AUBURN – Harriman Associates architect Walter F. Arsenault, AIA, has received professional licenses for practice in Maine and New Hampshire.

Arsenault is at the Auburn office of the full-service architecture and engineering firm, which also has an office in Portland. He joined the firm eight years ago as an architectural designer, after previously working for firms in California and Massachusetts.

At Harriman Associates, Arsenault is currently project architect for the design of a 330,000-square-foot high school in Exeter, N.H. His previous work at the firm includes projects at York County Technical College and Southern Maine Technical College, Cape Elizabeth’s Donald Richards Pool, and Mount Desert Island High School.

He completed a two-year architectural technology program at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., and studied architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Santa Monica before receiving his bachelor’s degree in architecture from the Boston Architectural Center. He was the winner of the D’Gorgio scholarship in his senior year at BAC.

Arsenault, a Portland resident, is a member of the American Institute of Architects.

Harriman Associates (www.harriman.com) was founded in 1870 and is the sixth-oldest design firm in the country. The 80-person firm provides architecture and engineering design services for health care, government, education, and commercial clients throughout New England.