Experiences Key personnel
 

The following indicates key staff assignments for fulfilling the need for environmental services. The qualifications of the team members are discussed below.

Syed Amanatullah, PE. Mr. Amanatullah brings over 38 years of diverse engineering and consulting experience to the team and will be responsible for project management, investigation oversight, SAP preparation activities, and day-to-day client coordination.  Mr. Amanatullah has been with the firm for 23 years.  Mr. Amanatullah has served as project manager on environmental investigation and remediation services for several landfill sites and he is well experienced in regulatory coordination and negotiation for industrial facilities, mining sites, and solid waste landfills projects. While with the ADEQ, Mr. Amanatullah worked on over 40 site closure plans and a number of solid waste facility plans (SWFP), as well as Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) applications for solid waste facilities. He served as Project Manager and Resident Engineer for excavation and lining of Cell 1 Phases 2 through 4, closure of Cell 1 Phases 1 and 2, and the Phases 2 through 3 Stormwater System at the City of Phoenix’s (COP’s) State Route (SR 85) Landfill.  He performed the design and construction administration services in conjunction with closure for the COP’s Skunk Creek Landfill Cell No. 6, Cell No. 5, and Cell Nos. 3/4 Phase 1.   Mr. Amanatullah served as the Director of Engineering Services for managing a group of engineers at Shaw Group’s (formerly EMCON) Phoenix and Tucson offices. He also served as Senior Engineer for design and construction of several projects at Abitibi’s Snowflake, Arizona paper mill. He has experience in managing the design, permitting, and construction of a 230-acre Mill impoundment Dam and Spillway, performing design and permitting of an Ash Lagoon Dam, engineering evaluations of dams at two mine sites in Arizona.  He also served as the Manager of ADEQ’s Plan Review and Aquifer Protection Permit (APP) Units responsible for supervising the engineering review and permitting activities for numerous projects in the state.  While with the ADEQ as a review engineer, he reviewed over 90 design and specifications documents relating to different landfills, mines and industrial facilities.  His strengths have always been the ability to recognize good talent, communicate and resource large scale projects, and follow through with concept to completion and reality. He directed Remedial Investigation (RI) and Engineering Evaluation activities in conjunction with the closure of Arizona Army National Guard Camp Navajo Sanitary Landfill and many other sites in Arizona and California.

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Kevin Goldman. Mr. Goldman is Project Hydrogeologist and has 22 years of experience in hydrogeological fields.  He has wide-ranging knowledge of federal, state, and tribal environmental regulations and has experience in solid waste plan modifications, landfill compliance activities, aquifer protection permitting, quality assurance plans, health and safety plans, and computer modeling. Mr. Goldman has been with the firm for 15 years.

Ms. Nasim A. Begum has 21 years of experience working as Senior Scientist at the Arizona Department of Health Services and Project Scientist at AMTECH Associates, LLC’s (AMTECH’s) Arizona offices. She was responsible for conducting scientific investigation, laboratory analyses, statistical evaluation of the results, and report writing. Ms. Begum has been with the firm for 18 years.

Ms. Tamara Jim is the Project Engineer and has worked on numerous projects involving landfill liner design, landfill closure design, construction quality assurance, closure and post-closure plans, solid waste facility plans/aquifer protection permits, and landfill groundwater and gas monitoring activities. Ms. Jim has 24 years of experience in civil and environmental engineering fields.  She has been with the firm for 22 years. She has wide-ranging knowledge of federal, state, and tribal environmental regulations and has experience in solid waste plan modifications, landfill compliance activities, aquifer protection permitting, quality assurance plans, health and safety plans, and computer modeling. Prior to joining AMTECH, Ms. Jim managed the Air Quality Control Program within the Navajo Nation Environmental Protection Agency where she was responsible for developing the air quality program in conjunction with the USEPA requirements.  Ms. Jim also worked as an intern for a number of federal agencies, including Los Alamos National Laboratory, USEPA, and the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals.

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Brian Keeney is the Project Engineer and performed the design work for the City of Phoenix numerous Landfills. He also performed CQA inspection work for these projects. He has been with the firm for 22 years and served as project engineer.

Po-Yen Wang, P.E.  Mr. Wang is the Senior Engineer and has 38 years of experience managing and overseeing engineering projects for large corporations as well as for consulting industry. He performs Geotechnical and Environmental services for existing projects.  Mr. Wang is a registered civil engineer with over 38 years of experience as a project manager who also has a great deal of experience with construction management, inspection projects, and materials testing. He developed permit applications to allow these landfills to be operated as engineered fills.

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Mokbul H. Chowdhury, P.E. is the Senior Engineer and has 38 years of experience managing and overseeing engineering projects for large corporations as well as for consulting industry. He performs Geotechnical and Environmental services for existing projects.  Mr. Chowdhury is a registered civil engineer with over 38 years of experience as a project manager who also has a great deal of experience with construction management, inspection projects, and materials testing. As AMTECH’s senior engineer, Mr. Chowdhury is currently responsible for oversight of inert debris engineered fill operations at Vulcan Materials Co.’s California landfills.