Jim Doesburg earned Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Geology from the University of Missouri. He became familiar with horizontal remediation wells while General Manager of Battelle’s Environmental Management Organization (EMO). EMO demonstrated the effectiveness of horizontal remediation wells as an innovative remediation technology at Tinker AFB in 1991. In 1996 Doesburg founded Directed Technologies Drilling, Inc., where he has continued to develop, patent, and apply new environmental remediation technologies. Horizontal wells are used throughout the world for environmental remediation, dewatering, water supply and site investigations. While at Battelle, Doesburg received the Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for Technology Transfer.