TWIN OAKS CONSULTING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal - Civil Engineering
- Professional Engineer
Alfred G. Handy, P.E., Principal - Civil Engineering brings more than 30 years of municipal and transportation engineering to the firm. Besides acting as Township Engineer for several Pennsylvania municipalities, he has performed such special projects as the Pike County, PA, Storm Water Management Act (Act 167) Plan and Analomink Dam Spillway Analysis, Stroud Township, Monroe County, PA. In addition, he managed the Monroe County, PA, Bridge Maintenance Program and acted as Assistant Superintendent of Bridges for Warren County, NJ. On the transportation side, he managed worked on highway projects for the New Jersey Turnpike and the New Jersey and New York Departments of Transportation along with numerous highway and intersection design projects throughout New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. He also has aviation infrastructure experience from projects for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
Mr. Handy is Principal - Civil Engineering at Twin Oaks Consulting, LLC. Prior to his current practice, his engineering experience spans over 30 years with various consulting engineering firms. His engineering expertise was utilized while serving as Mayor for the Township of Blairstown, NJ. He has served on numerous advisory commissions and boards in New Jersey. Mr. Handy has extensive experience in municipal engineering both on the local and county levels having served as Township Engineer for Westfall Township, Pike County, PA and Chestnuthill Township, Monroe County, PA as well as performing the Pike County, PA Storm Water Management Act (Act 167) Plan and Analomink Dam Spillway Analysis, Stroud Township, Monroe County, PA. In addition, he managed the Monroe County, PA Bridge Maintenance Program and acted as Assistant Superintendent of Bridges for Warren County, NJ.
On the transportation side he managed such work as New Jersey Turnpike Interchange 1, Toll Plaza Relocation, Deepwater, NJ. The New Jersey Department of Transportation Route 120 By-Pass, Meadowlands, NJ, Northern State Parkway Sound Barriers, Westbury, NY and Long Island Sunrise Highway Extension, Brookhaven Township, along with numerous highway and intersection design projects throughout New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Mr.Handy also has considerable experience in aviation infrastructure with projects such as work for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, for the Teterboro Airport, Continuation of Patrol Road Phase I, and the Teterboro Airport, Pre-Stage I Report on Construction Staging Areas, Moonachie and Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey.
Mr. Handy was also involved in complete land development services including rail service to site for Project Independence, Arm and Hammers 1.6M SF manufacturing/warehousing facility on 220 acres in York County, Pennsylvania and provided the site reclamation plan for the Port Elizabeth Brownfield Site in Elizabeth, NJ.
Areas of Expertise
Engineering
Jason Hasker is a certified Project Management Professional, experienced electro-mechanical systems engineer, and a specialist in design for system testing, manufacturing, and requirements management.
Prior to joining Twin Oaks Consulting, LLC to head the Electro-Mechanical Systems Department, Mr. Hasker served as an officer in the United States Air Force and was a leader in a variety of roles. Among his key accomplishments: testing and later decommissioning the Peacekeeper Nuclear Weapon System; demonstrating in-flight testing of the Airborne Laser, a modified Boeing 747; and was program manager and technical expert for multiple multi-million dollar classified defense projects. Jason has also been recognized throughout his career including: Dr. Theodore Von Karman Fellowship, Tau Beta Pi Fellow, Air Force Historical Foundation Award, Air Force Meritorious Service Medal, and being elected to the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society.
Following his 13+ year Air Force career he worked to merge his military flight testing and project management experience with the needs of the local manufacturing industry. He converted the lamination industry by leading several capital projects to modernize and improve adhesive and perforation capabilities. In the pharmaceutical sector, he helped establish efficient reliability & maintenance programs for vaccine production lines. In the food service and healthcare sectors, he consulted on new product development and refined business relationships with technicians, sales, installers, and customers to result in an overall improved customer experience.
John R. Ackerman, Principal Engineer and Geologist, has provided consulting services to public and private clients for more than 39 years, both on his own and with consulting engineering firms. On the environmental site, his projects ranged from a complete design of municipal and industrial wastewater systems, including AMD treatment systems and hazardous waste treatment plants, to process design for improved aeration systems, pumping systems, water treatment systems and odor control, both within the plant and within the collection systems. He also has considerable experience managing private and public infrastructure development projects as former Director of Operations for CAN DO, Inc. and as former City Engineer for the City of Hazleton and large scale site development projects, such as the 1.6 million square foot manufacturing/warehouse complex for the Arm and Hammer Project Independence project in York County, Pennsylvania.
Professional Engineer and Geologist Mr. Ackerman is Principal Engineer and Geologist at Twin Oaks Consulting, LLC. Prior to his current practice, he worked with various consulting engineering firms as well as CAN DO, Inc. and Hazleton Pumps. He serves and has served on numerous advisory commissions and boards, both locally and statewide. Awards and recognitions have followed Mr. Ackerman throughout his career, including Young Engineer of the Year (SME/AIME 1983 and Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers 1986); Engineer of the Year (Luzerne Chapter, PSPE, 1993-94; Lehigh Valley Chapter, ASCE, 2018; Keystone Northeast Chapter, PSPE, 2018-29 and Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineer, PSPE), 2019) and being named "Diplomate" (American Academy of Environmental Engineers, 1989) and "Fellow" (National Society of Professional Engineers, 2005; American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, 2021).
Mr. Ackerman has extensive experience in water and wastewater treatment designing numerous treatment facilities as well as troubleshooting treatment process, odor control, and pumping problems. He also has extensive experience in the remediation of hazardous wastes ranging from development of air stripping technology to site remediation of BTEX and metals contaminated groundwater at multiple sites, including SUPERFUND sites, and many AMD treatment facilities as well as designing the redevelopment for these Brownfield properties for viable use. On the permitting side he successfully obtained a Docket from the Delaware River Basin Commission increasing effluent discharge by one-half million GPD into a Special Protection Section of the Upper Delaware River by proposing an equivalent mass loading at the new flows equal to the loading from the existing discharge flows, a first from the DRBC.
Among notable projects Mr. Ackerman has been associated with include providing the engineering component (reclamation, parcel layout, road and infrastructure design) for the CAN DO/Hazleton Chamber's Cranberry Creek Gateway Park; the infrastructure development of Humboldt North and Humboldt East for CAN DO including a two mile extension of the CAN DO Railroad. He was project manager for the design/build construction of the 55K SF LEED Office Building II in the CAN DO Corporate Center, earning recognition by the USEDA for development of a selection template of design/build companies. Mr. Ackerman was also involved in finding a site location for Project Independence, Arm and Hammer's 1.6M SF manufacturing/warehousing facility on 220 acres as well as acting as project manager.
Mr. Ackerman received his bachelor's degree in The Earth Sciences (Geology) in 1975 from The Pennsylvania State University.
Areas of Expertise
Engineering/geology