If Kris Caldwell has a mantra, it's "we have to do more." The project manager for Louis Berger spent more than a year in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, helping to place and maintain more than 1,600 generators around the territory, leaving only in October 2018 when the Army Corps of Engineers wound down its temporary power mission, for which Louis Berger was a contractor. "Kris was very, very instrumental to the success of the mission," says Steve Hill, senior vice president of Berger and mission leader in Puerto Rico. Hill says Caldwell has an "exceptional understanding of people and the technical understanding" needed for the job, as well as a solutions-based focus. Caldwell rarely left the island during the time she was working there, and instead brought her family to visit her. She was driven by the desire to give Puerto Rico residents the electricity and water that those in the mainland U.S. take for granted. "I really want to see these folks get back to some sort of normal," says Caldwell, now on Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands helping Louis Berger, which was recently acquired by WSP, provide temporary power to the island devastated by Typhoon Yutu. "I am passionate about this work. I want to see people have small things like ice in their glass."
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