Ron started his construction experience while in high school and college as a laborer for swimming pool construction company in South Louisiana. The hard physical labor with relatively low pay encouraged Ron to graduate with honors with BS Geology at University of Louisiana – Lafayette and MS Geology at University of Kansas. While in Kansas, he gained experience working for the Kansas Geological Survey in field and research support for the Ground Water Management District south of Great Bend, Kansas.

After graduating from Kansas, Ron moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1988 and worked as an environmental consultant. Ron investigated and managed several remediation projects while working as a consultant. In 1995, Ron moved into environmentally-related contracting and managed numerous brownfield redevelopment projects across the Midwestern United States. In 2005, Ron moved to Chicago area and continued environmentally-related contracting. In the last 10 years, Ron has completed numerous projects in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Successful remediation projects in Chicago since 2010 include onsite chemistry to address both metal and organic contamination. He led remediation and reconstruction efforts at active brass foundry that required lead stabilization of over 5,000 tons of soil and project phasing to completely pave and restore the loading, shipping, and storage areas.

Ron led remediation activities for a month-long project on an active construction project in Rosemont and successfully chemically reduced TCE concentrations on 5,000 tons of soil that required removal for construction of a parking ramp. The work was done at night to minimize conflicts with daytime construction activities.

Ron has completed work inside former industrial facilities to clean and remove impacted soil from degreasing areas. Various shoring methods including lagging, helical piers, and sheeting were used to enable soil removal without affecting the structural integrity of the building.

Ron led efforts to successfully reduce high PCE concentrations (greater than 1,000 mg/kg) in 15,000 CY of soil. It required 4 months to achieve site specific criteria on this large volume of soil and enable building construction to commence. Export of all soil was cost prohibitive, yet the soil required extensive drying efforts after chemical oxidation.