Add Beema Dahal, PE and Fardin Walizay to the team roster
What was done
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Added Beema Dahal, PE to
src/data/team.ts(slugbeema-dahal), including LinkedIn and a rewritten bio that matches the site’s house tone (concrete, lightly witty, no corporate filler). Folded in her ASCE Region 8 Governor role and mentoring/leadership engagement. -
Added Fardin Walizay (Engineering Technician, slug
fardin-walizay) with a full bio rewritten into the site’s house tone from his supplied copy (5+ years across civil engineering and construction — design support, site inspections, QC, drafting, management), his headshot (src/assets/team/fardin.png, wired into both About pages), and his LinkedIn. -
Copied
beema.pngintosrc/assets/team/beema.pngand wired it into theportraitImagesmaps in bothsrc/pages/about/index.astroandsrc/pages/about/[slug].astro. Fardin falls back to the “FW” initials placeholder until a headshot lands. -
Updated the roster-count comment in
team.ts(13 → 15). -
Added Beema to the Person JSON-LD set (
personSchemaSlugsin[slug].astro). Her entry emits aPersonschema with a PEhasCredentialand amemberOf→OrganizationRoleof Governor, Region 8, American Society of Civil Engineers. Licensing jurisdiction is intentionally left unasserted (not yet confirmed); the PE designation itself and the Governor election are both ASCE-published facts (see citation below).
Both /about/beema-dahal/ and /about/fardin-walizay/ build and render; both names propagate automatically to the /search/ curated fallback (it maps over team). Verified with a clean production build, and the Person + Governor-role schema confirmed in the rendered HTML.
Source of record — Beema’s ASCE Region 8 Governor election
ASCE announced the new officer/governor slate on 2026-06-04. Beema is listed under “Region 8 governors” (alongside David J. Gamez, P.E., M.ASCE) as Beema Dahal, P.E., M.ASCE. This is the citable basis for both the Person schema credential and the announcement posts.
Why
Ryan’s request (.tmp/0010_add_beema_to_website/ask.md): add both people to the site, give Beema a headshot, and make her bio match the site’s voice rather than the supplied corporate draft.
Not shipped / queued for Ryan
- Beema’s personal “off-hours” line — every other engineer bio closes with a personal/italic line; hers currently ends on the leadership note because no personal detail was supplied. Worth collecting one from Beema.
- Fardin — bio, headshot, and LinkedIn all in. Fully complete. (Not in the Person JSON-LD set — consistent with the other engineering technicians.)
- Beema licensing jurisdiction — if/when her Idaho (or other) PE license is confirmed, add a
recognizedByGovernmentOrganization to herhasCredentialblock to match David’s and Zack’s, and consideralumniOfif her school is known.
Files affected
src/data/team.ts— modified (two new members, count comment)src/pages/about/index.astro— modified (beema portrait import + map)src/pages/about/[slug].astro— modified (beema portrait import + map; Person schema slug + PE/ASCE-Governor credential block)src/assets/team/beema.png— added