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Dec 132024
 

DuBois & King (D&K) is excited to announce that Alan S. Gould, PE, has been named Chief Executive Officer of the firm. The departing Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey Tucker, PE, has stepped down following 16 years in the leadership position but will remain on the firm’s Board of Directors.

Alan has more than 35 years of experience that includes designing and implementing electrical systems for governmental, commercial, industrial, and institutional clients. Alan earned his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from the University of Vermont in 1989. Early in his career, he served as president and operations manager of the Gould Corporation, a mid-sized electrical contracting company in Stowe. He then spent several years at Dynapower in South Burlington designing and supervising the construction of high-voltage transformers, and he is a co-patent-holder of ultrahigh-efficiency transformer technology. 

Alan joined Pearson & Associates as a senior electrical engineer in 1999 and eventually became the president and majority shareholder. In 2018, D&K acquired Pearson, and Alan was promoted to lead D&K’s Building Services Division shortly thereafter. He has served as the firm’s executive vice president since December 2023. Alan remains excited and bullish about D&K’s future and is committed to the success of the employees-owners of D&K. His leadership and mentoring abilities have flourished since he joined the firm and his responsibilities at D&K have been steadily expanding. Alan is a hard worker and has earned the respect of people throughout the firm.

As CEO of D&K, Alan will lead the firm’s strategic growth and oversee D&K’s executive team responsible for the overall management and direction of the employee-owned professional services firm. 

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Dec 062024
 

D&K is pleased to announce that John Baumann has been named Chairman of the DuBois & King Board of Directors. This appointment is the culmination of John’s distinguished 43-year tenure at D&K.

John has served as a senior managing partner and D&K’s vice president and chief financial officer for more than two decades. As a teenager, John worked at D&K part-time cleaning the water quality laboratory and producing blueprints. In May 1989, following graduation from Norwich University with Bachelors of Science in economics and business administration, John joined D&K full time as a staff accountant. Within five years, he was promoted to controller, at that time, the senior-most financial position in the company.

In 2005, following significant investment in D&K, John was elected to the Board of Directors, and in 2008, he was elevated to chief financial officer of DuBois & King, just in time for the arrival of the great recession. As a principal and as CFO, he played a key role in guiding the company through the recession, meeting commitments to the firm’s creditors while protecting jobs. Although many companies endured several rounds of layoffs as they fought to survive the recession, John’s meticulous and strategic leadership—in concert with that of his fellow principals—ensured DuBois & King did not lay off a single employee during the financial downturn.

John’s leadership has been instrumental in D&K’s steady growth and success. When John and his partners assumed control of the company in 2008, the firm employed 64 people and operated in three offices in two states. Despite navigating the recession followed by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, D&K now has more than 160 staff around nine offices in four states.

John was elected as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors in 2016. Over the last two decades, he has steadfastly focused on retiring DuBois & King’s debt burden while balancing the cash flow demands placed on a company bound to invest in sustainable growth and remain locally owned.

John’s successful financial strategies and ethical leadership have not gone unrecognized outside of D&K. In November 2024, the White River Valley Chamber of Commerce named John as the Business Executive of the Year for 2024. His selection for this honor was based on his professional success and exemplary contributions to D&K’s growth, vitality, financial health, success, and sustainability.

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Jun 012021
 
Andrew Hoak, portrait, geologic map

Andrew Hoak, PE, PG, has been promoted to Director of DuBois & King’s Environmental Services Division. Andy is a hydrogeologist and civil engineer working on dam rehabilitation and removal, stormwater, water quality enhancement, hazardous material remediation, and civil engineering, including water sourcing, slope protection, and on-site wastewater disposal systems. He also enjoys agricultural water quality projects and is a Natural Resources Conservation Service Technical Service Provider in New York and Vermont. He is currently supporting projects in New York, Vermont, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia, and West Virginia. 

Andy’s objectives include growing the division and expanding the range of environmental services DuBois & King offers. For decades, DuBois & King’s Environmental Services division has provided local, state, and federal permitting support and all phases of NEPA documentation assistance and wetlands services. Under Andy’s direction, the firm has expanded staffing in the areas of botany and wildlife, including bat habitat evaluation. 

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Nov 232020
 
Jonathan Ashley, smiling man, engineer

D&K is pleased to announce that following Chuck Goodling’s appointment to President of D&K, Jonathan Ashley, PE, was chosen to lead the firm’s Public Works Division. Jon has steadily grown his responsibilities and is now responsible for Public Works operations in five offices in four states. Prior to joining D&K, Jon was a Vice President at Phelps Engineering in Middlebury, where he managed a wide variety of civil and environmental projects. Jon brings high-level experience with hazardous waste sites, including brownfield investigations, remediation, disposal, and site stabilization. Bringing decades of hands-on experience in the area of water, sewer, and stormwater engineering, Jon regularly oversees the firm’s services for onsite, small- and large-scale wastewater treatment; water sourcing and supply; and site/stormwater projects. He has also helped to grow the firm’s slope protection practice.

Jon provides ongoing mentoring, helps resolve issues, and keeps people gainfully busy and productive. Jon was also elected to the D&K Board of Directors in 2019 and continues to serve in this key leadership position. D&K is very fortunate to have Jon on the D&K team and serving in this senior leadership position.

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Nov 212020
 

Charles (Chuck) Goodling, PE, has been promoted to President of DuBois & King. With the unanimous support of D&K’s Board of Directors and leadership around the company, Chuck began his duties as D&K’s President on November 21, 2020.

Chuck’s leadership and firm responsibilities have steadily grown, and in 2004, he was appointed Director of the Public Works Division. Over his years of service, Chuck has provided invaluable mentorship and guidance to many throughout D&K and has worked hard to provide professional growth opportunities to others. As his mentees grew into leadership positions, Chuck moved seamlessly into the firm’s only Senior Vice President position, overseeing several operating divisions in multiple offices and states.

Chuck and his wife, Kim, are longtime residents of central Vermont. They homeschooled their three children on their 150-year-old hillside farm, called Grand View Farm, in Washington, VT. Chuck and Kim provided their family with the opportunity to participate in Vermont’s rich agricultural life and, with kids now grown, they continue to operate a sustainable sheep farm and farm-stay B&B. They have been instrumental in establishing Vermont’s first flock of Gotland sheep, which originate from Sweden, and have led two tour groups to Gotland Island. They also raise pigs in the summer and produce maple syrup.

Chuck is a well-respected company leader and is highly regarded by his staff and peers, and we are very fortunate to have him leading the D&K team!

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