Ms. Mary Sharrett has over 31 years of experience and specializes in bringing projects from concept through final construction. She is skilled in Project Management for large-scale projects, possessing excellent leadership, organizational, and project management skills. Mary is responsible for managing a team of professionals, allocating staff resources for CAP-STONE, and managing a variety of subconsultants and subcontractors.  Mary’s degree is in Civil Engineering – a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including roads, bridges, dams, airports, utilities, and buildings. Mary also has significant experience in a vast array of environmental, natural resources, threatened and endangered species, and permitting consulting services.

Ms. Frances Rourke has more than 29 years of experience in the transportation industry and a deep knowledge of roadway and bridge design and plan preparation.  She leads the Engineering Team at STONE, whose capabilities include a multitude of engineering design services with engineers of diverse backgrounds and decades of experience.

Mr. Scott Ross has over 28 years of environmental consulting experience and is certified as a Professional Wetland Scientist (PWS) and a Certified Professional in Erosion & Sediment Control (CPESC).  As Ecological Services Manager, he leads a team of ecologists and natural resources staff who specialize in natural resource and ecological studies designed to meet the NEPA regulations. This ranges from anti-degradation stream, wetland, and water quality studies to endangered species surveys to cultural resources.

Mr. Frank Carvino is an archaeologist with over 16 years of experience in archaeology, cultural resource management and historic preservation. He earned his B.A. in History and Anthropology from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and his M.A. in Historical Archaeology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Mr. Carvino is a Registered Professional Archaeologist (#16508) and has served as a Project Manager, Principal Investigator, and Field Director on projects throughout Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee. He has completed Phase Ia, Ib, archaeological surveys and Phase II evaluations as well as data recoveries and cemetery relocations. He has worked on multiple ODOT, LPA, and County/Municipal projects throughout Ohio.

Dr. Michael Hoggarth, Professor in the Department of Biology and Earth Science at Otterbein University, is joining the STONE team as Principal Ecologist. He received his B.S. in Biology from Seattle Pacific University, his M.S. in Biology from the University of North Alabama, and his Ph.D. in Zoology from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in freshwater mussel ecology and systematics. He was an Environmental Scientist with the Ohio Department of Transportation, Bureau of Environmental Services from 1987-1992. He has published extensively on the life history, ecology, and systematics of mussels in the family Unionidae, including numerous peer-reviewed papers, and he is co-author of a book entitled, The Freshwater Mussels of Ohio (2009). Since leaving ODOT, he has performed thousands of aquatic assessments and mussel surveys in partnership with many ecological, environmental, and engineering firms across the Midwest. He has been a member of the Ohio Academy of Science since 1980, a Fellow of the Academy since 1999, and was President of the Academy from April, 2014 to April, 2016.