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SEAoNY Board of Director Elections
2025 - 2026 Elections
Elections are being held for President-Elect, Secretary, and four (4) Director positions. For all positions listed below, the terms will begin as of September 1, 2025. Terms end on August 31, 2027 unless otherwise stated. President-Elect position commits to three year term (2025-2026 President-Elect, 2026-2027 President, 2027-2028 Past President).
Each member can only vote once. Only SEAoNY members may vote, if you have not received the email containing the ballot please email admin@seaony.org.
Poll close 11:59 PM July 31, 2025
President-Elect
Andrea Shear, P.E., is an Associate Principal at Murray Engineering in New York City. She has performed field investigations and evaluations involving a broad range of construction materials, with a primary focus on renovation of historic steel and concrete structures. She has designed structural and building envelope repairs, restorations, and modifications for adaptive reuse, as well as completed construction period services and special inspections associated with a variety of structures, including high rise and historic commercial and office buildings, parking structures, residential buildings, and civil infrastructure. She has a bachelor's and master's degree in Civil Engineer from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor and is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York and New Jersey, a director of WJE’s Special Inspection Agency and a New York City Qualified Exterior Wall Inspector, and a Qualified Parking Structure Inspector.
Andrea has been an active member of the Structural Engineers Associate of New York (SEAoNY) since 2008. She is the co-chair of the Codes and Standards Committee and has completed one term as Director. Prior to moving to New York, she was a member of the Structural Engineer’s Association of Michigan (SEAMi). She is also an active participant of the American Welding Society (AWS)'s Subcommittee on Strengthening and Repair and AWS D1 Task Group 1 on Design.
Secretary
Matthew Sangen, P.E., S.E. is an Associate and Structural Engineer at STV. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering, both from Manhattan College. Matt is licensed as a Professional Engineer in New York and Massachusetts and as a Structural Engineer in Illinois. Matt has experience with both new buildings and renovations, primarily for transportation, educational, and institutional facilities. His recent projects include the new Terminal A at Newark Airport, flood protection for NYCT’s Hammels Wye Campus in Queens, ADA Accessibility Upgrades for 8 NYC Subway Stations, and flood protection for NYCT’s Westchester Yard in the Bronx. Matt has been actively involved in SEAoNY since 2014 and served as a co-chair of the Student Outreach Committee from 2018-2021. Matt has also volunteered the ACE Mentor Program at STV for the past seven years and is a member of the upcoming ASCE 7-28 Flood Load Subcommittee.
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Directors
Steven D. Hall, P.E. is a Senior Consulting Engineer at Simpson Gumpertz & Heger in New York City. Steven holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University and a Master’s Degree in Structural Engineering at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His professional engineering experience includes new structural design; investigation and repair of concrete, steel, and timber structures design of bridges and environmental structures; and adaptive reuse of existing buildings. He has consulted with contractors, architects, and building owners on structural condition assessments and structural monitoring. His recent adaptive reuse projects include commercial and residential spaces, museums, schools, and libraries. Steven has been a member of SEAoNY since 2012 and previously served as co-chair of the University Outreach Committee (now the Student Outreach Committee). He is currently a corresponding member of the NCSEA Existing Buildings/Structural Retrofit Subcommittee.
Hubert Chang, P.E. is a Senior Project Engineer at TY Lin (previously Silman). His experience has brought him to places where he can be an active voice and participant early in the architectural design process, with a particular interest in cultural, community, and institutional typologies. His work crosses a range of different scales, from art and temporary sculptures to adaptive reuse, historic preservation, and multi-building complexes. His current work includes libraries, renovations of turn-of-the-century gallery skylights, façade upgrades to a 1920s house museum, and a new university institute in Baltimore. He joined Silman (and the SEAoNY Programs Committee) in 2019. Over the years, Hubert has been involved in regular guest critic and teaching roles at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation (GSAPP). He is passionate about the intersection between architecture and engineering, and stays active in various organizations in that sphere, strengthening interdisciplinary ties in the built environment community and engaging with the public. He fills his spare time with informal architectural photography, glass and metal crafts, and long walks along the Manhattan waterfront.
Joe Mugford, P.E. joined Gilsanz Murray Steficek full-time in 2007 and was promoted to Partner in 2022. The breadth of his experience ranges from retail renovations to large-scale redevelopment. Many of Joe's projects involve the adaptive reuse and sustainable redevelopment of older structures, including 75 Rockefeller Plaza, 1100 Avenue of the Americas, and 660 Fifth Avenue. He has worked with owners and architects on the selective removal of columns and floors, installation of new lateral load resisting systems, and vertical expansions to creatively upgrade existing buildings and fit modern needs while minimizing carbon footprint. Joe is working to improve building codes, locally on the New York City Department of Buildings' Structural Technical Committee for the Revisions to the 2008 & 2018 New York City Building Code, and nationally as ASCE 7-22, Seismic Subcommittee Task Committee TC-13, Voting Member. He is the firm's liaison to the United States Resiliency Council, of which GMS is a founding member. Additionally, Joe is a board member of the Hemophilia Association of New York, which advocates for individuals with bleeding disorders. Joe leads the firm's efforts in assessing and mitigating against the detrimental effects of vibrations in structures. Joe holds a Master of Architectural Engineering from Pennsylvania State University. He is a Registered Professional Civil Engineer in New York, California, Connecticut, Florida, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, and Virginia, and is a Qualified Parking Structures Inspector (QPSI) in New York City.
Xiaoxiao Wu, P.E. is a licensed professional engineer in New York and California and has been an active member of SEAoNY since 2018. She is committed to supporting the organization’s mission to strengthen the structural engineering community, foster professional growth, and encourage knowledge sharing across the industry. As an Associate Partner at Guy Nordenson and Associates in New York City, Xiaoxiao leads engineering teams on a diverse range of cultural, civic, and institutional projects. Her recently completed work includes the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC, the Frick Collection Renovation in New York, NY, and Day’s End, a large-scale sculpture by David Hammons installed at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, NY. Current projects include the Emanuel Nine Memorial in Charleston, the Rothko Chapel Campus Expansion in Houston, and Calder Gardens in Philadelphia. Her work is grounded in thoughtful and innovative structural solutions and is shaped by close collaboration with design teams, specialty fabricators and builders. Xiaoxiao also engages with academic institutions to explore new materials and structural approaches. Xiaoxiao holds a Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering from Tongji University in Shanghai, China. She taught a course in structural drawing with GNA colleague Gina Morrow at The Cooper Union for five years and is passionate about mentorship and supporting the next generation of engineers.