SCS Engineers is excited to announce our new Senior Vice Presidents: Stacey Dolden, Steve Liggins, Monte Markley, and Srividhya (Vidhya) Viswanathan. These individuals were recently promoted for their proven leadership.
Stacey Dolden joined SCS in July 2014 as Human Resources Director and is now our Chief People Officer and SCS Executive Leadership Team member. She has led us through the highest growth period in our history and has been instrumental in developing strategies that promote our greatest assets…People. Stacey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology and a Master of Arts degree in industrial/organizational psychology.
Steve Liggins joined SCS in June 2018 as Controller and ascended into Curtis Jang’s previous role as Chief Financial Officer and SCS Executive Leadership Team member. He has led our Accounting, Finance, Financial Systems, and Fleet Management groups, ensuring SCS maintains the level of capitalization necessary to achieve growth objectives. Steve holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Management and Accounting, a Master of Science degree in Taxation, and an active CPA license.
Monte Markley, PG, joined SCS in 2013 and is the Deep Well Injection and Carbon Capture and Sequestration practice leader. Monte’s unique set of technical skills and experience in geologic evaluations for deep well injection has made him a national expert and catapulted SCS into becoming a leading provider of this service. Monte holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology and is a registered Professional Geologist.
Vidhya Viswanathan, PE, joined SCS in 2012. She is the Director of Engineering for our Southwest Region and leads the solid waste engineering operations throughout the southwest (California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and New Mexico). Over the years, Vidhya has broadened her client base, expanding her expertise from solid waste and environmental engineering to include renewable energy, recycling, and organics management. She has received numerous awards, including Waste360’s 40-Under-40 and the San Diego Business Journal’s Top 50 Influential Women in Engineering; she also wins awards for her clients! Vidhya holds a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering and is a Professional Engineer licensed in four states.
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SCS Founder, Executive Vice President, and Director Emeritus Tom Conrad passed away on December 7, 2022. His enduring legacy is SCS Engineers, an environmental consulting and contracting firm formed by Tom, Bob Stearns, and Curt Schmidt on April 1, 1970, in Long Beach, California. This was eight months before the US Environmental Protection Agency was formed – Tom, Bob, and Curt recognized that responsible waste management was increasingly important and necessary to protect the environment and human health.
Over the ensuing years, Tom helped EPA develop solid and hazardous waste regulations that provided appropriate and protective environmental controls that were also practical. Tom’s work led to important federal landfill rules such as EPA’s Open Dump Inventory and Classification Criteria of 1978, which eventually led to the RCRA Subtitle D rules of 1991 – still in effect today. Other examples include guidance documents for land disposal of hazardous wastes in the 1980s and research in support of EPA’s Underground Storage Tank regulations in 1988.
Tom was involved in numerous important projects throughout his career, including developing the filling and phased closure plans for Fresh Kills Landfill in New York City, the world’s largest landfill at the time. The work included wetlands protection and shoreline improvements. Today, SCS is involved in redeveloping the closed landfill – brownfield into a premier park and recreational facility.
He pioneered landfill gas to energy (LFGE) generation, expanding it significantly as an industry. Today, SCS remains a national leader in biogas and renewable energy.
Tom was considered an “engineer’s engineer.” He employed rigorous analysis and evaluation of potential solutions, utilizing a solid, methodical engineering approach to his work and all of his projects, which remains part of SCS’s culture.
Tom felt that one of his greatest achievements was hiring and mentoring many good people, including SCS’s current leadership team, President Jim Walsh, and Senior Vice Presidents Mike McLaughlin and Bob Gardner, in whose capable hands Tom watched the company grow its environmental services and thrive. He was proud of SCS’s Employee Stock Ownership Plan, enabling SCS to share annual profits with every employee, giving everyone an ownership stake in the company.
Tom retired from SCS exactly 46 years after founding SCS. He stayed as Director Emeritus and continued providing counsel at company Board meetings. In November 2021, the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) awarded Tom their highest honor, The Robert L. Lawrence Distinguished Service Award, in recognition of his pioneering work and leadership in the solid waste industry.
Everyone who knew Tom Conrad over the years respected him for his integrity, hard work, and dedication to his family, friends, employees, and community. We at SCS still base our firm on the principles and values Tom used when founding the firm. As an early adopter of sustainability, we thank him for leading the way in designing environmentally sound solutions for business and society. There is more work to do, but the world is a much cleaner, safer place now than in 1970 when Tom started SCS.
The Environmental Journal Recognizes Firms Annually for Business Achievement in Growth, Technology, and Innovation.
Environmental Business Journal® (EBJ), a business research publication providing business intelligence to the environmental industry, is honoring SCS Engineers with three Business Achievement Awards for its innovative technologies and environmental achievements in 2021.
EBJ is recognizing SCS with an Environmental Business Achievement Award for the firm’s scientists, engineers, and consultants producing technologies and creating sustainable programs that help run industrial operations and essential public services more efficiently. These solutions reduce greenhouse gases and environmental impacts while increasing worker safety. The agricultural, food processing, and manufacturing sectors find SCS’ technologies and sustainability programs valuable.
The firm’s environmental technologies are receiving recognition with two Information Technology Awards for SCSeTools® and the SCS Remote Monitoring and Control® (RMC) Drone Program.
SCSeTools is a data management platform built by landfill practitioners that helps capture more methane and reduce operational and compliance costs on one-third of the landfills in the U.S.
The RMC drones fly with cameras and technology support safer, cleaner operations for industry, energy, and waste management with real-time greenhouse gas detection, mapping, temperature readings, and volumetrics.
EBJ recognized SCS Engineers in previous years for its remote monitoring and control technology, composting solutions, commercial and residential land remediation, and renewable natural gas plants.
Jim Walsh, President and CEO of SCS Engineers, said, “Thanks to our clients, SCS Engineers has received these awards and industry recognition for research and technology innovations; our greatest reward is client satisfaction.”
“In a year of economic recovery in 2021 that still posed its own challenges, it is a testament to the resilience of the environmental industry and its leaders in business and innovation to have such a fine constellation of winners of the annual EBJ Awards,” said Grant Ferrier, president of Environmental Business International Incorporated.
SCS Engineers will officially receive the EBJ Business Achievement awards at the Environmental Industry Summit XX this month.
