Jay R. Hoover, P.E., President / Principal Engineer, has over 36 years of experience in the environmental field including multi-state experience in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and California. Expertise includes air pollution compliance, regulatory analysis, and permitting, especially regarding gas turbine/internal combustion reciprocating engine installations, and oil and gas operations. He has been with Waid Environmental since 1984.

Sara A. Hutson, P.E., Principal Engineer, has over 29 years of environmental experience in the petrochemical and oil refining industries as well as in environmental consulting. Works with industry in air pollution control, solid and hazardous waste management, and stormwater management. She has been with Waid Environmental since 1990.

Chris L. Bauer, P.E., Principal Engineer, has over 30 years of experience in the environmental field. His experience includes air permit applications, Title V operating permit applications, permit by rule registrations, emissions estimation, regulatory analysis, air dispersion modeling, development of compliance management systems, control equipment design analysis, and stormwater permits for chemical plants, cogeneration facilities, coating plants, and other facilities. He has been with Waid Environmental since 2001.

Jason M. Graves, P.E., Principal Engineer, has over 16 years of experience in the environmental field, specializing in services for the power generation, oil and gas, petroleum refining and petrochemical industries. His experience includes preparation of Emissions Inventories, exemption registrations, standard permit applications, permit alterations, and permit amendment applications, preparation of Title V operating permit applications, atmospheric dispersion modeling of air pollutants, regulatory analysis and development of compliance strategies. He has been with Waid Environmental since 1995.

Lisa A. Hoover, P.E., Senior Consulting Engineer, has over 22 years of experience in the environmental field. She performs air permitting work for various industries in Texas, primarily synthetic organic chemical and polymer manufacturing, surface coating, non-ferrous smelting operations, power generating facilities, and oil/gas production. She has been with Waid Environmental since 1990.

Joerg Windolph, P.E., Senior Consulting Engineer, has over 20 years of experience in the environmental field. He performs air permitting work for various industries in Texas, primarily synthetic organic chemical manufacturing, petroleum refining facilities, gas processing plants, bulk petrochemical storage terminals, and printing facilities. He has been with Waid Environmental since 1992.

Kris Kirchner, P.E., Senior Consulting Engineer, has 14 years experience in the environmental field. Kris joined Waid Environmental in 1997 and has experience in the following areas: Field survey of pressure relief valves and analyzer vents at two petroleum refineries determining relief destinations and product streams for compliance purposes; recommendations to a steel mill facility in Alabama on minimizing slag handling dust emissions which included ventilation design and control options; preparation of Title V site operating permit application for bulk gasoline terminal in the Beaumont/Port Arthur area and for two petroleum refineries in the Corpus Christi area; preparation of emissions inventories; preparation of SARA 312/Texas Tier Two report for two petroleum refineries; preparation of permit amendments and applications, standard exemptions, and Senate Bill 1126 intraplant trades; and emissions estimation.

Sarah H. Bell, Senior Project Manager, has over 17 years of experience in the environmental field. Her experience with Waid Environmental includes emissions estimation, preparation of Texas and Oklahoma emission inventories, permit renewals, permit by rule registrations and Title V operating permits revisions, SARA Title III (Texas Tier II and Toxic Release Inventory) reporting, on-site compliance support and development of environmental compliance manuals and plant audits. Additional experience includes 4 years agency experience ensuring compliance in the petroleum storage tank and industrial and hazardous waste programs, and 5 years experience as an operations engineer in the oil and gas industry. She has been with Waid Environmental's Permian Basin office since 1998.

Robert W. Steaples, Senior Project Manager, has over 11 years of experience in the environmental field. Rob has experience in emissions estimation, permit preparation and renewal, emission inventories, and field data management, as well as database and computer software programming. He has been with Waid Environmental since May, 2000.

Ryan S. Mayces, Senior Project Manager, has over 10 years of experience in the environmental field. Ryan has experience in the environmental field, specializing in services for the oil and gas, petroleum refining and petrochemical industries. He joined Waid Environmental in 2001.

Miranda L. Cheatham, P.E., Senior Project Manager, has over 10 years of experience in the environmental field. Miranda has experience in preparation of emissions inventories, permits by rule, permit amendment applications, and permit renewals.

Dale Simpson, Staff Graduate Engineer, joined Waid Environmental in 2007 and has experience in the estimation of emission rates, preparation of emission inventories, permit by rule registrations, standard permit applications and air permit renewals. Dale completed a Masters of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2005. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma in 2002.

Sarah Thom, Graduate Engineer, joined Waid Environmental in 2008, and has 3 years of experience in the environmental field. Sarah has experience in the estimation of emission rates, on-site Title V compliance support and deviation reporting, permit by rule registrations, SARA Title III (Texas Tier II and Toxic Release Inventory) reporting, and preparation of emission inventories. Sarah received a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in December 2008.

Dustin R. Dean, EIT, Graduate Engineer, is a May 2006 graduate with a BS degree in Agricultural Systems Management and a May 2008 graduate with a BS degree in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station. He is also pursuing his MS degree in Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University with expected completion in December 2010. Dustin joined Waid Environmental in June 2010 and has experience in the estimation of emission rates, preparation of emissions inventories, permits by rule, standard permit applications, and permit renewals.

Glen H. Colby III, Senior Systems Analyst, has 23 years of experience in programming and operations management. His programming and networking background includes Visual Basic (all versions), Oracle, SQL Server and other relational databases, MS Access, VB for Applications, OLE, a working knowledge of C and C++, HTML authoring, DOS, and Windows (3.11, Workgroups, 95, NT). He has been with Waid Environmental since 1998.

Blake R. Fowkes, IT Manager, has 21 years of technical experience in the computer industry including the management of Waid's internal network with 40 workstations and 10 servers and computer maintenance, upgrades, and planning. Blake also provides employee training for new and existing software. He has been with Waid Environmental since 1997.