2013 Yearbook - Alaska Clean Seas

Field Support Lead Spill Technicians
Dave Nielson
Field Support Lead Spill Technician
ACS Start Date: 2001
Dave has been involved in many responses to spills on the
north slope. Prior to ACS, Dave worked the ice roads and
the grind and inject project. He provides mainly mechanical
and logistical support during a spill.
Tim Hilliard
Field Support Lead Spill Technician
ACS Start Date: 2009
Prior to ACS Tim worked as an operations supervisor for
American Marine/ Pacific Environmental. He has ten years
of experience in hazardous materials remediation, three
and a half years in oil spill clean-up, and twenty years of
experience in working in extremely remote environments.
Mike Rice
Field Support Lead Spill Technician
ACS Start Date: 2008
Mike is currently working as a Field Support Lead. Mike
joined ACS as a Spill Support/Whse Tech in January of
2006 and has worked on the North Slope for 23 years.
Mike has over 12 years of spill response experience and
has been involved with many spill clean up operations
on the North Slope. Mike is also an EMT-1 and certified
Firefighter.
Interns
Kendra Ahlers
Intern
ACS Start Date: 2012
Kendra graduated from Harold Kaveolook High School
in Kaktovik, Alaska, in May, 2012. She started working
at ACS a few months later. She has been hard at work
learning the spill tech duties and looking forward to her
future with ACS.
Lance Hathaway
Intern
ACS Start Date: 2011
Prior to coming on board with ACS under the
ConocoPhillips internship, Lance spent two years working
with both AES and Doyon drilling as a roustabout over
in the Alpine field. Before coming back to the Northern
oil fields, he was working with ASRC as a Desktop
Technician.
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