EMS: Environmental Management Solutions

Management Team

Jon Ransom  - Founder, president & chief executive officer
Mr. Ransom has worked extensively on site remediation, unknown waste identification and characterization, soil treatment, waste transport & disposal and lab packing projects. During his 21 years in this industry, he has worked in sales, project management, cost estimating, site supervision and project accounting functions.
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Tim Acri - Chief operating officer, senior project manager
Mr. Acri has worked extensively on emergency response, site remediation, demolition, construction, earth moving and remediation pilot study projects. During his 23 years of working in this industry (including military time), he has served as a field technician, site supervisor, project scientist, project manager, division manager and now operations manager.
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Chris Ruff - Vice president of construction services, senior project manager
Mr. Ruff has worked in extensively in tank installation and removal, remediation systems installation and close out procedures. During his 11 years in the industry, he has served in a number of roles including but not limited to project foreman, project manager, emergency response manager and division manager.
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Matt Montecalvo - Vice president of project management, senior project manager
Mr. Montecalvo has managed various types of projects. He has expertise in brownfield redevelopment, remedial design, regulatory compliance, site assessment and all facets of environmental remediation and construction. Mr. Montecalvo is a registered professional engineer in the state of Ohio. He has worked on numerous construction and remediation projects such as the installation of groundwater and soil vapor treatment systems, the installation of roads and sewers and the construction of landfill cap structures. Mr. Montecalvo also has in depth knowledge of various regulatory programs, including the Ohio Voluntary Action Program, RCRA and CERCLA.
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Levi Cordle - Vice president of field services, senior project manager
Mr. Cordle has worked extensively on emergency response, industrial services, site remediation, demolition, construction, earth-moving and remediation projects. During his 13 years in the industry, he has served as a field technician, equipment operator, site supervisor, crew leader, on-scene coordinator, project manager, health and safety officer and DOT/PUCO compliance officer.
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Bruce Markey - Business development manager, senior project manager
Mr. Markey is a licensed professional geologist with more than 20 years of experience in business development and strategic planning as well as estimating, procuring and managing multi-million dollar remediation and environment construction projects in both the public and private sector markets.
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Jim Gress - Health and safety manager, senior project manager
Mr. Gress has broad experience with projects in site characterization and remediation; waste characterization, transportation and disposal; safety program development; worker training; data management and corporate-level regulatory policy and program development. During his 23 years in the hazardous waste industry, he has worked in project management, site supervision, training, data management, technical writing and public relations.
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Mark Begley - Project manager
Mr. Begley has performed various roles and tasks associated with these projects, including coordinating and conducting environmental remediation activities and construction; local, state and federal permitting and compliance; geotechnical analysis and testing; construction and demolition management; landfill liner and cap system construction and site surveying. Mr. Begley has extensive experience working on brownfield redevelopment sites, landfills, industrial sites and petroleum sites and a working knowledge of various regulatory programs, including Ohio Voluntary Action Program, RCRA, CERCLA and BUSTR. Mr. Begley is a registered professional geologist in the states of Kentucky and Arkansas.
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John Ehrnfelt - Project manager
Mr. Ehrnfelt’s experience includes work on a wide variety of environmental, remediation and civil projects, including industrial site cleanups, brownfield redevelopments, stormwater management, construction and demolition. He has performed site assessments, sampling, project oversight, reporting, remedial design and estimating for several large remediation projects. Additionally, Mr. Ehrnfelt has a working knowledge of various regulatory programs, including Ohio Voluntary Action Program, RCRA, and CERCLA.
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Matt Clary - Project manager
Mr. Clary has worked extensively in the industry as a project estimator, contributing quality work to every phase of both tank and remediation projects. In addition to years of field experience, he excels at developing comprehensive project estimates that accurately reflect the work to be performed.
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Andy Gress - Project Manager
Mr. Gress has worked on site remediation, soil treatment and waste removal projects. During his initial year in the industry, he has served as a field technician, administrative assistant and assistant project manager.
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