Ms. Brown-Derocher has 20 years of experience, with extensive EPA contract management experience and 15 years of experience in the management and characterization of hazardous waste. She has served as TechLaw’s Program Director for all EPA contracts, as well as Program Manager for the Regional Oversight Contract (ROC) in Regions 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9; Zones 1 and 2 (Regions 1–6) RCRA Permitting, Enforcement and Assistance (REPA) contracts, and Region 10 ESAT contract.

Ms. Brown-Derocher was the Regional Manager for TechLaw’s Regions 1 and 5 REPA contract activities for more than five years. In these roles, she oversaw management and technical activities that covered a wide range of statement of work areas, including CERCLA and RCRA activities at sites across the country. She has almost ten years of experience in establishing, managing, and controlling large and technically complex contracts which involve multiple and concurrent tasks over extended periods of time and broad geographic areas. She is responsible for monitoring the progress on all of TechLaw’s EPA contracts, and performing as the liaison to EPA Contracting Officers, as needed.

Ms. Brasaemle has also served as an expert witness for industrial clients.

With a Ph.D. in chemistry from Montana State University, an M.S. in metallurgy, and a B.S. in chemistry from the Montana College of Mineral Science & Technology, Dr. Dobb has 26 total years of experience in the analytical environmental field, with 17 years of experience in laboratory management/supervisory duties, including 7 years on EPA’s ESAT contract. In that capacity, he manages a multidisciplinary team of 14 chemists and scientists at a full-service, modern, environmental laboratory. Under his oversight, over 700 assigned projects or tasks were performed, including 45 high-profile field projects at contaminated sites in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Alaska. He has performed oversight, final review, and sign-off on over 35,000 sample analyses.

Dr. Dobb has 10 years of management/supervisory experience on multiple contracts with EPA in Las Vegas where he worked on 14 large environmental analytical projects and numerous smaller projects in support of Superfund efforts. Over the years, he has maintained his technical expertise with analytical instrumentation, analytical methodologies, QA/QC program development and oversight, project planning, project management, and data evaluation procedures. These efforts have resulted in 57 publications or presentations, which covered many diverse analytical and environmental topics.

Mr. Doolittle has 26 years of experience in genetics, microbiology, and molecular biology, and more than 5 years of supervisory experience, including more than 2 years in support of the Superfund program on the Region 1 ESAT. He has experience developing and validating real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays for microbe rapid detection and quantification. Currently, Mr. Doolittle oversees the daily operation of the EPA NERL PCR Laboratory. He has 11 additional years of experience as an Associate Microbiologist, Water Quality Program Intern, and Graduate Research Assistant working in the biological research field.

Mr. Doyle, having a M.S. in biology, has extensive qualifications through 28 years of experience in emergency response and homeland security, working with hazardous waste sites, including emergency response and remediation projects and incidents of national significance. He currently manages the EPA Region 10 START-3 contract, and is TechLaw’s program manager for the Region 1 START-3 contract. Mr. Doyle has provided program management for EPA’s START, Technical Assistance Team (TAT), and Alternative Remedial Contracts Strategy (ARCS) programs throughout the country. He expanded the Region 4 START-2 program to include an emergency response component, saving EPA money and increasing their flexibility for responses. As the TAT86 and TAT90 Contracts Regional Manager, Mr. Doyle managed multi-disciplined teams in EPA Regions 4 and 5, which provided 24/7 support to respond to spills and incidents involving hazardous materials. Mr. Doyle managed the 10-year, multi-site ARCS program in Region 4 and, once completed, EPA gained access to Mr. Doyle and his staff for completion of Remedial Actions through more than $20M in Region 5 RAC crossover work. Mr. Doyle’s response to large- and small-scale incidents involving hazardous materials includes Hazard Ranking System Packages, Site Investigations, Environmental Site Investigations, emergency operations, and recommendation of removal technologies. He is also knowledgeable of multimedia sampling and analysis procedures, as well as the requisite health and safety protocol for emergency response field activities. Mr. Doyle is also a polished trainer who has provided contract-specific course instruction at the Georgia Police Academy and elsewhere. He has provided extensive support to the Office of Homeland Security – Georgia Emergency Management Agency (OHS-GEMA) for Strategic Regional Planning for All-Hazards Response. He was the project manager responsible for preparing a regional plan to coordinate the resources required for response to large-scale terrorist incidents/disasters that could potentially affect OHS-GEMA Area 7, which includes the Atlanta metropolitan region. Mr. Doyle generated a strategic plan, assessed and documented the resources available to first responders, tested the adequacy of resources through facilitate discussions, and developed a gaps analysis and subsequent strategic improvement plan based on the result of these exercises. The project was subsequently expanded to include the entire State of Georgia.

Mr. Hall has 35 years of experience in nuclear, industrial, chemical weapons, and explosives safety; explosives and munitions manufacturing, storage, and disposal; explosive ordnance disposal; emergency management; project management; and implementation of federal and state environmental laws and regulations. He received his M.A.S. in administrative science from the University of Alabama and a B.S. in chemistry from Ouachita Baptist University. As a Senior Staff UXO Consultant, he provides UXO technical support for CERCLA and UXO cleanups. He has reviewed site characterization work plans and reports, including assessments of underlying statistics and the evaluation of proposed technologies. He has provided UXO training to federal and state regulators and commercial UXO staff. Mr. Hall has provided senior-level meeting support at Strategic Management, Analysis, Requirements, and Technology (SMART) Team meetings for the Former Ft. Ord site in California and the Savanna Army Depot Activity in western Illinois. He remains active in national-level meetings assessing the application of statistics to UXO site characterizations.

Mr. Howard has over 27 years of experience completing successful projects in the environmental consulting field. He has an M.S. in soil science and a B.S. in soil science and plant nutrition. He is a registered environmental assessor II with the State of California, and a certified professional soil scientist. He is a published author regarding soil science topics and has presented seminars on the principles of soil science and the practice of soil sampling. Mr. Howard has extensive experience conducting oversight at federal facilities including technical review of FSPs, PA/SIs, QAPPs, technology application analysis reports, background evaluations, EE/CA documents, quarterly monitoring reports (including groundwater, surface water, vadose zone, and landfills), RI reports, FSs, proposed plans, RODs, findings of suitability to lease and transfer, environmental baseline surveys, removal and remedial action work plans, work plans for time critical and non-time critical removal actions, remedial action reports, preliminary closeout reports, remedial design documents, and five-year reviews. Field activities include preparation of FSPs and QAPPs, collection of split samples of soil, soil gas, groundwater and surface water, participation in real-time field decisions, oversight of contractor field activities, and technical systems audits.

Mr. Kline is the group manager for TechLaw's Toxicology and Risk Assessment (TARA) Practice. He has over 10 years of experience managing human health and ecological risk assessments under various federal and state regulatory programs. He received an M.E.M. in environmental toxicology and a B.A. in cellular biology/genetics. He has published guidance documents and papers, and made presentations pertaining to ecology, toxicology, and risk assessment. Due to his expertise, Mr. Kline was selected by EPA to oversee the national external peer review of EPA's Human Health Risk Assessment Protocol for Hazardous Waste Combustion Facilities. He has significant experience in the development of preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) and risk-based screening and cleanup criteria for all types of media, analytical data evaluation, and contaminant fate and transport. His expertise has been relied on to provide toxicological litigation support, specifically in the establishment of symptomatology and causation, and etiological review of toxicants. His project experience includes designing and implementing field oversight, and sampling and sample analysis programs to elucidate the fate and transport of toxic chemicals, and site-specific chemical and radionuclide risk assessment and toxicological review at federal and private industrial facilities under CERCLA and RCRA programs. He has provided technical oversight of RCRA risk assessments or risk-based corrective action at over 60 facilities nationwide.

Dr. Mabey has a Ph.D. and an M.S. in organic chemistry, and a B.A. in chemistry, coupled with 28 years of providing project management and technical expertise on a wide variety of projects for government and industrial clients. He has extensive experience evaluating data quality, analytical methods, and the behavior of chemicals in all media—specifically chlorinated and hydrocarbon/fuel chemicals, a wide variety of pesticides, PCBs, dioxins/furans, chemical warfare agents, explosive chemicals, and metals. He has conducted assessments of the reactivity, sorption/mobility, and fate of chemicals for risk assessments and remedial action projects. Dr. Mabey has evaluated process chemistry, data quality for innovative and conventional analytical methods, and developed sampling plans for a complete understanding of chemical sources in soil or water systems. His expertise is relied upon as an expert witness for EPA and industrial and municipal clients. He is recognized in the international environmental community, as he has been a speaker for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Engineering Professional Development Program and a member of the editorial advisory boards for Groundwater Monitoring and Remediation, and Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry.

Ms. Schliesmann-Merkle is a biologist with over 15 years of experience in solid and hazardous waste management and 25 years of management experience. She has been responsible for reviewing technical documents and developing training under EPA REPA, RIC, ROC, TES, and ORIA contracts and TechLaw’s GSA Schedule. She has provided support to EPA and numerous state regulatory agencies in the areas of risk assessment, permitting, corrective action oversight, training, and enforcement. She has reviewed over 300 technical documents, served as the REPA Work Assignment Manager on more than 100 work assignments, and been involved in the development and presentation of over 100 training courses for Regions 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9, as well as for the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP), Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ), Puerto Rico Environmental Quality Board (PR EQB), Rhode Island Department of the Environment (RI DEM), and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ).

Mr. Nur has over 17 years of experience in the management of environmental projects and engineering applications. He has an M.S. and B.S. in civil engineering, and is affiliated with the American Society of Civil Engineers and the American Society for Testing and Materials. He has extensive experience in various RCRA and CERCLA program areas, including corrective action, permitting, and remedial oversight. He has reviewed hundreds of technical documents and has conducted fate and transport modeling of contaminants in groundwater and surface water. Mr. Nur has worked on projects under EPA contracts, as well as commercial and other federal and state agency projects. He has assessed non-point pollution sources to the marine environment, and compiled best management practices/technologies and fact sheets on programs dealing with marine pollution. He has also provided technical assistance to states in part B permit preparation and reviews.

Mr. Young is a professional geologist with over 14 years of environmental management experience. He has a B.S. with a major in geology and a minor in chemistry from Northern Illinois University, and has also completed graduate-level coursework on contaminant hydrogeology, and environmental and public policy analysis. He has experience conducting technical document reviews and oversight at federal facilities. He has reviewed numerous CERCLA investigation/ remediation documents, including Emergency (time-critical) Removal Work Plans and Reports, EE/CAs, RIs and FSs, RDs, Remedial Action Work Plans and Reports, RODs, and Finding of Suitability to Lease and Finding of Suitability to Transfer documents. Mr. Young regularly provides technical support to EPA in negotiation meetings with representatives of state, private industry, and federal facilities.