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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
* ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER (17 Yrs Private and Public)
* COMPUTER INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (GIS & IT)
* PROJECT MANAGEMENT& COST ESTIMATING
* PUBLIC PARTICIPATION/PRESS CONFERENCES
* REGULATORY COMPLIANCE AND POLICY ANALYSIS (ISO 14000 Lead Auditor Cert.)
EDUCATION: 1979 - 1984 Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia
(Top 26th ranked Engineering - U.S. News and World Report)
B.S. Civil Engineering (Environmental Engineering) Grade Point Average of 3.2
EMPLOYMENT:
2001 - 2002 Town of Wayland, MA
Community Volunteer Environmental Consultant
Wayland, MA
* Spoke at press conference with representatives from the Toxics Action Center and National Environmental Law Center in the towns of Stowe/Hudson, MA announcing a citizen follow up lawsuit in 1st Federal District Court. Answered regulatory questions regarding why the usage of herbicides should require NPDES permits under the CWA as currently required by the 9th Federal District Court.
* Requested speaker for a press conference for the Jamaica Plain Citizen's Association regarding the need to expand the jurisdiction of Governor Cellucci's new law "An Act to Protect Children and Families from Harmful Pesticides" to Public Parks adjacent to schools there.
* Speaker at six environmental training seminars to educate local citizens on the risks associated with pesticides and the status of federal regulatory oversight.
* Assisted in volunteer community event for the Town of Wayland's Dudley Pond Association (DPA) to recruit trained scuba divers to hand-pull nuisance aquatic weeds.
* Chaired DPA Weed Committee made up of nine unpaid volunteers to do research on available weed eradication methods looking at costs, effectiveness, and sustainability ranking factors. Prepared report titled, "DPA Weed Committee Findings: A Summary of Eurasian Milfoil Control Technologies", dated Oct. 13, 2002. This report has been widely distributed to other towns in Massachusetts including Sharon, Harvard, Stowe, Hudson, and others as requested.
* Certified as an ISO 14000 Lead Auditor. Completed training in December 2002.
2000-2001 Xpogen Inc.
CEO's Assistant/Grant Writer/Business Marketing
Cambridge, MA
* Assisted with the startup of a bioinformatics software company. Xpogen, Inc. Xpogen has licensed it's PathlinX(tm) 3.0 software to the Sloan-Kettering Institute (SKI), Beth Israel Genomics Center, and McLean Hospitals in Massachusetts. Also led rewriting and reformatting of Xpogen Business Development Plan that was used to raise $2 million in venture capital funding.
* Led preparation of two SBIR grants proposal to the National Institute of Health working with physicians and engineers. Also, assisted CEO with administrative and personnel issues, including setting up health benefits, worker's compensation, stock options and identifying suitable office space.
1998 - 2000 U.S. Dept. of Energy, Boston Regional Office
Energy Marketing Technology Specialist
Boston, MA
* Administered and monitored government grants which were designed to promote energy efficient residential and commercial building codes, usage of biopower and biofuels and energy efficient motors, high efficiency turbines, and combined heat and power technologies in industrial applications. The duties of this position required marketing the grants program to inventors, small businesses, electric utilities, target industries at conferences, workshops and training. Job required extensive travel (4-8 trips per month) to cover the entire New York and New England area.
* Pushed for Headquarters support for government sponsorship of Business-to-Business B2B websites for renewable energy industries where buyers and sellers auction their products (e.g., www.woodfuel.com.)
* Initiated drafting and obtaining comments for approval of a Memorandum of Understanding between six Regional and Headquarters offices to clarify staff roles and responsibilities.
Feb 97 - June 97 U.S. EPA's Office of Science and Technology
General Engineer
Washington, D.C.
* While on detail to EPA's Office of Science and Technology, initiated collaboration with Reid-Crowther, Inc. to promote the use of more updated watershed models (i.e., SEWERCAT) for public domain usage instead of SWMM so that American companies didn't have to purchase expensive commercial European and Australian products (i.e., Hydroworks, MOUSE, XPSWMM).
* Trained personnel in the use of Geographic Information System (GIS) applications (BASINs) at conferences and in U.S. Environmental Protection Agency training sessions. Required knowledge of environmental watershed hydrology science, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) programs such as ArcView, QUAL2E, ToxiRoute and HSPF.
* Prepared software specifications and work plans for the development of Windows/MAC graphical user interfaces to legacy Fortran-based hydraulic/hydrologic simulation models (SWMM).
1994 - 1998 U.S. Dept. of Energy, Environ. Restoration
Environmental Engineer
Germantown, MD
* Responsible for oversight of CERCLA Operable Unit 5, Environmental Media in Fernald Environmental Restoration Project (FEMP) located in Fernald, Ohio, a former uranium milling operation. Job includes fulfilling liaison role between field staff and the Headquarters Offices of Budget; Environmental Safety and Health; Worker Safety and Health; Waste Management; and Technology Development to expedite site activities in cost efficient safe manner. Other primary responsibility included providing program reviews of CERCLA, RCRA, and NEPA documentation within the Fernald Division and responding to congressional, senate, and press inquiries. Also, included project management including analysis of budget, schedule, contractor award fees.
* Special Projects: Lead in resolving Atomic Energy Act regulatory applicability issues. Identified and resolved conflicting low-level waste disposal design and siting requirements under the Atomic Energy Act and CERCLA regulations which resulted in revised in-house policies saving approximately $200 million for the agency. Effort required yearlong coordination with Congressional oversight committee (Defense Nuclear Safety Board) personnel for acceptance and approval of technical approach. See Deputy Assistant Secretary Memorandum, dated September 25, 1995. ) Also, initiated establishment of a Mixed Waste/Low-Level Waste Center of Excellence located in Idaho during a reorganization effort in the Department to oversee technical approach above. Headquarters personnel were transferred there during downsizing efforts in 1998
* Identified technical capacity sizing errors in proposed uranium groundwater treatment facilities managed by Fluor-Daniel resulting in eliminating $50 million dollars in construction costs.
1991 - 1994 U.S. Dept. of Energy, Environ. Compliance
Environmental Engineer
Washington, D.C.
* Provided independent compliance oversight of Oak Ridge Reservation, CEBAF, CEER, Fernald, Nevada Test Site, and Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) requiring broad range of Federal statutory environmental requirements and DOE Orders.
* Review and approval authority for DOE Order 5400.1 environmental protection compliance reports for sites responsible for (i.e., ASERs, EPIPs, GWWMPs, PP/Wmin), certifying compliance with DOE Order 5400.5 Radiation Protection of the Public requirements, review and approval of over fifteen CERCLA RI/FS reports, two RCRA post-closure plans, and various CERCLA/NESHAPs/TSCA Federal Facility Agreements at Fernald, Oak Ridge Reservation and the Nevada Test Site.
* Participated on Tiger Team audit at Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and independent budget reviews of environmental restoration activities at Oak Ridge for Defense Programs Office.
* Initiated the preparation of D.O.E. EH guidance memorandum on the applicability of Nuclear Regulatory Commission requirements (i.e., 10 CFR 61) to D.O.E. CERCLA remediation projects.
Dec.1989 - Mar.1991 A.T. Kearney, Inc.
Management Consultant
Alexandria, VA.
* Managed the preparation of a joint Malcolm Pirnie/A.T. Kearney 255/254 proposal to NAVFAC.
* Provided assistance to Aristech Chemicals Haverhill Ohio Plant to meet proposed Land Disposal Restrictions (LDR) Proposed Third-Third rulemaking which required characteristic and RCRA-listed waste streams to be treated using BDAT prior to deep well injection. Work required reviewing waste stream characterization data to evaluate potential for delisting certain waste streams, segregating stormwater from process chemical storage areas, and conducting a national commercial waste disposal capacity survey for K022 and K083 wastewater treatment and disposal facilities.
* Project Engineer for CERCLA National Priorities List (NPL) Hazard Ranking Scoring (HRS) and Preliminary Assessment (PA)/Site Investigations (SI) project for two USDA facilities (National Animal Disease Center, and Nursery Crops Research Lab) and prepared Sampling and Analysis Plans (SAPs), and field sampling activities at those facilities.
* Prepared RCRA Visual Site Inspections (VSI's) and Facility Assessments (RFA's) for the National Institute of Health, University of Southern Alabama, City of Longwood, Florida, and Southwestern Portland Cement Company in Ohio.
* Reviewed RCRA Facility Investigation (RFI) work plans for three sites at the DOE Oak Ridge K-25 Plant.
* Received 40 Hr. Health and Safety Training and 8 Hr. Supervisory Training certification including completion of annual health physicals.
1985 - 1990 Greeley & Hansen Engineers
Wastewater/Water Treatment Design Engineer
Camp Springs, MD
* Prepared preliminary alternatives for Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Study for City of Richmond, Virginia. Project work included computer modeling using spreadsheets, of existing WWTP to determine facility expansion requirements for twenty CSO alternatives and costs associated with each alternative.
* Project engineer for Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Abatement Study for City of Lynchburg, Virginia. Managed entry-level engineers and draftsmen in compiling data for 28 square miles of sewer system for input into EPA's Stormwater Management Model (SWMM ver. 4.0). Project required fast-track approach to produce Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) in 3 month time period.
* Project engineer for studies of Odor Control Facilities for Montgomery County Composting Facility in Maryland. Conducted test programs on existing on-site scrubber for calibration and evaluation of odor control methods (e.g., masking, cooling, incineration, adsorption, absorption). Selected members from community to conduct sensory analysis panel testing of samples from that test program. Project engineer for evaluation of compost pilot studies for Montgomery County, Maryland. Studies included tests to evaluate the effects of sludge compost mixtures, reduced temperature levels, and other parameters related to odor production and release. Assisted in evaluating feasible odor control technologies. Actual bench-scale tests were performed in conjunction with E.I Dupont DeMour and Co's Engineering Test Center. Nomination for George Bradley Gascoigne Medal by Chesapeake Water Pollution Association for the successful application of odor control alternatives at a County-owned composting facility located in Maryland.
* Prepared design drawings and technical specifications for chlorination of filter influent at Alexandria WWTP in Virginia. Involved evaluating hydraulic operating requirements of existing chlorine supply, handling, and piping. Designing new twelve-feed line chlorine solution line piping to filters including preparing testing program to ensure that injector pumps operated effectively with new chlorine injector's in place.
* Coordinated preparation of retention basin and pump station design specifications for Seneca WWTP Expansion Project in Maryland. Prepared sediment and erosion control plans, stormwater hydrologic studies, and design of stormwater management facilities for project.
* Reviewed construction shop drawings, processed construction change orders, information requests as construction coordinator for emergency sewer repair project involving collapse of 60-inch main interceptor to Alexandria WWTP.
* Performed laboratory work and monitored activated sludge pilot plant designed for phosphorus removal. Monitored potable pilot plant for chlorination/dechlorination technologies including ozone, UV, chlorine gas/liquid emulsions, and peroxide.
COMPUTER LANGUAGES/PROGRAMMING: Tcl, SQL*Plus, HTML, Visual Basic, Fortran, SPSS, Dynamo
SYSTEMS: LINUX RedHat, Windows 2000/NT/XP, Mac OS
APPLICATIONS: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe In Design, AutoCad, Microsoft products (Project, FrontPage, Access, Excel, Word, Power Point), Jasc Paint Shop Pro, Primavera, ArcView GIS, ISCST Air Diffusion Models.
REFERENCES: Available Upon Request
WILLING TO TRAVEL: Prefer Part-time (3-4 days per week or contract work in Mass. area but willing to relocate.
SIGNIFICANT DELIVERABLES/PUBLICATIONS/POLICY & GUIDANCE:
* U.S. DOE Office of Environmental Management guidance "Approach under CERCLA for meeting Performance Assessment Requirements under DOE Order 5820.2A, Radioactive Waste Management", September 16,1996.
* U.S. DOE Memorandum to DNFSB, Approval of Approach for CERCLA Equivalency to Performance Assessment Requirements under Department of Energy Order 5820.2A, "Radioactive Waste Management", September 25, 1995.
* U.S. DOE Memorandum of Approval of CERCLA Record of Decision (ROD) for the Feed Materials Production Center, Operable Unit 5, Fernald, Ohio, EPA ID: OH6890008976, January 31, 1996.
* U.S. DOE Memorandum of Approval of CERCLA Record of Decision (ROD) for the Feed Materials Production Center, Operable Unit 2, Fernald, Ohio, EPA ID: OH6890008976, June 8, 1995.
* U.S. DOE Office of Environmental Compliance guidance "Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Low-Level Radioactive Waste Regulations and CERCLA Applicable and Relevant and Appropriate Requirements (ARARs)", March 20,1993.
* EPA Contract No. 68-W9-0040; Work Assignment No. R04-10-10; National Institute of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; EPA I.D. No. MD6150004095; Interim RCRA Facility Assessment Report; Final Deliverable, March 1991.
* EPA Contract No. 68-W9-0040; Work Assignment No. R04-11-04; University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama; EPA I.D. No. ALD 079474037 Interim RCRA Facility Assessment Report; Final Deliverable, Dec. 10, 1990.
* EPA Contract No. 68-W9-0040; Work Assignment No. R04-10-10; City of Longwood, Longwood, Florida; EPA I.D. No. FLD982076663; Interim RCRA Facility Assessment Report; Final Deliverable, Oct. 29,1990.
* USDA National Animal Disease Center, Ames, Iowa, "CERCLA Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI) Report", June 1990. USDA Nursery Crops Research Laboratory, Delaware Ohio, CERCLA Preliminary Assessment/Site Inspection (PA/SI) Report, July 1990.
* EPA Contract No. 68-W9-0040; Work Assignment No. R05-05-06; Southwestern Portland Cement Company, Ohio, EPA I.D. No. OHD981195779; Interim RCRA Facility Assessment Report; Final Deliverable, April, 1990.
* Blue Plains Sludge Odor Study, Compost Mix Study, March 1989. Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Montgomery County Composting Facility, Compost Temperature Control Study, March 1988.
* Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Montgomery County Composting Facility, Quad Scrubber Optimization Studies, March 1988.
* Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Montgomery County Composting Facility, Masking Agent Evaluation, March 1988.
* Biocycle - Journal of Waste Recycling, "Odor Control at Composting Facilities," Special Report, July 1986
* Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Montgomery County Composting Facility, Post Construction Evaluation of Interim Odor Control Studies, December 1986.
* Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Montgomery County Composting Facility, Odor Control Study, January 1986.
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