EDUCATION

B.S. - Civil Engineering, Catholic University of America, 1989

  PROFESSIONAL LICENSES

Professional Engineer: VA, MD, and WV
LEED Accredited Professional

  PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Society of Military Engineers (SAME)
USACE Construction Quality Control Training

  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Gilardi has a 20-year environmental remediation and government contracting career as a civil engineer and program manager. He has experience directing remediation projects at Superfund sites, US Naval bases, US Air Force installations, US Postal Service sites, and other Federal agency facilities. He also has broad experience with a variety of contracting programs, in addition to direct knowledge pertaining to Federal small business, 8(a), and HUBZone programs. Mr. Gilardi leads SCS’s growing East Coast Federal Services practice, and is develop Department of Defense and other Federal Agency projects. Examples of his project experience include:

• Program Manager for the upgrade of a Jet Fuel Pumphouse (fuel distribution system), Concrete Repair, and Spill Containment Improvement Projects at the 165th Air Lift Wing – Georgia Air National Guard.  Work at this fully operational aircraft fuel truck loading facility consisted of: decontamination, removal and replacement of over 250 LF of carbon steel 6 inch jet fuel transfer lines with stainless steel; installation of one 250 gallon above ground storage tank, closure of one 5,000 gallon underground storage tank; replacement of all victaulic couplings, valves and fittings; installation of concrete containment berms and sumps drains; installation of new stainless steel piping and fittings; installation of new overfill prevention system and replacement of two fuel filter separators meeting current API 158 standards.
• Program Manager for US Navy Environmental O&M program in the states of PA, NJ, NY and MD.  This $20M program had over six major project sites and more than 20 task orders in progress at any given time.  Many of these sites were in high security areas.
• Program Manager for the O&M and Remediation activities at the Avtex Fibers Superfund Site.  Tasks varied between fixed price and cost reimbursable.  Managed a staff of 10 full-time operators, field and laboratory technicians.  The treatment plant processed and treated all storm water on the 440-arcre site which collected in storage lagoons prior to permit discharge to the Shenandoah River.  Contaminants at the site included: PCBs, Phenols, and heavy metals.  Developed and SOPs for the O&M treatment plant and performed limited design and managed construction of a number of plant upgrades and system improvements.
• Program Manager for a US Department of Agriculture Fish Pond decontamination project that required the USDA to complete a time-critical eradication of Spring Veremia of Carp (SVC) virus from six (6) remote mountainous North Carolina and Virginia commercial fish farms.  SVC is a highly communicable virus that threatened the >$25 million annual ornamental koi industry.  The project required the euthanization and burial of more than 40,000 pounds of fish and the decontamination of more than 100 acres of pond bottoms in a period of just over 2 months.
• Program Manager for of Base-wide O&M Remediation Contract responsible for managing a staff of 6 plant operators and technicians for Naval Air Station Patuxent River fuel farm ground water recovery and treatment systems which include 20 oil control sites throughout the entire Naval Air Station.  This Multi-Site/Multi-Year Remedial System O&M contract included O&M of GWT and product recovery systems, bioremediation of petroleum-contaminated soil, well and discharge monitoring, sampling and analysis, waste management, as well as performing limited designs and construction of multiple system modifications and improvements.
• Project Manager for an A/E contract at the Naval Air Station-Patuxent River.  Projects included the design of a P&T system, design of a sparging system, investigation of two spill sites, evaluation of the stations’ USTs leak detection systems, and evaluation of the stations Waste Recycling program.
• Program Manager for MEC sewer investigation and remediation at Volunteer and Ravenna AAPs.  Projects assessment, decontamination and disposal of MEC contaminated underground sewer lines.
• Project Manager for the installation of a 550-foot section of 60-inch storm sewer line.  The construction activities were performed in an area where soil and groundwater contamination existed from a coal gasification plant.  Much of the work was performed in Level B or Level C PPE. 
• Program Manager for a $50M nationwide environmental remediation contract with the Department of Energy, and a $15M HUBZone MATOC contract with the Georgia Air National Guard.
• Program Manager for the demolition of missile systems for the US Air Force in Cape Canaveral, FL.  This $2M task included extensive asbestos abatement and demolition of 24 facilities and 3 miles of rail.
• Project Manager for various environmental projects including UST removals and installations, Phase I Site Assessments, Environmental Assessments and remediation activities for US Postal Service facilities located within VA, WV, PA and CA.