List of Small Business Member Companies in the "DPC Consultants & Consortium Group" of  Small Business Companies

• Donna Potter Consulting (DPC) Coordinates and Leads the informal DPC Consultants & Consortium Group; group established in late 2008. Other companies in our consortium group include some of these member companies below, and also a number of  DPC independent consultants located nationwide. We continue to get interest from additional emerging small companies and independent consultants routinely! DPC provides a range of environmental regulatory compliance and permitting services, natural resources protection/endangered species protection NEPA documentation  services and NEPA support studies, and is specialized in multi-disciplinary environmental compliance programs support, report and permits preparation, topic research, QA/QC, stakeholder and public process support, and NEPA and CAA & GHG/Climate Change, Energy Conservation and alternative energy studies, environmental risk assessments, environmental impacts assesments, site investigations and Phase I and II ESAs, data gathering and review/QA/QC; and manages a range of compliance or planning and policy support projects, and related research studies, engineering, and geotechnical studies services. Ms. Potter has a  Bachelor of Arts "double major" that included  a primary BA degree in "Environmental Studies" with a double major in "Social Sciences" from UNC-Wilmington in 1976. DPC staff and consultants can support both environmental and also environmental justice, social sciences surveys, and demographic studies support, and other projects related to public communication and outreach. DPC has 2 offices, HQ in NC in the RDU metro area, and a second project office still near Tampa FL. We have other available project work site locations/offices in several other group member states through our "DPC Group". www.donnapotterconsulting.com  NC & FL Offices
• Morris Environmental, LLC, Mr. Steve Morris, M.S. Environmental Toxicology, is also a registered CHMM, REM, CES, CEA (lead Auditor), CEP,  Environmental and IH Audit Specialist, owns this Veteran Owned Small Business near Richmond, Virginia. Phase I ESAs, Asbestos Insection Certification in Virginia. Has 2 existing "DHHS Auditing VOSB "BPAs" (Multi-disciplinary Env. Audits & IH Audits Support Multi-year Contracts) hat can be utilized by all federal agencies, and supports Prizm and HBI projects frequently. Extensive  Veterans Administration Hospitals and Other Vet. Admin. facilities buildings and grounds experience. Facility Audits Experience and Extensive EPA Superfund Site investigations.Managed EPA Region VII Nebraska Field office for some years. Steve has extensive pesicides and herbicides past experience as well. Steve and I are supporting several of each others' client projects, and Steve is supporting a new "TSCA,FIFRA, and RCRA support contract for import of a new herbicide from China into the US, for sale and distribution Project" through a confidential Ukranian company client of DPCs presently. VA Office
• Barney Popkin, LLC, Mr. Barney Popkin, P.G. (California), CHMM, REM, CA REA, with a Masters in Hydrology, owns this very small internationally focused business in Arizona. Barney has about 30 years of extensive international environmental and program development, and providing solutions for developing companies, as well as response to many international natural disasters, related to design of water resources infrastructure solutions after disaster strikes. Barney is an Environmental Protection Specialist who has worked for the US Agency for International Development Bureau for Asia and the Near East  for the last four years and is now offering counsulting services.  Prior to that he worked a year of water assignments in India for FOA and in Mexico for the Desert Development Foundation, and in Iraq as Northern Iraq Environmental Manager for USACE Restore Iraqi Oil program. A former USGS Hydrologist, he is a California Registered Environmental Assessor and Geologist, and a former President of the Northern California Chapter, Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers. Barney has worked on water, wastewater, solid and hazardous waste, and environmental projects throughout the U.S., and in South East Asia, South Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, including USAID projects in Egypt, Gaza/West Bank, Jordan, and Syria. He has expertise in environmental regulations, best management practices, management, planning, auditing, monitoring, mitigation, and assessment and evaluation. He has over 80 publications and professional presentations. Barney completed PhD course work in Soil and Water Science (University of Arizona), and an MS in Hydrology (University of Arizona), BA in Geology (New York University), and certificates (honors) in Solid Waste, Hazardous Waste, and Business Management (University of California, Berkeley).  www.popkin.biz AZ Office
• Advanced Environmental Solutions, LLC (AES), small business in Lexington, South Carolina, Co-owner Van Price, PhD GeoChemistry and also has been or teaches occasional courses as a university instructor , extensive specialty company for nuclear related contaminated soils and groundwater modleing studies and risk assessments, etc. Savannah River DOE facility project experience. We specialize in Geological, Geophysical, Hydrogeological, and Geochemical Modeling and Research. 

  AES has expertise in the following software: Petra and Petraseis; SMT Kingdom Suite;, Hampson and Russell AVO; ESRI GIS products; SAS; GMS TOUGH2 series of codes (T2VOC, TMVOC, TOUGHREACT, etc...); MODFLOW, RT3D, MT3D; Tecplot. We offer consulting services in the following areas including experience involving radiation at existing US nuclear facilities such as the Savannah River DOE facility in SC: Subsurface Mapping; Assessment of Oil, Gas, and Mineral Properties; Specialty Geophysics; Mapping and GIS; Soil Gas; Modeling: Conceptual Site Geologic Models;  Reservoir Simulation Modeling;  Hydrologic Flow and Transport Models; • Reactive Chemical Transport Models; Site Assessments (Phase 1); RCRA/CERCL Site Characterization; Water Resources and Contamination; Aquifer Evaluation; Pump Tests; Environmental Short CoursesAES Staff has experience in the following Basins: • Appalachian; • Gulf Coast (onshore and offshore); • Michigan Basin; • Mid Continent; • Off shore California; • Rocky Mountains; • Central America; • Australia.  www.advenvsoln.com SC Office

• Baker Environmental, small asbestos, LBP, Radon, Mold services business (including conducting related training & certifications) in Kansas, owned by Mr. Richard Baker,  www.bakerenv.com KS Office
• Dr. Cheung/OEM Advisor, LLC, Hung Cheung, M.D., MPH, FAECOM, owns this indoor air and environmental and industrial occupational health risks studies specialist company, a minority owned, small minority owned business in Baltimore, MD (experienced chemicals health effects expert witness). Services include Occupational and residential health exposure assessments and sampling/monitoring for Chinese Drywall issues. He has completed successfuly projects for the State of Maryland and the federal government, as well as many industrial and commercial clients within the US. www.drcheung-oemadvisor.com  MD Office
• Edson Ecosystems, LLC, Jeffery Edson, Principal, Boulder, Colorado. Jeff recently retried from the Colorado DEP (in 2008), and started his own consulting company where he supports projects similar to his projects for the state of Colarado. For the Colorado DEP, he was a Brownfields and remediation focused project manager, responsible for overseeing the investigation and remediation of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal, a $2.5B cleanup of Department of Defense and private industries’ environmental contamination including MECs, UXOs, chemical warfare contaminents, at this complex DoD sites.  He has a total of 26 years of experience directing regulatory compliance and oversight of complex environmental issues, focusing on protection of human health and the environment. He has recognized leadership skills in Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), regulatory compliance, environmental protection and remediation, litigation support, partnering with federal, state and local governments, and technical editing. He evaluates and develops interim and final remedial actions based on general principles of chemical, civil, and environmental engineering, physics, chemistry, geology and hydrogeology, and regulatory requirements. He served as the Colorado Attorney General’s Office lead litigation technical expert for U.S. v Colorado, litigation that provided state RCRA jurisdiction at federal CERCLA sites. Coordinated technical and legal issues between the Attorney General’s Office and the Colorado Department of Health.  CO office.
• Environmental Compliance Assessments Management, small CAA, GHGs, Carbon Management, Carbon Footprinting, Inventories, RCRA, CWA permitting, modeling, and compliance support business in New Jersey,  Sunil Hangal, PhD Chemical Engineering. Dr. Hangal was prior to forming his own company a VP for RTP Environmental HQ in NJ. He is an industrial permitting and compliance specialist and agency negotiations. His clients include major and mid sized Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 corporations of a variety including petro chemical and refinery companies, as well as a wide variety of other manufacturing process corporations and electricla utilities nationwide and extensively in the Northeast US. He has extensive Green house Gases related company project experience including gap analysis, emissions inventory development, carbon footprinting, and EMS and multi-disciplinary environmental auditing support experience. Dr. Hangal is also an ISO14001 certified lead auditor and has extensive regulatory agency negotiations support experience for violations responses and problem resolution, and environmental recordkeeping and proceedures improvements nationwide and some internationally.  www.envcam.com NJ Office

• Envisage, Mr. Ted Bierman, owner/president. 2D/3D GIS Data Visualization and 3D Environmental Modeling GIS Graphics Specialists. Incredibly realistic imaging for a variety of project types and sites, including wind farms on land or located in the oceans. Envisage can use photo imagery as backgrounds to develop realistic model representations. Visualize your construction designs and make more impact and educate or convince more people of the design outcome, in the process! Use for golf course or development designs, resevoir designs, and a variety of data presentations utilizing real photos in the backgrounds to create realism in your graphics. Envisgae teams also with environmental or A&E firms for traditional GIS data services, or for use of the 3D GIS visulaization services as well nationwide. Small Business near Boise in Meridian, Idaho. We welcome Envisage to our DPC Consortium Group!  www.envisage3d.com ID Office

•   Professional Industrial Hygiene Services, Inc. (PIHS), small IH and Safety firm located in Jacksonville, FL; owner is William S. "Bill" Hopkins, B.A. Zoology, CIH No. CP7852, OHS technologist, ABIH No. 909, Member AIHA, WSHA Haz Waste Site Safety Supervisor, LBP Risk Assessor, AHERA, US Naval Reserve Lt. Commander; www.pihsinc.com. Over 20 years of Industrial Hygiene and Process Safety related experience including Personal Exposure Assessments, Hearing Conservation Programs/Noise Studies, Site or Company Health and Safety Plans, Safety or Exposure Risk Management and Process Safety Management Programs, Indoor Air Quality, OSHA/ EPA/ DOT training. FL Office

• Poz Environmental, LLC, Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) in Pennsylvania, Emanuel (Tom) Posluzney, P.E. Environmental Engineer, and M.S. Environmental Sciences degree, owner/president:www.poz-e.com (retired from DOI/BLM in 2009) Wetlands Delineations, minig Impacts, NEPA EAs/EISs, Remediation/Restoration technical Support, Cost Engineering estimates, CAD and GIS, A&E, DOT Roadway studies and mining remediation and restoration specialist. Retired from DOI/BLM. PA Office

• Inspect Air Technologies, small minority owned business specialized in Mold Surveys Services, Studies, Mold Remediation Oversight, Flooding and Disaster Recovery Support. Indoor Air/IH Monitoring Studies, in the Atlanta Metro Area, Mr. Tariq Robinson, owner/president: www.inspectmyair.com GA Office

• Bosch Environmental, Small Business/DPC Consultant, owner Mr. John C. Bosch, Jr., M.S.  Chemical Engineering in Wake Forest, NC (retired after 36 years from EPA/OAQPS HQ and was a former Branch Manager for EPA National Air Data Branch, Recent EPA work included drafting AP-42 Munitions Emissions Chapters, Consulting for Carbon Management GHG Emissions Inventories, Stakeholder Comments, CAA Regulatory Compliance Support Training, Industrial Facility Siting Consulting Support (Past EPA/CAA work togehter with Donna Potter developing Title V computer system changes to EPA Data Systems and compliance and Acid Rain Cap exceedence predictor models, and work together recently with DPC supporting John's Fortune 500 clients and EPA  CAA Emissions Factor development Tasks. John just retired from EPA in January 2009, after 36 years and as a GS 15 from EPA/OAQPS and for recent years managed over 50 million dollars of projects, which were EPA/USARMY and ARMY/SERDP joint funded air emisisons research studies with EPA/OAQPS and EPA/ORD. John drafted chapters recently in AP-42 for Munitions and Rocket related or explosives emissions (AP-42, Chapter 15). Conference/worlshops  coordinator for the Group. NC Office

• Sustainable Hawaii, Small SDVOSB Business in Honolulu, HI, Energy Conservation, Alternative Energy Studies, multi-disciplinary environmental engineering, mechanical engineering, sustainability specialist company, owner: David A. Rezachek, Ph.D., P.E. Mechanical Engineer and formerly in the NAVY. www.sustainablehawaii.com HI Office

• David L. Nieman Company, SDVOSB in Sacramento, CA. RCRA/CERCLA, and CWA contaminated properties/brownfields including aquatic impacts studies specialist company, environmental restoration, water quality and watershed and ecosystem  restoration  specialist and brownfields specialist. David Nieman, owner, is a PhD. CA Office

• Prescott Environmental, owned by Doug P. Guild, B.S. Environmental Science UNC Chapel Hill. Small evironmental and IH specialist company in Chapel Hill,NC area specializing in asbestos, LBP, and brownfields redevelopment and remediation site investigations studies and Phase I-II ESAs, permitting, etc.: www.prescottenvironmental.com NC Office

• Marc Enviro Services, LLC (MES), small business in Omaha, Nebraska:www.marcservices.com, Mr. Mark Schafer, BS Civil Engineer, has several environmental, Asbestos and LBP related active certifications listed on his website, and extensive experience including CERCLA Lead Sampling for Omaha Lead through the Omaha District USACE, and he has experience for CAA, RCRA, CERCLA, and contaminated site assessments and Phase I, II ESAs. MES was recently (December 2009) also awarded an 800k single award ARRA Recovery Funded contract, to provide  environmental compliance services by the GSA for the USDA/US Forest Service, using several CHMMs including group members in DPC. (See the NEWS and Contact Us page for details.) MES is a GSA/ EAS  899 Contractor and accepts Credit Card and Government Purchase Card payments for services: MES's awarded Schedule Contract SINs 1,2,3,8  follow, and we in the DPC group would be happy to support appropriate projects/tasks awarded to MES through their GSA federal Agency Wide Schedule "899 Environmental Advisory Services Contract". NB Office

Marc Enviro Services is a small business offering environmental services through its General Services Administration contract GS-10F-0189J. The awarded GSA "Special Item Numbers (SIN)" include:
· SIN 899-1 for Environmental Planning, Services, and Documentation
· SIN 899-2 for Environmental Compliance Services
· SIN 899-3 for Environmental/Occupational Training Services
· SIN 899-8 for Remediation Services 

• Marine Grafics, Raleigh, NC. www.marinegrafics.com, Bill Lovin, BA in Journalism, UNC, and  in Motion Pictures, and Films. Bill is a noted professional underwater and environmental/natural resources topics educational media filmmaker and videographer. He is also a published accomplished still photographer and book author (above the water or underwater specialist). His Raleigh, NC area environmental educational media specialist company in North Carolina Link to Sea Grant Article about Bill: http://www.marinecareers.net/profile_detail.php?id_prof=66  Bill has interviewed Jean-Michele Cousteau on his ship "the Agressor" some years ago, and has had long involvement with the Rachael Carson Nature Center's live video feed of ecological field trips to NC classrooms called EstuaryLive, and also documented underwater live video feed from the wreck of the USS Monitor. His published 1970s book on the Wrecks in the graveyard of the Atlantic was the first book published about diving on NC Wrecks including WWII wreck casulaties. NC Office

• El Dorado Engineering/Mr. Ralph Hayes, Mechanical Engineer., Owner/presdient: El Dorado is an established successful Small Business in Salt Lake City, Utah which developed and owns a proven air toxics commercial model, called PCAD (Products of Combustion/Air Dispersion model) that has been used by the USAF for Star Wars (PIP) Test Blast Impacts projects, and for obtaining RCRA Part B, Subpart X Bang Box and OB/OD facility permits (Donna Potter utilized this subcontractor on both USAF projects), and does extensive DoD Incinerator/Nerve Agents Destruction, chemical weapons destruction, military and international (former Soviet Union etc.) chemicals treatment and disposal system engineering design and testing, for MEC/UXO/EOD related munitions hazardous materials, pyrotechnics. Incinerator design past projects for treatment/disposal of agents such as mustard gas, nerve agents, etc.  El Dorado also provides RCRA, CERCLA, and CAA range of sampling, testing, and compliance services: www.eldoradoengineering.com  UT Office

• GEOS Environmental/Mr. Joseph Fuhr, P.G. is owner/president of this newly formed Geological, Remediation, Compliance, and Water Resources small Tampa, Florida based firm. Joe was recently with ECS, and just prior served as VP for Enviro-Logical in Tampa prior to it's recent sale. Joe is a PG in Florida, SC, NC, and TN presently and can get registration in other states as needed.  Joe's experience spans many years of project management for a variety of government, industrial, and commercial clients for RCRA site closures, USTs, Brownfields, Supervising/overseeing soil borings and site excavations, Remedial System designs, and remediation O&M projects, GW monitoring (long and short term), and permitting and compliance support, Phase I-III ESAs, CERCLA/Superfund site studies including RI/FSs, etc., and restoration project support, Welcome Joe! www.geosenvironmental.com FL Office

• Ravenwood Forest Consulting, The owner of this new woman owned small business company is Ms. JaLynn Hudnall, who has a B.S. in Marketing. Her firm is a newly formed small experienced educational and marketing materials, business planning, proposal writing, federal marketing, grant writing, client development, and client account management.  (located in Macon, Georgia) GA Office

• A Tech for All Trades: Troy Guerena, owner, Atlanta, Georgia. Provides computer troubleshooting, setup, software installation and configurations, hardware and software repairs and maintenance, and software troubleshooting (on site or remote "computer software issues" trouble shooting) for individuals, home based businesses, and other larger businesses. A few of the DPC Group has utilized Troy's services and agree he is both efficient, thorough, and reasonably priced compared to most similar companies we have used before. He is located in the Atlanta metro area and makes house/office calls to your site as well if preferred. Or ship your computer or laptop to him, and for some problems remote solutions for repairs/troubleshooting are available. GA Office

About Our Team of Consulting Experts Concept and Project Planning and Delivery Approach: 

"Every DPC Consultant and Consortium member company small business owner in our team/group is a top-notch team player & each has well over 25+ years experience each in their environmental, engineering, geotechnical, computer services, professional photographer/videographer, environmental education, business development, marketing, or proposal writing specialties ."

In our team's project experience, no single person can always solve every problem alone. That’s why we rely on a "collaborative and team-based approach". When you contract us to support a project, DPC management assembles a "best fit group of experts" who are chosen because of their "specialized experience" with the issues/challenges you may be facing, and also the type client or agency you are and your specific goals and missions. DPC will collaborate with our fine group of consultants and other small buinsess consortium member companies listed below, and assign "a Lead Consultant, Consortium member company staff, and a Project Manager (PM), who will be the captain of your project representing us.  DPC management also QA/QCs each project personally to assure consistency of deliverables and reports or data. DPC staff if the project is a fit, will also likely support some aspects of each project for you. We have in our "group" over 30 very experienced environmental related disciplines staff, consultants, and consortium member company owners located nationwide. We provide top-notch service when and where our clients need us!

Our highly skilled experts and team of (now totalling over 35 professionals) Independent Support Consultants and small companies nationwide,  are primarily each technical experts in their respective specialty disciplines and many are also experienced in general business operations, management, and consulting project management requirements. Their combined expertise allows them to rapidly respond to your needs, and to be able to quickly acclimate to your business environment adding the required insight, expertise, and vision to best meet your company or agency goals, budgets, and timetables . In the end, that translates into better, more effective, faster, and more economical problem solving. Please email or phone Donna Potter for an electronic copy of our detailed SOQ attachment, which contains information such as education and past experience for each of the DPC staff, DPC Consultants, and DPC Consortium of small buisnesses company owners bios.

Your DPC coordinated project and/or expert  assigned Project Manager (PM), and other senior experienced support DPC consultants/contract employees will work with you to understand your overall needs and translate that information into an effective and viable action plan. The DPC assigned PM will also manage your team of experts as they work toward meeting your goals. if based on our collaboration and discussion up front, we determine you need a certain small business classification type or an engineering or geotechncial or GIS project for instance, DPC shifts the lead to that team member company small business who has the proper professional "company" registrations for that project, such as corporate engineering licenses, or professional geology licenses to assure our best team approach possible. DPC management and staff may have secondary involvement on projects assigned to other consortium member companies, or some final report deliverable QA/QC roles, etc.

 DPC Client Types Served Since 2005 (not including "Group Corporate Experience")

• Federal, Tribal, State, and Local Government Agencies
• Federal Agency Prime and Subcontractor Companies 
• Industrial Facility and Corporation Headquarters Clients 
• Commercial & Industrial Clients (US and International)
• Universities and other Non-Profit Organizations
• Individuals
• A&E and Environmental Consulting, Geotechnical, and IT services companies

DPC has competed technical environmental projects, and/or helped draft winning proposals or short listed proposals, Proposal Writing, Review and Improvement, Cost Estimating, or Marketing or BD services completed By DPC for Federal Government Prime Contractors such as Kemron, ERT Corp, GEOS Environmental, Environmental Compliance and Management,  Aerostar Environmental Services, QTINTL/OHC, AKEA, OHC, KBR, E&E, MRAG Americas, Poz Environmental, Morris Environmental, Bosch Environmental, Marco Water Engineering, Tellus Environmental, and competition of industrial/Commercial Projects for several confidential US based contractor companies and government agencies, and some for Private International Client Companies. 

Please contact us on the contact page of this website. 

We look forward to hearing from you.

Also, through DPC, follow the Link below, for ordering our custom U/W photo products or also Donna Potter's two U/W photography books by Donna Potter (photos and modeling by Harold Quidley and Donna Potter) follows.

These U/W diving photo books also include historical information and facts about several NC popular shipwrecks and NC wreck dive sites, and several popular Caribbean Island reefs and their inhabitants, information for several islands' histories, and ecosystem protection efforts included in both books, entitled:

• "NC Wreck Diving: Life in the Graveyard"; and
• "Best of Caribbean Diving"

(Underwater and Topside Travel Photos by Harold A. Quidley and Donna L. Potter).

Please visit our e-commerce site called "Under the Sea Collection Gallery" which displays our available Custom U/W Photo Products link for easy secure transaction credit card ordering:

www.yessy.com/donna_potter/

Also, phone or email Donna Potter on our DPC site "Contact Us" page