Dewberry has announced the promotion of Jane Sibley Frantz, AICP, PMP, CFM, John Hoffman, CFM, PMP, and Mathew Mampara, PE, to associate vice presidents in the firm's Fairfax, Virginia, office.

Frantz is a deputy branch manager for the resilience solutions group and a program manager for Dewberry's $38 million FEMA Hazard Mitigation Technical Assistance Program (HMTAP) contract. With more than 16 years of experience in emergency management, she is an expert in mitigation planning and has led efforts for more than 20 multi-hazard mitigation plans and 15 disaster resistant university plans. She has instructed dozens of workshops on hazard mitigation planning and FEMA's benefit-cost analysis program that determines the future benefits of a mitigation project compared to its cost estimates.

Frantz earned her Master of Regional Planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her bachelor's degree in public policy from the College of William & Mary. She is a certified floodplain manager, a project management professional, and an American Institute Certified Planner. She is a member of the Resilient Virginia Board of Directors and a Sustainability Tools for Assessing and Rating (STAR) Communities on-call advisor.

Hoffman is a deputy branch manager for the resilience solutions group, with 21 years of experience working with contracts for the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). He serves as the operations and resource manager for the integrated resilience solutions group. Hoffman oversees all production planning and resource management as well as strategic development.

He earned his Master of Business Administration from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and his bachelor's degree in geography/urban planning from West Virginia University. He is a certified floodplain manager, a project management professional, and a member of the Association of State Floodplain Managers.

Mampara is a senior project manager in the resilience solutions group and has 17 years of experience helping organizations at the local, state, and national levels understand their vulnerability to natural hazards, assess risk, and develop strategies to reduce risks. He has successfully delivered natural hazard identification data and products for more than five-percent of the nation's population and effectively managed more than $7 million in climate adaptation projects. He uses his expertise in hazard identification and geospatial analysis to produce innovative risk communication tools to help organizations understand hazards caused by extreme weather and climate change. He has led various resilience projects for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and was a part of the team that helped define FEMA's Risk Mapping, Assessment, Planning (MAP) program—the largest natural hazard risk analysis program in the nation.

Mampara earned his master's in water resources engineering from the State University of New York in Syracuse and his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Cornell University. He is a professional engineer in Maryland.