Mr. Becker started his career with Bartlett in 1973 while in college in Roanoke, VA, where he earned a Bachelor of Liberal Arts Degree in Botany and Business from Roanoke College.n 1975. With Bartlett, Peter has served in positions of ground man, climber, arborist/representative, Local Manager in the Baltimore, MD office and was promoted to the Assistant Division Manager for the Mid-East Division in 1988. He assumed his present position in 1989 and now serves as a Senior- Vice President and the Division Manager of the Mid- Atlantic Division. In 1985, Peter was instrumental in the development of the IPM Development Project at Bartlett, at the Baltimore, Maryland office location, as well as other Bartlett locations. Peter is a member of the Maryland Arborist Association and served, as president from 1988-1990, Chairman of the Maryland Community Forestry Council from 1996-1998, was a 2000, 2001 and 2003 Tour des Trees rider raising funds for the Tree Fund. He is presently Bartlett Tree Experts representative to the ANZI A-300 Committee and serves on the business accreditation council for TCIA. He has served as the Division Manager representative to the Bartlett Safety Committee from 2001 –2003. Bartlett Tree Expert Co., Charlotte, NC, United States