Leadership | Southwest

Kurt Goebel, Senior Vice President

kgoebel@converseconsultants.com
702-271-6839
Resume

Mr. Goebel serves as Senior Vice President and Nevada Environmental Operations Manager. He brings over three decades of experience since joining Converse in 1991. He has a solid understanding of the business community and has collaborated with numerous community leaders and clients to provide solutions for diverse environmental challenges. As a Nevada Certified Environmental Manager, Mr. Goebel excels at balancing regulatory compliance requirements while working in clients' best interests to minimize risk and deliver quality technical services. His client portfolio spans casino and hotel facilities, small and large industrial operations, local government entities at city, county, and state levels, private developers, and property managers. His technical experience covers a range of services including due diligence, assessment, sampling, and remediation of soil and groundwater. He also works in brownfields , asbestos, and indoor air quality. Mr. Goebel is seasoned and skilled at interfacing with state regulators on behalf of clients, leveraging his regulatory knowledge and established relationships to facilitate effective communication and successful project outcomes for various environmental compliance scenarios.

Robert Gegenheimer, Principal

rgegenheimer@converseconsultants.com
702-249-5208
Resume

Mr. Gegenheimer is a Principal Geologist and has been in environmental consulting since 1989. He has been in responsible charge of a variety of environmental projects including environmental property evaluations, subsurface investigations, underground storage tank removal oversight, remedial system design and installation, regulatory compliance, and air quality permitting. He has been involved in multiple phases of a variety of project types in his years in the field. Areas of responsibility have included Quality Assurance/Quality Control, technical review, and preparation of a variety of documents such as Phase I and Phase II ESAs, work plans, conceptual site models, and corrective action plans. Mr. Gegenheimer has worked on a large number of projects related to UST work. His responsibilities have included oversight of UST removal activities, designing and conducting subsurface investigations, design and implementation of remedial measures, management of Petroleum Fund Cases, overall project management activities, client maintenance, and interaction with regulatory officials. In addition to Phase I ESAs and UST related work, he has worked on projects involving Brownfields, hazardous waste management, storm water pollution prevention, regulatory compliance audits, air quality permitting, and various Phase II site assessments. Mr. Gegenheimer has worked closely with a variety of regulatory agencies and maintains a working relationship with personnel from the State of Nevada and Clark County.

Teri Askew

Ms. Askew has been in the business development field and has been a community advocate professional in the engineering and environmental business for over 30 years. Ms. Askew has direct community outreach experience working with people and communities in Nevada. She has expertise being a liaison between the community partners, the public, and our clients in various settings, including community engagement and project kickoff meetings. She understands the importance of knowing the range of personalities in conjunction with the goal of the project. She participates in meetings that include personnel for public relations, marketing, government officials, political networking, and community leader meetings. She is currently on the board of several networking groups and is on the Board of Directors for a regional community development group.

Kevin Paprocki, Project Manager

kpaprocki@converseconsultants.com
702-289-6034
Resume

Mr. Paprocki is a Project Manager and has been working in the environmental field since 2006. He manages a range of projects including Phase I and II Environmental Site Assessments, corrective action/remediation, asbestos, and permitting. He is familiar with a variety of water sampling techniques and is responsible for the oversight of the field technicians. He works on low-flow monitoring wells, hydrologic investigations, lake water sampling, opacities, hazardous materials surveying and monitoring, drilling oversight, and GIS mapping. Specific to asbestos services, Mr. Paprocki is a Nevada licensed Asbestos Consultant (Inspector and Contractor/Supervisor) and is familiar with the challenges of working with contractors and confirming that they are working in compliance. He is also highly experienced in providing asbestos air monitoring services. He is experienced on high level projects, such as power plant demolitions, and can assist contractors with implementing methods that help them provide good clearance data. As a GIS specialist, he is responsible for analyzing data to present it graphically to represent site conditions in a report for the client.

James Jimenez

Mr. Jimenez has 19 years of experience managing projects and completing environmental due diligence( Phase I ESA’s), indoor air quality, mold, asbestos, and lead work. He has experience working for the local government entities, commercial developers, and construction firms in southern Nevada. James is a CEM, Nevada Licensed Asbestos Consultant, (Inspector, Project Monitor, Project Designer, & Management Planner), and an EPA Lead Based Paint Risk Assessor. He has worked on numerous construction, remodeling, and demolition projects where his experience has been instrumental in completing asbestos and lead sampling, oversight of contractors, perimeter monitoring, preparing design specifications and management planning.