Panther Technologies, Inc - Key Personnel
Mark L. Prostko
• Technical Specialties

• Experience Summary

• Credentials

• Key Projects
Technical Specialties
Environmental and Construction Project Management, Operations Management in the Environmental, Geotechnical, Commercial, Industrial and Municipal Drilling Industries, Cost Estimating and Formal Bidding, EPA Superfund/ State/ and Federal Project Management, Treatment System Construction and Project Management, Groundwater Well and Pump Design, Downhole Geophysical and Video Logging Expertise, 72- Hour Pump and Recovery Test Expertise.
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Experience Summary
Over 17 years experience: Sr. Project Manager at Panther Technologies, Inc, (2002 - present). General Manager for ADT Diamond Drilling Inc. (2001). Formerly, Operations Manager for Diamond Drilling Co. Inc (1999-2001); Senior Project / Division Manager for A.C. Schultes Inc. (1995-1999): Production Manager Environmental Drilling Services for A.C. Schultes Inc. (1986-1995). Mr. Prostko has extensive experience in proposal preparation, planning and management of projects that involve environmental, water well, and geotechnical contracting, groundwater treatment systems and related mechanical services for industrial, commercial, governmental and private concerns, SVE / Air Sparging systems, Municipal ASR systems, Landfill (Active/ Inactive) drilling projects, managed O/M Contracts for large industrial clients. Specific work areas include New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York City and metropolitan area, New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland.
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Credentials
• B.S. Civil Engineering, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

• NJ Licensed W-2 Water Distribution (License No. 0007375)

• Delaware Licensed Journeymen Well Driller (License No. 740)

• NJ Licensed T-2 Water Treatment (License No. 0007374)

• NJ Licensed Journeyman Well Driller (License No. JD 1541)

• 40 Hour and 8 Hour OSHA Certified Training
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Key Projects
•  Project manager for $1.1 MM groundwater well and pump installation and discharge piping system for Occidental Chemical Corporation, Pottstown ,Pa. Work included the demolition and reconstruction of (4) well houses and the upgrading of (6) existing well house structures including new flow metering and pump control systems. Over 5,000 feet of dual wall HDPE piping installed, (10) new bedrock wells up to 400 feet in depth installed. Existing well pumps removed and upgraded.

•  Project manager and estimator for the installation of a $ 750,000.00 combined groundwater pump and treat and SVE extraction system for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority Admiral Halsey 13N Newark, NJ location. Installation and utilization of over 60 new wells, recovery pumps, 3,000 feet of vapor and ground water piping, a 40 foot trailer mounted treatment system equipped with oil/ water separator, bag filtration, and carbon adsorption equipment and thermal/ catalytic oxidation unit for vapor phase treatment. System components including instrumentation with a fully operational PLC and remote telemetry.

•  Project manager for $500,000.00 groundwater pump and treatment system for New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Pitman, NJ National Guard Armory. System included recovery wells, piping, controls and on-site treatment and discharge system utilizing carbon adsorbtion techniques.

•  Project manager for several groundwater pump and treat and SVE systems for private gas station locations in Brooklawn,N.J. and Upper Darby, Pa. totaling $ 350,000.00 utilizing carbon adsorbtion and thermal/ catalytic oxidation treatment technologies.

•  Awarded and managed a 2 year contract (1997-1999) with the New Jersey Highway Authority for the site remediation drilling services contract for the Garden State Parkway from Cape May to New York. $ 215,000.00 contract was renewed without being rebid. Contract work included monitoring, recovery, and SVE well installations. Pumps, manholes and other related well construction services including well abandonments.

•  Project manager for $ 150,000.00 NJDEP mandated well abandonment program for the City of Gloucester, NJ production well field located adjacent to Delaware River. Devised, negotiated and received NJDEP-BWA approval for hybrid abandonment procedures saving the client 50% of expected abandonment costs.

•  Project manager for a long term (1995-1999) O/M contract for groundwater pump and treat systems for a large pharmaceutical corporation with specific locations in Delaware City, De. and Dayton, NJ. Responsible for 200 GPM ground water to air stripper facility in Delaware and 1,000 GPM groundwater to carbon pressure vessel treatment facility in Dayton, NJ. Responsible for 24 hour / 7 day monitoring, maintenance, and reporting of both systems concurrently. Contract value exceeded $ 500,000.00 during the duration of contract period. Contract work involved installation of new recovery wells and well vault structures, calibration and repair of flow meters, installation and maintenance of stripper blowers, centrifugal, vertical turbine and submersible pumps and myriad instrumentation troubleshooting.

•  Awarded and managed the first and second production well and pump systems utilizing brackish well water construction materials and desalinization treatment methods in the State of New Jersey, City of Cape May, NJ (1998-1999) totaling $1 MM in contract values.

•  Site manager for $ 750,000.00 Fresh Kills Landfill, Staten Island, NY monitoring well drilling program. Managed (8) man field crew with (2) drilling rigs and support equipment installing over (25) single and double cased wells to depths of 200 feet bgs using various drilling methods. Negotiated union contracts for the project.

•  Site manager for $ 500,000.00 EPA Superfund project in Hellertown, Pa. Formulated and implemented new drilling and well installation methods for client. (15) wells installed ranging from 4 " to 10" in diameter installed in overburden and limestone to depths of 300' bgs.

•  Project manager and estimator for various phases of site remediation (1990-2001) at former BASF manufacturing facility in Lodi, NJ. Work included installation of (31) SVE wells, well vaults, piping, mechanical modifications and upgrades to existing groundwater and treatment plant and SVE systems. Mechanical, electrical, and control work to existing recovery well and treatment plant. Combined value of work completed in excess of $100,000.00.

•  Project manager for a 24 hr / 7 day waste lagoon sludge dewatering operation for large fragrance and flavor manufacturer in Union Beach, NJ. Supervised, managed, and maintained all shift crews and equipment. Equipment and technology utilized were (2) 60 HP mobile "mud cat" diesel and electric dredges pumping to a 100 HP Dorr Oliver vacuum filter. 30,000 lbs per day capacity with annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000.00.

•  Licensed T-2 / W-2 operator (1994-1995) for one of the initial radium treatment systems for potable groundwater in the State of New Jersey at Fairton Federal Correctional Institution, Fairton, NJ. A fully automated 250 GPM system consisting of (3) production wells and well house structures with associated piping, elevated storage tank, controls and instrumentation necessary to store, convey and treat water using dual Refinite pressure units utilizing ion exchange technology. Additional treatment using calcium chloride filters, soda ash and chlorination chemical feed systems to ultimately provide all of the potable and non potable water requirements of the entire Correctional Facility.

•  Project manager for $ 675,000.00 production well, pumps, piping, electrical, control and instrumentation upgrades for Willingboro MUA, Willingboro, NJ (1998). System upgraded from 700 to 1,100 GPM to provide capacity needed to meet increase in demand. This well system is now currently the largest producer for Willingboro MUA.

•  Site and project manager for numerous NPL Superfund Landfill sites, notably Lipari (#1), Kramer (#3), BEMS, and GEMS landfills in southern NJ. Developed and implemented to completion the drilling program required to provide continuous undisturbed samples along entire western and northern portions of newly constructed slurry wall to depths of 55' bgs. Performed site drilling supervision in Level B conditions for investigatory drilling program eastern portion of landfill. (Kramer site 1993.) Contract value $ 75,000.000. Field crew manager for recovery and monitoring well rehabilitation program (Lipari site 1992-1994) utilizing high velocity jetting methods. Installed and removed temporary power and containment systems for pumps utilized to develop and remove water from rehabilitated wells. Contract value $ 50,000.00.

•  Estimated, awarded designed, and managed to completion some of the single largest producing well/ pump systems currently operating in the Coastal Plain of New Jersey. System for Ocean Spray Co-Op for Lee Brothers, Inc. Chatsworth, NJ is producing up to 4,000 GPM for cranberry cultivation and processing facility. System in Toms River NJ for former Toms River Water Co. (United Water) produces 2,000 GPM for potable water system.

•  While at A.C Schultes Inc. managed over $ 6.5 MM in contracts and projects in fiscal year 1998-1999. Projects included environmental construction and drilling, mechanical contracting, municipal production, commercial/ industrial water supply wells, test well programs, O/M contracts for privately owned treatment systems ranging from 200 to 1,000 GPM.

•  Project manager and estimator for geotechnical drilling services contract for SNJLRTS project (1999-2001). Client (s) are a consortium of Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation, New Jersey Transit, and other public/ private interests committed to building the $700 MM light rail passenger system from Camden to Trenton, NJ. Negotiated and managed initial $100,000.00 contract for specialized geotechnical investigation in a highly charged and political climate with increasingly heightened profile using unionized and non-unionized labor concurrently. Change orders increasing contract amount to $ 250,000.00 as of November 2001included environmental services such as Geoprobe soil sampling services, (45)existing monitoring wells locate and decommission, installation of new monitoring wells, and several specialized drilling projects for geotechnical and environmental investigations located on the entire length of alignment from Camden to Trenton.

•  Developed and managed new environmental/geotechnical business and clients for Diamond Drilling Co., Inc. (1999-2001). Operations manager for the first two consecutively profitable years in the history of Diamond Drilling Co. Inc. (1999,2000) Revenue/ net income respectively $1 MM/ $.10 MM and $1.45 MM/ $.08 MM. Notable environmental projects managed and completed were Dover Landfill Ocean County, NJ( $100,000.00), Hopatcong, NJ Landfill ($ 30,000.00), Supreme Petroleum NJDEP site Chesilhurst, NJ ($70,000.00) and Monmouth County Reclamation Facility, Tinton Falls, NJ ( $50,000.00).

•  Managed and completed on time a quick turn around $ 30,000.00 geotechnical drilling project for private client in North Jersey at Continental Airlines Newark location during three week period Dec 9-Dec 30,1999. Work was performed off hours 4PM- 6AM in a limited access area with security escort and high profile status.

•  Project manager and estimator for several high profile Phase I and II environmental drilling contracts for clients such as Town of Hammonton, NJ, City of Vineland NJ, City of Pleasantville, NJ, Town of Clementon, NJ, City of Atlantic City, NJ, City of Camden, NJ, and City of Newark, NJ with notable South Jersey consulting engineering firm providing oversight. Contracts completed in 2000-2001 exceeded $ 60,000.00.

•  Project manager and prime estimator for contracts negotiated, obtained, and completed for a private regionally based consulting engineering firm developing land for future Home Depot facilities throughout the State of New Jersey. Contract values completed exceed $ 50,000.00.

•  Estimated and managed recent environmentally and asthetically sensitive monitoring well, piezometer and sparge point installation program at a large Pennsauken, NJ re-manufactured engine parts warehouse/distribution center. The $45,000.00 project was completed in a pristine indoors active environment using several specialized monitoring well drilling and installation techniques.

•  Estimated, managed, and completed several recent environmental recovery well remediation and installation projects for the City of Philadelphia and SEPTA. Specific contracted work includes the rehabilitation of interceptor wells and pumps and related system components on the Philadelphia International Airport with a project value of $30,000.00. A $22,000.00 SEPTA project involved installation of (20)emergency test and product recovery wells at an active Northeast Philadelphia Bus and Elevated Rail depot without disruption to enormous volume of commuters within feet of construction and operations.

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