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SEAoNY Board of Director Elections
2026 - 2027 Elections
Elections are being held for President-Elect, Treasurer, and three (3) Director positions. For all positions listed below, the terms will begin as of September 1, 2026. Terms end on August 31, 2028 unless otherwise stated. President-Elect position commits to three year term: 2026–2027 President-Elect, 2027–2028 President, 2028–2029 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 closes 11:59 PM July 31, 2026.
President-Elect
Steve Reichwein, P.E. joined Severud Associates in 2009 as an engineer after interning with the firm the summer before. He progressed to senior engineer in 2013, advanced to associate shortly thereafter, and was elevated to senior associate in 2020. Steve was promoted to associate principal in 2024. Steve’s background in architectural engineering along with his design experience has enabled him to engineer his clients’ visions effectively, regardless of their complexity. Steve is a leader of the firm’s parametric and algorithmic design team, a group whose analyses inform critical engineering decisions for major projects, and a member of the forensics and litigation support team, which provides expert witness testimony, document review, testing protocols, forensic investigations, and reports.
Steve’s major projects include the immersive entertainment venue Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, and 20 Times Square and Madison Square Garden V–The Transformation, both in New York, to which Steve made significant contributions. His other challenging projects include the TSX Broadway and Palace Theater redevelopment, the high-rise office building One Vanderbilt Avenue, and the new East 97th Street campus of the Marymount School of New York, all in Manhattan.
Steve represents the structural engineering profession within the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY) as Treasurer and a past member of the Board of Directors, past co-chair of the Programs Committee, and past member of the Codes and Standards Committee. Steve also serves the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) as a member of the Optimal Structural Design and Flood Resistant Design and Construction Committees; he is a past member of the ASCE 7-22 Wind Loads Subcommittee. Steve is a past member of the Structural Engineering Certification Board (SECB) Credentialing Committee. In 2024, Steve was named one of the year’s “40 Under 40” by Building Design+Construction.
Steve is author or co-author of numerous magazine articles about his projects, methodologies, and other topics of structural engineering interest. He also regularly presents at engineering conferences.
Steve is licensed as a structural engineer in Nevada and as a professional engineer in New York, New Jersey, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, and the District of Columbia. He was certified by SECB until the program’s sunset in 2022. He earned a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering and a Master of Architectural Engineering, both from Pennsylvania State University.
Treasurer
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Steve Rys, P.E is the Structural Engineering Lead for complex structures and a sustainability specialist on Nucor’s Construction Solutions team. With over 14 years of experience in design and construction, he specializes in large-scale projects including stadiums, airports, tall towers, and other complex structures. He combines technical design experience with unique supply-chain insight from his role at North America’s largest steel producer to inform more efficient and integrated project solutions. This perspective enables reductions in cost, embodied carbon, and schedule while improving fabrication and construction efficiency.
Steve is active in the local professional community and is a member of SEAoNY’s Sustainable Design Committee, Programs Committee, and Young Members Group. He also contributes to national professional initiatives through the Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA), and Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH).
Before joining Nucor, he worked at WSP’s New York City office. Steve holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s degree from Cornell University.
Directors
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Craig Tracy, Ph.D., P.E., is a Senior Vice President at WSP with over 25 years of experience in the analysis and design of a diverse range of commercial, residential, and institutional buildings and arenas. Drawing upon a deep and long-standing passion for building and invention, Craig strives to merge rigorous analysis with functional, readily constructible design. This approach proved effective in projects with difficult sites, complex structures, demanding stakeholders, and tough logistical constraints such as the Central Park Tower, Grandstand Stadium at the US Tennis Center, and Tower 3 at the World Trade Center. Always keen to expand capabilities and improve efficiencies through new materials and methods, his structures often challenge conventions and always require a new spreadsheet.
Migara Hewavitharana is a licensed professional engineer in the state of New York and is a Senior Structural Engineer/Project Manager with VHB. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Civil/Structural Engineering, from Penn State University and Columbia University, respectively.
Passionate about the AEC industry’s role in shaping the built environment, Migara believes people-focused infrastructure and urban planning can drive transformational change. This conviction drew him to the profession and into long-standing involvement in professional organizations, beginning with his service as ASCE student chapter president at Penn State. Over the 13 years since his undergraduate graduation, he has continued to expand his leadership skills while designing and delivering professional development programming for students and young professionals – paying forward the strong mentorship and guidance he has benefitted from.
Migara has been an active leader with SEAoNY since 2020 and NCSEA since 2022. He helped lead the SEAoNY YMG as committee records keeper/event coordinator for three years while also leading the Outreach Committee as co-chair for 4 years, playing a key part in cultivating and nuturing structural engineering talent through professional development programming aimed at young engineers and students here in NYC. He has been an active leader on the NCSEA Younger Member Support Committee since 2022, assisting with programming and advising for other younger members across the nation. He has also been active with both the Education Committee and Communications Committee for NCSEA since 2024. Migara was also instrumental to expanding SEAoNY's social media footprint through assisting with social media content production from 2022 through 2024, and is still an active participant on the SEAoNY Communications Committee. For his efforts, he was selected by the SEAoNY Board of Directors as the inaugural recipient of the "Volunteer of the Year" award at the 2024 SEAoNY SEE Awards.
Migara’s building design experience spans across multiple industry sectors and firms of all sizes & types (from a small <5-person structural practice to a large global-leading, multi-disciplinary company – and everything in between). This breadth has developed his highly adaptable skill set, integrating lessons from diverse project types, roles, and mentors. He now leverages this skill set to help advance VHB’s strategic plan, including growing the new Buildings & Transit Structures design team here in NYC.
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Daniel Ki joined Severud Associates in 2015 and has spent more than a decade advancing through senior engineer (2019) and associate (2021) roles, building deep expertise in structural analysis, long-span roof systems, and blast-resistant design. In recent years, Dan has extended that expertise into computational design and engineering automation, developing parametric workflows and internal tools to streamline structural analysis and coordination across project teams.
Dan's project experience includes the Sphere entertainment venue in Las Vegas, Nevada; 100 Vandam Street in Manhattan; Halletts Point Building 10 in Queens; and the Terminal 6 redevelopment at JFK International Airport.
Dan is active in the Structural Engineers Association of New York (SEAoNY), currently serving as Co-Chair of Programs — his second year in the role — having previously acted as the chief editor of Cross Sections, the organization's quarterly newsletter, from 2019 to 2021.
Dan is licensed as a structural engineer in Nevada and as a professional engineer in New York. He earned a Bachelor of Science in civil engineering and a Master of Engineering in structural engineering from Cornell University.