Maple Ridge Engineering (MRE) is a medium-sized firm offering engineering consulting in a number of areas, specializing in the biomedical field. Last year, its revenue exceeded $287 million. It employs about 335 people, their personnel department roughly classifying these as 150 "administrative" employees (eg., management, clerical staff), about 75 professional employees (eg., engineers, physicians, analysts), and 110 trades employees (eg., draftsmen, technicians). MRE maintains four offices. Our home office is in Maple Ridge, Tennessee, and we maintain branches in Atlanta, Charlotte, and New Orleans.