The Company
EPS, founded in 1996, is an environmental consulting firm that is dedicated to helping our clients make informed business decisions. Our team combines expertise in environmental regulations (including former state regulators), cutting-edge technology, engineering, science, and corporate compliance programs (including former industry EH&S managers). Profiles of some of our key personnel are provided below.
Ted R. Peyser, President
Ted Peyser has 25 years of environmental compliance management experience at the plant and corporate levels. Prior to founding EPS, Ted established and directed environmental programs for several Fortune 100 corporations. A Chemical Engineer by training, he brings to his clients not only technical sophistication, but also a deep understanding of how business and industry works. He has represented industry by serving on a national committee in Washington, D.C. Ted has a strong regulatory background and a track record of success in resolving conflicts with state and federal agencies on terms favorable to industrial clients. He is a true advocate of industry.
Kirk D. Drucker, Vice President
Kirk Drucker joined EPS in 1998. Prior to joining EPS, Kirk served as a division chief of the Georgia Environmental Protection Division Air Branch where he regulated VOC-emitting industrial sources in Georgia. As an air quality consultant, he has completed hundreds of SIP / Title V / synthetic minor operating permit applications for various industrial clients all across the country. Kirk conducts numerous audits and creates compliance programs for his clients. He is experienced with ozone non-attainment issues and maintains a detailed working knowledge of the air quality rules and regulations affecting industry. Kirk’s proven Air Records Management Systems (ARMS) are used by numerous facilities.
Kirk J. Kessler, P.G., Vice President
Kirk Kessler has over 22 years of environmental site assessment and remediation consulting experience. He has worked on more than 30 projects on EPA’s National Priorities List in nearly every EPA Region, representing single and multiple Responsible Party industrial clients. These projects have included closed chemical and other manufacturing facilities, abandoned industrial landfills, recycling facilities, pesticide manufacturing, and coal tar/wood treating facilities. One of the most notable of these projects is the LCP Chemicals Superfund Site, where Kirk has served as the Project Manager and Technical Director since the first CERCLA response action in 1994. He has particular expertise in mercury transport and fate, and in this capacity Kirk has served as a Technical Advisor to the British Columbia Ministry of Environment.
Sandra Alvarado, Chemical Engineer
Sandra Alvarado has 7 years of experience in the environmental field, including environmental consulting and employment in the Air Protection Branch of the Georgia EPD. Sandra has conducted compliance audits and assisted with the permitting of numerous facilities, including those in the chemicals industry.
Sophia Brown, Health & Safety Scientist
Sophia Brown has seven years of experience in building surveys and laboratory analysis for asbestos, lead, and indoor air quality projects. She has successfully completed projects at numerous sites, including a major hospital, an upscale department store, historical black college, business park, and apartment complexes. Sophia is EPS’s lead asbestos inspector and is also an accredited Management Planner and Project Designer. She is also certified by the Georgia Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program in Lead Safe Work practices and by USEPA. She has extensive experience with industrial hygiene exposure monitoring, bulk and air sample analysis, personnel training, project coordination, and regulatory compliance issues.
Tri J. Medlock, Chemical Engineer
Tri Medlock has 6 years of experience in the field of air quality management and other regulatory programs, including providing onsite air quality compliance support, regulatory applicability assessments, SOCMI chemical emissions calculations, air toxics impact assessments, and preparing emissions inventories and Title V permit applications. Ms. Medlock has provided extensive air quality compliance support onsite at client facilities, including a pharmaceutical facility and a major airline.
Roxane
D. Peyser, Chief Sustainability Officer
Roxane Peyser joined EPS in 1996. She has two
decades of legal and corporate experience. She has devoted
most of her career to developing, promoting and implementing
corporate responsibility programs and conflict resolution
policies, in addition to risk management and litigation
oversight. Her global experience has made sustainability
- in business and social practices as well as corporate
and environmental strategies - the focal point of her career.
Randy Reynolds, P.E., Engineering Manager
Randy Reynolds has more than 30 years of diversified engineering experience at the plant and corporate levels, and is a registered Professional Engineer in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas. His environmental consulting experience includes projects in the pulp & paper, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries as well as in hospitals and government installations.
Thomas P. Sweat, P.E., Senior Engineer
Tommy Sweat has 12 years of experience in air quality permitting and compliance. He has expertise in ozone non-attainment issues, Title V, NESHAPs, PSD/NSR, and EPCRA reporting. He has performed compliance audits, regulatory impact assessments, pollution prevention studies, and control technology determinations. He has directed the preparation of numerous construction and operating air permit applications and has designed complex database systems for tracking emissions data. He is a registered professional engineer in Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Tennessee. Tommy was 2006 chair of the Georgia Chapter of the Air & Waste Management Association.
Justin Vickery, P.G., Senior Geologist
Justin Vickery has nine years of experience with environmental geology. He has performed assessment and remediation work in several southeastern states and has more recently been focused on local projects. His expertise includes management of environmental assessment and remediation projects; scoping, organizing, and conducting field investigations; report preparation for a variety of environmental projects; evaluating assessment and remedial technologies for industrial and commercial sites; and federal, state, and local environmental regulations/guidance related to HSRA, Brownfields, RCRA, and UST.
Marie A. Weber-Goeke, Senior Scientist
Marie A. Weber-Goeke has 10 years of experience in the environmental field. Marie’s expertise includes GIS design; organizing and conducting field investigations; database design and management; preparing reports and work plans for a variety of environmental projects: evaluating and using assessment/remedial technologies for contaminated sites; federal, state, and local environmental regulations/guidance related to RCRA, CERCLA, and NEPA; and project management.
Sofie A. Weber-Snapp, Senior Scientist
Sofie A. Weber-Snapp has 10 years of experience in the environmental field. Marie’s expertise includes GIS design; organizing and conducting field investigations; database design and management; preparing reports and work plans for a variety of environmental projects: evaluating and using assessment/remedial technologies for contaminated sites; federal, state, and local environmental regulations/guidance related to RCRA, CERCLA, and NEPA; and project management.
Aaron Williams, Ph.D., Geochemist
Aaron Williams, prior to joining EPS, served as a research scientist with the US EPA Office of Research and Development researching and applying innovative low-cost remediation strategies. Aaron’s education includes five years of research in aquatic and subsurface chemistry related to contaminant fate, mobility, and speciation. He has published several articles in peer reviewed journals and has presented his work at numerous national meetings. Aaron continues to build on the technical edge by assisting EPS’s clients in making sound and effective remediation decisions.
