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S&ME names three new vice presidents in South Carolina

Three staff members in the Charleston and Columbia branches of S&ME, Inc., an engineering and environmental firm, have been elected vice presidents by the company’s board of directors.

In Charleston are William “Billy” Camp, a senior geotechnical engineer and technical principal, and James Killingsworth, a certified hazardous materials manager who heads the branch’s environmental department.

In Columbia is John C. Lessley, chief engineer and technical principal.

Camp joined S&ME in 1988. He holds an M.S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas and has managed numerous major projects including the foundation load-test program design for the Ravenel Bridge across the Cooper River. That project won the 2002 Palmetto Award, highest Engineering Excellence Award (EEA) granted by the American Council of Engineering Companies-SC. He has been a leader in establishing state-of-the art geotechnical services for the firm.

Killingsworth joined S&ME’s staff in 1990 after working with the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. His B.S. degree in biology is from Winthrop University, and he was a pioneer in developing S&ME’s industrial hygiene services. Killingsworth’s projects include managing the recoating of the U.S.S. Yorktown at the Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum and a lead-based paint risk-reduction program for Charleston County elementary schools. Both projects were EEA winners at the second highest level in the environmental category.

Lessley, who with two others founded the current S&ME office in Columbia in 1996, holds an M.S. degree in rock mechanics and a B.S. in mining engineering from Virginia Tech. He has 26 years of geotechnical engineering experience, 17 of them in the Columbia area. He has directed work on numerous area projects for S&ME, including several of South Carolina’s largest and most visible undertakings. Five of his projects have been EEA winners. He is currently providing geotechnical engineering for the Market Common mixed-use “urban village” project at the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.

S&ME employs 840 professional and support staff in 22 offices in 7 southeastern U.S. states. Besides Charleston and Columbia, it operates offices in Greenville, Myrtle Beach and Spartanburg.

For more information about these news items, contact: 
Larry Hammerstein
Senior Editor
S&ME, Inc. 
P.O. Box 58069 
Raleigh, NC 27658 
(919) 872-2660