Staff
Environmental
Mike Bailey
Senior Principal Engineer
Mike Bailey, PE, is Hart Crowser’s CEO. He has more than 30 years of environmental and geotechnical engineering experience, including the past 26 years with Hart Crowser. Mike currently manages the groundwater cleanup for Paramount Petroleum’s Richmond Beach Facility, and is responsible for technical oversight of the Holden Mine cleanup. He managed the geotechnical design for the Port of Seattle’s Third Runway. He is program manager for contracts for abandoned mine projects with the Washington State Department of Ecology as well as with the US Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining.
Connie Taylor
Chief Operating Officer, Oregon Regional Manager
Connie Taylor is Hart Crowser’s Chief Operating Officer and Oregon Regional Manager. She also serves on our Board of Directors. She has 28 years of experience as a manager, geologist, and regulatory specialist. Her responsibilities have included forecasting client needs in changing economies and business cycles. As past president, chair, director, or corporate officer for an impressive number of business and community organizations, Connie demonstrates the kind of personal and professional dedication that has led to once-in-a-lifetime awards and recognition for her outstanding business and community achievements.
Julie Wukelic
Senior Principal Engineer
Julie Wukelic, CEM, CEI, is a leading expert when it involves developing practical and technically sound solutions for cleanup with development. During 25 years of experience, she has evaluated hundreds of properties that were planned for development, sale, or purchase. Julie assists her clients in assessing the environmental risks and understanding the business aspects of these risks.
William Abercrombie
Principal and Regulatory Compliance Specialist
William Abercrombie has been managing Hart Crowser environmental projects since 1987. Will specializes in interpreting and implementing environmental regulations and managing the investigation and remediation of hazardous waste sites. He has been program manager and project manager for projects for the US Corps of Engineers, the US Coast Guard, Nucor Steel, and many other industry clients. Before joining Hart Crowser, Will was with the Washington State Department of Ecology for seven years, involved with special investigations and hazardous waste programs.
Rick Moore
Principal Environmental and Regulatory Specialist
Rick Moore, LEG, LHG, has 24 years of experience with environmental characterization and remediation of both waterfront and upland sites. His work often involves coordinating construction phase observation and related environmental and regulatory compliance efforts. He has extensive knowledge of environmental regulations such as MTCA, CERCLA, state Sediment Management Standards, Clean Water Act, Rivers and Harbors Act, and Shorelines Management Act. He manages Hart Crowser’s Water Resources Division.
Mike Ehlebracht
Principal Geochemist
Mike Ehlebracht, LHG, has 20 years of experience in organic geochemistry. Mike has managed numerous remedial investigations, feasibility studies, and engineering designs at commercial, industrial, and Brownfield sites. Mike prepared the Cleanup Action Plan that led to development of the Olympic Sculpture Park. He has served as a member of the Interim TPH Policy Working Group that assisted the Washington State Department of Ecology in developing a risk-based cleanup approach for petroleum-contaminated sites. He also participated on the Fate and Transport subcommittee that developed techniques for modeling the fate and transport of contaminants in support of developing risk-based soil to groundwater cleanup levels.
Rick Ernst
Principal Geologist
Rick Ernst, RG, has more than 17 years of experience managing environmental contracts and projects, including contracts for the Port of Portland, the Portland Development Commission, and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. He has supervised characterization and remediation activities at over 100 sites in Oregon and southwest Washington, including the Vanport, Chiloquin Mill, and Christmas Valley Airport projects.
Steve Hoffman
Environmental Engineer
Steve Hoffman, PE, has 35 years of consulting engineering experience throughout the United States. His work experience includes site remediation and hazardous waste management, solid waste management, regulatory compliance, innovative technology development and testing, surface water management, environmental impact analysis, and wastewater treatment. Steve has managed projects for numerous industrial and private sector clients, as well as the Department of Defense, US EPA, and state and local government agencies. He is currently working on a project for Paramount Petroleum.
Scott Wright
Senior Associate Engineering Geologist, Manager of Field Services
Scott Wright, LEG, has been with Hart Crowser since its start in 1974, and has been involved in over 4,000 projects. He supervises our engineering geologists and coordinates field exploration programs, including subcontractor contracts, site utility checks, coordination of street use permits, traffic control plans, and right of entry agreements. Scott has a thorough understanding of exploration equipment and is very familiar with the exploration subcontractors in the Pacific Northwest.
Roger McGinnis
Senior Associate Environmental Chemist
Roger McGinnis, PhD, has 30 years of experience in the investigation, evaluation, and remediation of contaminated sites. He is an expert at “fingerprinting” chemical contaminants and applying statistical techniques to help with contaminant source identification. Roger is a member of the Regional Sediment Evaluation Team Analysis Subcommittee (for the US Army Corps and the Washington State Department of Ecology), which is recommending chemicals for inclusion and appropriate analytical methods for the Sediment/Dredging Guidance that will cover Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Leon Lahiere
Senior Associate Geologist
Leon Lahiere, RG, CWRE, has over 25 years of experience. He has a strong background in field and project management for both small and large projects, including numerous site investigation projects for a variety of private and public agency clients. Leon is our contract manager for a statewide on-call hazardous materials services contract with the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Craig Dockter
Senior Associate Geologist
Craig Dockter, PG, has 23 years of environmental consulting and geophysics experience. Craig manages remediation projects and has designed a variety of remediation technologies for sites involving drycleaners, landfills, gasoline stations, and petroleum bulk terminals. Craig has managed projects under our Orphan Sites contract with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality such as the Nuway II Dry Cleaner site.
Jill Kiernan
Environmental Engineer
Jill Kiernan, PE, has 21 years of comprehensive experience in environmental cleanup and hazardous waste programs, including remediation engineering and regulatory compliance. She has developed a solid technical knowledge of environmental cleanup methods and technologies for soils, groundwater, air, and sediments; wastewater treatment methods; landfill design and methane gas mitigation; and brownfield and landfill redevelopment. Project sites have included bulk terminals, wood treating facilities, chrome plating, dry cleaners, gas stations, landfills, railyards, degreasing facilities, battery reclamation, pesticide manufacturing, electric and coal gasification facilities, transformer salvage, aluminum manufacturing, and oil rerefining.
Ross Stainsby
Hydrogeologist and Environmental Specialist
Ross Stainsby, LHG, PMP, has 20 years of professional experience in the environmental field. He serves as Project and Construction Manager for environmental investigation and remediation projects, and stormwater NPDES permitting and monitoring. His remediation designs have included numerous in situ soil, groundwater and soil vapor treatment systems.