Stephen Mitchell:  

Hello PVHS Class of 1985! Greetings from Austin! Steve Mitchell here. I am the New Mexico Profit Center Manager for Weston Solutions, Inc. Based out of West Chester, PA, WESTON is a global provider of sustainable solutions, dedicated to solving our client's emerging complex problems relating to redevelopment and the environment. My wife, Sandy, is an attorney and New Mexico legislature. My work life involves selling, managing and performing environmental investigation, remediation, and compliance projects. I have significant experience consulting for the USEPA, U.S. Department of Defense, transportation agencies, power utilities, and municipal governments. Projects that I have led have included hazardous waste site investigations under Superfund, karst hydrogeology studies, groundwater remediation at leaking storage tank sites, PCB decontamination and remediation, power plant decommissioning, environmental compliance such as pollution and spill prevention, environmental management systems, and more! In an operations management role, I supervise about 65 managers, engineers, scientists, IT professionals, and administrative professionals in New Mexico and Nevada. Beyond work, I am a 32-Degree Scottish Rite and York Rite Master Mason with Austin Lodge No. 12 (Texas)and Temple Lodge 6 (New Mexico), which allows me to participate in fraternal and charity work. I also enjoy mountain biking, trumpeting, reading history, travel to see old things, antique hunting, a good India Pale Ale, watching Sci Fi shows, and hanging out with my wife and two dogs. Let's see, a bio huh? Ok, here it goes... 1984 - Traveled in Europe 1985 - Graduated PVHS 1985 - West Virginia road trip 1985 - Enrolled at Penn State in Engineering 1986 - Pledged Kappa Sigma Fraternity. 1986 - Road Trip to Ohio State. Pappa Joes! 1987 - Transferred into Geoscience at PSU. 1987 - Road trip to Rutgers. 1987 - Trip to Univ Vermont & NYC (China Club!) 1988 - Served as Kappa Sigma president 1988 - Road trip to West Virginia Univ. (The Hill!) 1988 - Attended geology field camp in western U.S. 1988 - Road Trip to KS HQ in Charlottesville, VA 1989 - Graduated Penn State - B.S. Geoscience. 1990 - Cruised the Carribean. 1990 - Worked for Wright Associates as hydrogeologist 1990 - Traveled to Houston and Corpus Christi 1990 - Transferred with Wright Associates to Dallas, TX 1991 - Did a project in New Mexico. Fun! 1991 - Road trip to U. of Alabama 1991 - Signed on w/WESTON and moved to Houston. 1991 - Worked on Superfund contract with USEPA 1992 - A lot more USEPA work 1992 - Worked for Corps of Engineers at Longhorn Army Ammo Plant 1992 - Road trip to Indiana, Kentucky, W. Virginia. 1992 - Road trip to Memphis, TN 1993 - Lots more Army and USEPA work. 1994 - Road trip to San Diego to visit Curtis Huber 1994 - Enrolled in U. of Houston for M.S. Degree 1995 - Worked at McAlester Army Ammo Plant 1995 - Promoted to Project Geologist 1995 - Transferred with WESTON to Austin 1996 - Road Trip to New Orleans 1996 - Went on Southern Carribean cruise 1997 - Started Seaholm power plant decommissioning project 1997 - Promoted to Project Manager 1998 - Finished my M.S. Degree at UH 1999 - Married Sandy, an attorney with the Texas Senate 1999 - Spain, Italy, Greece, Turkey. 1999 - Bought a house in south Austin 2000 - First smooth collie, Darwin, arrived 2000 - Promoted to Senior Project Manager 2000 - Completed brownfield site cleanup in Austin 2000- Traveled to NYC and Rhode Island 2001 - Completed power plant decommissioning 2001 - Star Trek on 5 x per night, nothing else done. 2001 - Attended the PVHS 85 Class reunion 2002 - Traveled to Calgary, Seattle, Portland area 2002 - Visited LA / Presented paper at Disneyland 2002 - Traveled to Fredericksburg, Virginia 2003 - Traveled to Las Vegas and Utah (Zion) 2003 - Hydrogeology study at Camp Bullis 2003 - Traveled to Anchorage/Denali/glacier cruise 2003 - Traveled to London/Leed/Bath, UK 2003 - Department Manager at work 2003 - Traveled to Penn State / State College 2004 - Newton, second smooth Collie, arrived. 2004 - Trip to Anapolis 2004 - Bought a flugelhorn. 2005 - Sold first house and built new in Circle C 2006 - Became a Master Mason 2006 - Attended the PVHS 85 Class Reunion 2006 - Promoted to Austin Operations Manager. 2006 - Joined Scottish Rite (32*) 2006 - Continued Army and Power Utility work. 2006 - Travel to San Francisco 2006 - Travel to Poconos in PA 2007 ...Expand for more