Mr. Niemi is an Environmental Engineer with more than twenty years of experience working on environmentally-sensitive publicly-owned lands in the South Florida area. During those years, he worked on projects from both the land-management and the environmental-engineering perspectives.
Mr. Niemi is an experienced Project Manager with experience working on multi-agency government projects. He uses AutoCAD, Excel, Pathfinder (GPS), and MS Word software as tools to complete project tasks. He is experienced using GPS and land-surveying equipment to help develop project-site plans and permit/construction plan drawings.
Selected Project Development and Management Experience
Palm Beach County (PBC) Department of Environmental Resources Management (ERM), Project Designer II (12 years)
Contributed to engineering/design plan-set development for projects that restored native South Florida habitat to a more historic condition. Contributing activities include: site-plan layout, hydrologic-restoration project design, public-use facilities design, creating (AutoCAD) construction/permit plans for mentioned project-types, and construction-phase oversight and inspection.
Contributed to developing natural area restoration-project permit applications, and monitoring reports, to federal, state and local regulatory agencies. Obtained local and state-level building permits for public use facilities construction on PBC/ERM managed natural areas.
PBC/ERM projects involved with:
- "Unit 11" (now Sweetbay Natural Area) Restoration Project.
- Winding Waters Natural Area Wetland Restoration Project (managed AutoCAD file of over 10 years of project development/permitting).
- Apple Custard Slough Restoration Project, PBC/John Prince Park,
- Lake Ida Environmental Enhancement Project, PBC/Lake Ida Park.
- Frenchman's Forest Natural Area Environmental Restoration and Public Use Facilities project.
- S. Loxahatchee Slough Natural Area Wetland Restoration Project.
- Yamato Scrub Natural Area Wetland Restoration and Public Use Facilities Project.
- Since 1994, many similar projects on PBC-Managed Natural Areas.
Prior to natural-area related duties with Palm Beach County ERM:
PBC/ERM - Inspected pollutant storage tanks for compliance with Florida-state code.
Inspecting food processors, food outlets, and food service establishments for compliance with Florida state codes (PBC Health Department)
High School Teacher, State of Ohio
Certified in Mathematics and Physics