Meet our team

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Shawn Dolan

Founder & CEO

Shawn Dolan founded Virtual Technology LLC in 2006 and has spent more than 30 years working at the intersection of environmental technology, regulatory compliance, and sustainable infrastructure.

Over the course of his career, Shawn has contributed to enterprise-level Environmental, Safety, and Occupational Health solutions used across the Department of Defense and has worked with agencies and organizations throughout the United States and abroad to develop and institutionalize air-quality monitoring networks.

His work has focused on using better data to support practical environmental decision-making—connecting regional monitoring information with reported emissions data to identify opportunities to reduce pollution while supporting economic growth and the communities that depend on it.

While working with air-quality programs across the region, Shawn identified a fundamental gap in how visible emissions were being measured. Unlike many pollutants, which can be quantified through automated monitoring based on their unique signatures, visible emissions have historically relied on human observation. Opacity, a key measure of visible emissions compliance, is still primarily determined through EPA Method 9, a visual observation procedure developed in the late 1960s.

Recognizing the need for a more objective, consistent, and defensible approach, Shawn founded Virtual Technology to develop digital monitoring systems that bring modern imaging and data technology to visible emissions compliance.

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Allison Price

Head of Operations

Allison leads operations at Virtual Technology, keeping DOCS II running for the agencies and facilities that use it. She holds an MS in Resilient and Sustainable Communities from Prescott College and a BS in Environmental Studies from Northern Arizona University, with training in GIS and sustainable development. She co-authored ‘Life cycle cost evaluation of the Digital Opacity Compliance System’ with Shawn Dolan.

Our analysts

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Randi Ryan

Randi leads sales and business development at Virtual Technology, where she has worked since 2014. She knows the work from the field up: she is a Method 9 certified observer with years of opacity readings, field work and emissions data behind her. Randi holds a BS in Environmental Studies from Northern Arizona University.

Sales & Business Development

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Robin Goldfarb

Robin connects Virtual Technology with the agencies, facilities and community groups it works with. She studied in Flagstaff and spends as much time outdoors as she can: she teaches white water rafting and loves hiking and animals. She looks for passion in life and tries to live in the moment.

Outreach Manager

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Liliana leads technology and marketing at Virtual Technology, modernizing the DOCS II platform and how the company presents it. She brings customer success and technical support experience from Bandcamp, an Epic Games company, and studied at NYU's Gallatin School with a minor in environmental science. She is a Gates Millennium Scholar and a Udall Scholar.

Head of Technology & Marketing