BROCKINGTON AND ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Fabrication Shop Manager
- Fabrication Shop Manager, Charleston
Aaron Ferrari has been designing and constructing custom cabinetry for a wide variety of clients for over 20 years. Aaron worked with Andrew Steever at Technical Theater Solutions developing museum exhibits and theater productions before joining Squarepoint Design in 2013. Aaron's creativity, problem solving skills, and great eye for detail helped make Squarepoint Design a success. In 2017, Aaron joined the HW Exhibit team as part of the HW Exhibits/Squarepoint Design merger. Aaron will continue to serve as the Fabrication Shop Manager and principle cabinetmaker.
Job Titles:
- Operations Coordinator
- Operations Coordinator, Atlanta
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- Technical Director
- Technical Director, Charleston
Andrew Steever is a native of Charlotte, NC. After spending eight years in the film and television industry in New York City, Andrew attended Pratt Institute's Master's program in Industrial Design where his focus was furniture and exhibit design. After moving to Charleston in 2010, Andrew worked as a designer and project manager for Technical Theater Solutions where he led that company's exhibit related projects. In April 2013, he launched Squarepoint Design as an exhibit and furniture design firm. Andrew's work can be found in Historic Charleston Foundation's historic homes, at the College of Charleston's Natural History Museum and Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, and at The Charleston Museum. In the Spring of 2017, Andrew merged his thriving business with HW Exhibits and joined our team as our Technical Director.
Job Titles:
- Exhibit Planner
- Exhibit Planner, Charleston
Job Titles:
- Senior Archaeologist, Vice President
- Senior Archaeologist, Vice President, Charleston
Dr. Eric Poplin (Ph.D., University of Calgary, RPA) has extensive experience with cultural resource management studies in the Southeast. He is well versed in studies of both the prehistoric and historic periods, and has completed a large number of cultural resource projects for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (including Savannah, New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville, Norfolk, and Wilmington Districts), S.C. Department of Transportation, and many federal, state, and local agencies in the Southeast. Dr. Poplin has also worked extensively with private development firms required to identify cultural resources during application of state or federal permits. Recent projects have involved data recovery excavations at the 1710s-1920s Combahee Ferry site in Beaufort/Colleton Counties (South Carolina), the 1790s-1850s Barnett Plantation on Royal Island (The Bahamas), the 1750s-1860s Anson Barony/Baynard Plantation House and portions of the 1920s Wilson Mansion and Settlement at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton (South Carolina), a Late Mississippian/Contact era hamlet/farmstead on Daniel Island in Charleston (South Carolina), and a stratified Late Archaic/Early Woodland site near Fish Dam Ford on the Broad River on the South Carolina Piedmont. Dr. Poplin serves as a company Vice President in our Charleston office.
Job Titles:
- Senior Historian
- Senior Historian / Nashville
- Senior Historian, Atlanta
Job Titles:
- GIS Specialist
- GIS Specialist, Atlanta
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- Field Technician
- Crew Chief
- Crew Chief, Charleston
Mr. James F. ("Jimmy") Lefebre works as a field technician in Charleston. He received his B.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from the College of Charleston. Before working at Brockington and Associates, Mr. Lefebre worked at a number of museums and historic sites in the Charleston area.
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Designer, Charleston
Kelly Bozarth is a Designer based in the History Workshop's Charleston office. Kelly holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art from Georgia State University, and a Master of Arts degree in Art History, with a concentration in Ancient Egyptian Art, from the University of Memphis. Before joining the History Workshop, Kelly worked as a graphic designer, museum assistant, library associate, and adjunct college instructor. She has wide-ranging experience in print and digital design, branding and identity development, historical research and writing, as well as illustration and fine art. Kelly's background in museums and education contributes to her design aesthetic.
Job Titles:
- Analytical Specialist
- Analytical Specialist, Atlanta
Job Titles:
- Marketing Coordinator
- Graphics Specialist
- Graphics Specialist / Jackson
- Graphics Specialist, Charleston
Job Titles:
- Senior Archaeologist
- Senior Archaeologist / Charleston
- Senior Archaeologist, Savannah
Mr. Alex Sweeney (M.A., University of South Carolina) has over 13 years of experience in southeastern archaeology. He has skills in prehistoric and historic archaeological research, archival research, and GIS applications. Alex served as a co-author and field director for numerous survey, testing, and data recovery projects that were located in Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Michigan, and Japan. He also served as a laboratory supervisor and field technician for our firm from 1997-2001. Prior to his employment with our firm, Alex worked as an intern for the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. His graduate research at the University of South Carolina was conducted on a Contact Period Native American village in the lower coastal plain of South Carolina, and examined the ethnogenesis and migration of the associated Native American group. This research required a comparison of stylistic attributes of data collected from contemporaneous sited in the region to examine if group identity and differences can be inferred from the archaeological record. Alex currently serves as the branch manager and senior archaeologist in our Savannah office.
Job Titles:
- Senior Historian
- Senior Historian, Charleston
Mr. Charles F. Philips, Jr. (M.A., The Citadel/University of Charleston) is a life-long historian with a strong business background. For most of the past 12 years, his research work has been focused on Colonial Southeastern Studies with a specialty in coastal land development during the Colonial period. He is the program manager of the Brockington Oral History Program and has served as historian for the Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, and as American History teacher at the secondary and college level. He came to work at Brockington and Associates in 2003. Currently, Mr. Philips is the Senior Historian in our Charleston office.
Job Titles:
- Architectural Historian
- Architectural Historian / Savannah
- Architectural Historian, Atlanta
Mr. David Dobbs (M.H.P., University of Georgia) is an Architectural Historian based in our Atlanta, GA office. Mr. Dobbs holds a Bachelor's degree in History from Oglethorpe University and a Master of Historic Preservation from the University of Georgia. His experience working with historic and modern architectural and cultural resources extends throughout Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, as well as archaeological field survey experience in Georgia. Mr. Dobbs' main interests include vernacular and modern architectural buildings, military sites, and Japanese architecture and cultural resources.
Job Titles:
- Crew Chief
- Crew Chief, Atlanta
Mr. James Page (B.A., University of Georgia) has worked as a crew chief in Brockington's Atlanta office since 2001. Mr. Page is most interested in middle- to late-Woodland period archaeology, especially the Swift Creek in Georgia. He is also interested in battlefield archaeology and has worked through the Flank Company division of Brockington assisting in the location, documentation and assessment of several battlefields throughout the Southeast and Texas.
Job Titles:
- Analytical Specialist
- Analytical Specialist, Charleston
Mr. Jeff Sherard (B.A. in Anthropology, University of Alabama) has conducted fieldwork throughout the southeastern United States and has over 20 years of archaeological field and laboratory experience, including 10 years at Brockington and Associates. Jeff serves as the Laboratory Supervisor for our Charleston office after directing numerous archaeological survey and testing projects and authoring over 200 cultural resources assessment reports, including several mitigation reports. His areas of specialty include the analysis of flaked-stone debitage and tools, daub and prehistoric architecture, and colonoware. In one research project, Jeff completed a morphological study of daub from a Moundville earthlodge to identify unique and varying construction methods.
Job Titles:
- Crew Chief
- Crew Chief, Atlanta
Mr. John O'Donnell (B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo) works as a crew chief in Brockington's Atlanta office. Mr. O'Donnell is most interested in data recovery, specifically at prehistoric and early historic sites. He has been with Brockington and Associates for over 20 years.
Job Titles:
- Archaeologist
- Archaeologist, Charleston
Mr. Larry James (M.A., University of West Florida, RPA) has worked in a variety of cultural resource management positions throughout the Southeast. Larry's primary background experience has been with Eighteenth-Century British colonial sites located in the coastal regions of Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. Larry has also worked extensively with the public and, prior to joining our team, was employed with the South Carolina State Park Service. His role as Park Ranger/Archaeologist at Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site provided him the opportunity of developing a recognized outreach public archaeology program as well as conducting archaeological research within the park. Larry currently serves as a project manager in our Charleston office.
Job Titles:
- IT Director
- IT Director / Charleston
- IT Director, Atlanta
Mr. Matt Terrell (B.A., University of Alabama) works in the Atlanta office as the IT director. Matt has a background in supporting networks in the medical and engineering fields.
Job Titles:
- Senior Archaeologist, Vice President
- Senior Archaeologist, Vice President, Charleston
Mr. Ralph Bailey (M.A., The Citadel/University of Charleston, RPA) has over 15 years' experience in Southeastern United States field archaeology, historic cemetery work, and archival research. Ralph served as project historian, field director/author, and principal investigator for a number of survey, testing, and data recovery projects in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia. Most recently, Ralph serves as program manager for several large and complex projects: a Duke Energy power generation and transmission project, the I-73, new location project in northern South Carolina, and the 72,000-acre East Edisto project in Charleston and Dorchester counties. Mr. Bailey is a company Vice President and serves as the Branch Chief for our South Carolina office near Charleston.
Job Titles:
- Senior Archaeologist, Vice President
- Senior Archaeologist, Vice President, Atlanta
Mr. Scott Butler (M.H.P., University of Georgia, RPA) has served as a Brockington and Associates archaeologist, historian, and project manager since joining the firm in 1990. Mr. Butler has completed numerous cultural resource projects throughout the Southeast, as well as in Wisconsin, New York, Utah, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Mr. Butler holds an undergraduate degree in Archaeological Sciences, and has strong historic architectural and archival research interests. As a result of his interdisciplinary background, Mr. Butler often concurrently acts as senior archaeologist, historian, and architectural historian for cultural resource projects. Recently, Mr. Butler has become an expert in the archaeology of forts, battlefields, and military encampments. Long an historian of military strategy, tactics, equipment, and weapons, Mr. Butler has studied archaeological deposits of forts, battlefields, and depots from the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War, and the Spanish American War. He has built a deep base of comparative historical and archaeological data, as well as developing effective field methods to discover and record fragile soil features and artifact remains from these sites. Mr. Butler is a company Vice President and serves as a senior project manager in our Atlanta office.
Job Titles:
- Field Technician
- Crew Chief
- Crew Chief, Charleston
Mr. Scott Kitchens works as a field technician in our Charleston office. He recieved his B.A. in History and a minor in Anthropology from Augusta State University. Scott's specialty is ceramic reconstruction and his area of interest is historic and prehistoric tobacco use. Before joining Brockington and Associates, he worked with New South Associates and with the SCIAA.
Job Titles:
- Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Assistant, Charleston
Job Titles:
- GIS Specialist, Senior Archaeologist
- GIS Specialist, Senior Archaeologist, Charleston
Ms. Inna Moore, RPA (GISP; MS in Environmental Science, University of Charleston; BS in Geology, College of Charleston) is a Senior Project Manager with thirteen years of experience in all levels of Cultural Resource Management (CRM) archaeology, eight years of experience as a GIS specialist, and seven years as a GPR specialist. She has served as Project Manager in all areas of specialty for both public and private clients in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the Bahamas. Ms. Moore has authored and presented several papers at both international and national conferences. She is a member of the South Carolina GIS Arc Users Network (SCARC), and Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA).
Job Titles:
- Architectural Historian
- Architectural Historian / Nashville
- Architectural Historian, Charleston
Ms. Lannie Kittrell (M.H.P. Georgia State University) is an Architectural Historian based in our Charleston, SC office. Ms. Kittrell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Art from the College of Charleston and a Master of Heritage Preservation degree from Georgia State University. Ms. Kittrell meets the Secretary of the Interior Standards for Professional Qualifications, has over ten years of experience working in historic preservation and cultural resource management, and over five years of NEPA compliance experience. Ms. Kittrell's preservation experience includes a wide range of historic preservation and cultural resource projects for public and private sector clients. These projects have included Section 106 Reviews, NRHP nominations, historic resource surveys, historic structure reports and historic resource impact studies. In addition, Ms. Kittrell has conducted archival research employing primary and secondary sources such as deeds, wills, tax records, maps, newspapers, and published histories to produce nominations and technical reports.
Job Titles:
- Executive Assistant
- Executive Assistant, Atlanta
Ms. Paula Mullin has worked with Brockington and Associates for over five (5) years as a bookkeeper and has recently began working directly as an Executive Assistant to Dr. Paul Brockington. She has over 15 years of experience in the areas of office management, human resources and bookkeeping through working with various environmental and architectural consulting firms in the Atlanta area.
Job Titles:
- Archaeologist / Fort Collins
- Archaeologist / Savannah
- Archaeologist, Nashville
Ms. Phyllis Johnson (M.A., University of Tennessee; B.A., Wright State University) has been employed with Brockington and Associates since January 2011. Ms. Johnson has been involved in archaeological survey and excavation projects in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Her responsibilities have included artifact collection and cataloguing, supervising research teams, fieldwork and reporting, determining site eligibility, public interpretation, record keeping, budget management, and staff and resource management. Ms. Johnson is also a lithics specialist, with an emphasis on functional analysis of lithic implements. Ms. Johnson's primary interests include prehistoric archaeology, lithic analysis, and microwear analysis. Ms. Johnson currently serves as a Project Manager in our Kentucky office.
Job Titles:
- President
- President, Atlanta
Ms. Sally Brockington (M.B.A., Emory University, M.F.A, California Institute of the Arts, B.A., Rice University) is the President of Brockington and Associates. In her roles as President and Chief Operating Officer (2008-2012), Sally has led development of many innovative, company-wide systems, including OTIS, Brockington's Web-based project management system.
Sally's project management highlights include the Veterans Curation Program, a multimillion dollar program operating three curation facilities with staff of supervisors and veteran trainees at each facility. In 2009, Brockington received a Preservation Partner award from the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation for work with the VCP.
Sally's experience developing interpretive media includes graphic design, video production and post production, interpretive writing and editing, and interactive and Web design. She has developed numerous exhibits, education programs, promotional materials, and master plans for interpretation, wayfinding, and heritage tourism. Sally has served as Co-Chair of the Alumni Advisory Council of the Paideia School.
Job Titles:
- Preservation Specialist
- Preservation Specialist, Atlanta
Rachel Bragg is a Preservation Specialist in our Atlanta office. Rachel earned her Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology from Georgia State University and participated in field schools at the Topper Site in Barnwell, South Carolina and a Bronze Age village site in Thessaloniki, Greece. After graduating, Rachel worked for several CRM firms in the Williamsburg, Virginia area as well as serving as a Powhatan Indian lifeways interpreter and tour guide for Jamestown Settlement. Rachel joined Brockington in 2010 as a field technician. She worked with Brockington in Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, and Texas conducting compliance surveys under Section 106 and 110 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Rachel completed her Masters Degree in Heritage Preservation at Georgia State University in Spring of 2014. She has experience with National Register nominations, Historic Structure Reports, Design Guidelines and developmental histories. Rachel now serves as a Preservation Specialist, developing exhibits with the History Workshop and conducting architectural investigations.
Job Titles:
- Controller
- Controller, Atlanta
Ms. Regina Simma received her BBA in Accounting from Mercer University. She currently serves as our Controller and has over 20 years of Accounting experience.
Job Titles:
- Archaeologist
- Archaeologist, Fort Collins
Job Titles:
- Designer
- Designer, Charleston
Job Titles:
- Senior Historian
- Senior Historian, Atlanta
Mr. W. Michael Reynolds has been with Brockington and Associates, Inc. for 22 years. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology and a Master's Degree in Heritage Preservation, both from Georgia State University. Mr. Reynolds has 14 years of experience in architectural survey and 16 years of experience in historical records research. This includes the completion of historic contexts for numerous cultural resources surveys as well as more in-depth contexts for former military installations. He has completed architectural surveys for the Georgia, South Carolina, and Alabama Departments of Transportation, the US Army Corps of Engineers and tract surveys for various private contractors. He has also participated in Historic American Building Survey (HABS) level photo documentation of historic buildings in Georgia and South Carolina. Mr. Reynolds has 23 years of experience in the field of archaeology. He has completed Phase I and II archaeological investigations and has contributed to the completion of Phase III archaeological documentation. In addition, Mr. Reynolds has 13 years of experience in genealogical research and cemetery delineation and relocation.