Board Members

Company: National Plant Services

Michelle received a BS in Civil Engineering from Purdue University, and is a registered California PE with over 31 years of water and wastewater experience.  She has worked as a Project Engineer for Black & Veatch, as an Asset Management Engineer with the East Bay Municipal Utility District, she owned her own Engineering & Construction firm for 5 years, and for the last 14 years has specialized in multi-sensor inspections and trenchless rehabilitation of sewer, storm, and water assets.  She is currently the Regional Manager for National Plant Services, Inc., covering the 12 Western States, including Hawaii and Alaska.

Michelle is also active in many industry organizations. In addition to serving as a Board Member of WESTT, she is a Board Member of NASSCO, and led the workgroup in charge of NASSCO’s new PACP/MACP/LACP Version 8.

Company: Tanner Pacific, Inc.

Mike is a Principal Co-Founder of Tanner Pacific, Inc., specializing in Construction Management of Water Resource Projects. Mike is the Chief Marketing Officer responsible for all Marketing and Business Development for the Company. He has over 38 years of experience in public infrastructure project/construction management, as well as, over 15 years of Partnering Facilitation. Having spent his early professional years working for the Cities of Fremont and Palo Alto and at the Union Sanitary District, Mike worked on many different types of projects including, roadway improvements, building renovations, landfill closures and large wastewater treatment plant expansions, just to name a few. Mike has managed many large diameter pipeline projects, totaling more than 40 miles of installed pipe. Ranging in size from 30 in. to 60 in. in diameter, these projects included many miles of open cut, microtunnel, HDD and pipe bursting to traverse under highways, active school sites, active rail lines and sensitive environmental habitats. Mike is a native Californian growing up in San Jose and Campbell and later becoming a graduate of San Jose State University with a BS in Civil Engineering.

Company: Black & Veatch

David is a Senior Project Manager with Black & Veatch and has 30 years of experience in the water and wastewater market as a project engineer, construction manager and project manager.  His experience ranges from developing plans and specifications for conveyance and distribution systems to preparing environmental documentation and feasibility reports for large capital improvement projects.  David worked on projects ranging from rehabilitation of pipes, two-pass tunnel installations, microtunneling, to large diameter tunneling.  He also has experience as both a consultant and an owner having worked for a large municipality in Los Angeles County for 19 years.

Company: Delve Underground

Rachel Martin has 20 years of experience in design and construction management on civil projects focused in the fields of water, wastewater, and hydropower. Her experience includes trenchless and tunnel design, development of contract drawings and specifications, construction management, design and constructability reviews, project controls, quality management, and cost estimating. Rachel has developed designs for microtunneling, pipe jacking, HDD, and sliplining projects throughout the US, Canada, and New Zealand.

Company: Bennett Trenchless Engineers

Ms. Wallin has been involved with trenchless design since 2005 and has provided design and construction management services on trenchless new installation projects using horizontal directional drilling, microtunneling, pipe ramming, guided boring, and earth pressure balance pipe jacking. She is a contributing author on the 2024 revision of the Horizontal Directional Drilling Good Practices Guidelines. Kate volunteers on the NASTT Student Scholarship Award/Education Committee, the Regional Chapter Committee, the No-Dig Show Technical Program Committee, and serves as a No-Dig session leader.  Kate was honored to receive the NASTT Volunteer of the Year award in 2023.

Company: Woodard & Curran

Jennifer Glynn is a Senior Technical Practice Lead and Senior Principal for Woodard & Curran out of their Sacramento, California office.  Jen has over 27 years of experience in Project Management and Infrastructure Design, with an expertise in Condition Assessment and Trenchless Rehabilitation.  

Jen has been authoring papers and presenting at conferences both domestically and internationally for the past 25 years.  She was a founding member of WESTT and past Executive Board Member for NASTT and is currently an NASTT training course instructor for two classes:  Introduction to Trenchless Rehabilitation and Pipe Bursting Good Practices.  She is also a member of the AWWA Water Main Rehabilitation and Water Main CIPP Standards Committees.

Company: Sekisui SPR Americas, LLC

Jacquie Jaques is the Regional Manager for Sekisui SPR Americas for the Western US. Jacquie has over 25 years of industry experience working with manufacturers and contractors specializing in pipeline condition assessment and trenchless rehabilitation solutions. She started her career working for a technical services company specializing pipeline cleaning and CCTV condition assessment. During that time, she worked with municipalities, FEMA and OES on post-earthquake pipeline condition assessment inspection that enabled agencies to obtain federal funding for projects. With a high demand for cost effective solutions to repair our infrastructure, she became involved with cutting edge trenchless technologies that could meet stringent industry design and performance standards.

Jacquie has been actively involved in numerous industry committees over her career. Early on, she was a member and recording secretary for the “Green Book Pipeline Rehabilitation Task Force” which evaluated new trenchless technologies that were germane to public works construction. This task group wrote the first Part 5 of the “Green Book” “Pipeline System Rehabilitation”. Jacquie is still active on the committee today and works with the subcommittee to ensure that the specifications are current and still relevant to public works construction.

As a WESTT Board Member, she is the Education Liaison for the university members and conducts the outreach on behalf of the committee. Jacquie has also authored several industry papers and presented at national and regional conferences including NASTT, WESTT, Pipe Users Group and HWEA. She has also authored or contributed to several magazine articles including NASSCO and Trenchless Technology.

Company: Central Contra Costa Sanitary District

Sasha Mestetsky is a Senior Engineer in the Capital Projects Division at Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (Central San) located in Martinez, California. He manages Central San’s Collection System Program with an annual fiscal budget of approximately $40 million. Sasha is responsible for the design and construction management of all sewer system replacement and renovation capital improvement projects. Most of these projects utilize various trenchless technologies.

Sasha has over 25 years of experience in design and construction of collection systems projects. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from California State University, Sacramento and is a California-licensed Civil and Mechanical Engineer.

Sasha serves as the At-Large Representative of WESTT Chapter Board of Directors. He is a long time member of Water Environment Federation (WEF), North American Society for Trenchless Technology (NASTT), and Northern California Pipe Users Group (PUG). Sasha is passionate about everything trenchless, enjoys sharing his experiences, and actively promotes trenchless technology education.

Company: Carollo Engineers

Devin has over 23 years of geotechnical engineering experience in Hawaii, and has served as a geotechnical and trenchless engineer on projects requiring microtunneling, horizontal directional drilling, and guided bore methods, as well as shallow and deep foundations, rockfall mitigation, deep shaft excavations, and soil stabilization. He is a professional civil engineer licensed in Hawaii and California, and obtained his Bachelor and Master’s Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Currently a Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Carollo Engineers, he has published and presented two papers on trenchless pipe installation at the North American Society of Trenchless Technology No-Dig conferences.

Company: CDM Smith

Cindy is a registered professional engineer in California and brings 25 years of experience in planning, designing and managing large-scale public water and wastewater projects throughout the West. As Water Conveyance Discipline Leader at CDM Smith, Cindy serves as an internal resource to project teams across the country, providing her insight and knowledge in water and wastewater pipeline rehabilitation and construction.  Her expertise with trenchless technology project planning, evaluation, design and inspection has been of particular benefit to those with whom she works, and is a facet of our industry about which she is especially passionate.
 
Over her career, Cindy has served on the Board of Directors of both NASTT and WESTT, as well as the Northern California Pipe Users Group (Nor Cal PUG).  Cindy currently serves on the WESTT Board, the AWWA Condition Assessment Committee, the NASSCO Pressure Pipe Committee, and several national No-Dig conference committees.  She also an instructor for NASTT’s Trenchless 101 Good Practices Courses.

Company: GHD

Mr. Watanabe is a Civil Engineer registered in California, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, and Guam and has more than 20 years of engineering and construction experience largely focused on trenchless technologies for both rehabilitation and new installations of underground utilities. During this time, he has planned, assessed, and designed over 100-miles of pipelines up to 96-inches for public utility systems. His project experience includes the design and construction via horizontal auger boring, burst and insert, sliplining, HDD, point repairs, Thermal CIPP, Thermal PCIPP, and microtunneling.

He is currently the Collaborative Delivery Leader for GHD’s US West Water Market Sector covering California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Guam, and Saipan. In this role he oversees the pursuit and delivery of all water/wastewater design-build projects in the region. He is also GHD’s managing Principal for GHD’s NASTT No-Dig participation across North America.