Greg Smith graduated from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa with a BS in Construction Management and worked at Bean Stuyvesant from 2002-2006, working on, amongst other projects, the Miami (Florida) River dredging project. From 2006 to the present he has been working for J.F. Brennan Co. Inc. on the cleanup of the Fox River, first as Project Engineer and since 2007 as Project Manager.