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.

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.

Tommy began his career with Pecan Grove Solutions, LLC in September 2015. Currently, he is handling shipment claims and file management in the Alvin Admin office. Prior to working at Pecan Grove Solutions, Tommy worked for a large oil company for 31 years in the accounting department; both in Houston, TX and New Orleans, LA before retiring in April 2010. After five years of retirement, Tommy decided to re-enter the workforce.

Tommy and his wife, reside in the metro Houston area. They like spending time with their daughter, son-in-law, and twin grandchildren that live in the area as well. When schedules allow, they travel back to Louisiana to spend time with their two sons, daughters-in-law, and grandson. During the time that they lived in Louisiana, Tommy developed a lot of friendships and an appreciation for the Cajun culture.

Matt has been in the aquarium business for 9+ years. He started out as a commercial aquarium installation technician traveling all over the United States and Canada. When he stopped traveling and doing installations, he settled into doing maintenance work and up keep for the Southern California area. Now, he is on the customer service team and helps with tech support.

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.

Andrew is a Georgia boy who spent the better part of the past decade developing a background in sign fabrication and installation.

In March of 2013, he joined PGS to fill a need for a full time service technician in the Maryland/Virginia market. He has spent the past several years becoming a professional commercial aquarium maintenance technician as well as learning a new city with his wife.

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.

Joined PGS in late 2017. Was a stay at home mom and pharmacy technician prior to starting with PGS. Enjoys spending time with family and friends, crossword puzzles, reading, board games and movies.

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.

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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.