COL. EDWARD C. WEST, PE (ret’d)

 

Edward C. West, MSCE, MSBA, PE

Mr. West is a graduate of West Point and also holds a Masters in Civil Engineering from MIT as well as a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University. During his military service, he also attended the Command and General Staff College, The Armed Forces Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

From 1950 to 1972, he served as an officer in the United States Army, retiring in 1972 with the rank of Colonel. During his Army career, Mr. West supervised major design and construction work in the U.S. and overseas, commanded troop units in the U.S., Europe and the Far East, and served in the Office of the Chief of Research and Development and the Office of the Chief of Staff of the United States Army. He also commanded the Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

After retirement from the Army, Mr. West joined Green Engineering Company in Sewickley, Pennsylvania as Executive Vice President. Subsequently he became Green’s President and led the company through its transition from a family owned company to a company owned by its employees through an Employee Stock Ownership Trust, one of the first of its kind in the United States. While with Green, Mr. West took personal on site charge of Green’s responsibilities (engineering, construction, and procurement) for the Interama project, a joint venture of Green and the Finley Development Company. Interama was a major ($250,000,000) Inter-American trade, culture, educational, and entertainment center located in Dade County Florida.

Mr. West left the Green organization in 1976 to found his own successful management consulting business. In 1978, through a consulting assignment he founded Agripost, Inc., a company engaged in economical, environmentally compatible solid waste disposal through a unique composting process which enabled the conversion of solid waste to fertilizer. He later became the President of Agripost and served in that capacity as the company was taken public, won its first contract, and built its first plant in Dade County Florida. The plant was housed in a building occupying the space of seven football fields under roof, and processed 250,000 tons of municipal solid waste per year while producing 200,000 tons of fertilizer. Mr. West resigned as Agripost’s President in 1990.

Since that time, he has been a consultant in real estate sales and development, solid waste disposal, prefabricated housing (Romania), innovative (large scale) odor control, and water purification. Between 1992 and 1994, West served as second in command of a unique group formed at the request of the Governor of Florida and the Mayor of Homestead, FL to plan the rebuilding of the City after it was severely damaged by Hurricane Andrew. The plan was completed and approved in less than four months, and the group was further retained to oversee implementation of the plan.

At the present time, West is active in commercial and residential real estate sales, and as such has been consistently ranked in the top 5 % of real estate agents, nationwide. He is licensed in the State of Florida as a real estate broker, a real estate associate, and a mortgage broker. He has also served the community as president of Woodmont Country Club, Tamarac, FL., president of the Cloisters Subdivision of The Broken Sound Club, member of the Board of Governors of The Broken Sound Club, and active member of boards of various charitable organizations. West writes for local publications and is a regular public speaker.

 

Mr. West is a principal of CES, Mobilenergy, LLC, and Classi Clean Air Systems, LLC.