Leadership
Frank Dudek, PE
President
Frank is responsible for the firm's strategic planning and financial performance.
Trained as an engineer, Frank began his career working on wastewater recycling projects and water quality policies and permitting. Prior to founding the firm, he spent two years in Dacca, Bangladesh with the Parsons Company designing and building water and wastewater systems and three years as a regulator with the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board.
Frank has held leadership positions in a number of professional organizations. He was past local chapter president of the American Public Works Association (APWA) and the California Water Environment Association (CWEA), and served as a director of the local American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) chapter. He also represented the firm as a sustaining member of the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), the Building Industry Association (BIA), WateReuse Association, Water Environment Federation (WEF) and the Orange County Water Association (OCWA).
He earned a master's degree in civil engineering from Oregon State University and a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from University of Nebraska. In 2009, Frank was inducted into Oregon State University's Engineering Hall of Fame for his career-long engineering and managerial contributions to the profession.
He serves on the business advisory board of California Pacific Airlines; the executive board of the Greater San Diego After-School All-Stars; and is a patron of the Carlsbad Boys & Girls Club, Community HousingWorks, and other charitable organizations.
June Collins, AICP
Executive Vice President/Environmental Practice Manager
June is responsible for the strategic direction and operation of the natural resources management and environmental services group. She founded the firm's environmental practice in 1990 with four staff members and has grown it to become one of California’s largest private environmental consulting practices.
June has nearly 30 years’ experience in California’s land development industry. Her expertise includes environmental constraints analysis and resource planning, project management, feasibility studies, permit strategies, environmental documentation, client representation, research, writing, synthesis of technical data and report preparation.
She is a leading authority in developing California's multiple species habitat conservation plans. She served as the project manager and primary author of the San Diego Multiple Species Conservation Plan (MSCP) environmental impact report/environmental impact statement (EIR/EIS); project manager of the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan (MSHCP); project principal of the Orange County Southern Subregion Natural Community Conservation Plan (NCCP) EIR/EIS; and project principal of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP).
June is registered with the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and is a member of the Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) and the American Planning Association (APA). She is on the board of Community HousingWorks in San Diego.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in resource planning, biology, and English from the University of Michigan.
Bob Ohlund, PE
Vice President/Engineering Practice Manager
Bob is responsible for the strategic direction and operations of Dudek’s engineering practice that provides services in potable water, recycled water, wastewater, surface water and general civil engineering disciplines.
He has more than 27 years’ engineering consulting experience focused on developing creative and sustainable solutions for public infrastructure. His technical expertise is based in water, recycled water, and wastewater facilities, including pipelines, reservoirs, wells, pumping stations, treatment works and related facilities. His experience ranges from master planning and program management to final design and construction management of new facilities, rehabilitation of aging infrastructure and trenchless technologies.
Bob leads Dudek’s “green team” strategic consulting, a group of senior wastewater industry engineering, management, and operational experts. The group focuses on opportunities to improve operational flexibility and reliability; free stranded capacity; and defer, lower, or eliminate unnecessary program costs.
A California licensed civil engineer, Bob was formerly vice president of environmental infrastructure for Stantec, Inc. where he directed strategy, business development, and marketing for a $30-million business unit with nine offices in five western states.
Prior to Stantec, he was president of the public works division of the Keith Companies until the firm’s purchase by Stantec. Upon graduating from the University of Southern California in 1983, Bob spent 10 years with Boyle Engineering Corporation. Over the years, his diverse experience in engineering has been augmented with leadership of operational units and implementing mergers and acquisitions.
Peter Quinlan, RG
Vice President/Hydrology Practice Manager
Peter is a professional hydrologist with more than 30 years’ experience in planning and supervising field operations for groundwater and soils contamination investigations and environmental assessments. He is also a recognized expert in preparing litigation technical defense materials and providing expert witness testimony.
Peter's experience also includes groundwater supply and development, litigation support, cost allocation, client representation, soil and groundwater contamination studies, remedial design and implementation, groundwater modeling, underground storage tank investigations, environmental assessments and injection wells.
Prior to joining Dudek, Peter worked in groundwater exploration and water resources evaluation for Tetra Tech International and the government of Oman. He returned to the United States to work for Hargis + Associates, where he served until joining Dudek.
Peter earned a master’s degree in hydrology from the University of Arizona.
William (Bill) Ziebron
Vice President, Northern California
Bill is vice president of Dudek’s Northern California operations based in Sacramento.
For more than 30 years, Bill has played a pivotal role in many of California’s largest planning, urban development, infrastructure and conservation projects.
He led development of the general plans for the cities of Sacramento and Santa Barbara, and managed the long-range development plan EIRs at nearly every University of California campus. His work on Mission Bay, Yerba Buena Gardens, and the San Francisco Giants stadium helped shape the urban core and waterfront of San Francisco.
Other notable projects include conservation plans and environmental documents throughout the Sacramento metropolitan region and other areas of the state. On projects such as these, he has consistently demonstrated his skill at negotiating agreements among competing public and private interests on the resolution of complex environmental, development and resource allocation issues.
Immediately prior to joining Dudek, Bill served as senior vice president and California director for Florida-based PBS&J for four years. He gained his statewide reputation during 25 years at EIP Associates, a Sacramento-based environmental and planning consulting firm where he served as CEO and president until merging with PBS&J in 2006.
Bill holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stanford University and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from San Jose State University. He serves on the national Inner City Council of the Urban Land Institute, is a member of the Lambda Alpha Land Economics Society and the American Planning Association.
Mark Girard
President, Habitat Restoration Sciences, Inc., a Dudek company
Mark is the president of native habitat landscape-contracting firm Habitat Restoration Sciences (HRS), a Dudek company.
For more than 15 years, Mark has managed native landscape construction projects throughout California. He previously managed habitat restoration installation and maintenance projects for several San Diego-based landscape contractors. Trained as a heavy equipment operator, he has significant experience implementing weed abatement strategies.
Mark’s notable projects include restoring the City of San Diego’s East Mission Gorge Trunk Sewer, coordinating a 26-acre habitat restoration site for the Rancho Water District, implementing a restoration maintenance project for The Nature Conservancy and restoring San Diego's historic Famosa Slough.
He is affiliated with the California Landscape Contractors Association (CLCA).
Mark earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Massachusetts.