RALEIGH, NC — Dewberry has announced the promotion of nearly 60 employees nationwide, including Jake Lesue, PE, CFM, who is located in the Dallas, Texas, office, and has been promoted to Associate. Lesue’s promotion coincides with Dewberry's ongoing expansion of engineering, architectural and consulting services in Texas.

Lesue, a Senior Project Manager in the resilience solutions group, has been with Dewberry for nearly seven years. He serves as the Project Manager for several engineering projects for Federal Emergency Management Agency Region VI under the Risk Assessment, Mapping and Planning program.

Lesue also manages several other projects for local clients in the Dallas-Fort Worth region of Texas and in Louisiana. He has more than 17 years of technical and managerial experience in water resources planning, site development, storm drain design and analysis, dam breach analysis, hydrologic and hydraulic engineering and analysis and geographic information system mapping and analysis.

Lesue earned a master’s and bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Brigham Young University (2003) and is a member of the Association of State Floodplain Managers, Association of State Dam Safety Officials, Louisiana Floodplain Management Association, Texas Floodplain Management Association and the Texas Society of Professional Engineers.