Steve Brinigar

Steve Brinigar, vice president of the general engineering division at URS Corp., was once an oil man, originally from Connecticut. He is a civil and environmental engineer whose work in the oil industry brought him to California, first to Bakersfield and then to Long Beach.

He used to conduct geophysical surveys for Gearhart Industries, an oil field service firm that helped companies explore for oil. When the oil industry experienced a slowdown in the late '80s, he switched to construction and engineering.