FARALLON CONSULTING - Key Persons

Alison Guse

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Staff GIS Technician
Staff GIS Technician / Portland, Oregon

Alison holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and a Minor in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has 5+ years of experience serving environmental consulting firms in California, Oregon, and Washington. She is fluent in Esri's suite of geographic information systems (GIS) software and has relational data management, workflow production, and dashboard development experience with Alteryx and Tableau. Her GIS skillset includes spatial analysis, data management, modeling, figure production, and web-based application development.

Amanda Garcia

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Project Assistant

Amanda brings over 10 years' experience to her role as Project Assistant. Her background in providing administrative, project, and accounting support in the environmental consulting field enables her to provide help across a range of projects and company departments.

Amy Essig - CEO

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Chief Executive Officer
Chief Executive Officer / Issaquah, Washington

Amy's 26 years of industry experience includes overseeing multimillion-dollar projects under CERCLA, RCRA, and MTCA, and sites administered under Administrative Orders on Consent, Agreed Orders, and Consent Decrees. She managed Farallon's Environmental Sciences Group for 8 of her nearly 15 years with the firm. She was instrumental in the firm's doubling in size, and has played an integral part in creating and enhancing Farallon's unique culture. As CEO, Amy is committed to delivering outstanding client service and providing fulfilling careers characterized by continuous professional growth and high personal satisfaction, making Farallon the best environmental consulting firm on the West Coast.

Angie Osman

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Staff Scientist
Staff Scientist / Issaquah, Washington

Angie earned her bachelor's degree in Environmental Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she studied conservation and restoration, among a variety of other environmental topics. She also completed an outside concentration in Geography, primarily focusing on geographic information systems. While in college, she also worked for 3 years as a research assistant in a vegetation laboratory, studying the impacts of wildfires on ecosystems and the effects of restoration efforts. Angie's field experience includes subsurface investigations, soil sampling, and groundwater monitoring and sampling.

Anne Kerker - CHRO

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Human Resources Director
Human Resources Director / Issaquah, Washington

Anne has spent over 22 years in Human Resources in a variety of industries including travel, energy, manufacturing, and wholesale supply. She is passionate about helping people and organizations be successful together. At Farallon, she leads the Human Resources department to serve our employees in all people-related activities.

Billie Jo Wuelfing

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Project Accountant
Project Accountant / Issaquah, Washington

Billie Jo brings over 25 years' experience working with a variety of public and private clients in the environmental consulting and engineering industry. She enjoys building strong relationships with internal and external clients in her role as a Project Accountant. Farallon Consulting and our team of experts are active members of professional associations.

Braeden Lukkari

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Engineer
Staff Engineer

Braeden is an Engineer-in-Training and Federal Aviation Administration-licensed drone pilot who graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. Braeden's professional experience includes site inspections; operation and maintenance of remediation systems; and compliance sampling of soil, water, and air.

Brant Rotnem

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Technician

Brian Kahl

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Principal Geologist, Managing Principal

Cal Moore

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Technical Editor
Technical Editor / Issaquah, Washington

Cal has over 24 years of experience in technical editing, writing, and content management across a range of industries. As part of the editing team at Farallon, he helps produce consistent, high-quality documents for varied client needs.

Chad Wallin

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Professional Wetland Scientist

Chad is a Professional Wetland Scientist with expertise in wetland science and ecology, critical species evaluations, ecological restoration, critical area monitoring, and mitigation planning. He regularly conducts surveys and restoration work in marine, riparian, and wetland ecosystems. He has extensive experience in wetland mitigation planning, wetland delineation, habitat assessment, and critical area permitting. He also performs third-party critical area reviews to determine whether permit applicants are within local and state environmental guidelines. Chad holds certifications in the Washington State Department of Ecology's Wetland Rating System, Ordinary High Water Mark determination, and Calculating Compensatory Mitigation in Wetlands.

Chamille Bosaw

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Staff GIS Technician

Christen Boyd

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Contracts Manager
Technical Writer

Chuck Esler

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Principal Scientist
Principal Scientist / Portland, Oregon

Chuck has more than 35 years of experience providing environmental consulting services to a wide array of commercial, industrial, and public-sector clients. He has successfully completed hundreds of environmental projects, including preliminary assessments; sediment, soil, soil gas, and groundwater investigations; remedial investigations; interim remedial actions; human health and ecological risk assessments; land use and beneficial water use determinations; and feasibility studies. Many of these projects involved corrective actions, including the design, implementation, operation and maintenance, and closure of in-situ and ex-situ remediation systems (e.g., bioremediation, chemical oxidation, pump and treat, vapor extraction, stabilization, removal, and thermal treatment) for projects regulated by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and/or the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

Clifford T. Schmitt

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Principal Hydrogeologist

Courtney Van Stolk

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Project Geologist

Craig Austin

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Technical Editor
Technical Editor / Portland, Oregon

Craig has been editing, writing, and coordinating environmental documents for the past three decades. He has edited a wide variety of reports for both the public and private sectors in environmental science and engineering, natural resources, and environmental data management. Craig also brings extensive public-sector marketing and proposal development experience.

Craig Recob - CFO

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Chief Financial Officer
Chief Financial Officer / Issaquah, Washington

Craig oversees Farallon's financial planning and analysis, business operations, accounting, and administrative functions. Prior to joining Farallon, he served as Chief Financial Officer for a broad range of technology and financial services companies. During his notable tenure at L4 Digital, a digital product agency in Seattle, Craig was instrumental in helping the founders navigate the complexities of a successful sale to a publicly held company (NYSE: GLOB) and managed the post-sale financial process integration.

Craig Ware

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Principal Hydrogeologist, Regional Operations Manager

Divya Bhargava

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Environmental Engineer
Senior Engineer, Managing Senior
Senior Engineer, Managing Senior / Oakland, California

Divya is an environmental engineer with more than 14 years of engineering and consulting experience in the real estate and construction industries. She has experience in environmental due diligence, including conducting Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments, vapor intrusion investigation and mitigations, environmental permitting, site characterizations, and project management. Divya has managed several large-scale soil, soil gas, and groundwater investigation and remediation projects, and worked with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Regional Water Quality Control Boards, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, as well as various county and city agencies to achieve regulatory closure on sites.

E. Jay Murphy

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Senior Compliance Specialist

E. Jay has 30 years of industry experience, with an emphasis on process design and regulatory oversight. She has worked as a regulator in states across the country, assessing environmental compliance at manufacturing facilities, Brownfield sites, landfills and transfer stations, and residential developments. E. Jay offers both private- and public-sector clients assistance in expediting their compliance with federal, state, and local environmental requirements. E. Jay enjoys hiking, running, cooking, and tending her vegetable garden. She is an avid hockey player and travels across the country playing tournaments.

Elsa Ticken

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Professional Civil Engineer
Senior Engineer, Health and Safety Director
Senior Engineer, Health and Safety Director / Oakland, California

Elsa is a professional civil engineer with 13 years of environmental and engineering experience, consulting on programs for both public- and private-sector clients. Elsa has worked as project manager and engineer on a variety of large-scale projects of up to $10 million, which include former and active federal facility cleanup sites; underground storage tank low-threat closures; Resource Conservation and Recovery Act hazardous waste facilities; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act Superfund sites; landfills; and groundwater treatment plants. Elsa provides clients with the engineering expertise required to develop defensible and effective investigative and remedial approaches for various environmental contaminants, and has achieved site closure at multiple complex sites. Additional areas of expertise include construction management, chemical analysis, health and safety, and waste management.

Eric Buer

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Principal Hydrogeologist, Regional Operations Manager

Glenn Grette

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Principal Scientist
Principal Scientist / Wenatchee, Washington

Glenn is a Senior Fisheries Biologist and has over 30 years of experience working on complex permitting issues related to fisheries ecology, habitat restoration and mitigation, impact assessment, study design, and environmental documentation. He has been involved in the successful permitting of numerous large-scale marine-oriented projects. He has extensive experience with design, implementation, and monitoring of mitigation projects developed to offset aquatic impacts in accordance with Section 404(b) of the Clean Water Act and the Washington Hydraulic Code. Glenn's experience with agency coordination and negotiation has helped to secure practical and cost-effective solutions for complicated problems related to mitigation, restoration, and corrective actions.

Greg Peters

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Associate Scientist, Field Staff Manager
Associate Scientist, Field Staff Manager / Issaquah, Washington

Greg holds a Master's degree in Environmental Science from Lincoln University of Missouri in Jefferson City, Missouri. His professional experience includes surface and groundwater monitoring and sampling, soil sampling, Industrial Stormwater General Permit compliance, subsurface investigations, excavation observations, and data analysis. Greg also spent 5 years conducting research to study the impact of phosphorus and nitrate runoff from agricultural fields into local water bodies.