Our Team

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Richard Guzman, PE | Principal

Richard Guzman serves as our Founder | Principal of the firm. Mr. Guzman has 11 years of electrical engineering experience and is professionally registered in Texas. His experience includes design of power distribution systems, lighting sys-tems, instrumentation, SCADA design, controls, and communication systems for water and wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater pump stations, sanitary lift stations, and private industry facilities.

Electrically, he is skilled in low/medium voltage fault tolerant systems and emergency generators in harsh industrial environments ensuring power utility compliance. He is knowledgable of relevant safety codes, including NEC and TCEQ. Throughout his career, Mr.

Guzman has acquired extensive experience with industrial control systems (ICS) design best practices. His security expertise includes video management systems, surveillance cameras, analytics, access control, fiber optic communication systems, network systems, and structured cabling.

Richard is also a skilled project manager, whose efficient communication and commitment to construction oversight ensures that projects are completed on time and within budget. His passion for providing an thriving environment for engineers led him to founding the company to serve not only clients but each team member of Guzman Engineering.

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Travis Cheek | SCADA Manager

Travis Cheek leads our SCADA programming department and is skilled across multiple manufacturer products including Siemens, Schneider, VT SCADA, AVEVA, Allen Bradley, Maple, and others. Travis has built his reputation in the Texas region by maintaining high availability, professional personality, an impressive technical expertise to all things SCADA/Networking, and an extreme work ethic to support his clients. Travis’ agnostic, wide range, of manufacturer system experience has led him to work on small to large scale SCADA Systems spanning 20+ interconnected facilities.

Mr. Cheek is experienced with serving various cities, MUDS, and water authorities to meet both client timelines, technical competency, and providing the most effective solution to each individual client.

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Stuart Kinzel, EIT | Electrical Engineer I

Stuart Kinzel is an EIT with the firm and near two years of experience in electrical engineering, control system design, communication design, SCADA systems, and security systems in the water/wastewater industry. Mr. Kinzel is a Texas A&M College Station graduate. Stuart has quickly made a mark at Guzman Engineering with this high attention to detail, work ethic, and strategic mind set.

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Jonathan Allen | CAD Manager

Our production department is led by Jonathan Allen which has 12 years of experience in designing and developing construction drawings for water/wastewater facilities. Mr. Allen is proficient in Autodesk AutoCAD software and is skilled at prompt sheet set configuration for prompt production speed. As an experienced production and designer for water/wastewater facilities; Mr. Allen serves as our production quality control to ensure deliverables meet owner production requirements and internal company standards.