Halker’s Family of Brands
Posted on November 18th, 2021
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As valued clients, vendors, colleagues, and friends you are already familiar with the Halker name as an established Engineering Consulting firm for energy, industrial and power generation projects. We are excited to announce our continued growth, added services, and market diversity. We wanted to take this opportunity to introduce you to our brand architecture. Halker’s family of brands is approximately 75 employees strong and growing with offices in Denver (HQ), Dallas and Billings, and Professional Engineering licenses in 30 states.
Halker Consulting, established in 2006, has over 15 years of experience providing our clients with the highest level of service in upstream and midstream engineering and design, retrofits, electrical utility transmission and distribution and automating engineered systems. Our culture of safety is evident in all our designs and in the field during our management and support of construction, commissioning, and operations.
Halker’s engineers make our innovative designs a reality. With a focus on safety and operational efficiency, our experienced staff of multi-disciplined engineers apply the specifications, standards, compliance, and operational parameters to the strategic approaches that our designers create for each project. The result is a safe and effective real-world implementation of innovative and fit-for-purpose design, based on business and production objectives.
Halker Smart Solutions was established in 2020 as a natural progression of the innovative solutions Halker Consulting pioneered in the upstream oil and gas space. With a focus on integrated hardware and software development, HSS is your go to “digital enablement” partner delivering not only innovative products, but also advanced software integration projects. Currently HSS offers a disruptive multi-phase measurement solution, HalkEye, that focuses on providing an easily deployed and maintained system for immediate production optimization insights. Additionally, through our unique software partnerships we offer custom operational digital twin solutions that provide unique rule based and advanced machine learning insight and control. Finally, capitalizing on our strong software and automation knowledge we provide both turn-key and custom crypto-mining facilities for use in locations harnessing unused or lost power sources.
Cascade Environmental, founded in 1995, provides environmental engineering and regulatory consulting services for industrial and commercial clients, with considerable experience in the construction, transportation, waste management and energy sectors. In tandem with Halker’s facility designs, Cascade provides Spill Prevention Control and Counter (SPCC) Plans and permitting, waste management, and regulatory compliance consultation. Cascade conducts site characterizations and environmental assessments to satisfy asset screening and due diligence objectives. With experience in remedial investigation and design, Cascade can perform feasibility studies, provide remedial oversight, and conduct surface & subsurface investigations. Additionally, Cascade is equipped to assist with the evolving landscape of emissions monitoring, reporting, and lead detection and repair (LDAR).
Cascade also offers environmental health and safety (EHS) oversight services for CDOT and municipally owned transportation projects in Colorado. These projects include services such as providing Material Management Plans (MMP), Health and Safety Plans (HASP), Recognized Asbestos Contaminated Soil (RACS) management oversight, pre-demolition bridge inspections, Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) wildlife biologist surveys, waste profiling and manifesting, material sampling and delivery, uranium mill tailing management oversight, and lead based paint management procedures. Cascade’s goal has been to provide clients with personalized, value-added services which contributes to their success by ensuring compliance with applicable regulations, minimizing liability, and reducing operating costs.
PRE, Inc, founded in 2005, quickly became a go-to engineering firm for utilities, municipalities, developers, and many other clients. PRE’s projects range from large, multi-million-dollar substation projects to smaller industry-changing projects that require innovative solutions. Between Halker and PRE, our diverse team member experience in renewable energy projects includes utility and farm-scale solar photovoltaic (PV), concentrated and tracking PV systems, wind generation, fuel cells, remote off-grid power generation, geothermal, hydroelectric power generation, battery and flywheel power, and energy performance optimization. To expand our renewables offerings, our team is staying current on industry trends in the area of green hydrogen applications and generation.
As the newest strategic partnership in our family of brands, we believe there are great synergies between PRE’s power engineering design team and Halker’s multi-discipline industrial process team. These synergies will become even more apparent as we work to ensure that the future of energy is both affordable and sustainable.
Andrew Depperschmidt is a graduate from the Colorado School of Mines with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering. He has experience in a variety of construction and facilities projects including both upstream and midstream natural gas and crude oil processing. He joined Halker in January of 2015 as the Mechanical Department Manager and has since taken on several different responsibilities with the firm, including General Manager and Vice President. Over the course of his time with Halker, he has overseen the company’s growth, helped develop the management team, and helped structure operational processes around project execution for maximum quality. He’s inspired by Halker’s outstanding team daily and takes pride in being people-focused while driving the company’s progressive and forward-looking culture. 
Kathryn Goodman graduated from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering in 2011. She is a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas and brings over a decade of mechanical and pipeline engineering experience to her role. Throughout her career, Kathryn has worked on both small and large-scale oil and gas projects in the upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors.
Jeff Wellen graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a minor in business and economics in 2002. Jeff is a licensed professional engineer with over 22 years of project management, project engineering, and mechanical engineering experience. Most of his professional career has been in the Oil & Gas industry with a wide range of experience across various types of projects including gas treating, LNG, well pad sites, cryogenic processing, biofuels, and more. He has also worked as a field engineer to support construction, as well as in a fabrication shop to oversee module/pipe-rack assembly. As a member of the Halker team since January 2018, his breadth of involvement in various projects provides Jeff a strong basis to provide operation execution support for successful project execution teams through the trials and tribulations when executing any type of project ranging from technical studies to full EPC projects in the rapidly evolving midstream and upstream industry sectors. Jeff was named an Engineering News Record (ENR) Top Young Professional in 2018 for the Mountain States Region.
Jeremy Montoya graduated from the Colorado School of Mines with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering with an Electrical specialty focus in 2010. Jeremy is a licensed professional engineering in multiple states and has over 14 years of experience in consulting engineering and has working in nearly every sector or the business, from oil and gas to food and beverage, mining, pharmaceuticals, commercial and residential applications. Jeremy joined Halker in 2021 and has brought a passion to build up and support staff as they provide quality engineering and design services to every client we have the opportunity to work with. With an eye for detail, value and confident support- our EI&C group will continue to grow and be recognized for their expertise, attentiveness, and quality deliverables in every project. Jeremy has also volunteered engineering services abroad, helping with the design of water/wastewater treatment facilities and medical facilites in Kenya, as well as master plans for facilities in Mexico.
Austin Dean graduated from Colorado School of Mines in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering. He has experience in engineering design projects for well pad facilities, gathering systems, and midstream natural gas facilities. Starting his career at Halker in 2014, his roles and responsibilities have spanned Process Engineering, Project Engineering, Project Management, and Facilities Engineering. He specializes in jet pump artificial lift surface facilities and dynamic hydraulic modeling. Austin brings an E&P perspective to the Halker team, with a focus on project economics and larger implications of design decisions.
Paul Brennan is an industrial automation specialist, PLC programmer, business manager and product development professional. He graduated from Colorado Mesa University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. Paul now has over 25 years of experience providing industrial automation solutions and large-scale automation integration projects for oil & gas, water/wastewater, irrigation, and greenhouse industries in the US and Eastern Europe. Paul’s career has been spent developing leading edge, revolutionary automation products, and in the process, he has obtained several US Patents. Paul has notably designed products such as PADPro, PADManager, PROView and QLogiX for upstream oil & gas facilities, utilizing state of the art technologies with PLC’s and high-powered single board computers to provide advanced data collection and data processing at the well head.