Team Leadership
We believe that land development projects are always a means to accomplish some larger objective. That’s why we start every client relationship with listening.
Tony Whitaker
Tony Whitaker is a licensed professional engineer with more than 30 years experience in land planning, civil engineering, and project design management. Tony founded Civil Consultants in 1993 and serves as our President providing executive oversight and overall management responsibility for our firm. He also serves as a project leader or lead design engineer for some projects and is generally active in key design issues for most other projects.
Tony’s experience includes hundreds of diverse land development projects across North Carolina. In addition to land planning and civil engineering design he is also regularly involved in zoning and entitlement matters such as conditional use re-zoning and special use permits.
Always focused on helping clients achieve their goals Tony finds as much pleasure in helping a small non-profit organization expand its facilities as in designing a large industrial site or a mixed-use development. He lives in rural Orange County and serves on the Site Planning committee for the local chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Michael Fiocco
Michael Fiocco has over 30 years experience in land planning, site design, and design management. He is a partner in our firm, and serves as Land Development Manager. He has been a key member of our team for 31 years.
Michael provides project management and design leadership for select projects; specializing in projects that are large or unusually complex and those with intensive regulatory requirements. He is always focused on optimizing project outcomes and is not hesitant to use creative design solutions or innovative regulatory strategies to meet project goals or simply to increase project value.
Michae is a former Town of Pittsboro Commissioner (2009-2021) and Design Committee Chair for Main Street Pittsboro.
William (Randy) Akin
William (Randy) Akin, PE is a licensed professional engineer in the states of North Carolina and New Jersey. He has over 15 years of experience in civil engineering design and project management. Randy has worked on numerous projects while working in the public/private sector. His experience with engineering design includes site planning and permitting, utility design, roadway design, stormwater design, site inspections, and construction management.
Andrew Jones
Andrew Jones, PE is a licensed professional engineer with 13 years of experience in municipal stormwater and land development engineering. Andrew is a project manager at Civil Consultants focusing on residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects in the triangle area. In design, he brings creative stormwater solutions and efficient permitting pathways to an often complex regulatory environment.
