Key Staff...

Dr. Fam is considered a national expert on site remediation issues. He is a co-author of "In-Situ Treatment Technology" (Lewis Publishers, 1996), which is intended as an undergraduate text for state of the art remedial technologies.

Dr. Fam serves as a technical advisor, and project manager on assignments primarily related to site remediation and facility engineering. Dr. Fam offers a diversified background in the environmental field including expertise in hazardous waste site remediation, analytical chemistry, site investigation, industrial waste treatment and energy efficiency. His experience and expertise has focused on the evaluation, design, development, and implementation of conventional and innovative in situ and on-site technologies for remediation of contaminated sites. Dr. Fam is considered a leader within the environmental consulting industry in enhanced bioremediation, and natural attenuation.

Dr. Fam has been involved in some the first and largest full-scale enhanced anaerobic (reductive) dechlorination system designs and installations in the world. He is also experienced in conducting laboratory and pilot-scale feasibility studies to evaluate the applicability of conventional and emerging technologies. His expertise spans the best management strategies for controlling industrial runoff as well as urban stormwater runoff as well as work on industrial energy efficiency. His strong analytical chemistry and biochemistry background in GC, GC/MS, extraction, and separation techniques provides him with unique capabilities to interpret and analyze chemical data for engineering applications.

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. 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.

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. Lotti serves as a project manager for contaminated site and energy projects. Mr. Lotti has comprehensive experience in the technical, financial, and administrative management of site investigations, feasibility evaluations, remedial design and construction at contaminated sites. Mr. Lotti is also assisting our clients with the construction of utility-scale photovoltaic energy generation facilities and energy projects.

Mr. Lotti has managed projects that range in value and scope from $10,000 engineering designs to $30,000,000 construction projects. Mr. Lotti works closely with his clients, teamed consultants, contractors, attorneys, the public, and regulators to ensure the timely and effective completion of the projects while maintaining his client's reputation, safety record, and budgetary goals.

Prior to joining IESI in 2007, Mr. Lotti was a Principal Environmental Engineer with an Investor Owned Utility and served as the project manager for numerous former manufactured gas plants (MGP), former power plants, electrical substations and other miscellaneous contaminated sites in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New York. As the company representative and project manager, Mr. Lotti was responsible for implementing and managing the assessment, containment, and/or removal of the oil and hazardous material present at the various sites in order to protect human health and the environment. In addition, Mr. Lotti was responsible for evaluating and implementing new technical and regulatory developments in the ever-changing environmental field, and updating senior management on the status of budgets, projects, and negotiations.

Mr. Wattu is a senior engineer and project manager and is responsible for the technical and administrative management of contaminated site investigation and remediation projects and water resource engineering projects. Mr. Wattu has also designed and managed several hazardous waste site assessment and remediation projects throughout New England and has designed and specified equipment and structures for water supply projects for various municipalities. Mr. Wattu has managed numerous projects involving investigations and cleanup activities on industrial sites including former manufactured gas plants, active utility company operations, manufacturing facilities, petroleum storage terminals and petroleum retail facilities. Mr. Wattu has also managed numerous potable water design projects for municipalities, developers and private companies. He is a Registered Professional Engineer and has managed numerous projects under various state regulatory programs including the Massachusetts Contingency Plan, the Massachusetts Guidelines and Policies for Public Water Systems and the State of New Hampshire Department Code of Administrative Rules.

Technologies that Mr. Wattu has designed and implemented include: groundwater/NAPL recovery, soil vapor extraction, dual phase extraction, air sparging, air stripping, liquid and vapor carbon adsorption, ion exchange, chemical injection, and monitoring of natural attenuation.

Ms. Barnett has been with Innovative Engineering Solutions, Inc. since 2001. She oversees all accounting, billing, collections and financial information processing, as well as human resource and benefits administration. She is an integral part of our company’s hiring process and handles all employee relations. Ms. Barnett also interfaces with our clients and vendors to ensure that invoices are accurate and timely.

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. McGillicuddy received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2001 and a Master of Science in Ocean Engineering in 2005 from the University of New Hampshire. After an eight year stretch as a research project engineer with the University of New Hampshire he moved on in the fall of 2008 to join the IESI team as a senior project engineer. As a senior project engineer, Mr. McGillicuddy works in both the energy service and environmental sectors of IESI.

Mr. McGillicuddy has worked on various stand-alone, stored energy, and utility grid-tie photovoltaic (PV) generation systems from 1.4kW to 6MW. His work has covered all aspects PV systems from site layout, design, component specification, permitting, construction, commissioning to operation and maintenance of systems. He has also completed engineering analysis and on-site evaluations of mechanical equipment at client facilities in support of IESI’s energy auditing offerings.

In the environmental sector, Mr. McGillicuddy’s focus is on the evaluation, design, construction, and operation of a variety of remediation systems. His work involves the design of mechanical, electrical and chemical processes in conjunction with civil works to achieve site specific remediation goals. Mr. McGillicuddy’s mechanical aptitude allows him to interact with contractors and internal personnel, on-site and remotely to provide construction support and guidance. Mr. McGillicuddy also has experience in system start-ups and optimization as well as system operator oversight. In addition to new design build projects, Mr. McGillicuddy has the engineering skills and hands on experience necessary to evaluate existing treatment systems, make process optimization recommendations, and implement system changes.

He also draws on a diverse skill set of instrumentation design, hardware design and fabrication, project management, and ocean going field deployments to accomplish his projects objectives in an efficient manner.

Mr. Blackburn serves as a senior geologist, systems operator, and project manager on assignments primarily related to site investigation and remediation.

Mr. Blackburn's experience includes field investigation, media sampling, and remedial system installation under the regulatory oversight of 16 states. He has prepared investigation scope of work documents, investigation completion reports, site health and safety plans, and regulatory compliance documentation. This range of experience also includes budget development, sub-contractor oversight, and project management.

Mr. Mosman is a mechanical engineer with over 20 years of experience in environmental and hazardous waste engineering. He has extensive experience in remedial system design, fabrication and installation.

He has served as an engineer on a wide range of projects related to design, construction, field installation and operation and maintenance of remedial systems.

Mr. Mosman has experience in projects involving bioremediation, dual extraction, groundwater recovery, NAPL recovery, vapor extraction, biosparging, air sparging, bioventing, above ground soil pile/biopile treatment. He has also overseen major excavation related projects.

Mr. Mosman's strong engineering skills, combined with his mechanical aptitude make him extremely well rounded to oversee almost any remedial system installation project. He is considered by many of our clients as the best field manager in the business!

Mr. McCoy has extensive experience in remedial and vapor recovery system fabrication and installation. He has served as an engineer on a wide range of projects related to construction, field installation and operation and maintenance of remedial and vapor recovery systems.

Mr. McCoy has experience in projects involving bioremediation, dual extraction, groundwater recovery, NAPL recovery, vapor extraction, biosparging, air sparging, bioventing, above ground soil pile/biopile treatment. He has also overseen major excavation related projects.

Mr. McCoy’s strong mechanical and electrical aptitude make him extremely well rounded to oversee almost any remedial and vapor recovery system installation project.

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. 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. Orick is a licensed engineering contractor and environmental field engineer with 20 years of experience in remedial system design, fabrication and installation. He has served as a senior field engineer on a wide range of projects related to design, construction, field installation and operation and maintenance of remedial systems.

Mr. Orick's environmental experience includes projects involving bioremediation, dual extraction, groundwater recovery and gradient control, NAPL recovery, vapor extraction, biosparging, air sparging, bioventing, and above ground soil pile/biopile treatment. He has also overseen major excavation related projects.

Mr. Orick possesses many engineering related skills obtained from on-site management and operations of remediation systems. His experience includes permitting, treatment system process control design and implementation, QA/QC, subcontractor management, bid package development, construction oversight, economic evaluation, drilling plans, and well log analysis.

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.

Mr. Cunningham is a senior field engineer with over 15 years of experience in the environmental construction and consulting business. Mr. Cunningham brings extensive experience in a wide variety of in-situ and above ground remediation technologies. He has been involved in the design, construction and O&M of systems designed for product recovery, groundwater pump and treat, air sparging, soil vapor extraction, liquid/vapor granulated activated carbon systems and enhanced anaerobic dechlorination. Mr. Cunningham's varied and extensive background, combined with his proven commitment to client satisfaction makes him a valuable asset to any remediation project during construction or O&M.

Mr. Jones is a Senior Field Engineer with 3 years of experience in the environmental and hazardous waste engineering. He comes to this field with 20 years experience in the operation, maintenance and supervision of the Naval Nuclear Power Field. He has experience in remedial system operation, fabrication and installation.

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. Mr. Jones has experience in projects involving bioremediation, groundwater recovery, NAPL recovery, vapor extraction, biosparging, air sparging, bioventing, above ground soil pile/biopile treatment. He has overseen major excavation related projects. Mr. Jones has been responsible for environmental monitoring activities at more than 100 industrial and petroleum sites. Other responsibilities included status reports documentation to the client and pertinent regulatory agencies, technical support, purchasing, and contractor coordination.

Mr. Jones’ varied and extensive background, combined with his proven commitment to the client satisfaction makes him a valuable asset to oversee any remedial system installation project

Mr. Taylor is a senior environmental technician with over 10 years of experience in environmental and hazardous waste engineering. He has experience in remedial system operation, fabrication and installation.

He has served as a field technician on a wide range of projects related to construction, field installation and operation and maintenance of remedial systems.

Mr. Taylor has experience in projects involving environmental assessment, waste disposal, bioremediation, dual extraction, groundwater recovery, NAPL recovery, vapor extraction, biosparging and air sparging. He has also overseen major excavation related projects. Mr. Taylor has been responsible for environmental monitoring activities at more than 100 industrial and petroleum sites. Other responsibilities included status report documentation to the client and pertinent regulatory agencies, technical support, purchasing, and contractor coordination.

Mr. Taylor's varied and extensive background, combined with his proven commitment to client satisfaction makes him a valuable asset to remediation during construction and O&M.