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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A highly motivated and team-oriented professional with a successful track record in outreach programs and environmental policy. Effective in directing projects, as well as communicating across broad areas of expertise for internal and external customers. Skilled in project execution and evaluation. Adept at data analysis, presentation of complex policy issues, preparing overviews, and meeting needs of diverse audiences. Recognized by internal and external customers for formulating strategic plans; recognized and promoted for ability to sustain long-term relationships.
AREAS OF FOCUS AND STRENGTH
- Conducted extensive public outreach with EPA stakeholders, developed and implemented National Programs.
- Served on national task forces to develop databases for industry and regulatory agencies.
- Demonstrated skill in consensus building between federal, state and private industry; capable of "cross-walking" multiple federal regulatory programs.
- Conducted exposure and risk assessments for registration, re-registration and special review for 3 years; participating in numerous reregistration decisions that impacted use patterns, growers, workers and other stakeholders.
- Developed amendments; changed the Federal Code, influenced legislative processes for EPA for 4 years.
- Dissertation: Daily Rainfall Simulation: A Comparison of Four Stochastic Modeling Approaches – an evaluation of four statistical methods for reproducing rainfall climatologies based on long-term data records from nine sites.
- Conducted post-doctoral work: Industrial Hygiene and Safety Engineering; excellent knowledge of environmental data collection and statistical analysis. (Program equivalent to M.S.)
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Hartz Mountain Corp, Secaucus New Jersey 2003-2004
Director, Government Relations, 2003
- Manage 1600 consumer products, including regulated and non-regulated items: feeds, over-the-counter drugs, toys, and pesticide products.
- Completed transition branding of all EPA and FDA products in 2002-2003.
- Participating in Tetrachlorvinphos (TCVP) US and UK reregistration Task Force and played role in data development and contract management.
- Issued monthly accounting for EPA-mandated orderly product exchange for two products.
- Responsible for assuring all product labeling and advertising claims are in compliance with current regulatory requirements.
- Conducted OSHA walk-thru inspections for manufacturing facility; addressed specific issues regarding sanitation and vermin control in feed manufacturing, as well as routine industrial issues.
GRIFFIN L.L.C., Valdosta, Georgia 1998 - 2002
Senior Registration Manager, 2002
Registration Manager, 2001
Senior Registration Specialist, 1998-2000
- Opened $1 million (2002), $3 million new sales opportunities (2001); Outstanding Associate (2001).
- Recognized for Outstanding Team Effort – 1999; Certified Level 5 Incident Commander for HazMat spills, 2001 and 2002. Conducted OSHA workplace inspections for research laboratories and scaleup facilities.
- Served as Fungicide Technical Team Leader - 2001, 2002; coordinated team to develop data for EPA and EU submission; developed timetables, budgets, reallocated team resources when appropriate to assure major project milestones were met. Manage expectations and relay progress to business management.
- Responsible for developing all regulatory submissions for fungicides, including products for turf, nursery, and ornamental (also some herbicide products). Developed and maintained MSDS for products, maintained toxicological data, study files, and correspondence files for products. Member of three US and EU Reregistration Task Forces.
- Prevented cancellation of uses for triphenyltin hydroxide; preserved $4.5 million per year in sales in 1999.
- Registered five new products; managed $2.4 million in studies for re-registration, prevented multimillion fine for misbranded technical shipment.
EPA, Washington, D.C. 1991 - 1998
Chemist – Project Manager; Field and External Affairs Division, 1995-1998Chemist – Reviewer, Exposure Assessment, Health Effects Division, 1991-1994
- Developed rule amendment, registered reduced risk pesticides under tight Congressional deadlines; maintained and distributed database (approved 131 Reduced Risk Products); co-author of Pesticide Regulatory Notice 95-3, 95-5, 98-9, and one enforcement regulatory notice.
- Provided regulatory relief to agriculture for respirator product selection (PR Notice 98-9).
- Gained financial support of U.S. safety industries; placed $175,000 of donated personal protective equipment in State and Regional Offices for conducting training.
- Directed contractors for EPA's Pesticide Handlers Handbook, and Guidance Manual for Selecting Personal Protective Equipment.
- Conducted State inspector training (2 years). Developed training videotapes for Worker Safety training. Team member for EPA's HAZCOM regulatory efforts. Manager for Pesticide Handlers Exposure database - one year.
- Collaborated on multi-year effort to develop technical performance standard and incorporate American Society of Agricultural Engineers S525/Enclosed Cab Standard into Worker Protection regulations.
- Formed joint venture with North American Compendiums to develop EPA's WPS Product Safety Data Pocket Guide.
- Participated in National Public meetings to evaluate Worker Protection program, contributor to report.
- Regulatory liaison for Crop Life (formerly ACPA, industry lobbyists); presentation made for CPDA (Chemical Producers and Distributors of America) as invited speaker.
- Regulatory liaison to CAL-EPA/DPR for harmonization and review of all new worker health and safety regulations.
- Conducted exposure assessments on wide variety of products, exposure technical lead for ethylene oxide, aluminum phosphide, sulfotepp, chlorine, acrolein, chlorothalonil. Member of numerous EPA reregistration teams.
EDUCATION
TEXAS A&M, College Station, TX; Postdoctoral work: Industrial Hygiene and Safety Engineering, NIOSH Fellowship Recipient
TEXAS A&M, College Station, TX; Ph.D., Agronomy; Minor in Statistics. Mills Water Fellowship
PENNSYLVANIA STATE, State College, PA; M.S., Horticulture, Minor in Climatology
RADFORD COLLEGE, Radford, VA; B.S., Biology (honors); Minor in Chemistry
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