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. has recently joined the firm to offer his Geotechnical Engineering expertise.  Ray brings 15 years of engineering and construction experience focusing on Geotechnical and Earthwork Design Construction.  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 year and we are still waiting for something on Ray to write about but he's just too straight and narrow.

Mike Napolitan, P.G. brings extensive experience in geology and hydrogeology investigations of large scale corrective action projects, advanced technologies, landfills, resource exploration, GIS, GPS, 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 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.  Not your typical government employee (no disrespect to our  regulatory friends and colleagues), Bill is always on the go, busting hump to get the job done.  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 compliances.  Who knows, he may even persuade us all to use rain barrels. 

And while our key staff is second to none -

It's our Support Staff that makes The Difference!

Wow!  That pretty well sums up Katie Mitchell.  Katie is a Geotechnical Engineering student from Widener University who is working with us through her Coop program.  While she may have come here to gain experience in her chosen field, from the looks of things it appears that she may be teaching the "old dogs" a thing or two.  We also hear that she is a softball star, so we are quickly lining up a spring schedule for this year.  She may have to carry this team.

Heather Nunn is an aspiring environmental scientist from IUP who helped out over winter break.  A quick learner, Heather jumped right in to assist with sampling, test borings, computer design and just about anything we could throw at her.  But as an IUP student who doesn't even know they have some world renown marching band, it seems she spends her free time in the scrum with her fellow Ruggers.

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!).

Richard "Koch" Hesse is trying to fill some great big shoes in the CAD and graphics department.  Fortunately he has already got one thing going for him - he is not from Pitt (sorry Brian!).  We may not know his real name yet, but Rich has been lighting up the drafting with some dazzling 3D graphics.  Just leave out the donuts and chocolate and he is happy.

ASSOCIATE STAFF

Paul Hagerty, P.E. is an associate senior engineer with extensive experience in large-scale remediation projects, landfill leachate mitigation, construction management and biological treatment systems.  He has been actively working on soil and groundwater remediation plans.  Although he is a mature family man now with a wealth of professional expertise, we still fondly remember him as the young summer intern who impressed his now-wife by loosing his upside-down margaritas after the Jimmy Buffett concert on his 21st birthday.  What a show!

Wesley Wolf is the resident associate biologist and wetlands specialist. With over 18 years of experience, Wes has an extensive resume of wetland delineation, watershed improvement, wetland mitigation, water quality studies, habitat evaluations and risk assessments. He can usually be found in the field getting his feet wet or pointing out wildlife to us biologically inept.

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, and Meagan DiCave is a lacrosse coach and travel bum, still looking to interview Michael Jordan.  Dennis Fisher went and got a high pressure position with a friend's consulting firm.  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.  Lauren Kasarsky, who?