(Brea, CA, December 2018) JRMA (J. R. Miller & Associates, Inc.), a leading architectural and engineering firm specializing in the design of Solid Waste Recycling and Transfer Stations, Materials Recovery Facilities (MRFs), and Anaerobic Digestion/Biogas Plants (AD), is pleased to announce that Kevin McCarthy has joined the firm as a Principal in its Solid Waste Market Sector. In addition to providing senior-level advisory and leadership skills, Kevin will focus on growing JRMA’s Solid Waste group’s regional and national footprint in designing facilities that meet our public and private customers’ financial, operational and environmental needs.
As a successful executive in the private and public sector, Mr. McCarthy has an extensive industry influence in the San Francisco Bay Area and exceptional track record designing and implementing small to large-scale, recycling, organics and solid waste collection and processing programs and services. His efforts have been recognized with numerous local, state, and/or national awards and certifications. He has served in a variety of management roles throughout his career including: providing operational oversight, management and environmental compliance at solid waste transfer stations and materials recovery facilities (MRFs); management of a national electronics recycling business; and Executive Director for a twelve-member public joint powers agency (SBWMA) in California representing nearly 500,000 residents and 10,000 businesses. He has also developed and/or negotiated dozens of contracts ranging from municipal franchise agreements, processing and disposal agreements to end-of-life asset management agreements with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Key experience includes work on a 2018 awarded contract - City of Berkeley Transfer Station and Recycling Feasibility Study, Shoreway Environmental Center Facility Operations & Master Plan, Davis Street Transfer Station Operations and Master Plan, and management of a network of electronics recycling demanufacturing facilities and collection depots across the country.
“Kevin is a successful leader with a true commitment to client engagement, operational excellence and creating projects of extraordinary value,” said Jim Miller, CEO of JRMA. “Along with the rest of the leadership group we are delighted that someone with his drive, knowledge, creativity and clear sense of project purpose is taking on this important leadership role.”
Dan Bianco, President of JRMA also commented, “We’re very pleased to have Kevin join us. He has an impressive background as a leader in a broad range of solid waste and recycling businesses and adds complementary skills to our firm.” Mr. McCarthy will be working closely with the Solid Waste Team including: Jim Miller, SE; Clark Davis, AIA; Bryan Vanderzee, SE; Doug Drennen, PE; Krystal Li, PE; and Nick Caniglia, PE to manage projects and grow new clientele.
“I am honored to join such an amazing team of professionals that understands the solid waste business and how to design and integrate facility improvements so seamlessly and can also lead facility masterplans that get implemented,” said Mr. McCarthy. “Not only do we find practical solutions for our clients, we are also focused on designing high diversion facilities of the future to meet zero waste goals.”
About JRMA
JRMA Architects & Engineers ( J. R. Miller & Associates), is an architecture and engineering design firm headquartered in Brea, CA offering comprehensive services to solid waste, AD, aviation, industrial and food processing clients throughout the United States and abroad. For over thirty years, JRMA has had a reputation for designing facilities that are cost-effective and operationally excellent and for phasing expansion projects to maintain safe and efficient facility operations. With over 40 employees, JRMA is headquartered in Brea, CA and has offices in Portland, OR; San Francisco Bay Area; Houston, TX; and Lexington, KY.
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