New Additions to the Plexus Senior Team

George Carellas: Mr. Carellas is a Senior Consultant for Plexus’ Regulatory, Safety, and Strategic Solutions Group.  Prior to joining Plexus he served as the DoD/Army Regional Environmental Coordinator for the Southeast Region from July 2005 until May 2007, as well as from 1997-2003.  In the interim, he served as the Assistant for Sustainability in the office of Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health), where he chaired the Army Environmental Legislative Committee.   Mr. Carellas capabilities include legislative and regulatory analysis (federal/state); environmental management; regional, state and local planning; facilitation; public involvement; organizational analysis; and systems engineering.  He has a BS in Industrial & Systems Engineering.

Rick Newsome, P.E.: Mr. Newsome is a Professional Engineer with over 35 years of professional environmental engineering experience in federal civil service with a primary focus on the development and execution of hazardous substance and military munitions response programs. He has extensive experience in all aspects of environmental program development, management and oversight to include; water, wastewater, solid and hazardous waste treatment and disposal; and response to release of hazardous substances into the environment. Prior to joining Plexus, he served as the Assistant for Environmental Restoration in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Environment, Safety, and Occupational Health) from 1988 to 2007. He was also the Chief, Environmental Quality Division, Army Materiel Command, in Alexandria, Virginia from 1985 – 1988. He has an Masters of Science degree in Sanitary Engineering, as well a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering.

Jeff Sgambato, C.P.G.: Mr. Sgambato is a Professional Geologist and Program Manager in Plexus’ Environmental Services and Facilities Management Group.  He has served as the technical lead on a wide range of assessment, remediation, and compliance projects with complex technical and regulatory issues.  Mr. Sgambato has extensive experience in groundwater flow and quality studies, site characterization of hazardous and solid waste sites, regulatory compliance, remedial strategy development, waste management, and the application of in-situ remedial technologies.  For sites involving waste sources and/or soil and groundwater contamination, he has developed and implemented cost-effective investigations and remediation.  Mr. Sgambato has extensive regulatory negotiation experience and has facilitated successful negotiations for his clients in many state and federal programs.  He has also directed and managed numerous remediation projects where he achieved well defined exit strategies.  Mr. Sgambato has MS and BA degrees in Geology.

Facility Assessment and Consulting Services to Salem-Keizer School District in Salem, Oregon

Plexus has been selected to assist the Salem-Keizer School District with facilities condition assessment (FCA) support. This project includes onsite quality assurance services, advanced FCA training, a Plexus deferred maintenance (DM) tool, and a partnership focused on completing assessments of District facilities. Plexus will establish a baseline of facility assessment processes using Plexus’ DM method and incorporate those processes into the school district’s facility management program. Read what the local media is saying about this project here.

Serving the Community

To show our appreciation for our “Warriors in Transition,” Plexus offered free professional portraits at the Mologne House at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. All Warriors in Transition were invited to have family or individual portraits taken. The portraits were then posted on the Internet to allow family and friends in other locations and back home to download them. Our in-house photographers, Melissa Bradford and Christine Uskievich, donated their time and talent to this activity. Their efforts were very well received by the 40+ soldiers and their families who had photos taken.

Spreading the holiday cheer a little further, Plexus and Plexus LI, joined forces with IMCOM and two non-profit organizations to donate more than 200 toys and games to the children of our Warriors in Transition at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The generosity was so great that there were enough gifts to share with a local family who had tragically lost their mother just before the holidays.

Plexus Wins Multi-Million Contract at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD

The Army Contracting Agency, acting on behalf of the Army Environmental Command, has just awarded Plexus an $8.4 million performance-based contract to conduct soil, sediment, and groundwater remediation at the Canal Creek Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, one of the highest profile installations in the area of environmental remediation.

Plexus Wins New Army Business

The Army Contracting Agency, acting on behalf of the Army Environmental Command, has just awarded another task order to Plexus under our ACSIM IDIQ contract, a $7.9 million performance-based task order to optimize the groundwater remediation at the Sacramento Army Depot in California. This award demonstrates our capability to apply innovative and practical solutions and to save the Army critical resources in a time of extreme budgetary challenges.