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City of Sunny Isles Beach
<br />Continuing Professional Consulting Services (CCNA) RFQ No. 20-07-01
<br />Tab E Qualification Information and Assigned Personnel – Page 11
<br /> rian Voelker, MS
<br />Senior Scientist / Key Staff
<br />Mr. Voelker is a senior scientist specializing in natural resource
<br />assessments and permitting, as well as certified arborist services. He provides
<br />numerous ecological services to clients, including the following: wetland delineation,
<br />function evaluation, mitigation design, monitoring, and permitting; upland habitat
<br />assessments; coastal habitat assessments and permitting; marine and estuarine
<br />habitat assessments and permitting; protected wildlife assessments and permitting;
<br />GPS data collection/mapping and GIS database development; NEPA document
<br />preparation and oversight; sediment and erosion control monitoring. Mr. Voelker is a
<br />Professional Wetland Scientist.
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<br />As an ISA Certified Arborist, Mr. Voelker provides numerous consulting arborist
<br />services to both public and private sector clients, including the following: GPS tree inventories and GIS tree database
<br />development; destroyed/damaged tree assessments; tree value estimates; tree grading; tree/utility conflict identification;
<br />hazard tree evaluations (risk assessment); analysis of tree canopy cover and ecological/monetary benefits; urban forest
<br />management plans; planting and maintenance bid packages, mangrove trimming oversight; tree removal permitting.
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<br />atrick Shearer, PE
<br />Senior Engineer / Key Staff
<br />Mr. Shearer is a project manager and senior engineer with experience in
<br />civil, environmental and water resources engineering. He has experience
<br />successfully completing environmental studies and analyses including watershed-
<br />based studies, wetland mitigation plans, hydrologic and hydraulic modeling,
<br />stormwater management plans, shoreline stabilization and living shoreline plans,
<br />stream assessments, stream restoration plans, watershed management plans, and
<br />water resource related technical reports. He is experienced in ecological restoration
<br />including wetland restoration, stream restoration, and living shoreline projects in
<br />both freshwater and estuarine ecosystems, including the restoration and creation of
<br />tidal channels. Mr. Shearer has provided project management, engineering
<br />evaluation and design, survey coordination, modeling, permitting and construction
<br />administration for the above types of environmental resource projects. He has
<br />experience in wetland delineation, State and Federal stream and wetland permitting, Stormwater Pollution Prevention
<br />Plans, construction management, CEI services, environmental compliance support, NPDES, Environmental Resource
<br />Permits, and compliance inspections. He is also experienced with project feasibility studies, preliminary and detailed
<br />engineering design, grant procurement, bidding assistance, and design peer reviews. He has designed living shoreline
<br />projects which accommodate for sea level rise.
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<br />Mr. Shearer has based his career in preparing studies, project analysis and designs for private, municipal, state, and
<br />federal clients that have centered around ecosystem restoration in the context of environmental mitigation and estuary
<br />water quality improvement for sensitive watersheds draining to the Chesapeake Bay, Indian River Lagoon, Loxahatchee
<br />River, Florida Bay, and Biscayne Bay, among other important waterways. In addition, he has been involved with the
<br />FDOT District Four Indian River Lagoon Basin Management Action Plans (BMAP) compliance coordination, reporting
<br />and water quality improvement project assessment and documentation research. Mr. Shearer has provided technical
<br />support during the development of the Loxahatchee River Reasonable Assurance Plan evaluating data and coordinating
<br />involvement for FDOT District Four. Mr. Shearer’s technical capabilities include AutoCAD Civil 3D, ESRI ArcGIS,
<br />Rivermorph Software, HEC-RAS, EPA SWMM 5.0, ICPR4, Total Station Instruments, GPS units, and various other
<br />hydrology and land planning applications.
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