Our People

Joseph is an industrial water engineer and project manager with Ascentarix. During his 12 years of experience, he has served as a project manager, technical lead, regulatory strategist, and expert witness, specializing in industrial wastewater treatement, NPDES permitting and compliance, water reuse, and dilution and mixing-zone modeling. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada.

Joseph's experience spans the data center, port, food processing, solid waste, and metal mining sectors. He carries projects from feasibility and bench-scale treatability testing through conceptual design, permitting, and construction-ready plans, specifications, and estimates. He regularly leads interdisciplinary teams and communicates complex technical analysis clearly to regulators, boards, tribal councils, and executive leadership, with a track record that includes programs successfully permitted and enforcement and litigation matters resolved.

McBride is an Associate industrial wastewater process engineer and assistant project manager at Ascentarix. He has nearly eight years of experience supporting and leading industrial and mine water and wastewater projects, working directly with design managers, construction managers, commissioning managers, and client account managers throughout a project's life cycle.

His project experience covers mining, aerospace, pulp and paper, commercial and manufacturing, and municipal and industrial landfill sites. Work has included treatment system feasibility studies, bench-scale and pilot testing for complex waste streams from various industrial sources, multi-disciplinary detailed design, construction, startup, commissioning, and plant operations.

His work has spanned problem identification and evaluation, design, permitting, construction, commissioning, and operator training, often coordinating with multiple governmental and private agencies on land use and discharge requirements. He holds a BS in Civil Engineering from Carroll College and an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Washington and is a licensed Professional Engineer (Environmental) in Washington.

Lauryn is an environmental engineer with 3.5 years of experience in industrial wastewater engineering, water reuse, and NPDES compliance. She has experience in data analysis, water balance and water quality modeling, wastewater treatment, and regulatory permitting support for industrial wastewater systems. She enjoys partnering with clients on complex challenges and finds satisfaction in engineering systems that keep facilities in compliance while supporting their operational goals.

Lauryn has worked across port, data center, manufacturing, and food processing market sectors. Her project work includes treatment and disposal alternatives analysis, water balance modeling, NPDES permitting, mixing zone analysis and dilution modeling, water reuse permitting, and litigation support.