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Angel Banks

2024-08-26T14:53:24-05:00

Angel recently retired on September 1, 2024.  She was the Right of Way Manager for the Metropolitan Sewerage District, a regional public sewer authority in Asheville for 33 years.  She created the District’s right of way division in 1991, establishing policies and procedures for easement acquisition over 1,000 miles of sewer lines.  Working with area municipalities, she developed agreements allowing greenway uses over the District’s sewer easements.  Angel became a member of IRWA in 1991.  She served on Chapter 31 committees and in officer positions, becoming President in 2004.  From 2004-2009 she served as Region 6 Secretary/Treasurer, Vice Chair [...]

Angel Banks2024-08-26T14:53:24-05:00

Kevin L. Winner, SR/WA

2021-09-27T14:20:15-05:00

Kevin L. Winner, SR/WA, MBA, AB obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Organizational Communications and Master’s in Business Administration from the University of New Mexico. He is a Project Manager for Percheron located in the Southwestern US. Percheron is a land and right of way Service Company providing a wide range of comprehensive right of way acquisition and permitting services primarily to the pipeline, power, energy, renewable, transportation, telecommunication, and governmental sectors. He has been involved in the Right of Way Industry since 1999 and has worked for both private and public utility companies negotiating property rights for telecommunications, pipelines [...]

Kevin L. Winner, SR/WA2021-09-27T14:20:15-05:00

David W. Sinclair, SR/WA

2021-09-27T14:00:29-05:00

David W. Sinclair, SR/WA, is a Senior Project Manager for Paragon Partners Ltd. and is based in their office in Houston, TX. Prior to joining Paragon Partners, Mr. Sinclair was President of Steele Land Services, worked at ENGlobal for 11 years in various executive positions, and worked at Enron for more than 16 years serving as Director of Right of Way until January of 2001. While at Enron his responsibilities included overseeing the acquisition of land and right-of-way for new facilities and managing existing land rights across their domestic pipeline system. In addition, Mr. Sinclair also provided right-of-way assistance [...]

David W. Sinclair, SR/WA2021-09-27T14:00:29-05:00

Clyde B. Johnson, SR/WA, R/W – URAC, R/W – RAC

2021-09-27T13:48:57-05:00

After retiring from the Federal Highway Administration with over 30 years of service, he served as the Director of Real Estate Services for TBE Group for 2 years. He is a Veteran of the United States Air Force serving from 1966 until 1969 and began his career in Right-of-Way with the Georgia Department of Transportation in 1973. He served in the Office of Real Estate Services, Washington Office from 1998 through 2002 and was responsible for FHWA’s National Training Program, the Highway Beautification Program and assisted in the Uniform Act compliance and re-write. He developed and presented FHWA’s Outdoor [...]

Clyde B. Johnson, SR/WA, R/W – URAC, R/W – RAC2021-09-27T13:48:57-05:00

Noelle Wysocki, SR/WA

2023-06-09T07:24:36-05:00

Noelle Wysocki, SR/WA, is a Senior Real Estate Services Agent for HDR, Inc. in Denver, Colorado. Ms. Wysocki has over 14 years of right of way acquisition and project management experience in the Energy Industry with both private and public entities. She has been an active member of the International Right of Way Association (IRWA) since 2016. Ms. Wysocki has been very active in serving the Denver Chapter of the IRWA and has held several committee and officer positions including Chapter President and International Director. Ms. Wysocki is a past Region 9, Young Professional Representative and has lead the [...]

Noelle Wysocki, SR/WA2023-06-09T07:24:36-05:00

Ride for the Foundation FUNdraiser

2021-09-28T12:01:31-05:00

Since 2014, Steve Grandon has been riding his Harley across the county, raising money for ROW education.  We caught up with the founder of this unique event after his seventh ride. Steve, you created the FUNdrasier event in 2014.  How did you come up with the idea? In 2014 our conference was held in Hartford, CT.  Realizing the 2015 conference would be in San Diego, I tried to recall when we had back-to-back conferences that far apart.  I thought how cool it would be to ride the entire distance, basically coast-to-coast, on the bike.  I had never [...]

Ride for the Foundation FUNdraiser2021-09-28T12:01:31-05:00

20/20 Vision

2023-03-22T10:59:15-05:00

Celebrating our 40th anniversary in 2017, the Right of Way International Education Foundation (RWIEF) partnered with IRWA to fund 40 scholarships. The program, “40 For Forty Launching Careers Scholarship”, was open to IRWA members in good standing that were committed to achieving the Right of Way Agent (RWA) or Right of Way Professional (RWP) credential. Two recipients from each of the ten IRWA regions, plus 20 more recipients from members throughout IRWA were selected. RWIEF committed $185,000 to fund these scholarships over three years from January 2018 to December 2020 and IRWA managed the [...]

20/20 Vision2023-03-22T10:59:15-05:00

Do Your Best

2023-03-22T10:59:34-05:00

We all say it. We often promise to do it. But how often do we actually fulfill that promise? With all our good intentions, the pressures of life do lead us astray. But when we do our best, pushing through obstacles, using all our efforts, the satisfaction is enormous. And the rewards are sweeter because they’ve been hard earned. Ralph Waldo Emerson said “Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.” RWIEF helps you do just that. Our Foundation has supported right of way education for over 40 years, [...]

Do Your Best2023-03-22T10:59:34-05:00

Sharon Slauenwhite, SR/WA

2021-09-27T13:11:33-05:00

Sharon Slauenwhite, SR/WA, is Supervisor of Roads and Rights of Way with the Department of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy in Prince Edward Island, Canada. She has worked in real property law and public infrastructure for 30 years in both the private and public sectors. Sharon has been an IRWA member since 2003, and has enjoyed serving in leadership roles with Atlantic Canada Chapter 65, Region 8, the International Governing Council, and the Canadian Right of Way Education Foundation. She became a CLIMB certified instructor in 2016. Presently Sharon is the IRWA's 2020-2021 International President, and is honoured (yes, that's [...]

Sharon Slauenwhite, SR/WA2021-09-27T13:11:33-05:00

Funding Your Future

2023-03-22T11:01:26-05:00

40 Years of Giving Back Since RWIEF’s inception in 1976 as a non-profit funding mechanism for right of way education, the Foundation has supported IRWA in building and improving its education program. Coming to the end of our 40th anniversary year, it is amazing to recognize that approximately $1.8M has been endowed to the program. Most members know that Foundation funding has produced new courses, updated existing courses, converted classroom courses to online formats, and made possible the 2004 revision of the PRINCIPLES OF RIGHT OF WAY textbook, but that’s not all. Funding for the [...]

Funding Your Future2023-03-22T11:01:26-05:00
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