Billie Campbell is one of three owners of Terra Tech Engineering and has been with Terra Tech from day one in 1997. Billie serves as President of Terra Tech and also as one of the design engineers. Billies responsibilities include coordination of the project managers and design assistance for the technical staff. Billie also can often be found reviewing designs plans for certification. Billies design specialization includes mine planning and reserve evaluation, structural design, municipal water works design, and wastewater/sewage treatment design. Billie is a registered Professional Engineer in Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee. Billie is a member of many organizations including the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Socity of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration, the American Water Works Association, and the National Society of Professional Engineers. Billie has been certified by the Virginia Departmen of Transportation in Concrete Field, Soils, and Asphalt.
Billie began his engineering career at United Coal where he spent three summers and holiday breaks from school as a Co-Op student working in the coal analysis laboratory and with the surveying crew performing location surveys as well as setting spads in the several deep mines operated by United Coal contractors. After graduation from Viginia Tech Bille returned as a Project Engineer where he had a host of duties including cost and fesibility analysis of proposed projects that the engineering department was involved in. Billie was also asked to perform reserve evaluations on prospective properties.
A 1989 graduate of Grundy High School in Grundy, Virginia, Billie continued his education by attending Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. In 1993 Billie graduated from Virginia Tech with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mining Engineering where he also completed numerous Master Degree level course including such things as slope stability, and advance preparation. Billie still hopes some time that he may work out the time to complete a Masters Degree in Engineering.
Billies response to what he likes about working at Terra Tech is that his "hopes for Terra Tech were that we would be able to provide quality professional services to the Appalachian Region and develop a relaxed family-like atmoshpere were a young adult could grow, learn and personally strive for group success and be proud of their individual accomplishments here. I beleive we have acheived just that."
With duties of the job and his family, as well as being an ordained minister in the Old Regular Baptist Church, Billie still finds time for some hobbies, these inlcude painting, reading and hunting. Billie and his wife, Paige, reside at Little Prater Road in Grundy, Virginia where they are raising their two children, Dylan age 6 and Sarah, age 2.
August 30, 2003