Principal Engineer

• Apr 2023 - Present

Environmental Engineer

• Dec 2019 - Mar 2023

Remedial design and remedial action oversight projects for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Preparation of proposals including the design, engineer estimates, and proposal documents. Project engineer for remedial designs and pre-design investigations. Preparation of design and planning documents for pilot studies including presentations for technical scoping meetings, work plans, permit equivalents, consent for access, and Federal procurement efforts including engineer estimates and statements of work. Coordination and preparation of permit equivalents for local and state agencies. Remedial action oversight including oversight of remedial action implementation, preparation of daily quality control reports, technical review of RA contractor requests for information, and QC of RA contractor submittals. Preparation and updates for 3D models using Leapfrog Works and Earth Visualization Systems software. Preparation of as-built drawings and remedial action completion reports. Remedial design cost estimating including use of Costworks and Micro-Computer Aided Cost Estimating System second-generation MII software. Preparation of bid specification packages and remedial action work plans. Show less

Senior Engineer

• Apr 2019 - Oct 2019

Remediation design, cost estimating, project budgeting, remediation design reviews, implementation of remedial investigations and pre-design investigations, and preparation of reports for remedial action workplans and permitting. Mr. Brown also served as a project engineer and trainer for the installation and startup of remediation systems. Coordinate site activities and invoicing with clients. Coordinate access agreements for field implementation. Remediation design, cost estimating, project budgeting, remediation design reviews, implementation of remedial investigations and pre-design investigations, and preparation of reports for remedial action workplans and permitting. Mr. Brown also served as a project engineer and trainer for the installation and startup of remediation systems. Coordinate site activities and invoicing with clients. Coordinate access agreements for field implementation.

Project Manager

• Jan 2019 - Apr 2019

Meet project demands while working within the constraints of scope, schedule, and budget. Understand the needs of the client and provide recommendations and solutions to achieving project goals. Identify milestones, create structure within project teams, and lay out plans for project teams to execute. Support structure and growth within the office, plan for the next project, and identify business development opportunities.

Associate Project Manager

• Nov 2016 - Jan 2019

-Coordinating and executing orders, purchase orders, vendor/subcontractor contracts. Preparation of detailed Request For Proposals (RFPs) including design and build RFPs based on performance specifications. Contract negotiations and preparation including payment terms, fixed price, fixed duration, liquidated damages, profit sharing, and reducing company and client risk. Project scheduling and budgeting-Preparing and managing implementation schedules for up to 5 different task managers, each running a different major project assignment simultaneously. Identifying tasks, deliverables, and milestones from start to finish for each implementation schedule. Assisting with staffing requirements, access and notification, technical input, peer review, contracting, and execution.-Training of junior staff; Preparation of abstracts for potential publications and/or presentations; A member of the companywide modeling group;-Preparation and implementation of horizontal well installs. Approximately 700 feet of drilling to a max depth of 13 feet.-Design and Preparation of a distribution network for an injection-extraction recirculation system that includes trenching, pipe rack, conveyance of water through buildings, HDPE and CPVC water pipe, electrical conduit, and conduit for inert gas lines.-Preparation and implementation of a combined 24/7 pumping test and EISB amendment injection program. Design of pilot test layout, electrical system (P&ID and interlock schedule), and water distribution systems. Preparation of hydrogeologic models (Bioscreen and Theis equation), cost estimates, and workplans. Design and operation of data logging transducers and water quality meters, transfer pumps, submersible pumps, and flow meters. Scheduling and management of a team of 9 people during the high-paced and data-intensive 24/7 pumping test.-Prepared and managed a well installation event consisting of nearly 4 dozen wells (monitoring, injection, and temporary wells). Show less

Engineer III

• Dec 2015 - Nov 2016

•Junior Staff Lead for a site contaminated with chlorinated solvents that has an established Enhanced In-Situ Biodegradation (EISB) Interim Remedial Measure (IRM)-Prepared a groundwater progress report that covered 2 years of temporary point injections and 4 years of monitoring.-Prepared a basis of design package that incorporates historic soil and groundwater data, lithology, overcoming site-specific challenges, and optimization of previous EISB work.-Prepared a Discharge to Groundwater Permit By Rule (DGW-PBR) and associated design for an EISB and recirculation IRM.-Prepared soil investigation/delineation figures for hundreds of soil borings up to 50 feet deep, covering 1-3 acres, with a mix of chlorinated and petroleum hydrocarbon exceedances.•Modeling in Mining Visualization System (MVS) -Incorporation of site lithology via characterization of boring and/or coring data-Quantifying the distribution of mass in groundwater among different lithological layers such as sand, clay, weathered bedrock, and competent bedrock-Quantifying the distribution of mass between multiple phases such as dissolved, adsorbed, residual, and free phase Show less

Engineer II

• Nov 2014 - Dec 2015

•Field Work: Operation and performance testing of fractured bedrock ozone injection system; Membrane Interface Probe (MIPs) investigation.•Office Work: Pilot test data management; Report deliverables management and preparation; Vertical flow profile generation and evaluation; Groundwater contaminant mass estimates and data presentation; Transducer dataset preparation, correction, and evaluation; New software implementation; Inter-office development and implementation of progressive work flow practices; Coordinating intra-office sharing of work flow processes and software; Mining Visualization System (MVS/EVS) 3D modeling software; 3D Rotatable PDF generation; Proficiency with AutoCAD Civil 3D preparation of XYC point data and surfaces; Development of a Pre-Design Investigation (PDI) using MIPs technology; Enhanced In-Situ Biological (EISB) remediation with traditional injection and extraction bedrock pilot test results preparation and evaluation of: adverse indicators, trends and rates for total organic carbon (TOC) and methane gas, and transducer data; Design of a multi-acre EISB-In Well Air Stripping-ART (IWAS-ART) bedrock remediation system including: modeling hydraulics of recirculation and fate and transport of TOC in fractured bedrock and design of well layouts, sub-grade trenching and piping, well construction, amendment loading, Soil Vapor Extraction (SVE) system, and more; Show less

Engineer I

• Jun 2013 - Nov 2014

•Engineering Intern: May 2012 - June 2013•Field Work: Low Flow Purge Sampling, Volume Averaged Purge Sampling, Synoptic Gauging, Product Gauging, Product Recovery Systems, ART (3 leg) and SVE (5 leg) Systems Monitoring and Troubleshooting, Bedrock Ozone and ISCO Enhanced ART Pilot Test Field Lead (System Install, Kick Off, Monitoring), In-Situ Injection Systems implementation (2 trailers, 10 legs), Landfill Gas Recovery Systems (Passive Venting), Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) Approach to Vertical Characterization of Fractured Bedrock, Bedrock Coring, FLUTe NAPL Liners, Soil Boring and Sampling (Encores, Terracores, Composite Samples), Sonic Drilling, Hollow Stem Auger Drilling, Air Rotary Drilling, Well Installation, Overseeing the Installation of 34 Bedrock Wells (Nested Monitoring Wells, Double Screened Injection wells, Ozone Injection Wells, ART wells) by 3 Different Crews Drilling Simultaneously, Well Development, Sub-Slab and Sub-Surface Air Sampling.•COCs: Coal Tar, PCE and Daughter Products, Hydrocarbon LNAPL, Hexavalent Chromium, RCRA Listed and Characteristic Waste (PA Regs), PCBs (TSCA and Non-TSCA), PAHs.•Office: Contouring (GWE, Concentration Isopleths), AutoCAD Civil 3D Point Data Analysis and Manipulation, MATLAB, Manipulation and Statistical Analysis of Hundreds of Thousands of Lines of Raw Data, Modeling Mixed PCB-PAH-Metals Contaminated Soil Volumes for a Multi-Acre Site (Impacted Soil Volumes Ranging in the Tens of Thousands of CY), Modeling GW Plumes with Multiple Methods of Visual and Spatial Analysis, MVS 4DIM Viewer, Planning GW Sampling Events (Over 100 Wells for a Single Event), Data Analysis and Interpretation, Report Writing (PDI Report), US EPA Spreadsheets for Environmental Footprint Analysis (SEFA), NPDES Permitting (PA) for Discharge of Industrial Wastewater from a Proposed Hazardous Waste Treatment Facility Using State of the Art Technology, Cost Estimates for Soil Remediation and Sampling Events Show less

Engineering Intern

• May 2012 - Jun 2013

Groundwater sampling, sub slab vapor sampling, shadow injection system operations, oversee well development, receive and oversee subcontractors, prepare deliverables, print reports

Undergraduate Research Assistant

• Dec 2011 - May 2013

•Using Mike SHE, modeled the complete hydrologic cycle of an experiment state forest that was subject to a gypsy moth blight. •Using Mike SHE and Mike 11, modeled overland water depth in tidally influenced marshlands in the New Jersey Meadowlands. •Using Mike SHE, modeled the complete hydrologic cycle of an experiment state forest that was subject to a gypsy moth blight. •Using Mike SHE and Mike 11, modeled overland water depth in tidally influenced marshlands in the New Jersey Meadowlands.

Server

• Aug 2010 - Dec 2011

•Waiting on up to 24 guests at a time. •Ensuring adequate service and that all company mandated measures are met. •Waiting on up to 24 guests at a time. •Ensuring adequate service and that all company mandated measures are met.

Retail Sales Associate

• Jul 2006 - Jun 2010

•As part of a team, providing up to 48 customers an hour with accurate paint orders during peak selling hours. •Strong customer relation skills, product knowledge, and understanding of Home Depot's core values that keep customers satisfied with the business. •As part of a team, providing up to 48 customers an hour with accurate paint orders during peak selling hours. •Strong customer relation skills, product knowledge, and understanding of Home Depot's core values that keep customers satisfied with the business.

Shop Hand

• Jan 2006 - Jun 2006

•Assisted with the manufacturing and installation of high quality storage solutions. •Pursued a trade skill. •Assisted with the manufacturing and installation of high quality storage solutions. •Pursued a trade skill.