Trammell Crow Names Diane Paddison COO of Global Services

Trammell Crow Names COO, HOLTCAT names business manager and Houston Engineers Week Committee names Engineer of the Year for 2005.

Diane S. Paddison was recently named COO for the Trammell Crow Co.'s Global Services Group. Paddison has served as national director, client services, for the company since 2002.

In her new role, Paddison will oversee two functional areas within Global Services - building management and project management. She also will continue to oversee the company's national accounts teams for both investor and corporate clients as well as its operational excellence initiative.

Paddison has been responsible for the development and implementation of Trammell Crow Co.'s client strategy for user and investor clients for eight years. She joined Trammell Crow Company in 1987 as a leasing agent in Tulsa, Okla., and in 1996 joined the Dallas team to oversee the company's investor client program.

Throughout the 1990s, she assumed increasing local and regional responsibilities. She was named a managing director in 1996 and became senior managing director of national accounts in 1999.

Ms. Paddison was named to Trammell Crow Co.'s ten-member executive committee in 2004 and she is a member of the operating committee. She also serves as leader of the company's diversity initiative.

Linda Bishop has re-joined Watkins Hamilton Ross Architects. Bishop is a health care and educational facility interior design specialist based in the firm's Houston office.

Bishop, who was an interior designer and project manager at WHR from 1995-1997, most recently served as director of interiors at FKP Architects in Houston. Her health care portfolio includes Baylor Medical Center in Garland, Maxine Mesinger Multiple Sclerosis Clinic in Houston and Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas. Her work at Cook Children's in Fort Worth and Texas Children's Hospital in Houston has been recognized by the International Interior Design Association and the American Association of Interior Designers.

A former teacher, Bishop recently earned a master's degree in education. Her education background provides a unique perspective to the K-12 and higher education research markets.

Jimmy Bates has been appointed vice president preconstruction for E. E. Reed Construction L.P. Bates has been in the construction business for more than 26 years.

A graduate of East Texas State University, Bates has a broad range of experience, including more than 50 new construction and renovation projects in the health care industry, one of the largest aviation projects in the United States, campuses for several corporations, a printing plant for a major newspaper, high-rise offices, resorts and hotels and distribution warehouses.

Tom Angotti, a 15-year veteran with HOLT CAT, the largest Caterpillar dealer in the U.S., has been named business manager of the Electric Power Generation business unit, a key element of the company's Power Systems Division.

Previously, Angotti was Power Systems Division engineering manager. He has also held positions in the division sales organization and served seven years with another Caterpillar dealer and a custom engine packaging company. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering.

Gary K. Trietsch of TxDOT was recently named Engineer of the Year for 2005 by the Houston Engineers Week Committee.

The Houston Area Engineer of the Year is chosen by a panel of professional engineers to recognize the single person in the profession who exemplifies the standards and community responsibility inherent in providing safety and best practices in the engineering profession. Trietsch's recognition is for his strong accomplishments as the district engineer for TxDOT's Houston District.

Trietsch has led the agency for the last nine years, through the single largest building expansion in the history of TxDOT. In 2003 the Houston District designed and awarded more than $1 billion in new construction, a local and state record. Under his leadership the reconstruction of both Interstate 610/West Loop and Ineterstate10/Katy Freeway began.

Formerly the director of traffic operation in Austin, Trietsch came to Houston in 1995 to lead the state's largest urban district. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington and a recipient of the Dewitt C. Greer Award awarded by the Texas Transportation Institute and the Dr. L.I. Hewes Award, given by the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

Benjamin R. Sauceda has been promoted to associate/project architect by Houston-based FKP Architects Inc. Sauceda has more than eleven years of experience in public, commercial, residential and health care projects. His recent work includes several projects for Texas Children's Hospital.

Sauceda holds a bachelor's of environmental design degree from Texas A&M University. He is a registered architect in Texas and a member of the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects, the Texas Society of Architects and the Texas Board of Architectural Examiners.