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Jun 2021
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How One Goal Helped This Engineer to Ris...

Anthony Fasano, PE and James Taylor
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In this episode of The Civil Engineering Podcast, I talk to Tramone Smith, P.E., BCEE, MSCE from WGK in Mississippi, about his path to partnership in his firm. Tramone is a really unique professional in that he had one goal only in his career, which had absolutely nothing to do with partnership or ownership in […]

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