Presque Isle PFE
The Filed Record · Quarterly
EST 2008ERIE PA · PE 047589

Department · Principals & PE roster

Four engineers — three PE-sealed, one EIT — on the firm’s working roster.

Each entry below lists license number, jurisdictions, courts of testimony, IEEE / NAFI / NSPE memberships, and a 90-word biographical paragraph. Click the engineer’s name to read the full roster entry, which carries the principal’s testimony record, signature investigations, and academic affiliation.

Founder · Managing Principal

Margaret W. Trzaska, PhD, PE

PA PE 047589
Degrees
PhD CMU 2008 · BSEE CMU 2003
Joined firm
September 2008 (founder)
Jurisdictions
PA · OH · NY (reciprocity)
Courts testified
WDPa · NDOH · Erie Cty PA · Crawford Cty PA · Cuyahoga Cty OH · Ashtabula Cty OH
Memberships
IEEE PES Senior · NSPE · NAFE · ACEC PA
Academic
Adjunct, Penn State Behrend EE program

Founded the firm in September 2008 immediately after completing her PhD at Carnegie Mellon under Marija Ilic and Granger Morgan. Specialty: power-quality engineering, IEEE 519 harmonic surveys, voltage-immunity disputes, and the broader question of how industrial customers fail to read their own electrical data. Has filed 312 sealed reports for the firm; has testified at 47 depositions and 19 bench trials. Lectures Wednesday evenings at Penn State Behrend.

Senior Investigator

Theron O. Adekunle, PE

PA PE 052187
Degrees
BSEE PSU Behrend 2003 · MS RIT 2010
Joined firm
March 2015 (from Bechtel)
Jurisdictions
PA · OH · NY · MD (reciprocity)
Courts testified
WDPa · NDOH · MDPa · Allegheny Cty PA · Trumbull Cty OH
Memberships
IEEE IAS Senior · IEEE PES · NSPE · NAFE
Academic
Adjunct, Penn State Behrend (industrial-power track)

Joined Presque Isle PFE in 2015 from eleven years at Bechtel’s industrial-power group in Frederick, MD. Specialty: arc-flash incident reconstruction under IEEE 1584, motor-failure root-cause analysis, grounding-and-bonding investigations, particularly on industrial 480 V and 4.16 kV switchgear. Has filed 168 sealed reports for the firm; has testified at 31 depositions and 11 bench trials.

Forensic Specialist · CFEI

Hanna Lindqvist-Vasilakou, PE, CFEI

PA PE 064411
Degrees
BSEE UBuffalo 2008 · MS CMU 2014
Joined firm
July 2019
Jurisdictions
PA · OH · NY (reciprocity)
Courts testified
WDPa · NDOH · WDNY · Erie Cty PA · Buffalo City Ct NY
Memberships
NAFI CFEI 8447 · IAAI · IEEE PES · NSPE
Academic
Adjunct, Penn State Behrend (forensic engineering)

Joined Presque Isle PFE in 2019, bringing the firm its first stand-alone fire-origin practice under R-01 and a NAFI CFEI credential. Specialty: electrical fire origin and cause, lightning and surge investigations, ASTM E1188 evidence preservation. Has filed 94 sealed reports for the firm; has testified at 22 depositions and 6 bench trials.

Associate · EIT

Doménico Marcantonio, EIT

PA EIT 089224
Degree
BSEE PSU Behrend 2022 (power track)
Joined firm
August 2023
PE pursuit
Sitting Pennsylvania PE October 2026
Specialty area
Power-quality survey instrument deployment · NMEA data analysis · CAD support
Memberships
IEEE PES (student/young) · NSPE (associate)

Joined the firm in 2023 as an EIT under formal mentoring track through the Pennsylvania State Board for PEs. Specialty in development: power-quality survey instrument deployment, NMEA data analysis on marine-electrical matters, CAD support for sealed-report exhibit drawings. Working toward the October 2026 PA PE examination; will sit power-systems depth.

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