The staff at ALTUS has come from a varied and extensive background in the environmental services industry and is dedicated to providing solutions that make sense. After launching the company, the principals have remained closely involved with client projects and personally oversee virtually all of the work done by the firm. As the technical complexity of environmental work has increased along with the associated risks, consultants need to have the necessary credentials and level of professional dedication to provide the high level of services clients rightfully expect. ALTUS professionals all hold various certifications and registrations that testify to the firm’s strong capabilities in providing comprehensive environmental services. Following are resumes of key senior staff and office managers.

While this website focuses on ALTUS staff capabilities, it also provides, where appropriate, relevant information regarding some of the team firms with whom ALTUS routinely works.  Though smaller than ALTUS, our team firms provide nationally recognized leaders in their fields.  They also shore up technical areas outside of ALTUS’ expertise while allowing client access under a single low-cost contract with low administrative burden. Their services have been widely acclaimed and ALTUS appreciates the long-term relationships and support they have provided.

Arthur L. Veenendaal, PG, Managing Principal / aveenendaal@altusenviro.com
Mr. Veenendaal has worked for 18 years in environmental consulting including all phases of site investigation and the evaluation of site characteristics for remedial design feasibility. His responsibilities include project management for drilling, monitor well installation, soil and groundwater sampling, aquifer permeability testing, data analysis and interpretation, and documentation. Specific duties consist of coordination of site activities and field crews, data interpretation, development of work plans including sampling and analysis plans, and overall project tracking. Mr. Veenendaal prepares technical reports summarizing assessments and remedial design.

With educational background in both geology and hydrogeology (B.S. Geology – University of Georgia, 1987; M.S Hydrogeology – University of Georgia, 1991), Mr. Veenendaal has evaluated and interpreted hydrogeologic and geochemical data for characterization of hydrogeologic systems including areas impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons, radionuclides, metals, and light and dense non-aqueous phase liquid compounds. He also has performed ecological monitoring of both aquatic and terrestrial flora and fauna. He is a registered professional geologist in the State of Wyoming.

Stephen D. Annecone, PE, Principal Engineer / sannecone@altusenviro.com
Mr. Annecone has over 20 years of engineering experience, with master's and undergraduate degrees in environmental and electrical engineering.  His experience has involved characterization, remediation, and management of petroleum and solvent contamination at Superfund and other sites, surface water quality modeling, contaminant fate and transport modeling and analysis, and waste management consulting for domestic and international clients. Over the past 16 years, Mr. Annecone has developed broad experience in designing, managing, and implementing remediation systems, particularly in situ and bioremediation systems, for the cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater. He has conducted numerous in situ remediation pilot studies and completed full-scale remedial designs employing technologies such as air sparging, SVE, GAC and thermal oxidation for offgas treatment, active and passive bioventing, biosparging and other bioremediation technologies for groundwater, product recovery, barrier cutoff walls, and pump and treat. Mr. Annecone has written numerous field work plans, feasibility studies, characterization reports, and corrective action plans. He is also experienced in developing analytical and numerical models and in using existing models to analyze surface and groundwater flow and contaminant fate transport. His work has taken him to Philippines and Indonesia to conduct workshops on hazardous waste management for government and industry representatives. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Colorado.

K. Scott Pieratt, PG, CHMM, Principal Geologist / spieratt@altusenviro.com
Mr. Pieratt has over 23 years of environmental experience including responsibility for regulatory oversight on investigation and remediation of over 750 UST sites. Mr. Pieratt also performs the necessary assessments, investigations and corrective measures associated with the RCRA Corrective Action Process. In related work, Mr. Pieratt has managed numerous environmental efforts related to property transactions. In addition, he has been done work related to the establishment of conservation easements including baseline and environmental assessments, as well as mineral remoteness assessments. Prior to his current position with ALTUS, he worked at the Transportation Technology Center where he developed and implemented compliance programs for all applicable Federal and state environmental programs. He also is skilled in OSHA safety programs and instructed at TTC’s Emergency Response Training Center. Specific duties have included legislative and regulatory analysis and compliance related to pollution prevention, Federal acquisition, recycling, waste prevention, energy efficiency and water conservation, and procurement policies for ozone depleting substances. He is a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) who has been recognized for innovative process improvements and quality performance on environmental clean-up projects.

Jeff Reichmuth, PE, Senior Chemical Engineer / jreichmuth@altusenviro.com
Mr. Reichmuth is a remediation engineer with 20 years of experience in environmental consulting.  He has managed multimillion-dollar contracts for both private industry and Department of Defense clients.  Mr. Reichmuth has provided lead technical support for and managed cleanup at several of Colorado’s most high-profile sites under the Voluntary Cleanup and Redevelopment Act, and he was recommended by the State as a case-study presenter (one of two) at the Colorado Hazardous Waste Management Society’s (CHWMS) Voluntary Cleanup Program “10 Years Later” retrospective in 2005.  He has worked effectively with regulators and provided remediation support in more than a dozen states.  Mr. Reichmuth has extensive experience in helping clients develop remediation approaches and exit strategies, designing remediation systems, performing and evaluating data from pilot tests, managing large and small construction and demolition projects, and providing system operation and maintenance support.  His clients have included Fortune 500 and smaller companies in the oil and gas, mining, food processing, electronics, heavy industrial manufacturing, and Brownfield redevelopment sectors.    

Mr. Reichmuth has negotiated site closures with regulators under a wide range of state and federal, multi- jurisdictional programs.  Jeff has has direct experience with a wide variety of biological, chemical and physical soil and groundwater remediation technologies, and he has coupled biogeochemical and risk-based technical arguments with successful active remediation systems to gain regulatory closure at numerous hazardous-waste and petroleum impacted sites.  He is a registered professional engineer in the States of Colorado, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

Jon D. Polonsky, PE, Senior Chemical Engineer / jpolonsky@altusenviro.com
Mr. Polonsky has 20 years of experience as an environmental engineer, primarily focused on projects involving in situ soil and groundwater remediation. His experience includes all aspects of remediation, including site characterization; field pilot testing, remediation system design, and remediation system operation and maintenance. As part of this work, Mr. Polonsky has used several computer models, including subsurface airflow, fate and transport, and air dispersion. He has worked on a wide range of projects involving hydrocarbon and chlorinated solvent-impacted soils and groundwater at Superfund, Department of Defense, EPA, and OPS-led sites. His wide range of experience from characterization through remediation system design and operation provides him with the ability to provide effective solutions to clean up impacted soil and groundwater using a variety of remediation techniques to meet the clients objectives.

Brian M. Mulvany, Principal Environmental Scientist / bmulvany@altusenviro.com
Mr. Mulvany has nine years of environmental consulting experience with specific expertise in property transactions and site assessment. Involved in every aspect of these projects, Mr. Mulvany conducts Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), Site Characterization, Corrective Action Plan (CAP) development and project management through closure. His responsibilites include project management for UST removal, managing drilling and sampling of groundwater monitoring wells, overseeing and conducting Phase I ESAs, effective client and regulatory communication, and technical report preparation. In addition to his project specific responsibilities, Mr. Mulvany plays an intergral role in the day to day management of ALTUS. Much of Mr. Mulvany’s work requires effective coordination and oversight of diverse site contractors and subcontractors including drillers and construction personnel, as well as proper disposal of waste products.

Michael B. Crenshaw, PG, Senior Geologist / mcrenshaw@altusenviro.com
Mr. Crenshaw has over 20 years of experience as an environmental, conservation and planning geologist. His hydrogeology experience includes site assessments, UST closure, soil gas survey, remedial design and program implementation. His work on landfill projects has included complex subsurface investigations in environments containing potentially explosive and hazardous substances. He has designed and supervised soil and groundwater investigations for hazardous waste sites including oil refineries, tank farms, service stations, airports, sanitary landfills, and several RCRA and Superfund sites.

Wilmer (Catt) W. Wilson, PE, Senior Engineer / cwilson@altusenviro.com
Mr. Wilson is an environmental engineer with eleven years experience who has been responsible for design, construction oversight and confirmation of soil sampling for various remediation projects, several involving underground storage tank facilities. In addition to subcontractor procurement and oversight, his duties have included background investigations, borehole logging, monitoring well installation, and soil and groundwater sampling. Following field investigations, Mr. Wilson provides input to reports outlining future use of impacted properties. Mr. Wilson has conducted pilot test studies of soil vapor extraction and air sparging technologies. He has had direct operation and maintenance responsibilities for soil vapor extraction systems at gasoline-contaminated sites.

Ben E. Williams, Senior Scientist / bwilliams@altusenviro.com
Mr. Williams has seven years of experience in environmental consulting. He has been involved in more than 150 underground storage tank (UST) projects. His work includes Environmental field studies, support to development of site assessment and corrective action plan reports, Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), sensitive receptor surveys, drafting, surveying, remedial system operation and maintenance, and health and safety coordination at manufacturing facilities, warehouses, retail gasoline service stations and bulk fueling facilities. Mr. Williams has experience in working with state environmental regulatory agencies in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey, Connecticut, Kansas and Colorado. Mr. Williams also has experience with office startup in both Kansas and Colorado. His responsibilities include oversight of site contractors and sub-contractors, soil and groundwater sampling and analysis, historical records searches for Phase I ESAs, coordination of site activities, data interpretation, report preparation, project tracking, client and regulatory communication, and business development.

Currently, Mr. Williams is tasked with developing the western slope office based out of Grand Junction, CO. This includes all aspects of business development, office infrastructure and employee training. Mr. Williams is directly involved in all phases of environmental site assessment and remediation for projects throughout the western slope.

Charles R. Adams, CPG, Senior Consultant / cadams@altusenviro.com
Mr. Adams has more than 30 years of technical experience including 16 years as an environmental project manager and principal investigator for hazardous waste, tank management, hydrogeologic and remediation projects. In addition, he spent nine years as an engineering geologist in the mining and geotechnical fields. During his career, Mr. Adams has managed many small- and large-scale, multi-site technical projects for assessment, engineering and construction related to remediation of hazardous materials in soil and groundwater. He also provides expert witness services to support legal proceedings. Mr. Adams’ knowledge of state regulatory requirements is extensive and he is a strong advocate for clients in those settings. He is a registered professional geologist and has served on the Board of Directors of several environmental science and engineering firms.

Scott D. Andrews, PE, Senior Consulting Advisor / scott@emscorp.cc
Scott Andrews is a registered engineer specializing in sustainable economic redevelopment of environmentally impaired properties.  Mr. Andrews supports Real-Estate Investment Trusts and residential and commercial property developers with economic evaluation, sustainable planning, transaction negotiation and management of environmental impaired property opportunities through redevelopment and regulatory closure.  He has over 20 years of management and engineering experience providing consulting to Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions and real estate developers for remediation of properties regulated under RCRA, CERCLA and state Voluntary Clean-up Programs.  Mr. Andrews was on the forefront of Brownfield property development providing underwriting support to Zurich for some of the first remediation insurance policies and has secured over $3M in federal Brownfield funding for remediation.  In 2006, Mr. Andrews directed remediation of a Brownfield property in Lakewood Colorado that was awarded the prestigious Phoenix Award for sustainable development of an environmentally impaired underutilized property.  

Prior to joining Essential Management Solutions, LLC and the ALTUS team, Mr. Andrews was a Vice President with ARCADIS G&M and SECOR International Corporation, where he directed soil and groundwater remediation projects primarily associated with RCRA and Brownfield development projects.  Mr. Andrews’ primary areas of expertise includes chlorinated and petroleum hydrocarbon remediation using in-situ bioremediation and chemical oxidation and developing remediation strategies and costs for Cost Cap Insurance underwriting associated with redevelopment of Brownfield properties. Mr. Andrews holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Colorado State University. He is a registered professional engineer in the State of Colorado, and is a licensed Industrial Waste Water Treatment Operator.

Glenn Burge, Senior EHSS/EMS Advisor / glenn@monumentehs.com
Glenn Burge is a Chemical Engineer and has broad experience in environment, health, safety and security (EHSS) management in the shipping, paper, petroleum and chemical industries.  His 30+ years of industrial experience includes 18 years as an EHSS professional.  Glenn served as Senior Director, Safety, Health & Environmental Affairs for Conoco, his last position after 30 years with Dupont.  He was the Regional Manager for a Louisiana based EHSS consulting company where he was responsible for office management, compliance auditing and EHSS management consulting. He is currently a principal at Monument EHS, LLC located in Monument, Colorado.  Mr. Burge is currently providing ALTUS with technical support on two Environmental Management Systems, and we are pleased that Mr. Burge has is a senior member of our compliance and EHSS team.

During recent assignments, he directed staff personnel responsible for the preparation and technical review of compliance manuals along with multi-level training for DOE’s Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL); development, implementation and training on Environmental Management Systems (EMS, ISO 14001) for Conoco, BP, Boise Cascade, and WR Grace among others.

He is presently providing EMS, Safety & PSM consulting for BP, Boise, Cameron, DOT, Rayonier, Sempra LNG, Southern Ionics, Temple-Inland, and W.R. Grace.

Cynthia Ellwood, Ph.D., CIH, ALTUS Team Industrial Hygienist / cynell@h2net.net
Ms. Ellwood holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Hygiene from Colorado State University.  A CIH since 1993, she has provided occupational health and safety support for the biotech, health care, manufacturing, environmental, and municipal sectors.  Recently, her technical support has included employee and management education and training, policy and procedure development, aid in addressing OSHA citations, indoor air quality evaluations, exposure assessments, and audit and process reviews.  She has developed and instructed undergraduate and graduate courses at Colorado State University (CSU) and has served as an affiliate faculty member at CSU, serving on graduate student research committees and assisting in department research programs.  Cynthia has customized and presented hundreds of OSHA compliance cources.  Course formats have included speaker directed computer-based training, self-directed computer-based training, and stand-up lectures using myriad audio-visual tools and student activity excercises.

Pat Golden, Senior Biological and NEPA Consulting Advisor /pgolden@heritage-ec.com
Mr. Golden has 13 years provided environmental services for the development of many projects throughout the United States and Latin America. He is a certified project manager and biologist with extensive experience managing planning, NEPA, and research projects for federal and private clients. He has planned and participated in the public involvement components of numerous projects. Mr. Golden has also served as an expert witness for several projects.

Mr. Golden combines experience in managing environmental contracts, conducting biological and environmental assessments, and coordinating field surveys for fisheries and wildlife.  He has prepared analyses that support the Endangered Species Act (BAs), agency-specific analyses, EISs, and EIRs. These documents were prepared for a variety of federal agencies including the NPS, USFS, BLM, USFWS, FERC, and various state and local agencies.