Highways HWY-P Welcomes Three New Employees By: Rachel Roper He has done computer modeling of hydraulics, water pollution, and sedimentation; lab and field research and data collection; development of underwater surveying technology, and scientific diving during his first engineering career on the mainland. Jonathan is now returning to engineering after doing other things since moving to Hawaii almost 25 years ago, including working as a full-time public school science teacher for most of that time.
veric Abella and Richard
From left: Jonathan Lott, Ma Wollenbecker
More recently he worked as a commercial tour bus driver, substitute teacher, stagehand, tour guide, and Waikiki Hospitality Ambassador.
The Highways Division, Planning Branch recently welcomed three new employees. Maveric Abella and Jonathan Lott join the Planning Survey Section and Richard Wollenbecker joins the Systems Planning Section.
His hobbies include bike riding and racing, running, and surfing. He is “retired” from triathlon racing and hopes to spend more time on and in the ocean.
Abella graduated from Kamehameha High School and recently graduated from Columbia University with an undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering.
Wollenbecker graduated from Maryknoll in 2010 and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2014 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering.
She is looking forward to becoming the new Highway Performance Monitoring System (HPMS) coordinator in Planning.
His hobbies include sailing, rocketry and video games.
Maveric was born and raised here on Oahu, and is excited to be back home doing her favorite things: surfing, hiking, SCUBA, and pretty much anything outdoors. Lott graduated with a BSCE from the University of Maryland with a concentration in Water Resources and a MS from the University of Florida in Coastal and Oceanographic Engineering.
During the summer you can usually find him sailing around Kaneohe Bay on Friday evenings from Kaneohe Yacht Club. The largest successful rocket he’s launched was the Barber Pole, which flew to 5000 feet. During college he designed several experimental rocket motors up to I class, with only one dramatic failure.
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