President & Owner

Kristin L. Savard, PE

President

Kristin is a native Western New Yorker who returned home after 12 years away.  Utilizing the site work experience obtained while working in the New England area, Kristin advanced her professional career to become co-founder of ADG in 2005 and President in 2008.

After graduating from Clarkson University and SUNY Potsdam in 1995 with Bachelors Degrees in Civil Engineering and Physics, Kristin began her career as a Project Engineer for J. R. Russo & Associates in East Windsor, CT. After 5 years she joined Martinez Couch & Associates in New Haven, CT as a Project Engineer. In 2002, she returned to Western New York where she worked as Project Engineer for Wendel Duchscherer in Amherst, NY before co-founding ADG as a NYS Certified WBE business.

Kristin has over 18 years of engineering and project management experience.  She has been directly responsible for the planning, design, and construction of projects ranging from residential and commercial subdivisions to an 18-acre solid waste recycling facility.  She has extensive experience in all aspects of obtaining the local, state and federal approvals for the development of sites across the state and nationwide.

Kristin specializes in government regulations, zoning, grading, drainage and utility designs, SEQR and in SPDES compliance.

Buffalo’s Business First WNY Outstanding Women of Influence Winner

Licenses:

Professional Engineer, State of Connecticut

Professional Engineer, State of New York

Education:

BS Civil Engineering, Clarkson University

BS Physics, SUNY Potsdam

Employment:

Advanced Design Group Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, President

Wendel Duchscherer, Project Engineer

Martinez Couch & Assoc., Project Engineer

J.R. Russo & Assoc., Project Engineer

Positions Held:

Village of Lewiston Planning Board (Board Member)

Niagara County Builders Association (President)

New York State Builders Association  (President)