Staff
Geotechnical
Mike Bailey
Senior Principal Engineer
Mike Bailey, PE, is Hart Crowser’s CEO. He has more than 30 years of experience, including the past 26 years with Hart Crowser. He has been senior reviewer or geotechnical project manager for numerous projects, including buildings, high-rises, highways, and even a below-ground linear accelerator for a hospital. Mike was awarded a special “Employee Recognition Award” by the Port of Seattle for his work as Hart Crowser's project manager for development of the Third Runway at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. He is program manager for our abandoned mine reclamation contract with the US Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining.
Garry Horvitz
Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Garry Horvitz, PE, LEG, has 32 years of experience, with a strong focus on waterfront projects such as the Pier D, Nimitz Class Carrier Pier at Naval Station Kitsap and the Terminal 18 Expansion at the Port of Seattle. Garry has managed complex projects at most Pacific Northwest ports, all Pacific Northwest U.S. Navy facilities, and numerous other waterfront facilities. He is also expert in geotechnical engineering for highrise buildings, and is project manager for the WAMU-Seattle Art Museum tower. Garry provides senior-level review for many of Hart Crowser’s projects.
Jeff Wagner
Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Jeff Wagner, PE, is a principal of the firm and the operations manager of the Seattle office. He also manages the Geotechnical Services in Seattle. He has extensive experience applying geotechnical engineering to the planning, design, and construction of commercial buildings, industrial sites, transportation projects, and other developments. Projects have included Lincoln Square, the Bellevue Place Hyatt Expansion, and other high-rise buildings, Highline Medical Center, the Mint Farm Industrial Park, the Sea-Tac Airport Expressway and Light Rail Corridor, and numerous abandoned mine reclamation projects for the U.S. Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining.
Wayne Adams
Principal – Regional Manager
Wayne Adams, PEng, EG, is the Regional Manager for Natural Resources with 25 years of experience in geology and geological engineering, with professional licenses in California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. He is our key technical resource for slope stability, excavation, and shoring walls and is a recognized “qualified expert” for the Department of Natural Resources, Forest Practice Rules, that includes delineation of critical areas and hazards. Wayne helped develop the Federal Highway Administration's "Manual for Design & Construction Monitoring of Soil Nail Walls.” His experience includes landslide remediation, expert witness testimony, quantitative analyses of landslides, shallow building foundations, pile-supported foundations, reinforced earth retaining walls, earth dam embankments, infiltration/detention ponds, waste disposal containment structures, tailings dams, road/slope grading, drainage plans, and rock slopes. He has successfully completed project management and principal in charge duties on numerous engineering, geology, and construction projects including the City of Tacoma’s Thea Foss Waterway cleanup and capping. Wayne also initiated and managed the field offices in northern California for numerous projects with the Pacific Lumber Company.
Barry Chen
Principal Geotechnical Engineer
Barry Chen, PhD, PE, is a regionally recognized geotechnical engineer with 23 years of experience. He has significant expertise in foundation and seismic design for building development and transportation projects. His projects include the 30-acre Amgen Campus at Seattle’s Pier 88/89, Seattle Central Library, Seattle Aquarium at Pier 59, Sea-Tac Third Runway, and the I-405 SR520 to SR 522 Kirkland Stage I Design Build project. He is the program manager for our on-call geotechnical contract with the Washington State Department of Transportation.
Scott Wright
Senior Associate Engineering Geologist, Manager of Field Services
Scott Wright, LEG, has been with Hart Crowser since its start in 1974, and has been involved in over 4,000 projects. He supervises our engineering geologists and coordinates field exploration programs, including subcontractor contracts, site utility checks, coordination of street use permits, traffic control plans, and right of entry agreements. Scott has a thorough understanding of exploration equipment and is very familiar with the exploration subcontractors in the Pacific Northwest.
Doug Lindquist
Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineer
Doug Lindquist, PE, GE, LEED AP, has over 10 years of professional experience. His areas of expertise include traditional geotechnical engineering, seismic design, soil improvement, deep excavations, waterfront structures, and numerical computer modeling. Doug has been very active in the community serving for 4 years in officer positions of the ASCE Seattle Section Geotechnical Group. His recent projects include the 42-story Washington Mutual Center, multiple projects at the Port of Seattle (Terminals 5, 18, 30, and 91), as well as the Stadium Silver Cloud Inn.
Madan Karkee
Geotechnical and Earthquake Engineer
Madan Karkee, PhD, PE, has 27 years of experience consisting of a combination of design, research and teaching in geotechnical engineering and structures. He received the 2004 Technology Development Award from the Japan Geotechnical Society for his work on bored precast pile. Madan specializes in earthquake engineering, soil dynamics, and soil structure interaction. He has made geotechnical recommendations and designed foundations for buildings, industrial complexes and utilities. Madan’s project management experience includes planning, budgeting, and overseeing multidisciplinary projects; developing ground improvement and piling methods; and managing and reporting post-earthquake field observations. Madan has been a professor at Akita Prefectural University in Japan and Tribhuvan University in Nepal and also taught at Sheridan College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Ontario. He has wide ranging publications to his credit outlining his research and field observations in journals and conference proceedings.
John Bingham
Geotechnical Engineer
John Bingham, PE, has 10 years of broad ranging geotechnical, civil, environmental, and natural resource engineering design, management and construction experience. John's geotechnical experience includes landslide and seawall stabilization, ground improvement, foundation and pavement design, transportation, excavation shoring projects, and abandoned mine land reclamation. John's civil experience includes stormwater infiltration facilities; development of construction plans, specifications, and cost estimates; and earthwork and grading projects. His environmental experience includes development and remediation of sites with contaminated soils and sediments, and subtidal wood waste cleanup and restoration. John's natural resource experience includes abandoned mine land reclamation, streambank stabilization/restoration, and natural resource damage assessment (NRDA). John enjoys helping project teams develop and implement innovative yet practical solutions to address challenging site constraints.