We are pleased to announce Tamara Connolly, PE, has joined Huitt-Zollars as a Vice President in our Land Development practice area. In this role, Tamara will focus on leading business initiatives, managing projects, and client relations focused on the growth of this practice in our Denver office.
Tamara brings to Huitt-Zollars over 23 years of diversified experience which expands across civil engineering, construction management, business development, and business operations. She brings in astute skills from her previous role as a Civil Engineering Director at a leading engineering firm where she cultivated the single-family development team for the Colorado region. She defined the single-family portfolio for the region by contracting and managing over $3.5 million of single-family work with LGI, DR Horton, and local land developers. Tamara also served as the Civil Design Region Group Leader for Colorado at a regional engineering firm where she managed over $7 million of annual budget, diversified the company’s portfolio to include large single-family, multi-family, and municipal projects as well as industrial and warehouse campus sites, and worked to develop young talent and increase efficiencies. Tamara’s knack for civil engineering even expanded into her running her own engineering firm for several years.
Tamara earned her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado and a Master of Finance with an emphasis in statistics from Grand Canyon University. She is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Arizona, Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Texas, and Utah.