People

D. Robert Gan, Ph.D., P.E.

Managing Principal

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Dr. Gan is a licensed Professional Engineer and has more than 33 years of research and professional experience in the civil and environmental engineering field. Areas of expertise include business management; leadership development; operation and marketing strategy development; merger and acquisition support; environmental liability management; litigation support; water and wastewater characterization and treatment; storm water pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) assessment and preparation; discharge permit applications and engineering design; fate and transport modeling; soil and groundwater remedial investigations/feasibility studies (RI/FS) and remedial design/remedial action (RD/RA); environmental and regulatory compliance assessment and audits; environmental support to property transaction activities; and air dispersion modeling, emission evaluation, and permit application.

Michael R. Fontana, PG, LSRP

Senior Consultant and Senior Hydrogeologist

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Mr. Fontana, a New Jersey Licensed Site Remediation Professional, has more than 30 years of professional experience. Mr. Fontana oversees technical studies and offers consulting services for soil and groundwater assessment, investigation and remediation. Mr. Fontana specializes in complex hazardous site investigation and remediation, above-ground and underground storage tank (AST/UST) investigations and remediation, litigation support, regulatory compliance and the environmental aspects of real estate transactions. In addition, Mr. Fontana directs project and case file research, prepares expert reports, and consults on a wide variety of environmental litigation matters.

Michael A. Hansen, PE

Director of Federal Services

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Mr. Hansen is a licensed Professional Engineer and has more than 28 years of diverse experience in the areas of site evaluation and assessment, soil and groundwater remediation, environmental compliance, and the overall evaluation of potential liabilities associated contaminated sites and other facilities. In addition, Mr. Hansen has extensive experience in project, program and client management for individual environmental projects as well as portfolios of projects/sites serving both private and public sector clients.

Cecilia C. Fontana, PG

Director of Environmental Services

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Cecilia Fontana, P.G. is a licensed Professional Geologist with over 30 years of professional experience in the environmental field. Mrs. Fontana conducts oversight of all site remediation projects, development of technical and regulatory training, providing unparalleled customer service to continue to drive the business forward. IN addition, Mrs. Fontana implements an Integrated approach to addressing federal, state, and local regulatory requirements into project-specific work plans and developscost-effective compliance strategies. During her career, she has performed activities at numerous complex hazardous waste and contaminated sites to address regulatory requirements under the New Jersey Technical Requirements for Site Remediation (NJAC 7:26E), Industrial Site Recovery Act, New Jersey Pollution Discharge Elimination System Permitting Program and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Mrs. Fontana has extensive experience with sites contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), chlorinated solvents and sites impacted by regulated UST discharges.

Claudio M. Stabile, CD

Sr. CAD Draftsperson and GIS Specialist

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Mr. Stabile is a Drafting Specialist with over nineteen years in CAD Drafting technology in the environmental and engineering consulting field with an additional four years of manual drafting and design experience at a New York design firm. Through his professional experience, Mr. Stabile brings his knowledge of underground storage tank management and site investigation and remediation activities as translated into client specific site maps, actual and propositional soil boring and monitoring well location maps, distribution of organic and inorganic constituents of concern detected in soil and groundwater, cross sectional plans, groundwater elevation isocontours and buried utilities search maps.

Sarah J. MacCarter, LSRP

Senior Environmental Scientist / Project Manager

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Mrs. MacCarter is a Project Scientist and Task Manager with over eight years of professional experience, including project and task management and implementation, budget preparation, resource planning and coordination, and subcontractor coordination and management. Mrs. MacCarter leads the QA/QC of VERINA’s laboratory analytical program and is responsible for the firm’s New Jersey Laboratory Certification. She also manages the firm’s Health & Safety program.

Chris Pyra

Senior Technician

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Mr. Pyra is a Senior Technician and has over 18 years of field experience in environmental sampling, investigation, and remediation. Chris’s area of expertise includes monitoring well installation, well development, soil sampling, soil gas and indoor air sampling and groundwater sampling as part of UST, RCRA, and CERCLA investigations, in situ remediation at sites contaminated by petroleum and solvent-based products using oxygen and hydrogen-releasing compounds, emulsified soils, permanganate, and various other applications through injections.

Jacob Gardner

GIS Specialist

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Jacob Gardner is a GIS Specialist with 8 years of experience in GIS technology within the environmental consulting field. Mr. Gardner has provided mapping and GPS support for environmental remediation sites in New York and New Jersey, including site investigations for soil and groundwater contamination for commercial, state, and federal clients. Examples of GIS products include groundwater elevation and topographic contours, sample location maps, wetland delineation maps, and historic aerial image analysis. Mr. Gardner also has a background in geology and field experience in soil and groundwater sampling.

Mike Simoneau

Project Scientist

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Michael Simoneau is a Staff Geologist with experience in groundwater monitoring, collection and low-flow purging for groundwater; management and analysis of data; and implementation of environmental remediation strategies such as in-situ chemical oxidation.

Manuela Castano

Environmental Scientist

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Manuela Castano is an Environmental Scientist with experience in field activities, including overseeing installation of soil borings, flow purging for groundwater, air sampling and analysis of data.

Colin Marx

Environmental Scientist

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Colin Marx is an Environmental Scientist with experience in stream sampling and measurement, soil coring, and Geographic Information System (GIS) technology. His internship experiences focused on New Jersey land use/land cover and watersheds, with specific attention to the Raritan Basin and the Lower Raritan where he converted historic map files into a GIS-usable format for stream delineation, among other applications.

Michael Valenzi

Environmental Scientist

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Mike is a recent graduate of Rutgers University with a B.S. degree in Environmental Science. He joins us as an Environmental Scientist and will assist with field activities and office tasks to support our projects.

John Lapinski

Project Manager

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John brings over 20 years of field operation and management experience to VERINA. John joins us as the Project Manager to provide the management and technical support in conducting research, development, and evaluation studies concerning wet weather flows for green infrastructure and aging water infrastructure.

Anahi Munoz

Environmental Scientist

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Anahi is a recent graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology with a B.S. degree in Environmental Science, and minor in Chemistry. Before joining VERINA, Anahi spent six month with County of Middlesex.Munoz – VCG 2023 She joins us as an Environmental Scientist and will assist with field activities and office tasks to support our projects.

Ray Gregory

Business Specialist

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Ray joins us as a Business Specialist and will assist in business development and digital marketing. He will also involve in client projects, including both field work and associated office support.

Pasquale Pozzolano

Senior Environmental Technician

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Pasquale brings over 15 years of field operation experience to VERINA and joins us as the Senior Environmental Technician. Pasquale is an experienced equipment operator and technician in construction and related fields. He will support field activities, specifically in research, development, and evaluation studies concerning wet weather flows for green infrastructure and aging water infrastructure.

Phyllis Okai

Environmental Engineer

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Phyllis graduated from New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey with a B.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering in May 2022. She has been involved projects related to construction management and engineering design, inspection, and management. She joins us as an Environmental Engineer and will be part of VERINA’s engineering team to support our projects.

Christian Bojorquez

Project Scientist

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After receiving her M.S. degree in May 2020, Christian has worked as Compliance Specialist and Environmental Scientist participating in projects related to regulatory compliance, and soil and groundwater investigations and remediation, data evaluation/analysis, and plan and report preparation. She joins us as Project Scientist and will be part of VERINA’s environmental service team to support our projects.