
- Alaeden Jlelaty, Skanska USA Civil
- David Johanson, Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Company, LLC
- Gerald “Jerry” T. Keenan, Alliance for Action
- Gary J.E. Kramer, Hatch
- Peter Maglicic, Kiewit Infrastrucure Co.
- Stephen H. Markowski, Tutor Perini Corp.
- Robert Marlow, Skanska USA Civil
- Laura K. Mason, Amtrak
- Peter V. Merullo, Semper Diving & Marine
- Kevin B. O’Neill Jr., Bay Crane Companies
- Gary J. Orlando, Barletta Heavy Division, Inc.
- Michael Ostlund, Kiewit Foundations
- Anil Parikh, AECOM
- Dominic Parisi, PJS Group
- Ciro A. Poccia ,Ecco III Enterprises, Inc.
- Victor S. Romero, Delve Underground
- Mark F. Shamp, Barletta Heavy Division, Inc.
- Michael A. Socci, MAS Building & Bridge, Inc.
- David P. Sposito, Posillico Civil, Inc.
- David Summa, J-Track, LLC
- Scott J. Tankel, J. D’Annunzio & Sons, Inc.
- Jeffry Twidwell Jr., Walsh Construction Co.
- David R. Warner, Buckley & Company, Inc.
- Mark W. White, D. W. White Construction
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