Jim N. Smith, P.E.
Jim serves as Shield's President and has over 35 years of engineering and environmental experience. His experience includes development and supervision of field exploration and laboratory testing programs, analysis and evaluation of data and preparation of formal engineering reports for a variety of projects including multi-story buildings, heavy industrial plants, water and waste retention dikes, and dams. He has provided technical direction and management of multi-disciplinary projects addressing geotechnical, geo-hydrological, hydrological and waste handling requirements.
David A. Stoner, P.G., RSM
David is a Principal Hydrogeologist and Environmental Group Leader with over 23 years of environmental and geotechnical experience. Mr. Stoner has completed multi-media investigations and oversees multi-million dollar remediation efforts on industrial facilities. David's work experience extends across the east coast of the U.S. His experience encompasses petroleum and chlorinated solvents, metals, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and has performed risk assessments, feasibility studies and aquifer characterizations for numerous projects using permeability, pump tests, slug tests, air injection, soil vapor extraction, stabilization and biotreatability analyses.
C. Raymond Tant, P.E.
Ray serves as Principal Engineer and Office Manager for Shield's Knoxville, Tennessee operations. Ray has extensive geotechnical engineering experience ranging from multi-story reinforced concrete and steel structures, wastewater treatment plants, stadium expansions and cellular towers. Additional experience includes subsurface explorations specializing in forensic sinkhole investigations, soil resistivity studies, slope stability analyses, construction monitoring and testing and foundation investigation and design.
Janette M. Prosser, P.E.
Janette has over 10 years experience and serves as Shield's Geotechnical Engineering Group Leader. Janette has a variety of geotechnical, construction materials engineering and forensic evaluation experience. Ms. Prosser has experience with military, municipal, commercial, industrial, private and residential clients in California, North and South Carolina and Tennessee. Ms. Prosser has also been involved in conducting over 300 geotechnical subsurface exploration and investigations for projects. Additionally, geotechnical analysis has included slope stability, consolidation and liquefaction evaluations, load-bearing capacity and settlement analysis for foundation soils, design and analysis of shallow and deep foundations.
Hampton C. Hager III, CPA, MBA
Hampton serves as Vice President and Shield's Chief Financial Officer, responsible for all aspects of company financial management. He directs Shield's accounting staff, overseeing accounts payable, accounts receivable, general ledger, financial statement preparation and analysis, budgeting, revenue recognition and banking. Mr. Hager's department is also responsible for human resources, insurance and building maintenance responsibilities.
Greg D. Icenhour, P.G., MBA
Greg serves as Principal Geologist and Shield's Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing Shield's business development and sales activities. Greg's responsibilities include marketing management, strategic planning, acquisition evaluation, sales training, trade organization participation and support of operational groups marketing efforts. Greg's technical responsibilities include real estate transaction support, Brownfield redevelopment support and multi-media site investigations for petroleum and hazardous waste sites. Greg has over 29 years of progressive technical and business experience with privately held and Fortune 100 companies.
Keith A. Anthony, P.E.
Keith has over 31 years of experience assisting industrial, commercial and municipal clients with their civil and environmental needs. As the Chief Engineer, Mr. Anthony is the person responsible for the quality verification functions within the office. He directs or conducts internal office audits and other quality verification activities.
Mr. Anthony’s project specific experience includes construction quality control for thin shell steel structures at nuclear facilities, soils and geomembrane construction quality control and quality assurance at municipal and industrial landfills and as the Quality Assurance Officer for Shield’s work on the Environmental Management & Integration Contract at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Keith has considerable experience working on large site development and civil projects. He was Project Engineer for a $100 million site development project involving water distribution, wastewater collection via a vacuum sewer, wastewater treatment with a membrane bioreactor (MBR) system and mass grading and infrastructure development.
Mr. Anthony has performed feasibility studies for remediation of hazardous waste sites, as well as the development of Part A and Part B hazardous waste permits. He developed design modifications to an existing treatment plant to be permitted for ground water remediation.
