PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGIST
PRINCIPAL ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGIST
RAM Group, Inc.
7457 Harwin Drive, Suite 238
Houston, Texas, 77036
Tel: (713) 784-5151
Fax: (713) 784-6105
kpickett@ramgp.com
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Professional Geologist with over 23 years of industry experience
Litigation support / expert testimony
Regulatory interaction / negotiation
Regulatory closures
Project management
Environmental site assessments
Site characterization and remediation
Geologic surface fault surveys
NORM surveys
Training
EDUCATION
1985 M.S., Geology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
1977 B.S., Oceanographic Technology, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas
EMPLOYMENT
2003-Present Senior Environmental Geologist, RAM Group; Houston, Texas
2003 Senior Environmental Geologist, Othon, Inc., Consulting Engineers, Houston, Texas (Part time)
2002-2003 Environmental Manager, Raba-Kistner Consultants, Inc., Houston, Texas
1987-2003 Principal Environmental Geologist, Law Engineering and Environmental Services, Inc., Houston, Texas
1980-1986 Senior Geologist, Exxon Company, USA, Kingsville and Houston, Texas
1977-1980 Teaching and Research Assistant, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
U.S. Air Force Veteran
AFFILIATIONS
Association of Ground Water Scientists and Engineers
Houston Geological Society
CURRENT REGISTRATIONS/CERTIFICATIONS
Professional Geoscientist, Texas #3310
Professional Geologist, Arkansas #777
Professional Geologist, Florida #897
Professional Geologist, Tennessee #530
40-Hour OSHA Hazwoper
8-Hour OSHA Supervisor
PROFILE OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Kendall L. Pickett is the Senior Environmental Geologist for the Risk Assessment & Management Group, Inc. (RAM Group) in Houston, Texas office. Mr. Pickett’s responsibilities include project execution, project management, client management, senior technical review, training and development of junior staff, marketing and proposal development, contracting, and recruiting. He has been involved technically in several projects since joining the RAM Group in July 2003. These projects have primarily consisted of environmental risk assessment services for a pipeline compressor station in Iowa under an EPA Administrative Consent Order (closure is pending), pesticide packaging facility in Alabama, pipeline release in East Texas, aircraft manufacturing facility in Missouri, U.S. Air Force base in New Mexico, nuclear weapons component manufacturing site in Missouri, service stations sites in Arizona and Washington, DC, and assisting with development of state risk-based corrective action regulatory programs including pilot projects and training.
Mr. Pickett has been professionally employed as a geologist since 1980. He worked six years in the petroleum industry in exploration and production (E&P) assignments for Exxon Company, U.S.A. Mr. Pickett has worked in the environmental consulting industry since 1987. He has gained extensive experience in environmental assessments, regulatory closures, negotiations on behalf of clients with regulatory agencies and third parties, risk assessments, and remedial actions. Mr. Pickett has provided expert witness and fact witness testimony. He has performed and managed several hundred environmental projects on a variety of properties throughout the United States, Mexico, and Russia. Properties have included commercial, industrial, oil & gas, pipeline, wireless towers, and government facilities including transportation rights-of-way.
In Texas, Mr. Pickett has evaluated contaminated properties under the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), formerly TNRCC and TWC, Petroleum Storage Tank (PST) rules, Risk Reduction Rules, Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP), and Railroad Commission of Texas Statewide Rules. He has been involved with TCEQ closures through the PST-RPR section, the Industrial and Hazardous Waste division, the Voluntary Cleanup Program (VCP), and the Innocent Owner/Operator Program (IOP).
Mr. Pickett’s responsibilities have included technical quality control, training, management and marketing of environmental services primarily in Texas.
Mr. Pickett has performed assessments that were designed to evaluate the risk associated with potential or actual surficial and subsurface contamination of properties. These assessments have been performed for a variety of clients associated with acquisitions, divestiture, leasing, financing and insuring of properties. The assessments have ranged from initial assessments evaluating the potential for environmental contamination to identifying the presence and general levels of contaminants; determining the degree and extent of contamination; and assisting in the design and implementation of remedial actions to rid properties of contaminants and their sources. Mr. Pickett has been involved with negotiations between various parties and regulatory agencies to bring projects to a successful conclusion. Assessed properties have been primarily commercial and industrial facilities including multi-family residential, office buildings, retail shopping centers and malls, underground storage tank facilities, trucking and railroad facilities, gas plants, raw land, oil and gas production, and hazardous and non-hazardous treatment facilities.
Mr. Pickett has performed and managed environmental site assessment projects for the petroleum industry. These projects have included pipe yards, gas plants, abandoned refineries, oil gathering facilities, pipelines, service companies, and oil and gas production properties for acquisition and divestiture of surface rights and production.
Mr. Pickett has performed hundreds of projects using the ASTM E 1527 and ASTM E 1528 procedures, and has received and provided extensive training in the performance of environmental site assessments using these and other client provided protocols.
Mr. Pickett's interests also include projects involving assessments for radioactivity in ground water, Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORM) associated with petroleum production, radon surveys, and control of contaminants associated with tailings from open pit and underground uranium mining and fugitive leachate plumes associated with in-situ leaching of uranium deposits.
Mr. Pickett has been involved with the stratigraphic interpretation of overburden deposits utilizing borehole geophysical logs and subsurface cores to assist with slope stability studies of future mining areas at major East Texas lignite strip-mining operations.
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Last Update: October 22, 2003