Pensacola, FL Team

Principal/ Environmental Compliance Manager/ District Manager

Isaac Smith

Isaac Smith is a Principal, District Manager and Environmental Compliance Manager in PPM’s Spanish Fort office. He has over 20 years of experience in the environmental field. Isaac specializes in air permitting and compliance but his technical experience includes water and waste permitting and compliance, Risk Management Plans, and Process Safety Management. His air expertise includes air permitting, compliance reporting, emissions measurement and calculations, control device efficiency and optimization, and continuous emission measurement systems (CEMS). He has extensive knowledge of environmental regulations, including the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), and Risk Management Plans (RMP). He has performed, managed, or participated in several hundred projects involving emission measurement, air permitting, compliance reporting, and regulatory agency communication. Isaac is responsible for personnel, client, and project management; scheduling, training, and management of technical staff; quality assurance/quality control of deliverables; office marketing, sales, and financial performance; and development of sustainable growth strategies. Isaac resides in Daphne with his wife and two daughters. The family spends most of their free time on the local bays or Gulf of Mexico fishing and boating.

Environmental Scientist/ Project Manager

Nik (Nicolle) Hicks

Nik Hicks has over 20 years of experience in the environmental field. Her technical expertise includes soil and groundwater contamination assessment and remediation; petroleum, dry cleaner, and landfill site management; construction management; environmental research and studies, and regulatory compliance and enforcement. Nik was a regulator for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Petroleum Restoration Program for over 6 years. She is responsible for client and regulatory agency communication, proposal preparation, project management; field oversite and sampling activities; remedial strategies; quality assurance/quality control; technical review of documents, training and managing field staff. Her experience spans Florida, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and even Missouri. Nik is a Pensacola native and lady angler, whose primary passions include her family, friends, pets, and numerous outdoor hobbies, almost all of which involve both the beach and the water.

Senior Geologist/Project Manager

Ben Clabaugh, P.G.

Mr. Clabaugh has 31 years of experience in the environmental field and is a registered professional geologist in Florida and Alabama. His technical expertise includes soil and groundwater contamination assessment and remediation of complex sites, due diligence associated with real estate transactions, Brownfields redevelopment, environmental studies, and regulatory compliance. Mr. Clabaugh has a wide range of experience in the environmental field throughout the central and southeastern United States. He is responsible for client and regulatory agency communication, project management; remediation system planning, design, and installation, preparation, and review of technical documents, and managing technical staff. Mr. Clabaugh is also currently researching the use of mushroom mycelia for the remediation of petroleum-contaminated soils. Mr. Clabaugh lives on Pensacola Beach with his Reverend/Professor/Attorney wife, Kris, and multi-talented, seemingly telepathic service dog, Merlin. He also writes fiction and dabbles in fixer-uppers, fishing, golf, and raising gourmet mushrooms.

Principal/ Environmental Compliance Manager/ District Manager

Isaac Smith

Isaac Smith is a Principal, District Manager and Environmental Compliance Manager in PPM’s Spanish Fort office. He has over 20 years of experience in the environmental field. Isaac specializes in air permitting and compliance but his technical experience includes water and waste permitting and compliance, Risk Management Plans, and Process Safety Management. His air expertise includes air permitting, compliance reporting, emissions measurement and calculations, control device efficiency and optimization, and continuous emission measurement systems (CEMS). He has extensive knowledge of environmental regulations, including the New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), and Risk Management Plans (RMP). He has performed, managed, or participated in several hundred projects involving emission measurement, air permitting, compliance reporting, and regulatory agency communication. Isaac is responsible for personnel, client, and project management; scheduling, training, and management of technical staff; quality assurance/quality control of deliverables; office marketing, sales, and financial performance; and development of sustainable growth strategies. Isaac resides in Daphne with his wife and two daughters. The family spends most of their free time on the local bays or Gulf of Mexico fishing and boating.

Principal/Senior Geologist

Keith Pyron, P.G.

Keith Pyron has over 32 years of experience and is a Principal and founder of PPM Consultants, Inc. Keith also serves as Principal-in-Charge for the company’s government project program. For the past 25 years, Keith has managed and overseen large task order contracts and worked with numerous remedial action projects throughout the Southeast. Projects involving Keith’s management and/or direct participation include closure of Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA) surface impoundments, Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Studies of National Priorities List sites, and assessment and remediation of petroleum contaminated sites from aboveground storage tanks and underground storage tanks (USTs) and NEPA Reviews. Keith’s extensive remediation experience includes the use of 15 different technologies. Keith also brings extensive experience working with municipalities, assisting them with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Brownfields program by providing grant writing, site inventories, technical oversight, and program management.

Government Initiatives

Jenny Black