Mark’s Experience and Education

2025-02-13T15:34:29-08:00

Area of Emphasis: Mark is a computer-aided drafting (CAD) technician, geographical information systems (GIS) specialist, three-dimensional modeler, and visual simulations specialist. He visually represents complex data to make it more accessible, understandable, and usable. His experience includes creating advanced cartographic figures, geographical spatial analyses, and photo-realistic visual simulations and digitally modeling terrain, habitat, and structures for visual analyses and/or public relations. He has created visuals for mine plans, reclamation plans, environmental impact reports, aesthetic analyses, and public marketing presentations. [...]

Mark’s Experience and Education2025-02-13T15:34:29-08:00

Monika’s Experience and Education

2025-02-13T15:32:30-08:00

Area of Emphasis: Monika conducts environmental analyses and prepares documents in compliance with CEQA/NEPA. Her project management experience has focused on public infrastructure projects, and she has also prepared technical analysis for mining, electrical transmission line, high-density urban infill development, general and specific plan, and school projects. Her scientific training in environmental and soil sciences helps her to understand even the most complex technical issues, particularly related to hydrology and water quality, hazards and hazardous materials, geology and soils, [...]

Monika’s Experience and Education2025-02-13T15:32:30-08:00

Andrew’s Experience and Education

2025-02-13T15:33:09-08:00

Area of Emphasis: Andrew Heinemann is a California-registered professional geologist and mine engineer and has worked on mining projects in construction aggregates, industrial minerals, and precious metals throughout the United States and western Europe. He has served as exploration geologist, mine geologist, senior mining engineer, and mine manager. He has managed the development of mine plans and mine operations for open pit, underground, and dredge mining. His mine planning work has been designed to comply with reclamation, environmental, and [...]

Andrew’s Experience and Education2025-02-13T15:33:09-08:00

Bob’s Experience and Education

2025-02-13T15:33:46-08:00

Area of Emphasis: Bob manages environmental planning and review processes, conducts resources analyses, and prepares environmental documents for CEQA and NEPA compliance. He has successfully managed complex and controversial projects for transportation, water resources, energy infrastructure, and aggregate mine projects, ensuring that lead agencies have objective and defensible environmental documents to support their project approval decisions. Bob manages all aspects of the environmental review process, including developing environmental review strategies, managing teams of experts in preparing technical resource studies, [...]

Bob’s Experience and Education2025-02-13T15:33:46-08:00

Andrew’s Experience and Education

2025-02-13T15:35:24-08:00

Area of Emphasis: Andrew assists industry clients in managing the preparation of use permit and reclamation plan application packages, which includes authoring and overseeing technical studies, project descriptions, mine and reclamation plans, and resource impact analyses. Andrew has “cradle to grave” involvement in these projects, which includes initial site constraints analysis and project feasibility, site design, subconsultant management and oversight, environmental processing support, and hearing presentations. He provides experienced formulation of strategies for legal, environmental, and permitting approval and [...]

Andrew’s Experience and Education2025-02-13T15:35:24-08:00

Bruce’s Experience and Education

2025-02-13T15:36:23-08:00

Area of Emphasis: Bruce specializes in federal, state, and local environmental law and regulation. After beginning his career at Sacramento law firms focused on land use and mining law, he joined Dave to strengthen the firm’s permitting and regulation compliance practice, especially in the areas of wetlands, endangered species, and water quality compliance. In addition to these specialty areas, Bruce has become a favorite of clients for managing the difficult tasks involved with preparing and processing environmental documentation under [...]

Bruce’s Experience and Education2025-02-13T15:36:23-08:00

Dave’s Experience and Education

2025-02-13T15:15:51-08:00

Area of Emphasis: Dave provides strategic oversight for Benchmark’s public agency and private industry clients. His experience with all facets of environmental compliance and permitting provides Benchmark’s clients with wide-ranging insight that facilitates project success. Dave is most recognized as experienced in mine and reclamation planning; he has been involved in SMARA compliance since the 1980s and participated in developing and shaping its regulations. However, his experience includes public works and private development projects, such as general industrial uses, [...]

Dave’s Experience and Education2025-02-13T15:15:51-08:00
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