Donna Newell, MS, PE, CFM
Donna is a principal owner and the president of NTM Engineering. She offers over 20 years of civil engineering experience, specializing in hydrology and hydraulics (H&H). Her background includes designing hydraulic structures, performing H&H analysis and modeling, performing bridge scour analysis, environmental agency coordination, and policy development. Donna has provided quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) checks of HEC-RAS analyses for projects in Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. She has also instructed collegiate level courses and professional development seminars on water resources related topics. She works extensively with PennDOT as a water resources consultant and instructional course developer and instructor. Donna also served as a panel member for the National Cooperative Highway Research Program Scour at Wide Piers and Long Skewed Piers project. She has managed H&H studies and scour investigations and secured waterway permits for numerous transportation, including an H&H study in Clinton County that represented the first use of 2D modeling with the Surface Water Modeling System (SMS) software on a PennDOT project.
Donna earned her BS in Civil Engineering and MS in Environmental Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. She is a professional engineer with licenses in Pennsylvania and New York, is a Certified Floodplain Manager, and a Certified PennDOT Instructor.
Rachel Tereska, MS, PE
Rachel is a principal of NTM Engineering and a civil engineer who specializes in water resources engineering. Her background includes performing hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) studies, developing and presenting engineering technical training courses, and conducting collegiate research. As a designer and engineer, she has developed H&H reports for various PennDOT, NYSDOT, and MEDOT bridge and culvert replacement projects. Rachel conducted PennDOT’s first 2D hydraulic model analysis using the Surface Water Modeling System (SMS) software, and she is proficient with HEC-RAS, HY-8, PEAKFQ, EFH-2, and WMS. She also presented on when 2D modeling is appropriate at the PennDOT H&H Coordinators’ and Managers’ Meetings and for the American Society of Highway Engineers and the Floodplain Management Association.
Rachel earned her BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University. She hold professional engineering licenses in Pennsylvania and Delaware and is a PennDOT Certified Instructor. Rachel served as a research assistant at Penn State, where she studied stream restoration techniques and developed monitoring criteria for restoration sites.
Jeffrey MacKay, MS, PE, CPESC
Jeff is a principal with NTM Engineering. His background features transportation and land development projects, with an emphasis on hydrologic and hydraulic (H&H) studies, stormwater management, and erosion and sediment (E&S) control. Jeff’s water resources experience includes a combination of research, instruction, and engineering. He has completed H&H studies for Pennsylvania and New York transportation projects and provides PennDOT training on water resources topics within the context of design manual procedures. He is also the author of PennDOT’s first comprehensive Stormwater Management Policy and assisted in developing PennDOT’s Drainage Manual. At NTM, Jeff designs stormwater and drainage systems, conducts and reviews H&H studies, prepares and reviews erosion and sediment control plans, prepares NPDES and waterway permits, and advises PennDOT’s Bureau of Project Delivery on related issues.
Jeff is a member of the Transportation Research Board Hydrology, Hydraulics and Water Quality Committee and is the lead developer/instructor for the School of Professional Engineering Exam Review Course on water resources/environmental.
Jeff earned his BS and MS degrees in Civil Engineering from Drexel University. He holds professional engineering licenses in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and New York. He is also a Certified PennDOT Instructor and a Certified Professional in Erosion and Sediment Control.
John Newell, MEng, PE, CBI
John has over 20 years of combined consulting engineering design, bridge inspection, and military design/build experience with 15 years on transportation and bridge replacement projects. His diverse background includes both civil and structural engineering designs for highway and bridge improvement projects. John also served as a structural research assistant and instructor at Penn State while completing his Master’s degree. As a consulting engineer, John has served as project manager, highway design engineer, bridge design engineer, load rater, and bridge inspection team leader for a multitude of transportation projects. He has had numerous overseas engineering and construction management experiences with the U.S. Air Force and The Pennsylvania Air National Guard. As part of his final military overseas assignment, John was the Engineering Flight Commander in Camp Taji, Iraq, where he was responsible for squadron project designs and a base-wide construction QA program, which included K-span, masonry, and concrete building designs in addition to roadway and pavement designs for over $5 million in construction projects.
John earned his BS and MEng degrees in Civil Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, where he specialized in structural engineering and bridge design. John also has over 23 year of experience with the U.S. Army and Air Force through his services in Pennsylvania National Guard. As an Engineering Officer, he designed and managed construction projects in Alaska, Italy, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. He received the Bronze Star in 2003 for his service in Operation Enduring Freedom. Lt. Col. Newell retired from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard in April 2012.