Fil L. Fina III, P.E., Vice President, Engineering

 

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Clarkson College, 1979.  M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988.  Originally from Saratoga, Fil worked as an engineer for a petrochemical pump and seal company and a consulting engineering firm prior to returning to Saratoga. He then managed a regional office of a medical waste transportation company for two years.  Next came a stint as an engineer for a petroleum product distributor/retailer prior to private contracting.  His responsibilities included management of all engineering and environmental affairs.  Related engineering and contracting has included pump and tank installations and removal, aboveground petroleum and chemical bulk facility design, SPCC plans, SPDES permitting, process exhaust and ventilation permitting, DOT and spill response training, retail facility construction and bulk storage facility construction.  Remediation system design and construction includes soil vapor extraction, groundwater pump and treatment, free product removal, high vacuum extraction, total fluids extraction and oxygenation.

 

Fil has successfully designed hundreds of remediation systems using all the accepted technologies, and also directs the Aztech research and development program that has invented and/or refined several products and technologies involved in the measurement and treatment of environmentally impacted materials.

 

Fil enjoys skiing with his daughters, training his Chesapeake Bay retrievers, and flying light aircraft.