Misael Cabrera, PE
Deputy Director
(602) 771-2203
(800) 234-5677

Misael Cabrera was selected deputy director of ADEQ in November 2011. A registered professional engineer, Misael has almost two decades of experience in the environmental field including business leadership, regulatory negotiations, contract management, site characterization and remediation, permitting, design, and construction management.

Misael has worked most recently as a senior client leader and senior engineer for Haley & Aldrich's Industrial Environmental practice based in Phoenix. In that capacity, Cabrera served as a senior remediation engineer on select complex regional projects and coordinated business development efforts for the Phoenix and Tucson offices.

Prior to that, Misael was environmental unit manager for AMEC in Tempe, where he supervised a team working on industrial and regulatory compliance, air quality, documentation under the National Environmental Policy Act, and asbestos and lead assessment. Misael's team also worked on site characterization and remediation under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act program and the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, EPA's superfund program.

Misael also worked for CH2M HILL in Tempe, where he was business group leader for the environmental business line in Arizona and served as a project delivery leader for a major federal program in the Southwest and Southeast. Misael also worked at CH2M HILL's office in Milano, Italy, for six months. In addition to English, he also is fluent in Spanish and conversant in Italian.

Misael, who has lived in Arizona since 1984, received his B. S. degree in civil engineering from the University of Arizona. He also has taken upper division courses on water treatment and remediation at Arizona State University.

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