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Joe Baldridge
Principal
32 years

What inspires you?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
It would be the day I was asked to become a principal with the firm.






Muhammad Cheema
Principal
35 years

What professional achievements are you most proud of?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
There are many best days which I see here, when a client calls me to say “let’s go have lunch;” that really excites me and makes my day.






Edwin Friedrichs
Senior Principal
39 years

Why have you stayed with the firm for all these years?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
I’ve had many best days. For me a best day is when I can see the eyes light up of some of my younger staff, the professionals and watching them grow in their career. That’s a great day for me, every day when I am able to see that.




Alan Jecmenek
Senior Associate
35 years

Why did you come to Walter P Moore?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
Every day is a best day. The first day I came to Walter P Moore was a great day. The second day, I worked all night long. Those first years were really, good... maybe my best day has yet to come.




Narendra Gosain
Senior Diagnostics Consultant
44 years

Why have you stayed with the firm for all these years?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?

One project that I worked on in the 70s was the design of a very complicated maintenance facility, which had cranes ranging from 10 to 100 tons. One of the things that they said was that “hurricanes can come, tornados can come, but this building has to remain standing. This building is where we service our turbines and other items where we provide services back to the city and the whole grid system.”

When the time came to commission the building, unbeknownst to me, they’d planned to do a load test of this 100-ton crane. The principal architect asked me how confident I was in this structure I’d designed, and when I told him I was “very confident,” he told me about the load test, which called for “25% over the 100-ton load for which you designed. Are you still okay with that?” I told him I was still fine, so he challenged me. “If you are fine with that, go stand under the bridge crane. We are going to move the bridge crane back and forth. And you had better stand there. I want to see how confident you are.”

So I did. But before it started, all I could think about was my small child and wife — what was going to happen? Fortunately, the load test went without an issue. So, that was my best day, in which I survived a very severe load test I was unware I’d have to survive.





Larry Griffis
Senior Principal
44 years

What inspires you?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
Whenever we have a ribbon cutting, an open house or opening of one of our projects, it’s always fun to be invited and be recognized along with the architectural and construction team on being a part of the project. There have been so many of those such as: Minute Maid Park, Reliant Stadium, Houston Center 3 and many other projects. Participating in such great projects is always a great day at Walter P Moore.




Ray Messer
Senior Principal
35 years

What professional achievements are you most proud of?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
Well there are probably two best days. One, in Tampa, when we won the Tampa Convention Center project with HOK. That was a shot across the bow to the community that this firm is a player in the central Florida market — particularly at that time in Tampa — and that we can do the work locally. This was important for the company, in terms of its technical positioning in the marketing place, but also with our relationship with HOK. And then of course the second best day would have been being named President by my peers on the board. Those were two very important days in my life.




Mashari Nassar
Senior Principal
31 years

Who was your mentor and what was the single most important thing you learned from them?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
My best day is yet to come.




Mark Noble
Senior Associate
35 years

What professional achievements are you most proud of?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
When I was asked to come up to Dallas, that was a new kind of beginning, I went from a big office to a small office. I think there were only seven or eight of us up here at the time, so I had more of a leadership role. And that was very rewarding.




Charlie Penland
Senior Principal
36 years

Why have you stayed with the firm for all these years?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
Every day is a great day. I don’t know if there is a “best day.” I think one of the more fun days was the 75th anniversary, because we had everyone in the company here celebrating. Even people who had already retired had come back; that was a lot of fun. It was fun to reminisce with the people that you’ve grown up with and done things with. But every day is the best day.




Dave Platten
Senior Principal
36 years

Why did you come to Walter P Moore?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
I would say probably opening day at the ballpark in Arlington. That was the new ballpark we designed for the Texas Rangers back in the early 90s. That was really my first sports project. I was project manager so I was hands on, day to day. I made many site visits during construction, so I was basically out there all the time. Sometimes you forget why you’re out there and you’re caught up with getting the job done. And then you show up on opening day and there are 45,000 people there and it’s like “wow,” this is the payoff here.




Lee Slade
Senior Principal
40 years

Who was your mentor and what was the single most important thing you learned from them?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
I have had a lot of great days at Walter P Moore, but one that jumps to mind is two years ago at the Stockholders meeting, when we announced that Dilip would be the new CEO. It took the stockholders by surprise, but it culminated about a year of really hard work by a number of us and the response of the stockholders to that announcement and Ray’s honest emotion were both very gratifying and satisfying. It was a very special day.




Richard Temple
Senior Principal
37 years

What inspires you?
What has been your best day at Walter P Moore so far?
There are all sorts of best days. A great day is when you get the phone call that you’ve won the project, when you go to the kick-off meeting to start the project with your team, the topping out celebration. You can look back and say “we did that well, and let’s do it again.” The grand opening of any project whether it’s a hospital, airport, university project, convention center, or stadium. Stadiums are fantastic! When you go to a grand opening and it's game day and you see everyone flowing in, they don’t know anything at all of what you did, but you can proudly look and say “we were part of the team that created this.” There are a lot of best days that I’ve had and that I can be proud of and thankful for.