About Pecan Grove Solutions

Mary Addison is a Georgia native and holds a BA in Communications with certificates in Public Relations and Mediation. In 2013, she joined the PGS team to fulfill a part time need for administrative help. Her position quickly evolved, and she spent her first few years at PGS working with one of our manufacturing clients to learn everything she can about small animal, bird, and reptile habitats. In 2015, Mary Addison assumed responsibility for the water features and installations division of PGS and continues to build and manage this portion of our business.

Mary Addison resides in Denver, CO with her husband and two young daughters.

Alisha began her career with PGS as an invoicing clerk in May 2013. Her first major role change occurred in 2014 when she began managing the Scheduled Maintenance Program. She headed-up the program until it ended in 2015, and was recognized as the 2014 PGS employee of the year for her accomplishments with the program. In August 2015, she took on the title Invoicing Manager and held it until January 2017. In February 2017, she was promoted to National Account Manager. Prior to her career with PGS, she was in the banking industry for eight years where she began as a part-time teller and worked her way up to branch bank manager. While branch manager, she simultaneously held the title Appraisal Review Officer for the bank’s 33 branches. In May 2004, she graduated Summa cum Laude from Armstrong Atlantic State University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. When not at work in her home office in Savannah, GA, she enjoys spending time with her husband and their three daughters, reading, listening to music, and running.

Building and keeping aquariums since 1985, Michelle holds a BA in Marine Biology and Ecology. She has experience in both freshwater and marine aquaculture, keeps both reptiles and amphibians, and is an experienced snake breeder. She began servicing aquatic systems for PGS in 2011, and joined the company full time as the Petco Account Manager in 2013. She is part of a team that coordinates service for Petco stores, assists with managing over 125 technicians across North America, and provides service in the field.

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Lydia Bond is the accounts payable/receivable administration clerk for Pecan Grove Solutions LLC.

Lydia began her career at PGS’s Alvin location in 2011. Prior to joining PGS, Lydia retired from Shell Oil Company where she worked for 26 years. During her years at Shell, she worked as a database manager, purchasing associate, and project manager in a range of departments. Shell recognized Lydia for innovative improvement projects and service excellence on numerous occasions.

Lydia resides in Manvel, Texas with feline companion, Tina. Lydia enjoys time with her grandchildren, reading suspense novels, and sewing/quilting.

Julie worked for 23+ years in Document Control as an Administrative Clerk at a NASA contractor’s Technical Library and Drafting Department. She is detail oriented and has great people skills making her the right person to handle all incoming calls to Pecan Grove Solutions.

Julie built and maintained two backyard fish ponds with water lilies at a previous residence. Julie enjoyed working to keep her fish happy and seeing the many colorful blooms of the different lilies, and hopes to have a pond again one day.

After 6 years in the United States Air Force, working on the F4-E/G, U-2 and SR-71 aircraft electronic warfare suites, 17+ years working electronics and IT for various Fortune 100 companies, Charles decided to take his love of fresh and saltwater livestock from a small business supplying African Cichlids to the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex to a full time job. 6.5 years later sees him leaving the Service Manager position with the Dallas company for Pecan Grove Solutions. The rest, as they say, is history.

Vaughn has been maintaining his own personal aquariums since 2007. At that time, he was traveling the country installing commerical filtration systems for a large national account.

Currently, he is a part of the team that coordinates service and support for Pecan Grove’s largest national account.

A member of the PGS team since 2013.

Brad has been in the pet industry for a total of 12 years. He’s a family man that loves to ride motorcycles, build and fix things around the house and on his 2 and 4 wheel vehicles.

Ryan works with the customer service team to coordinate service and provide tech support.

Before joining Pecan Grove Solutions, Ryan spent 7 years working full time in animal husbandry at the Indianapolis Zoo in Indianapolis, IN, as well as the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, CA. In the time spent at both institutions, he was responsible for the primary care of various aquatic animal species.

Ryan has been working with freshwater and saltwater aquarium systems since 2002, and has kept reef aquarium systems at home as large as 225 gallons.

Ryan resides in Long Beach, CA, and in his free time enjoys writing music and spending time near the water with his dog.

Melissa graduated from Middle Tenn State Univ. and worked in the insurance industry for 10 years before becoming a stay-at-home mom. She joined PGS in July 2016.

Melissa lives outside Atlanta, GA with her husband, daughter and son and they all love cheering for Atlanta United Soccer. In her spare time Melissa enjoys exercising, reading, movies and going on vacation with her family.

Amanda has a decade of experience in marketing & communications, and spent six years as a public high school educator before joining the PGS team in 2015. Together with the rest of the invoicing team, she communicates with our technicians and clients to process and produce invoices efficiently. She resides in Nashville, TN with her husband, three children, and many other aquatic critters.

Brendan has 5 years commercial aquarium maintenance experience. He currently manages the Scheduled Maintenance Program, provides customer service and tech support across the nation. Prior to PGS he traveled the country and distant parts of the world with U.S. Air Force as an F-16 mechanic, worked in the oil fields in Texas and maintained stores/aquariums for PETCO. From aquarium systems to fighter jets, if you have a problem, he has a solution! In his spare time, he enjoys traveling, hiking, playing sports and attending concerts.

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John was born and raised around the Baltimore area and has lived in MD most of his life. He shares his home with best friend Barbara, dogs Sunny and Pickle, Willie and Vicky, their gang of cats. They have both been avid gardeners and have been raising vegetables and flowers for many years. They currently have a small pond with assorted fish in the yard and enjoy watching and feeding them.

He has worked as a newspaper boy, certified welder, sheet metal fabricator, zoo keeper, OTR truck driver and crane operator. Raised with a fix it rather than replace it mindset, that curiosity and tools have allowed him to repair many things, almost always successfully.
He loves riding motorcycles, fishing, flying stunt kites, hunting fossils and hiking.

He likes working at PGS and enjoys the problem solving aspects the position at PGS provides, finally making all 4 pumps work together on a 12K system will make your day.

Jill is our Inventory Control Manager.

Jill worked for government contractors for NASA for over 25 years as a Research and Development Engineer and as manager for a flight manufacturing facility.

With her training and background in organization and 5S processes she is working with the shipping team to streamline the shipping and receiving processes to better serve our customers.