What I Do Best:
Applying science, engineering, risk-management and business principles to environmental challenges. I love to educate people and help them to readily distinguish “eco-babble” from environmental reality.

How I Learned My Trade:
My career has been crafted from a balance of positions in local government and the private sector. I was blessed to have many superiors who took on the role of mentor and helped me find a niche, on an increasingly diverse environmental science career path. Following undergraduate study in biology at Delaware, I was fortunate to be awarded a position with our county’s health department, which was then only several years old. I was trained to work in both their environmental science and sanitation programs. While with Chester County I earned an SEO (Sewage Enforcement Officer) license and recognition as a Registered Sanitarian in our Commonwealth. My first consulting position further sharpened skills I had developed in the field of environmental health. After too much time traveling internationally, I joined the Molecular Biophysics Group, conducting R & D at DuPont’s Experimental Station. It was during that time period that I resumed part-time environmental work, by founding my own consulting venture. Through DuPont’s tuition reimbursement program, I was able to return to U of D, for graduate training.
Although I quickly abandoned a typical DuPont track of doctoral studies, graduate work soon criss-crossed the “inter-departmental” disciplines between biochemistry and engineering. Once I had more formal education in the latter discipline, my peers encouraged me to sign on as an “apprentice” with an “old school” (ie. one who practiced in all areas) civil engineer. The next decade was spent learning the trade, from just such a mentor. Most of those consulting clients were local governments, such as boroughs, townships and municipal authorities. During that time, I satisfied experience requirements to be examined for both PE and Sewage Treatment Operator licensure (I took and passed PA Class A exam, for the latter). Graduate work was completed at Widener University, where I earned a Masters of Engineering in their environmental management program. Thereafter, I devoted myself to full-time environmental consulting practice, at MicroLife.

The Facts:
1974 Graduate - Upper Merion High School
Attended Slippery Rock State College, 1974-75
1978 Graduate – University of Delaware (BA)
Sanitarian II - Chester County Health Dept, 1978-83
Dir, DE Vy Office – Envir. Health Assoc’s, 1983-85
Chem. Tech. – E.I. DuPont de Nemours, 1985-88
Attended UD, PSU and Drexel University, 1986-89
Founder - MicroLife Management, 1987
Project Mgr. – Catania Engineering Assoc’s, 1988-98
1997 Graduate – Widener University (ME)
President - MicroLife Management, Inc, 1997 to date

Affiliations:
PASEO (Sewage Enforcement Officer #1308)
PA Registered Sanitarian #224
PSMA (PA Septage Management Assn.)
PWEA (PA Water Environment Assn.)
PA Association of Boroughs
Delaware Valley Realtors Assn.
S. Chester & New Castle Co. Chambers of Commerce

References:
All of my former employers and schools may be contacted to verify the above facts. These contacts, as well as many clients (government agencies, small or large corporations and individuals) are available upon request. Much of my work has involved the enforcement of environmental law. Hence, I have many “enemies” who can indirectly attest to how well that responsibility was executed.

My Real Job:
Ann Hofstetter married me in 1978 and subsequently bore us three little girls; all of which make up the “Kennett Square Sorority House” I now “manage”. Although the pay is intangible, their benefits package has eternal rewards. Together, we minister to our community, chiefly through children’s programs. We moved to Kennett Square, in 1978. Our neighbors elected us as their Committeeman and -woman, shortly after moving to our present home. Through a quarter-century of community service, we continue to seek new assignments, perhaps one from you.