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The leading expert in dewatering and ENVIROTUBE technology, Dean Wickoren, answers the most frequently asked questions.

Dean Wickoren

Employment History

Dean Wickoren ENVIROTUBE Technical Director Industrial Fabrics, Inc. Dean Wickoren has over 40 years of experience in the dredge and dewatering industry. dean@envirotubes.com 913-221-5345 (mobile)

2003-Present - Industrial Fabrics, Inc. - Baton Rouge, LA

Technical Director - ENVIROTUBE / Marine Division

• Provide technical support for customers and contractors regarding installations and filling procedures.
• Assist design engineers on bid specs and installation designs for ENVIROTUBES.

1997-2003 - Synthetic Industries

Technical & Field Installation Representative
Geotex Tube Division / Domestic and Export

• Worked with customers, contractors, and design engineers on Geotextile tube applications.
• Sales and marketing in Southeast Asia, China, and South America.
• Presented seminars for design engineers and government personnel.

1986-1996 - Innovated Material Systems (IMS)

Co-founder and Vice President

• Designed sludge pumps, flood control pumps, sewage bypass systems, sediment removal, and environmental cleanup dredges.
• Designed and built the original IMS 4010, one of the most numerous sludge dredges in the world, and still used as a standard of performance.
• Designed and build sewage digester and other sludge pumping systems.
• Designed and built bypass and flood control pumping systems from 500 gpm to 30,000 gpm.
• Responsible for in-field training and troubleshooting.
• Presented training seminars for engineers, contractors service personnel and operators, domestic and overseas.

1975-1986 - H&H Pump Company (Hydraulic and Heavy Equipment Co.)

President and Vice President

• Designed and installed fluid power (hydraulic) systems for OEM and custom heavy equipment.
• Built prototype equipment for OEM (original equipment manufacturers), including vacuum trucks, pole service trucks, pumping and dredging equipment.
• Manufactured a line of pumps for flood control, irrigation, high volume sludge pumping, mine and pit dewatering (up to 36,000 gpm), as well as pumps for animal waste and municipal sludge.
• Designed, patented, and manufactured a complete through-the-ice aeration system. This was the only system approved by the State of MN and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife for preventing winter fish kill.
• Designed and built sewerage bypass and digester emptying systems, using H&H hydraulic powered submersed pumps.
• Designed and built sludge dredging equipment.

1962-1975 - EPASCO (Equipment Parts and Service Company)

Co-founder, Vice President, and President

• Sales and service company for fluid power hydraulic components.
• EPASCO had a large shop and service department to repair and customize hydraulic powered equipment, as well as a complete sales department for the distribution of hydraulic power components.

1958-1962 - Field Service, equipment operator, and demonstrator for various contractors and equipment dealers in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota and the Chicago area.

1953-1958 - Road Machinery and Supply Company

Apprentice Mechanic, Mechanic, and Parts

1951-1953 - U. S. Navy

Air-crewman in Grumman Avenger (TBM)

• Charter member and past president of the Fluid Power Society Chapter 5 in Minneapolis, MN.
• Taught fluid power design and function and fluid power maintenance and testing at St. Paul VOTECH school for 9 years (evening courses).
• Created text books and courses for the above subjects.
• Presented seminars for the U. S. Forest Service to logging contractors and paper mills.
• Presented seminars for the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin to VOTECH (vocational technical school) teachers.
• Worked and set up jobs in 27 countries, including the United States.
• Hold several patents.
• Build and raced a sailboat on Lake Superior.