Patrick A. Barnes P.G.
Founder / CEO
Mr. Barnes is founder and CEO of Barnes, Ferland and Associates, Inc. (aka BFA Environmental). He oversees the financial management of the firm, works directly with select clients, supports strategic planning and marketing development. Provides assistance managing the water resource and environmental needs for several of BFA’s clients. He has designed and conducted numerous large-scale water resource evaluations, managed several numerical and analytical groundwater flow analyses for contamination and water supply projects. He has also designed and performed hydrogeological investigations for many municipal and hazardous waste landfills. Mr. Barnes has functioned as the minority business utilization coordinator for several multi-million dollar municipal engineering and construction projects. Mr. Barnes works extensively in the minority community and in 2006 founded non-profit organization dedicated to training at-risk inner city youth as environmental filed technicians. That organization, “Limitless Vistas, Inc. (LVI)” Working through grants from the EPA, DOE, DOL, NPS, Corps Network, Oxfam America, City of New Orleans, and BFA, has trained over 400 youth as field technicians. Mr. Barnes is a 2013 recipient of the “White House Champion of Change” award for his effort to provide job training to at-risk populations. He serves as LVI’s Chairman of the board and senior advisor.
Willie E. Thomas, P.E.
President
Mr. Thomas serves as President of BFA Environmental and is responsible for all BFA’s day-to-day operations, client services and the technical delivery of all project requirements for BFA’s three service divisions: Engineering, Hydro-Environmental and Land Survey/SUE. He is a civil engineer with over 24 years of experience in planning, design, permitting, and construction administration for a variety projects including: master planning, drinking water, wastewater treatment, reuse, water resources, solid waste, hazardous waste, stormwater, water distribution/transmission and pumping systems, wastewater collection/transmission and pumping systems, and well field development and well pumping systems. Mr. Thomas also serves as Engineering Division team leader for BFA and client services manager for several clients ensuring proper staffing and resources, administration, and coordination of BFA’s planning, design, and construction management teams to deliver timely, superior, and cost-effective project solutions exceeding client expectations.
John D. Watson, P.H.
Vice President
Mr. Watson is a hydrogeologist with 32 years experience in groundwater and surface water resource management. His professional background in the regulatory agency and consulting arenas has provided him with significant experience in the preparation of water resource management master plans for all aspects of water use permitting, wellfield expansion and refurbishment.
Geoff Hennessy, P.E.
Senior Project Manager
Mr. Hennessy is a Senior Project Manager. He directs the planning, design and permitting of municipal water, wastewater and reclaimed water transmission and distribution systems, as well as wastewater collection systems (including pumping stations). He has participated in the design of more than 140 miles of municipal pipeline projects in Florida. His formal education is enhanced by more than eight years of hands-on experience constructing major pipeline and irrigation systems. Mr. Hennessy’s career began as a mechanical engineering tradesman in Australia, where he was responsible for the design, installation and maintenance of mechanical systems, and hydraulic and pneumatic piping and control systems to accommodate various industrial applications in a large steel mill. After moving to the United States, he utilized his piping knowledge as a supervisor of large-scale commercial irrigation installations in California and Florida. As Senior Project Manager, Mr. Hennessy oversees and coordinates the efforts of staff members and subconsultants involved in his discipline’s projects and ensures that project budgets, objectives and schedules are met.
Cynthia Malone, P.E.
Project Manager
Ms. Malone is a project manager. She specializes in the planning, design and permitting of municipal and private water, wastewater and reclaimed water systems construction plans and specifications with a primary emphasis on pipeline projects throughout Florida. Her assignments include completing field visits to existing facilities and sites; retrieving existing facility, socioeconomic, and demographic documentation; data analysis and computer modeling of systems and preparation of detailed engineering reports and system designs. Ms. Malone also is experienced with facility and community-wide utility system master plans, regulatory agency permit applications, and facility operations and maintenance manuals and is responsible for coordinating with clients and monitoring project budgets, schedules and deliverables.
Erin Giblin-Nash, P.E.
Project Manager
Ms. Giblin-Nash is an environmental engineer with thirteen years of experience of providing planning; design, permitting assistance and engineering services for wastewater, potable water, water resources, and reclaimed water projects. She has been involved in various phases of master plan development for several projects. Ms. Giblin-Nash also has experience evaluating and designing wastewater, potable water, and reuse water conveyance systems using various hydraulic modeling platforms and graphical information systems such as H2ONet, Cybernet/Watercad and ArcGIS.
Benjamin Stormont, P.G.
Professional Geologist
Mr. Stormont is a Professional Geologist with more than 11 years of experience working on well construction and contamination projects. Areas of specialization include Ground-Water Exploration and Development; Water Well Design, Bidding and Construction Management; Aquifer Testing and Analysis; Wetland Hydrology and Impact Evaluation and Ground-Water Quality and Contamination Assessment.
Roger Simon
Senior Hydrogeologist/ OSHA Trainer
Mr. Simon is a highly qualified geologist with 35 years of experience in coordinating environmental and hazardous waste management activities and working on a variety of environmental projects involving environmental risk and impact assessment, wastewater collection, treatment and disposal, and natural resources evaluation. Mr. Simon has also been responsible for drafting environmental program policies, standards, codes and regulations. He has a great deal of experience at public information meetings, public and adjudicatory hearings. He also has been responsible for technical review and preparation of environmental permits.