KEY STAFF

Jim Taylor, P.G. is a geologist with over 20 years of experience in the environmental, water supply and mapping fields. Jim is a registered Professional Geologist in Pennsylvania and Delaware. As a graduate of Penn State in Geoscience and a Master of Environmental Pollution Control from Penn State Great Valley, he bleeds blue and white. When not working (and why his friends say that is not often, we don't know), he can usually be talked into some outdoor adventure.

Andy Sokol, P.G. is a geologist with over 16 years of experience with landfills, environmental characterization, PA Act 2 compliance, and innovative sample collection.  Andy is a registered Professional Geologist in Pennsylvania and Delaware, and more importantly, he is consistently the only person on field trips that is able to answer the leader's geology questions.  Andy has been busy expanding landfills, permitting water supply wells and cleaning tanker spills.  And just to show off even further, he went and successfully completed the State's first "low risk" site closure.   Andy is also an aspiring mountain bike rider who hopes to one day be able to take off his training wheels.

Ray Crossan, P.E. is our Geotechnical Engineering extraordinaire (if there is such a thing).  Ray brings over 15 years of engineering and construction experience focusing on Geotechnical and Earthwork Design Construction.  Ray has expanded our expertise in renewable resources to include geothermal services such as formation conductivity testing and loop design.  His continuing education in LEED certification courses further enhances our ability to provide consultation and design for a sustainable future. As a serious engineer, with his nose to the slide rule, I don't want to say say anything here that will offend him; yet.  Well it's been a while now and we are still waiting for something on Ray to write about but he's just too straight and narrow.

Mike Napolitan, P.G. is adding a soon-to-be-completed Masters Degree from the University of Pennsylvania, to his already extensive experience.  Mike's extensive background includes geology and hydrogeology investigations of large scale corrective action projects, advanced technologies, landfills, water supply, resource exploration, GIS, modeling, geothermal testing and geophysics (just to name a few).  Mike is lighting the consulting world on fire with his GIS mapping and relational database skills, and when he started using GIS to find favorable areas for water supply wells, geo-forensics, and managing complicated site data, we all agreed that GIS was not just a pretty map.  Not being one to leave his work at the office, Mike manages his baby pictures on a wireless, geo-synchronized, inter-relational server, and heats the baby formula with his custom made geothermal, formation conductivity testing, heat transfer unit.

Bill Gothier had enough of County work and is now polishing his consulting skills for the greater good.  With his experience at the County Soil Conservation District, Bill compliments our services with his extensive knowledge in watershed planning and restoration, stream bank stabilization, stormwater management, grant writing, and permit compliance.  Who knows, he may even persuade us all to use rain barrels. 

He's back!  Dennis Fisher is again back where he belongs.  At the landfill?  Yes, but so much more.  Dennis has years of experience in the environmental field with a multi-disciplined array of talents.  Field investigations, sampling, asbestos & mold inspections, tanks, and ESAs are just a few of his specialties.  He is currently providing technical assistance for landfill special waste acceptance. 

Fortunately for us Jim Morrison gave up his dead rock star career to focus on Hydrogeology.  Jim has geology degrees from the University of Penn and University of Arizona, along with several years of experience in water supply and hydrogeologic investigations.  His understanding of groundwater flow, aquifer characteristics, and contaminant fate & transport is like classic rock.  The Best!

Giovanna 'G' Iacono, E.I.T. is a civil engineer with two years of experience in commercial and residential site design, surveying, stormwater management design, E&S  plans, NPDES permitting, PennDOT Highway Occupancy Permits, and cost estimation. 

And while our key staff is second to none -

It's our Support Staff that makes The Difference!

Keep those Widener Coops coming.  Kyle Fischer is taking the reigns of the CAD department and pumping out plans on the new color plotter for the ever growing Geotech and Engineering Design group.  He says that he is from the Poconos, but until we hear that trademark Northeast PA accent we have our doubts.

Is it 'Steve or Matt' McSweeney, is drilling holes, busting out CAD, and taking names.  The Geotech Department continues to teach young minds the ways of the world (below the surface anyway).  Be scared Matt, be very, very scared.  Matt is back at school showing the professor's all his 'practical' knowledge gained over the past year.

Christina Klassis is busy keeping the machine running smoothly and full steam ahead.  And not an administrator who sits idly by, she puts some spunk back in all the geo-techies around the place.  Most of the new, fresh looks and logos are her doing.  Rumor has it that the imaginative thoughts come to her during those twilight hour bike rides through the city.

While she may already have a degree from the University of Chicago, Stephanie Taylor could not resist the lure of becoming a Penn Stater.  Stephanie is assisting us over the summer as she pursues a degree in biogeology (the softer, gentler side of geology).  Whether tabulating and evaluating data, preparing logs, GIS, working in the lab, or preparing reports, Stephanie's brains, quick learning and work ethic have been a huge help. 

Bridget DiCave shows up on holidays and summers looking for work, sometimes.  She also takes care of the company health and safety plans, health and safety training, and assists with sampling, hauling rock samples from far away places, data entry and report preparation.  And, oh yeh, she is going to paint that new wall this weekend!  During the school year, she teaches innocent elementary school children the wise ways of health and E-stone ball (Look out kids!).

Cliff Giffen arrived from the Rocky Mountains, and kicked some major environmental butt (sampling, site assessments, well installations, landfill quality assurance, mapping and various remediation work). After getting a degree in range science from Colorado State University in Fort Collins Colorado, Cliff worked for many years with the Bureau of Land Management. Needing a break from the government, Cliff has worked on several private sector projects remediating uranium tailings before coming east to help us out. Cliff has returned to Cortez Colorado, where he heads up our Western Division.

The Pittsburgh contingent is made up of Kim and Duane Goodsell, Bob Lesniakoswki and Tom Sokol.  Kim and Duane assist with field services including drilling oversight, well installation, pumping tests, quarterly groundwater sampling and site maintenance.  They are environmental scientists, and yes both have degrees from Penn State.  Bob provides site health and safety management on our local emergency response and remedial action projects.  He has over 10 years of experience with OSHA management, and a degree from Slippery Rock (a smaller version of PSU).  Tom handles the various system O&M, and as the older, wiser brother of Andy is purported to have taught Andy everything he knows.

In addition to our associates, TGS has developed close working relationships with many consultants and subcontractors, allowing us to provide a wider range of turn-key disciplines if requested.

In Memoriam

No they are not dead, but let's not forget the ones who've helped us along the way.  Sam Rosen, the original and unforgettable, went off to college, worked with kids in Boston, wrote a self-enlightenment book, and is now back at college in search of the meaning of it all.  BC Broussard has pursued his chosen field of computers, getting his degree at Northwestern University with the hopes of starting a computer consulting business.  Oh wait, last we heard he is on some boondoggle in Japan to teach English. Pam Dunning-Cross has gone in search of the perfect job to get her kids through college.  Brian Morley found a job in his chosen field of mechanical engineering, were he can break equipment for a living.  He says the perks aren't quit as good as he had before, but he really enjoys reading the post-it notes on his cubicle wall.  Barb Taylor is living and playing in Anchorage Alaska, where with her help, we intend to start our Alaska branch office that specializes in employee adventure-withdrawal mitigation services.  Shannon DiCave is in college (I think) trying to make the family proud, Jim DiCave is a punk ass college stud/college dropout/carpenter/student again, and Meagan DiCave is a lacrosse coach and travel bum, still looking to interview Michael Jordan.  Jay Combs got his degree in mathematics and has gone on to work with double secret security clearance for a government contractor (he's been underground ever since).  Grant Hitchens has gone back to the days of his youth as a civil engineer, drawing grades on plans, watching asphalt cure, and making sure soil is compacted. Tracy Ellis has found a new job with the Chester County Health Department where she can bust our stones (geologically speaking) from the other side.  After several years of putting up with our antics, Joylyn Brown decided it was time to go in a different direction; Thanks Joylyn and we'll try to "Just Keep It Clean" in your absence.  Richard "Koch" Hesse is being a real engineer someplace, designing and making things (we think), or just sending us emails on occasion. Heather Nunn is living the life, going to school, roaming the wild west, cool jobs, in search of some serious fun.  Softball Star, Katie Mitchell made the best of free agency and landed herself a cushy engineering position with the Army Corp of Engineers.