Lexi interned for Entex starting in January of 2017 and returned as a full-time employee in January of 2018. She holds a B.S in Environmental Sciences from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she dedicated her undergraduate research and course work water quality and public health.

Lexi’s first experience in water quality was during her research on San Cristobal in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, where she spent five months conducting research within the water quality monitoring lab. Not only was she responsible for running the lab, she also designed and executed her own independent research project in order to aid in identifying the sources of coliforms and pollutants within the island’s drinking water reservoirs.

Upon returning to Chapel Hill, she joined Dr. Mark Sobsey’s environmental engineering lab team within the Gillings School of Public Health to aid in the development of disinfection methods of the Ebola virus within hospital patience’s waste. Their lab team explored different methods of disinfection while also suggesting hyper chlorination is not an effective method of neutralizing the Ebola virus within hospital sewage. Lexi involved herself in this research until her graduation in May of 2017.

Lexi officially joined the Entex team as a project engineer in 2018 after taking a break to travel upon graduating. As part of the engineering department at Entex, she aids in process design and project execution. After spending collectively a year at Entex, Lexi will be heading to California in the fall to pursue a master’s in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California-Davis, where she was a recipient of the Tchobanoglous Graduate Student Fellowship. This endowed fund was established in 1999 to recognize outstanding graduate students in environmental engineering. She will focus her studies on water quality and wastewater treatment with plans to continue her career within the wastewater industry upon completion of her master’s.