Cypress Team

About Cypress

Cypress Environment & Infrastructure (Cypress) is a consulting firm specializing in engineering, planning, and environmental science in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic regions.  We serve these regions from our offices in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

Cypress provides a range of environmental science and engineering services including civil engineering project design, environmental permitting, water resources modeling, master planning and construction administration.  Cypress is a licensed engineering firm in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Georgia.

Cypress focuses on creating better projects where the built environment meets the natural environment. We stay abreast of current research as well as innovations in products, materials, and techniques to provide the most cost-effective methods to achieve an individual client’s objectives while planning and building projects and developments that work with the environment.

Principals & Key Staff

Engineering, environmental consulting & planning firm.
Cynthia Henderson, PE, PWS
President & Senior Environmental Engineer
Engineering, environmental consulting & planning firm.
Marc Foster AICP CEP
VP & Senior Planner
Engineering, environmental consulting & planning firm.
Lindsay Spurrier, AICP
Planning & Environmental Program Manager
Engineering, environmental consulting & planning firm.
Payton Billingsley, EI
Coastal Engineer Intern
Engineering, environmental consulting & planning firm.
Trevor Strong, EI
Civil Engineer Intern
Engineering, environmental consulting & planning firm.
Jamie Barhanovich
Business Development
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About Cypress

[/av_textblock] [av_hr class=’invisible’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ av_uid=’av-2k3zx7′] [av_textblock fold_type=” fold_height=” fold_more=’Read more’ fold_less=’Read less’ fold_text_style=” fold_btn_align=” textblock_styling_align=” textblock_styling=” textblock_styling_gap=” textblock_styling_mobile=” size=” av-desktop-font-size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=” color=” fold_overlay_color=” fold_text_color=” fold_btn_color=’theme-color’ fold_btn_bg_color=” fold_btn_font_color=” size-btn-text=” av-desktop-font-size-btn-text=” av-medium-font-size-btn-text=” av-small-font-size-btn-text=” av-mini-font-size-btn-text=” fold_timer=” z_index_fold=” id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-kpn0ulhj’ sc_version=’1.0′ admin_preview_bg=”] Cypress Environment & Infrastructure (Cypress) is a consulting firm specializing in engineering, planning, and environmental science in the southeastern and mid-Atlantic regions.  We serve these regions from our offices in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Cypress provides a range of environmental science and engineering services including civil engineering project design, environmental permitting, water resources modeling, master planning and construction administration.  Cypress is a licensed engineering firm in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Georgia. Cypress focuses on creating better projects where the built environment meets the natural environment. We stay abreast of current research as well as innovations in products, materials, and techniques to provide the most cost-effective methods to achieve an individual client’s objectives while planning and building projects and developments that work with the environment. [/av_textblock] [/av_one_full][av_hr class=’invisible’ height=’50’ shadow=’no-shadow’ position=’center’ custom_border=’av-border-thin’ custom_width=’50px’ custom_border_color=” custom_margin_top=’30px’ custom_margin_bottom=’30px’ icon_select=’yes’ custom_icon_color=” icon=’ue808′ font=’entypo-fontello’ av_uid=’av-11j4pqj’] [av_textblock size=” av-medium-font-size=” av-small-font-size=” av-mini-font-size=” font_color=’custom’ color=’#719430′ id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-1p0izv’ sc_version=’1.0′ admin_preview_bg=”]

Principals & Key Staff

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She is an experienced project and grants manager and has completed projects for multiple branches of the United States armed forces as well as municipal and private clients. Her ecosystem restoration experience includes wetland and stream assessment, monitoring, and restoration design. She is also experienced in planning and completing Phase I and II environmental site assessments on commercial and military sites as well as planning and compliance for stormwater. 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His experience includes work in the regulatory, research and consulting sectors. Mr. Foster’s experience includes ecological function and impact assessment from watershed to site scale, restoration planning and project design, wetland determination and delineations, wetlands and land cover mapping, environmental permitting, endangered species surveys, assessment of wetland function, and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for environmental management.’ image_size=” image_width=’av-team-img-original’ border=” border_width=” border_width_sync=’true’ border_color=” border_radius=” border_radius_sync=’true’ size-name=” av-medium-font-size-name=” av-small-font-size-name=” av-mini-font-size-name=” size-job=” av-medium-font-size-job=” av-small-font-size-job=” av-mini-font-size-job=” size-description=” av-medium-font-size-description=” av-small-font-size-description=” av-mini-font-size-description=” font_color=” custom_title=” custom_job=” custom_content=” custom_icon=” custom_icon_hover=” img_scrset=” lazy_loading=’disabled’ id=” custom_class=” template_class=” av_uid=’av-5bcygr’ sc_version=’1.0′ admin_preview_bg=”] [av_team_icon title=’Marc on LinkedIn’ link=’https://www.linkedin.com/in/mfoster-cypress/’ link_target=” icon=’ue8fd’ font=’entypo-fontello’ av_uid=’av-3u4djv’ sc_version=’1.0′] [av_team_icon title=’Marc via email’ link=’mailto:[email protected]’ link_target=” icon=’ue805′ font=’entypo-fontello’ av_uid=’av-1wfl6z’ sc_version=’1.0′] [/av_team_member] [/av_one_half] [av_one_half first min_height=” vertical_alignment=” space=” custom_margin=” margin=’0px’ padding=’0px’ border=” border_color=” radius=’0px’ background_color=” src=” background_position=’top left’ background_repeat=’no-repeat’ animation=” av_uid=’av-akynrv’] [av_team_member name=’Lindsay Spurrier, AICP’ job=’Planning & Environmental Program Manager’ src=’https://cypressei.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Lindsay-Spurrier-2021-square-Mobile.jpg’ attachment=’4449′ attachment_size=’full’ description=’Ms. Spurrier is an environmental planner with 12 years of experience in environmental science, planning, and geospatial analysis. She leads the environmental science and planning groups at Cypress, directing projects including watershed planning, mitigation banking, wetlands permitting, and GIS. As an FAA-licensed remote pilot, she has experience in unmanned vehicle mission planning, aerial imagery acquisition, and photogrammetry. She’s also an amateur axe thrower, professional taste tester, and closet Hello Kitty enthusiast. 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With a strong research background in intertidal zone hydrodynamics, she is passionate about finding practicable solutions at the intersection of engineering and ecology. At Cypress, Ms. Billingsley focuses on a variety of projects as both a design engineer and project manager. She brings AutoCAD Civil 3D expertise to projects involving stormwater management, marina design, navigable channel dredging, and civil site planning. She is experienced with watershed management plans and Phase I & II ESAs, and she provides construction inspection and field reconnaissance support. Ms. Billingsley is an FAA-licensed remote pilot, MDOT Certified Erosion Control Person, and NAUI-certified scuba diver. When she is not at work, you can find her outside, at a concert, or with her two cats, Alaska and Bernoulli.’ img_copyright=” image_size=” image_width=’av-team-img-original’ border=” border_width=” border_width_sync=’true’ border_color=” border_radius=” border_radius_sync=’true’ size-name=” av-desktop-font-size-name=” av-medium-font-size-name=” av-small-font-size-name=” av-mini-font-size-name=” size-job=” av-desktop-font-size-job=” av-medium-font-size-job=” av-small-font-size-job=” av-mini-font-size-job=” size-description=” av-desktop-font-size-description=” av-medium-font-size-description=” av-small-font-size-description=” av-mini-font-size-description=” font_color=” custom_title=” custom_job=” custom_content=” custom_icon=” custom_icon_hover=” img_copyright_font=” av-desktop-font-img_copyright_font=” av-medium-font-img_copyright_font=” av-small-font-img_copyright_font=” av-mini-font-img_copyright_font=” img_copyright_color=” img_copyright_bg=” img_scrset=” lazy_loading=’disabled’ 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