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ACLCA Executive Committee 2009/10

ALEX SIMOPOULOS, URS AUSTRALIA

ACLCA President

Alex Simopoulos is an Associate Environmental Geologist for the Melbourne office of URS with sixteen years of professional experience, mostly in the area of contaminated land management. Alex is currently the manager of the Geo-Environmetal Management workgroup at URS.  Having been involved with contaminated land management since 1990, Alex has extensive knowledge of the industry and is well versed with the developments of this field of expertise over the years.

Alex's technical experience has involved all aspects of contaminated land management, including site assessment (soil, groundwater, surface water, soil vapours), statutory environmental auditing (assisting auditor), due diligence reviews, risk assessment, soil and groundwater remediation, site environmental management and liability cost estimation using probabilistic methodologies.  His broad contaminated land management experience has been acquired from industries such as petroleum, manufacturing, mining, smelting, metal fabrication, rural, automotive plants, chemical factories. Alex has worked in Victoria, Tasmania, NSW and Western Australia and overseas in the Philippines, Germany and Mauritania.



GLENN THIELE, OTEK AUSTRALIA

ACLCA Vice-President

Glenn Thiele is Senior Principal and National Manger Sustainability and Greenhouse for OTEK Australia Pty Ltd. He holds a BEng(Chemical) and a Master of Environmental Studies. For the last 15 years he has been an environmental consultant, based in Melbourne. Specialties include both large and small scale environmental site assessments and site remediation works. Glenn also works on due diligence audits both for property transactions and for operational facilities. He has a background in air quality assessment, air dispersion modelling and air pollution control. He has also assisted a wide range of industries in obtaining their environmental approvals.  His current roles see him advising on sustainability and climate change.


ERIC PRITCHARD, ENSR

ACLCA Secretary

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JIM NIKOLAREAS, MONARC ENVIRONMENTAL

ACLCA Treasurer

Jim is the Managing Director of Monarc Environmental Pty Ltd.  He has a B.Comm from Melbourne University and is a Fellow of the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants and an affiliate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.  Jim’s interests are in carbon pollution management and emissions trading.  He has extensive experience in developing environmental management plans and impact assessments for lineal infrastructure.  His role has given him exposure to dealing with Government Regulators on significant environmental issues.  Prior to the environmental sector, Jim worked with Telstra in Australia and Saudi Arabia, was involved in the electricity privatisation process and has managed a number of large service companies. 



JOHN THROSSELL, PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF

ACLCA Immediate Past President

John Throssell is a principal environmental hydrogeologist with Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) and has over 20 years of professional consulting experience in Australia and overseas.



THOMASIN BALES, MEINHARDT INFRASTRUCTURE & ENVIRONMENT

ACLCA Committee Member

Thomasin is an Associate in the Environment team at Meinhardt Infrastructure and Environment. She has twelve years of experience in a range of environmental consulting fields, including contaminated land, environmental management, waste, stormwater and flora/fauna.



LYLE CARPENTER, COFFEY ENVIRONMENTS

ACLCA Committee Member

Lyle Carpenter is an Associate Remediation Engineer of Coffey Environments, and has a BE (Environmental) / BSc (Mathematics) from the University of Melbourne.  He has been a member of the company since February 2002 and is an Associate responsible for the planning and implementation of remediation projects throughout Australia, as a member of the Remediation Specialist Practice Group within Coffey Environments.  Lyle has over seven years experience in the remediation of soil and groundwater to manage hydrocarbons, chlorinated organic compounds and metals.  Lyle's fields of expertise include design, installation, commissioning, and operation and maintenance (optimisation) of active remediation systems, and technical report writing, remediation action plans, the coordination and management of remediation sites, and undertaking remediation pilot trial fieldwork.


PETER GRINGINGER, LANE PIPER

ACLCA Committee Member

Peter has over 14 years experience in various aspects of soil, groundwater and environmental investigations, assessment, audit, remediation and management projects and programs. Peter has extensive experience in the assessment, management and remediation of soil and groundwater contamination with the project management of large and complex assessment and remediation projects. He has undertaken a large number of contaminated land site assessment studies with extensive experience in the Petro-chemical Industry, including field investigations, data review, interpretation and reporting, modelling of contaminant fate and transport, quantitative environmental risk assessments and has managed various large groundwater remediation projects.  Peter also has extensive experience in groundwater resources assessment and management, waste-water disposal, landfills, mine dewatering, geothermal exploration and resources utilisation.



ANDREW MELLETT, BEVERIDGE WILLIAMS

ACLCA Committee Member

Andrew is an experienced Senior Environmental Engineer and Manager of the Environmental Division at Beveridge Williams.  As a land contamination consultant, Andrew has managed a variety of greenfield and brownfield projects for a diverse range of clients including local government, government departments and private developers. He also has experience in health risk assessment, preparation of soil management and remediation plans and technical reviews of environmental reports. In particular, Andrew's main focus is providing technical and project management input for sites requiring Statutory Environmental Audits.



SARAH SAWYER, ERM

ACLCA Committee Member

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