Frank O’Hare, PE, PS, a highly experienced registered professional engineer and surveyor is now the senior business developer for the Columbus branch of S&ME, Inc. Besides Columbus, O’Hare’s work encompasses business development, and client relations for S&ME’s Cincinnati and Cleveland offices, as well as regional marketing in Ohio and surrounding states.

S&ME, Inc. is an engineering and environmental firm with 1,000 employees in 26 offices in the Midwest and throughout the Southeast. The 70-member Ohio offices operated as BBC&M Engineering, Inc. before BBCM joined S&ME in the fall of 2011.

O’Hare has consulted for private, local, state and federal clients in project management, preliminary and final design, transportation corridor studies and project planning, development of design criteria, and contract management and construction administration. O’Hare is a registered professional engineer in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and West Virginia, where he has managed large civil engineering projects, including dams, bridges and highways, flood walls, airports and railways.

Notable projects include the Norfolk Southern Railroad, Heartland Corridor Project in Southern Ohio; the Louisville/Southern Indiana Ohio River Bridges Project, East End Kentucky Approach – Tunnel Segment; the award winning Soo Locks Conceptual Design, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, Sault St. Marie, Michigan; and the West Columbus Local Floodwall Protection Project, Phase IIB, IIIC, IIE U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, Franklin County, Ohio.

O’Hare was installed as the 54th National President of the American Society of Highway Engineers (ASHE) on June 9. ASHE is a nationwide organization, consisting of more than 6,000 members from the highway industry and employed by federal, state and local governments, suppliers, contractors and consultants.

O’Hare received his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Purdue University in 1974. He has been a member of the Columbus Engineers Club since 1985, was active in the Society of American Military Engineers and is a past chairman of the Transportation Committee of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of Ohio.