Ms. Rosetta C. Billups, founder, President, and CEO of REMSA, Inc., is a Certified Professional Logistician (CPL) with over 48 years of experience in management, reliability engineering, multidiscipline logistical coordination, financial administration, and research and development.  Ms. Billups has provided corporate oversight, management, and technical services for a wide variety of projects over the 25 years following establishment of her business.  

Although Ms. Billups was born and raised in the Hampton Roads area, her professional experiences have taken her from coast to coast; and from these experiences a more global approach to problem solving was forged.  Never content with the status quo, Ms. Billups has continually demonstrated her ability to maximize her company’s efforts by adapting to changes in the professional and technical community. It was this regional community that nominated her for “Engineer of the Year” and awarded REMSA “Woman Owned Business of the Year” based on her business’s distinguished record and achievements, as well as contributions to the community at large. Prior to founding REMSA, Ms. Billups had spent over 23 years working with large corporations and higher education institutions in the areas of management, engineering, IT consulting and research.

Dennis Papa is a board certified and licensed Professional Engineer and Professional Geologist. He holds a B.S. in Geology from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech. His experience includes project and program management with technical expertise in hazardous materials management, water quality, hydrogeology, environmental site assessment and remediation, and brownfields redevelopment for commercial, industrial, and federal clients. Dennis is well versed in client management and developing long-term, positive relationships. During his 24 year career, he has performed remedial investigation & feasibility studies at 13 Superfund sites, and was in charge of technical guidance and quality assurance, strategic direction, and initial hiring and personnel management for the environmental services division of a top A/E consulting firm, and later became an associate for a global environmental engineering firm.

Recent projects include managing the City of Hampton, VA brownfields assessment grant to address more than 50 properties in the city’s brownfield zone and securing two new assessment pilot grants in 2009. His project and program management experience includes environmental compliance for Fortune 500 industries, municipalities, schools, federal and military facilities, and a variety of transportation, maritime and marine/coastal assignments that have involved a number of technical disciplines. 

Dennis enjoys all types of sports, and counts fishing, kayaking, painting and photography among his hobbies. He has been active in membership and/or Board of Directors positions in the local chapters for several professional societies including National Groundwater Association (NGWA), Water Environment Federation (WEF), Society of American Military Engineers (SAME), Air & Waste Management Association, and American Society for Testing & Materials (ASTM) Environmental Assessment committee.

Scott holds a Ph.D. in Ecological Sciences from Old Dominion University and a Masters of Science in Biology from Virginia Commonwealth University. He has 13 years experience studying the ecology of populations, communities, and landscapes. He is very familiar with current and historical in situ sampling methods and analysis of floral and faunal surveys, and he has a good “working knowledge” of ecological and natural history literature. He has been directly involved in the study of all major non-marine animal taxa, plant communities (especially wetlands), epidemiology, and metapopulation and landscape ecology. Dr. Bellows is on the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries’ Mammal Taxa Committee. He currently has over one dozen publications in peer-reviewed journals. During this research, he has worked with a broad range of species, including, but not limited to: small mammals, bats, reptiles and amphibians, birds, fish, endangered species (e.g., canebrake rattlesnake, Delmarva fox squirrel), invasive species (e.g., cotton-stainer bug [Dysdercus], Phragmites australis), and nuisance species (e.g., beaver, mosquitoes).

In addition to his ecological background, Scott has seven years experience in the GIS field. He is the Director of GIS Services at REMSA and provides GIS support in mapping and spatial analysis and modeling. He spent four years teaching Geographic Information Science (GIS) and related courses at Old Dominion University (ODU), Norfolk Virginia. Scott has six years experience in GIS modeling, and is proficient in the integration of all spatial data formats. He spent several years working with the Mosquito Control Commission for the City of Chesapeake, Virginia (CMCC) developing GIS models to identify the habitats of mosquito species responsible for the transmission of West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis. This research has earned him three research fellowships (2002/2003-2005/2006) from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium, Hampton Virginia. Scott has also worked with researchers at the Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research Project (VCR/LTER) in developing GIS models for isolating geomorphic landscape features.

Roxanne Carter has been employed with REMSA Inc. since 2005.  She holds a M.S. of Biology from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.  Ms. Carter has a GIS Spatial Analysis of Coastal Environments Certificate, OSHA Hazwoper 40hr Certification andis a NMFS approved Marine Endangered Species Observer and Trawl Supervisor. 

Roxanne is the Director of REMSA’s Coastal and Marine Services Division.  She recruits, staffs, bids, trains, works and provides overall project oversight for the endangered species environmental compliance jobs for marine construction jobs primarily dealing with dredging activities.  She researches and bids projects with commercial and government clients for work along the East & Gulf Coasts.  Most of the work revolves around marine endangered species environmental compliance - essentially being the “Turtle Girl/Boy” on board hopper and bucket dredges. 

Ms. Carter actively participates in animal rescue and is most recently involved with VIMS volunteering with the sea turtle stranding network.  Some of her favorite past-times are gardening and enjoying spending time with her two dogs. 

Joeé joined the REMSA team in the Summer of 2010 as the Utilities Program Coordinator.  With this  newly developed position comes a great deal of planning, education and business development.

Currently, Joeé manages the day to day operations for the City of Virginia Beach's Fats, Oils & Grease (FOG) Program. She works closely with REMSA partners, the City of Virginia Beach, the Hampton Roads Sanitation District and the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission to ensure that this program runs smoothly and efficiently.
Key responsibilities include:  creating and maintaining the schedule for site visits including registration of Food Services Establishments (FSE's) and all phases of the inspection process and database design, structure and maintenance. She also serves as the key point of contact for the program, assists with developing protocols and ensures that inspectors are properly trained and maintain the most up-to-date certifications.

The success in the first phase of Virginia Beach's Fats, Oils & Grease Program earned REMSA the award of “Woman-Owned Businesses of the Year” for our hard work, dedication and excellent services during the performance of the Fats, Oils and Grease (FOG) Inspections in the City.

Through the success with the City of Virginia Beach she has been developing a program from the ground-up to provide additional municipalities anywhere from inspector training & database management to running a full-scale FOG program as well as a Backflow Prevention Program.

Additional work includes beginning Phase I Environmental Site Assessments, field inspections and report writing.

Joeé holds a Certification in AutoCAD (v)2000-2006 - Architectural & Land Desktop, GIS/iMap training through the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, Regional FSE & Grease Haulers Certification(s) through the Hampton Roads Planning District Commission and a Fats, Oils & Grease Management Certification through the Florida Industrial Pretreatment Association.  Joeé also represents REMSA on the Utilities Management Committee with the Water Environment Federation and additional committee memberships with Virginia Water Environment Association and Eastern Virginia Regional Activities Committee.

Leigh Chapman is a Certified Floodplain Manager and specializes in flood hazard mitigation and development services. Ms. Chapman has sixteen years of experience in supporting hazard and risk management at the Federal, state and local government levels through problem identification, alternatives formulation, and plan implementation. She has served as a floodplain management and economic consultant in seven Districts of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, worked as a Technical Writer on the FEMA Technical Evaluation Contract for the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and served as an assistant to the State NFIP Coordinators in South Carolina and Maryland. With the American Institutes for Research, she co-authored the FEMA publication State Roles and Responsibilities in the National Flood Insurance Program, prepared as part of the 2001-2006 Evaluation of the National Flood Insurance Program.  She provides specialized hazard mitigation planning services to local governments, and assists communities with applications to the NFIP’s Community Rating System.  

Ms. Chapman has a BA in Economics and History from the University of Virginia, and received her MS in Geography from the University of South Carolina.