ACEC Delaware elects Dakota Laidman-Murray, P.E. to serve on Board of Directors
Newark, DE — Landmark Science & Engineering, a premier consulting firm specializing in site/civil and water resources engineering, environmental sciences, and land surveying, announced two new hires and a notable leadership achievement within the firm.
Kristin L. Freebery, MBA, MHRM has joined Landmark, stepping into the role of business development and marketing manager as she replaces Janet Pippert, who is retiring from Landmark after 19 years with the firm. Freebery is responsible for helping to build business and community relationships and to increase the firm’s public- and private-sector business.
Freebery has a strong background in civil engineering and commercial real estate through many years of work experience providing marketing, business and human resources management. After working in the public sector for eight years for New Castle County Government’s Law Department, Freebery also spent 17 years working in the private sector, including with local consulting engineering firms Karins and Associates and Ramesh C. Batta Associates.
Freebery earned both a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Human Resources at Wilmington University in New Castle, DE, where she also received her bachelor’s degree in behavioral science. She is a native Delawarean and proud graduate of Ursuline Academy in Wilmington. She is an active member of the Commercial-Industrial Realty Council (CIRC), She also co-chairs the CIRC Membership Committee.
Pippert, who served in the same role for the past 19 years, said she was “so pleased to find a person with Kristin’s professional background and experience in the field to take over the wide-ranging duties that cover marketing and new business development.” For Ted Williams, Landmark’s president, he said “her personality was a perfect fit for the business, and we are so happy to have her on board.”
Matthew E. Singleton joined Landmark full-time in May 2024 as a project designer. Singleton originally started working part time in the survey department in the summer of 2023 and does a mixture of design and survey work.
Singleton graduated from the Civil Engineering Technology Associate Degree Program at Delaware Technical Community College and is an American Association of Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) scholarship recipient. Singleton also became a Certified Construction Reviewer (CCR) in March 2024.
Dakota Laidman-Murray, P.E., a firm principal, has been elected to serve ACEC Delaware’s Board of Directors as their Secretary for a two-year period.
Laidman-Murray is a principal of Landmark where she has worked for over 11 years. She performs civil engineering and project management for large-scale educational, industrial and affordable housing projects involving planning and site design, stormwater management, environmental and water resources design. She earned a Bachelor of Environmental Engineering degree, with a concentration in Water Resources and Water Quality and a minor in Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2012. Dakota is an active member with ACEC Delaware, serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors, and Chairs the Programs and Education Committee which awards engineering scholarships and helps promote engineering as a career choice.
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