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Cinder Miller (Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College) Vice President
of Operations has a broad-based background in both North
American and Classical archaeology. She has worked on a
variety of projects throughout the United States and abroad
and she brings a global perspective to her work. On a regional
scale, she has managed the cultural resources compliance
work for fiber optics projects through portions of New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri. Dr. Miller also has
participated as part of a team effort in the completion
of several large scale pipeline and transportation projects
managed by Gray & Pape in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania,
Missouri, Ohio, and West Virginia. Dr. Miller also has significant
experience with cultural resources projects in the Southeast,
including coordination and consultation with Native American
groups for both pipeline and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
projects. In the south, Dr. Miller has worked in Louisiana,
Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and Texas.
In graduate school, Dr. Miller spent a year in Greece as
a Fulbright-Hayes Foundation Fellow; other summers were
spent in Greece and Italy working on survey and excavation
projects.
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Carol S. Weed (M.A., University
of Arizona; RPA), Senior Manager, Special Projects,
brings more than 30 years of cultural resources experience
to Gray & Pape. For the past 20 years, Ms. Weed has served
as a Senior Archaeologist, Project Director, or Principal
Investigator of cultural investigations throughout the United
States and for the past 15 years she has worked in the Midwest,
Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic regions on Section 106 pipeline
and road corridor projects. Since 1997, she has served as
the Principal Investigator and Project Manager for the 420-mile
long Millennium Pipeline Project in New York and Pennsylvania.
Ms. Weed has been involved in the preparation of environmental
site assessment reports and has a strong working knowledge
of NEPA, NHPA, and other Federal legislation. She has sound
knowledge of agency regulations dealing with cultural resources
and is familiar with literature and governmental regulations
with regard to endangered species and wetlands. She has
worked extensively with representatives of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, National Park Service and the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
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John W. Picklesimer (M.A.,
Kent State University), Principal Investigator, has
been employed as a CRM professional for over ten years.
During this period, he has been responsible for the successful
completion and documentation of Phase I, II and III field
projects in Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West
Virginia. Mr. Picklesimer has experience with the organization
and documentation of human skeletal remains in accordance
with the NAGPRA legislation and was a ceramic analyst for
the Proyecto El Cajon, Comayagua, Comayagua, Honduras, C.A.
Most recently, he has served as one of the regional coordinator
for the Millennium Pipeline Project, overseeing the completion
of Phase I and II resource identification and evaluation
investigations in the western and central area of the project.
Mr. Picklesimer is well versed in the utilization of PenMap
electronic mapping software in conjunction with GPS and
total station hardware devices.
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Matthew P. Purtill
(M.A., University of Cincinnati; RPA), Principal Investigator,
Archaeology, has seven years experience as a CRM consultant.
He has served as Project Archaeologist for several large-scale
corridor projects including the Great Lakes Pipeline, the
Lakehead Pipe Line Company System, and the Vector Pipeline
projects in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. He has overseen
the fieldwork for large areal surveys in both Kentucky and
Ohio. In 1994 and again in 1995, Mr. Purtill served as a
Graduate Mentor at the Center for American Archaeology,
Kampsville, Illinois. Mr. Purtill has extensive experience
with the analysis of lithic artifact assemblages from prehistoric
sites throughout the Midwest and Southwestern United States.
In addition to the analyses of lithic artifacts conducted
for cultural resource management projects, Mr. Purtill has
prepared a number of publications and scholarly papers on
the subject.
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