Gale Pashia and Mike Diakiw are your “hands-on” management team, responsible for administering and overseeing all of our Pipeline Public Awareness Programs.  On a full-time basis, Mike has been managing and working these programs for the last 13 years.  No other Service Provider comes close to this service level of Public Awareness Program Expertise and Experience !

Gale Pashia, with The Service Center, has worked in the direct mail industry for more than 30 years.  She was involved in producing the very first public awareness pipeline brochure for Exxon in 1979, and instrumental in developing the stakeholder mapping system used by pipeline companies today for public awareness and safety programs.  Gale and the team at The Service Center provide clients with a full range of services for the design, production and distribution of public awareness brochures.

Mike Diakiw, Owner of Above & Below Ground Consultants, has worked in the oil, gas and pipeline industry for more than 25 years.  Mike was responsible for the Public Awareness, Education & Damage Prevention Programs during his employment at ARCO Pipeline Company.  Mike also has extensive Legal Contracts, Land & Right-of-Way Real Estate experience, is a past committee member of API’s Pipeline industry’s public education & Emergency Preparedness Committee, and a past Board of Director of TESS (One-Call Center in Texas).