George Lombardo, Lizardos Engineering Associates

Mineola, NY Lizardos Engineering Associates, P.C. has named new senior leadership at the firm. Founding partner Evans Lizardos, PE, president since 1992, will be relinquishing his role to George  Lombardo, PE.

Lombardo has been a principal at the firm since 1999. Lizardos, 80, will remain with the firm in a mentoring and consulting role.

Lombardo brings extensive design and construction experience to the position. He joined Lizardos in 1992 immediately upon graduation from Polytechnic University (now the engineering college at NYU). In his early years at Lizardos he worked with Douglas Pavone, PE, and Lewis Damrauer, PE, now both partners-emeritus at the firm.

Lombardo developed specialized expertise in HVAC, pharmaceutical design, industrial automation, and process control engineering through a series of projects both stateside and for many years in Puerto Rico. He recently completed the three-year on-site assignment as a process utilities engineer for the National Synchrotron Light Source II (NSLS II) at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

In his new leadership role, he will work with fellow principals Ralph Aldorasi, PE, John Lizardos, PE, Daniel O’Sullivan, PE, Marios Tinis, PE, newly appointed director of operations, Thomas Cusack, PE, and the associates and senior staff of the firm to continue the tradition of excellence at the now 51-year old firm specializing in mechanical/electrical design and construction engineering.

Lombardo resides in Plainview with his wife, Patti, two sons and a daughter. When he is not engineering or attending one of his kids’ school or sporting events, you will probably find him roller blading through his neighborhood.

In 1965, Evans, a 28-year old mechanical engineer with a young family took a big chance. He quit his job, went into his basement and founded his own engineering firm. He believed the New York metro area needed an engineering firm that would provide quality engineering services with innovative design, not the “cookie-cutter” designs so prevalent at the time. Joined shortly by his older brother George, they struggled at first, but over time Lizardos Engineering developed a reputation based upon the principles set by the brothers.

Fast forward 51 years later, the firm today has two offices, six owners and a staff of 70 engineers and designers, continuing the same principles Lizardos first established in his basement. Today, he plans to continue to put on his tie every morning and come to the office in his new role as founding partner, where he will mentor their young engineers about the things he loves most about engineering.

Lombardo, PE, has already hit the ground running and is anxious to follow the upward path that began in Evans’ basement long ago. He will instill in the staff the excellence in engineering that Evans always strived to achieve. Not so much a new direction, but rather, a continuation of the journey.