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Education
Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado
Bachelor of Science - Geology
Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado
Masters Studies - Geology
Professional Experience
2006 - Present Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality
Sheridan, WY
Ground Water Program -- North District
Geologic Project Analyst
_ Review Coal Bed Methane (CBM) ground water discharge permit applications
_ Authorize ground water monitoring waiver requests
_ Inter-agency Task Force member with BLM, other WDEQ agencies,
USFW, WGFD and other regulatory agencies
_ Develop permit tracking database
1993 - 1999 SELF-EMPLOYED Denver, Colorado
Consultant
_ ENVIRONMENTAL CONSULTANT -- Prepare and follow through to acceptance of NPDES (National Pollution Discharge Elimination
System) and SPCC (Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure)
plans and permits for a major gasoline and diesel spill.
_ Develop and implement database for reporting of activities and document control
_ Oversee remediation activities involving pumping and treatment as well as soil vapor extraction (SVE) methods
_ Conduct Environmental Site Assessments (ESA).
_ Conduct hazardous materials inventories
_ Liaison between consulting firm, client, city and state governments
_ Develop and implement project controls
_ Provide senior review of submittals
_ CONSULTING PROJECT MANAGER -- Provide contract Project
Management for various construction projects such as remedial grouting and estimating for asphalt coatings and tennis court repairs.
_ Provide business consulting
_ Develop plans and specifications
_ $8,000,000 remedial grouting program to save a large earthen dam, included road construction, project controls, scheduling, subcontractor supervision, claim administration, contract modifications and reporting
CONSULTING PETROLEUM GEOLOGIST -- Provide petroleum well site supervision at wells throughout the western US for companies such as Amoco, Anadarko, Celsius, Anschutz, Yates and others. Included in this are a number of highly important wildcat wells.
_ Provide geologic consulting on many wells in North Dakota, including the highest producing oil well in the states history
_ Provide geologic consulting on many wells throughout Wyoming, including production wells in the Red Desert, wildcat wells in the
Wind River Basin, Red Desert and other parts of the greater
Green River Basin, and the Powder River Basin.
1992 - 1993 LAYNE-WESTERN Tacoma, Washington
Branch Manager
_ Managed staff of 17 and all operations of a branch of a multinational, multimillion environmental, waterwell and mineral drilling company with extensive DOE and DOD work
_ Responsible for all compliance, operations, safety and business development as well as sales and business plans.
_ "Top Achiever" Award
_ Increased sales from 200% and bids by 300% through office reorganization
_ Expanded services in water supply, industrial mineral exploration and construction drilling
_ Provide large program cost estimating and management
1992 - 1992 BURLINGTON ENVIRONMENTAL
Group Leader/Division Engineer Seattle, Washington
_ Managed multidisciplinary staff of 10 geologists, hydrogeologists, chemists and drillers involved in the field evaluation and characterization of various hazardous waste sites.
_ Successfully demonstrated large project management (greater than
$500,000) of projects such as the Washington Public Power Supply
System Reactor No. 1.
_ Activities included proposal preparation, scheduling, business development and oversight of field work.
_ Projects included site investigations on many sites owned by the
Burlington Northern Railroad
1990 - 1992 HARRISON WESTERN CONSTRUCTION
Division Engineer/Division Manager Lakewood, Colorado
_ Led highly successful effort to develop, implement and market innovative drilling equipment to the environmental and natural resource community. Developed business at Rocky Flats, INEL
(Idaho National Engineering Laboratory) and the Hanford Nuclear
Reservation
_ Led design/build teams and developed numerous applications of specialized equipment resulting in 12-fold increase in sales and showing profits of $750,000 from a loss of $40,000 when I started.
_ Responsible for multiple sole-source research and development contracts
_ Incorporated existing technology to construct longest, deepest directionally drilled recovery well of the time.
Division Engineer/Division Manager Lakewood, Colorado
_ Project Manager for above projects and contracts simultaneously with other responsibilities
_ Responsible for estimating, scheduling, reporting, operations, safety, contract review and development of sales and business plans
_ MSHA Instructor
1988 - 1990 JACOBS ENGINEERING Lakewood, Colorado
Hydrogeologist
_ Led highly technical staff of five Ph D scientists to quantitatively review, develop techniques of analysis and report questionable chemical and radiological data. This effort resulted in multiple criminal investigations and convictions.
_ This was in many ways the first effort of it's kind and the methodology used became the model for data review for the EPA and DOE
_ Work on this project included securing funding, development of Work
Plans, development of various quality control plans, assigning personnel, supervising these personnel, and reporting
_ Prepared critical sections of Remedial Investigation / Feasibility Studies
(RI/FS) reports on a large number of CERCAL and NCRA sites around the country
_ Reports included sections on Geology, Hydrology, Contaminant Fate and Transport, Earthquake Hazard analysis, Data Validation
_ Provided technical review of at least six SUPERFUND sites around the country
_ Assessed technical compliance of Jacobs offices throughout the United
States in preparation for TES IV Program close-out
_ Through knowledge of field operations was able to increase well drilling operations by more than 400%
_ Initiated program to use down hole geophysics for monitoring wells to aid in interpretation and to establish quantitative quality assurance of cementing operations
_ Assisted in field sampling programs of very high level contaminants
_ Provided assistance for a variety of hydrologic investigations
_ Provided geologic oversight at a number of critical monitoring wells including the deepest wells drilled in the area
_ Maintained document inventory and library through use of database program (dBase III TM)
_ Appointed Contractor Sample Control Coordinator (CSCC) at Jacobs
Denver office.
1984 - 1986 CELSIUS ENERGY Denver, Colorado
Geologist
_ Responsible for companies oil and gas holdings in Eastern Colorado
_ Developed and implemented computerized data base
_ This database resulted in a new field discovery with reserves in excess of 2 BCF
_ This database also resulted in a reduction of prospect inventory saving the company more than $100,000 annually
1982 - 1984 SELF-EMPLOYED Denver, Colorado
Consulting Geologist
_ Provided geologic supervision at oil and gas test wells for numerous clients in Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas
_ Included in these wells are numerous Coal Bed Methane tests in the
Raton Basin of Colorado and a 12,000 foot test below a granite sub-
thrust
1982 - 1982 STRATA ENERGY Houston, Texas
Senior Geologist
_ Responsible for company's holdings in the Powder River Basin (PRB) of
Wyoming
_ Develop oil and gas prospects in the PRB for the company
_ Review prospect submittals for company
1981 - 1982 SELF EMPLOYED Denver, Colorado
Consulting Geologist
_ Instrumental to company start-up of synthetic fuels operation
_ Responsible for negotiation and acquisition of leases and licensing
(foreign and domestic)
_ Responsible for world-wide exploration -- exploration teams in western
United States, Venezuela and Trinidad
_ Responsible for public relations including radio, television and print media
_ Corporate Liaison for all operations, including coordination of state and federal authorities, industry consultants in petroleum, refinery, mining, legal and environmental consultants
_ Develop theory of formation of Tar Sands and published
_ Negotiation of ministerial level in Venezuela and to Lt. Governor domestically
_ Develop marketing plan for company's holdings, leases and licenses
1978 - 1981 FREMONT ENERGY CORPORATION
Senior Geologist Denver, Colorado
_ Supervised multi-disciplinary staff and contract personnel of up to 50
people in a $15,000,000 gas field development operation
_ Responsibilities ranged from well-site supervision, pipeline design and construction, supervision of very large condensate fracturing operations, design and construction of compressor stations
_ Analysis and implementation of field operations lead to 10%
increase of production by increased efficiency of produced water removal
_ Responsible for company's oil and gas holdings in Texas and
Nebraska
_ Assist in $12,000,000 sale of 50% of these assets
_ Responsible for company's uranium holdings in Wyoming
_ Duties included supervision of up to three junior geologists with concurrent drilling operations, ore calculations, and ongoing local and regional exploration
_ Assist in solution mine planning operations
_ Develop and market these properties
_ Supervise reclamation efforts in mineralized areas
_ Assist in gaining access to RARE II areas with no damage to the environment
_ Conduct regional gold exploration in Peru
_ Review prospect submittals and conduct regional review of oil and gas potential in Panama
_ Successfully joined oil and gas development project in Kansas
1976 - 1978 PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF OKLAHOMA
Project Geologist Denver, Colorado
_ Responsible for corporation's uranium exploration projects on the
Colorado Plateau and in the Basin and Range Province of Arizona
_ Responsibilities included drilling operations, geologic interpretations, internal reports and reports to partners, and recommendations as well as overall operations and financial management
_ Supervised up to three geologists, five subcontracted drilling crews, geophysical log crews
_ Made a very significant uranium discovery
_ Involved with helicopter supported drilling operations in the high mountains and in granitic terrain of southwestern Colorado
_ This program, conducted in a Wilderness area was performed with no deleterious effects to the environment
_ Involved with exploration in volcano-fluvatile exploration in central Idaho
_ Conducted regional exploration involving LANDSTAT imagery
_ Conducted regional exploration in other parts of the Basin and Range province
1976 - 1976 COTTER CORPORATION
Project Geologist Naturita, Colorado
_ Responsible for supervision of drill crews on the Colorado Plateau
_ Provide underground mapping of mines
1975 - 1976 WOLD NUCLEAR COMPANY
Project Geologist Casper, Wyoming
_ Responsible for uranium exploration and development of company's holdings in the Red Desert of Wyoming
_ Responsible for adding $7,000,000 to companies reserves leading to the sale of the property
_ Responsible for exploration reserve calculations and geophysical log calculations
_ Supervised one geologist, three drill crews, geophysical logging crew
_ Conduct exploration programs in New Mexico and Wyoming
1974 - 1975 GO INTERNATIONAL, INC.
E-Log Trainee Casper, Wyoming
_ Learned operational process and techniques for cased hole logging prior to e-Log school
Publications
1. Origins of Tar Sands, Western Tar Sands Raven Ridge Pilot Plant
Project - Ground Breaking Ceremony, Vernal, Utah, 1981.
2. Predicting the Possibility of Oil Production from Tar Sand
Deposits based on Geologic, Logging, and Composition; Society of
Petroleum Engineers, Regional Meeting, Billings, Montana, 1982.
3. Use of Specialized Mining and Petroleum Drilling Technology for
Environmental Applications; HMCRI - Superfund '90, Washington,
D.C. 1990.
4. Your Leach Pad - Gold Mine or Money Pit; AIME Meeting,
Phoenix, Arizona, February, 1992 with others.
5. Use of Sonic Drilling at the Radioactive Waste Management
Complex at the INEL; with T.P O'Rourke et al, Federal
Environmental Restoration, Washington, D. C. 1992
Professional Activities
Wyoming Professional Geologist # 3626 - 2007
Environmental Compliance - Solutions. .. - 1990 Northwest Mining
Association and Colorado Mining Association
Washington State Well Drilling Association, Member, 1993
Northwest Mining Association, Member, 1993
American Water Well Association, Member, 1991-1993
Colorado Contractors Association - Hazardous Waste Committee, 1992
Colorado Hazardous Waste Society, Member, 1991-1992
Hazardous Materials Control Research Institute, Member, 1990-1992
Mine Safety Health Administration, 1990, Instructor
American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Member, 1982-1986
Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists, Member, 1978-1986
Colorado Insurance Division, Agent, Life Accident and Health, 1987-1991
Colorado Insurance Division, Agent, Variable Contracts, 1987-1991
Additional Education
Basic Principles of Hydrogeology and Contaminant Transport -- USEPA,
Lakewood, 2007
Vadose Zone Hydrology: Principles and Practices -- Daniel B Stephens
& Associates, Inc. Sheridan, 2007
Workshop on Monitored Natural Attenuation of Inorganic Contaminants in Ground Water -- USEPA, Denver, 2007
CBM Training -- Wyoming Pollution Discharge Elimination System
Program Staff, Casper, 2007
Hydrogen Sulfide Training and Supplied Air Training - OILLIND, 1997
Contractor Quality Control Certification, 1996 US Army Corps of
Engineers, Denver
OSHA Refresher - Health Risk Associates, 1994
OSHA Refresher - Layne, Inc, 1993
Hydrology School - Layne, Inc. 1993
OSHA Refresher - Harrison Western, 1992
OSHA Refresher - Harrison Western, 1991
Practical Construction Law - Federal Publications, 1990
OSHA Refresher - WJ Heyer Assoc, 1990
Radiation Worker Training I and II - 1990, INEL, Idaho Falls, ID
HAZWOPER Training - 1990, INEL, Idaho Falls, ID
OSHA Supervisor Training - 1989, WSSRAP, St. Charles, MO
Supervisor Training - 1989, Jacobs Engineering, Denver, CO
Radiation Safety Training - 1988, Morrison Knudson, St Charles, MO
Health Hazards - 1988, Metcalf and Associates, St Charles, MO
Hazardous Materials - 1988, Metcalf and Associates, St Charles, MO
Personal Protective Equipment, - 1988, Metcalf and Associates, St
Charles, MO
Site Controls, - 1988, Metcalf and Associates, St Charles, MO
Site Emergencies - 1988, Metcalf and Associates, St Charles, MO
Container Handling, - 1988, Metcalf and Associates, St Charles, MO
Colorado School of Mines - Depositional Facies and Porosity
Development in Carbonate Rocks, 1985
H.K. van Poolen and Associates - Formation Evaluation: Applied, 1980
H.K. van Poolen and Associates - Formation Evaluation: A Review, 1980
Colorado School of Mines - Geochemical Exploration for Uranium and
Base Metals, 1979
Awards received
International Award Winner
High base increase award winner
Lead campaign committee member
Temporary supervisor
Many other awards and letters of commendation
Community activities
Lexington Square Homeowners Association, Secretary/Treasurer; 1978
Geology Club President - Colorado State University, 1973
Commendations Tim McCormick - Summit Envirosolutions
Bill Stoddard - Summit Envirosolutions
Barbara Danielson - Career Transition Resource Center
Louis Hart - Western Tar Sands
H.L. Cullins - Strata Energy
Bill Mundt - Strata Energy
Nick Thomaidis - Celsius Energy
Wayne Stiska - IDS Financial Services
W.A Carlson - Public Service of Oklahoma
Marsh Nottingham - Liberty Exploration
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