Key Staff...

Mr. Higgins serves as a technical advisor and project manager on assignments primarily related to site investigation and remediation. Mr. Higgins has expertise in various environmental fields including hazardous waste site remediation, site investigation, risk assessment, and industrial waste treatment, as well as traditional civil engineering fields related to site development, storm water design, permitting, and facility engineering. His experience and expertise focuses on the evaluation, design, development, and implementation of conventional and innovative in-situ and on-site technologies for remediation of contaminated sites, with particular emphasis on former manufactured gas plant (MGP) sites and industrial properties. Mr. Higgins knowledge of environmental regulations provides tremendous benefits to IESI's clients as they navigate the complex and ever-changing regulatory landscape to implement fiscally-sound and prudent remediation strategies that met regulatory objectives.

Mr. Falatko has more than 15 years of experience in environmental engineering focusing on the design, construction, and operation of soil and groundwater remediation systems and industrial water and wastewater treatment systems. His experience ranges from initial project evaluations to final detailed process and mechanical designs, and the subsequent construction, start-up and operation of the systems. Mr. Falatko specializes in integrating site-specific conditions with innovative remedial designs. He has designed in-situ and ex-situ soil and groundwater treatment systems using physical, chemical and biological processes for the remediation of petroleum hydrocarbons, halogenated solvents and heavy metals.

He has completed remedial actions at a variety of industrial facilities under state and federal directives, such as RCRA and CERCLA. His remedial designs have involved a wide variety of technologies, including groundwater extraction and treatment, separate phase product recovery, vacuum enhanced recovery, ex-situ biological soil treatment, fixed-film bioreactors, biosparpging and bioventing, treatment of airborne chemical weapons agents, air sparging, soil vapor extraction, natural attenuation processes, in-situ metals precipitation, and in-situ reductive dehalogenation.

Mr. Falatko has also designed industrial water and wastewater treatment systems upgrades for the automotive, semiconductor, textile and metal plating industries. These systems have involved water treatment, fixed-film wastewater treatment, enhanced metals removal systems, and sludge handling and disposal methods. He has designed large capacity groundwater production wells, industrial piping systems, and double containment piping with leak detection systems for industrial wastewater. He has performed assessments for well field capacities and designed water treatment system upgrades for industrial facilities. He has conducted environmental audits for generating facilities and performed economic analysis associated with the property transfer of these facilities. He has designed the instrumentation and control systems associated with these designs, and has utilized wireless telemetry systems for remote operation with digital and graphical user interface controls.

Mr. Mountain is multidisciplined environmental engineer specializing in the technical and regulatory issues of site remediation.

Mr. Mountain serves as a project engineer and project manager in a variety of national environmental settings involving site remediation and facility engineering. His diverse education in geology and civil engineering and practical experience offers value in the environmental field including expertise in waste site remediation, site investigation, facilities engineering, and environmental regulation. His work experience has focused on the evaluation, design, development, and implementation of conventional and innovative in situ and on-site technologies for remediation of contaminated sites.

Mr. Mountain has been involved in some of the largest full-scale enhanced anaerobic (reductive) dechlorination system and aerobic bioventing designs and installations in the world. He has implemented pilot-scale feasibility studies to evaluate the applicability of remediation and treatment technologies. His expertise includes spill response and prevention planning and drainage assessments at industrial sites to meet mandated compliance requirements.

Vicki Pariyar works as both an Office Manager and Project Assistant supporting the principal engineers and field engineers. Vicki offers a diversified background in office management, accounting, human resources and benefits administration. She is involved in the daily operational management of our business and ensures that employee, vendor, and client needs are met. Vicki has a Bachelor of Science degree from Philadelphia University.

Mr. Eby is a professional hydrogeologist who provides technical expertise to complex hydrogeologic investigations and data interpretations. Mr. Eby has designed and supervised complex field investigations involving drilling, soil and water sampling, geophysical investigation, aquifer testing, and modeling to evaluate environmental impacts in a wide variety of geologic settings. He has been involved in the design, permitting, and operation of a wide variety of groundwater remediation systems, and implementing remedial actions for soil, including excavation and treatment. Mr. Eby has also taken part in projects involving the development and management of municipal groundwater supplies.

Mr. Eby is an experienced project manager who has successfully managed a wide variety of environmental investigation and remediation projects under various state regulatory programs as well as the federal RCRA and CERCLA regulatory programs.

Mr. Eby has extensive experience with using different drilling technologies, applying downhole and surface geophysics and using fracture trace and aerial photograph interpretations for site investigations, and conducting aquifer testing for groundwater flow and capture zone prediction.

Mr. Hirsch is a Senior Geologist and is responsible for the technical and administrative management of contaminated site investigation and remediation projects. Mr. Hirsch has assisted in directing several projects involving investigations and cleanup activities on industrial sites including former manufactured gas plants, active utility company operations, manufacturing facilities, federal and state government agencies, petroleum companies and petroleum storage terminals. He is a Licensed Geologist and has assisted in managing numerous projects under various state regulatory programs including the Massachusetts Contingency Plan (MCP) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Mr. Rolls serves as a senior field engineer with 25 years of experience in environmental and hazardous waste engineering and currently maintains three wastewater licenses (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Georgia). He has served as a field engineer on a wide range of projects related to design, construction, field installation, and operation and maintenance of remedial systems specializing in MGP sites. In detail these projects include bioremediation, dual extraction, groundwater recovery, NAPL recovery, vapor extraction, biosparging, air sparging, bioventing, and above ground soil pile/biopile treatment.

Mr. Rolls also has been responsible for other programs, including status report documentation, system design review, technical support, site management, purchasing, contractor coordination/management, and groundwater quality management programs.