Van is an Engineer at Green Mountain Technologies specializing in developing appropriate technology for community composting and institutional applications. Since joining GMT in 2010 Van has sold, designed, and commissioned over one hundred in-vessel systems.

Van has an MS in Systems Engineering/Human Factors Engineering and a BS Human Factors Engineering from Wright State University.  Van loves to share his 20+ years of composting expertise to help organizations successfully compost.Van provides systems design/engineering, technical support, sales, production support, installation, training and customer service for our in-vessel systems. He is the primary engineer for the Earth Cube and Earth Flow System. At home, he manages the composting system for his co-housing community. Van enjoys digging in the dirt, making compost and helping to build soil fertility.