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Company
Profile
Principals
Stephen
Svete
Michael
Gialketsis
Walt
Hamann
Duane
Vander Pluym
Joseph
Power
John
Rickenbach
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Vice-President,
Chief Financial Officer
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Mr.
Gialketsis is the Managing Partner and Director of Environmental
Services for Rincon Consultants. He has over 15 years of
professional experience managing, directing, and performing
environmental and planning studies throughout California.
These studies have included environmental impact reports
and/or land use planning documents for Local Coastal Programs,
Specific Plans, General Plans, Redevelopment Plans, as well
as specific developments such as residential, commercial,
industrial, recreational and solid waste management facilities.
Many of these projects have involved large scale public
participation programs that were used to balance environmental,
community, political, and economic issues. Prior to founding
Rincon Consultants, Mr. Gialketsis was Vice President in
charge of environmental and geoscience services for an international
consulting firm, where he was responsible for managing the
west coast environmental operations.
TECHNICAL
CAPABILITIES
- Mr.
Gialketsis is a Registered Environmental Assessor in California
and has a broad technical background in environmental
and planning issues. He has prepared and directed traffic,
noise, land use and policy analyses, air quality, visual
resources, infrastructure, agricultural resources, and
alternative analyses and has considerable expertise working
with and implementing the State CEQA Guidelines.
- Mr.
Gialketsis has over six years of experience conducting
and directing environmental facility audits and performing
Phase I and II site investigations. These studies
have involved detailed historical and site record reviews
to determine the potential presence of onsite environmental
liabilities. Where literature review identified
potentially serious environmental issues, Mr. Gialketsis
developed Phase II sampling programs to define onsite
conditions.
- Mr.
Gialketsis has considerable experience effectively working
with many land use and environmental permitting agencies
and has managed permit processing for a variety of project
types.
- Mr.
Gialketsis has authored technical papers and lectured
on management and environmental planning issues.
Most recently, Mr. Gialketsis presented a paper to the
Inter-American Bar Association on the use of environmental
documentation in the planning and operation of facilities
in Latin America. He has also been published
in the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of
Engineering Management.
EDUCATION,
REGISTRATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS
B.A.,
Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
California
Lutheran University (MBA course work)
Continuing
Education ASFE Institute of Professional Practice
Registered
Environmental Assessor, California
ASTM,
Committee E-50 Member
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