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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Environmental Engineer/Scientist with over thirty years of experience with project and program management, industrial hygiene, hazardous waste and material management, modeling, monitoring, regulations, risk and technology assessment, pollution control, and environmental remediation
OBJECTIVE:
To use my 33 years of experience with hazardous waste management, site remediation, monitoring, modeling, pollution control, risk assessment, air toxics, permits, environmental regulations, and project management to facilitate cost-effective solutions to environmental problems.
WORK EXPERIENCE:
1994-Present, Cornett Environmental Consulting, Ohio and Virginia CONSULTANT
Provide site investigations, strategic planning, monitoring, modeling, pollution control, risk assessment, regulatory compliance, permit applications, and health and safety programs; evaluate pollution prevention, waste minimization, emergency response, process safety, and site clean-up and closure programs; and coordinate related projects with attorneys and industrial, commercial, and public interest organizations. Coordinate Collinwood Environmental Taskforce.
1992-1994 META, Gaithersburg, MD Senior Environmental Scientist
Principal investigator responsible for baseline and cumulative human health impact assessment for a programmatic environmental impact statement for the U.S. Department of Energy Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Programs. Wrote risk assessment software and evaluated risks posed by DOE installations. Wrote sections of environmental impact statements and associated implementation plans. Evaluated risk assessment, risk communication and waste management methods. Summarized regulations and risk management guidelines. Evaluated waste management and remedial action alternatives. Provided and evaluated emission factors. Drafted technical directives for DOE National Labs and contractors. Evaluated and wrote work plans and proposals. Reviewed technical reports and draft EIS text. Participated in and summarized meetings. Reviewed waste management technology and associated pollution control systems. Identified and recruited experts to help with project. Provided expert testimony in related hearings and litigation.
1987-1992 Resource Applications, Inc., Burke, VA Senior Environmental
Engineer / Manager
Project manager for remedial investigations, feasibility studies and environmental compliance audits at Superfund sites contaminated with herbicides, halogenated solvents, PCBs, oil, fuel, heavy metals, dioxins, asbestos, etc. Wrote baseline risk assessment reports, health and safety plans, and field operations plans. Sampled soil, groundwater, surface water, underground storage tanks, and air toxics. Performed split sampling, arranged for analytical services, and audited remedial action implementation. Created software for modeling and modeled contaminant transport through soil, groundwater, surface water, and the atmosphere, along with associated risks to human health and to the environment. Project manager for and wrote most of U.S. EPA report: Risk Characterization for Site and Situation Assessment, an analysis of Superfund risk assessment methods, uncertainties, policies and decision analytics. Served as Health and Safety Officer. Wrote key sections of U.S. Army Toxic and Hazardous Material Agency Health and Safety Program Manual on hazardous waste operations, risk assessment, radiation safety, drilling safety, monitoring, etc. Wrote and reviewed proposals, work plans, and potentially responsible party (PRP) reports. Designed and wrote specifications for Ft. Detrick hazardous waste and material storage facilities. Wrote O&M manual for new sludge thickeners, evaluated submittals, audited system installation and startup, and tested and approved instrumentation and controls. Zone Program Manager for 21 person Technical Assistance Team providing U.S. EPA with air toxics modeling, risk assessment, CERCLA and RCRA corrective measures studies, chemical safety audits, SPCC investigations, project scheduling, deadline tracking, and emergency response planning, training and program evaluation.
1986-1987 Engineering-Science, Fairfax, VA Senior Engineer
Principal Investigator for the EPA Background Information Document for the Development of Regulations to Control the Burning of Hazardous Waste in Boilers and Industrial Furnaces, Volume III - Risk Assessment. Performed risk assessments and wrote detailed procedures for monitoring and for emergency response during remedial actions at three uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Provided evidence and expert testimony for litigation. Helped write EPA procedures for dioxin monitoring. Performed quality assurance on hazardous waste trial burn monitoring for EPA.
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1985-1986 Rust International Corporation, Birmingham, AL Staff Engineer
Wrote "environmental compliance handbooks" for refuse fired furnaces and power plants. Summarized regulations and permit requirements. Provided detailed procedures for monitoring, pollution control, inspections, record keeping, and permit renewal. Evaluated trial burns and calculated enrichment and emission factors. Wrote detailed specifications for instrumentation, automated environmental data processing, scaffolding, sampling ports, and environmental testing services.
1981-1985 Consolidated Edison Co. of New York Environmental Engineer
Performed dispersion modeling and wrote sections of environmental impact statements and testimony on toxic air pollution emissions and impacts. Filled out permit applications and automated associated procedures. Performed and coordinated environmental compliance audits and designed and coordinated environmental monitoring and receptor modeling programs. Drafted corporate environmental policies and procedures. Provided procedures, technical advice and training to power plant personnel for implementing compliance policies. Wrote and reviewed specifications for pollution control equipment, coal cleaning, environmental monitoring, modeling, record keeping and consulting services.
1979-1981 Monsanto Research Corporation, Dayton, OH Research Engineer
Wrote Volume V of EPA NPDES Treatability Manual. Summarized regulations and wrote guidelines for risk assessment and for permit application review in draft EPA Permit Writers' Guidelines for Hazardous Waste Incineration. Summarized trial burns and wrote sections of EPA Engineering Handbook for Hazardous Waste Incineration. Performed pre-test surveys, designed experiments, coordinated process and environmental monitoring, and wrote emission test reports for EPA. Summarized RCRA, TSCA and other regulations and evaluated cost and availability of equipment and services to comply. Designed a trial burn facility, drafted RCRA Part B permit applications, and modeled impacts of toxic substance emissions.
1976-1979 Dalton.Dalton.Newport, Shaker Heights, OH Pollution Analyst
Provided air pollution and noise modeling, summarized regulations, and wrote sections of environmental impact statements. Evaluated risk assessment methods and wrote DOE and EPA guidelines for monitoring and modeling toxic pollutants from advanced energy technologies and associated environmental impacts. Wrote U.S. DOT guidelines for air pollution & noise monitoring and impact assessment. Wrote detailed specifications for pollution control, monitoring systems and services.
1972-1976 Cleveland Division of Air Pollution Control Pollution Control Engineer
Supervised up to twelve technicians performing ambient air pollution monitoring. Worked with NASA on environmental toxics monitoring, risk assessment, and receptor modeling. Evaluated dispersion modeling and emission monitoring. Investigated complaints, gathered evidence, and prepared and delivered testimony.
1971 Bartlett-Snow, Inc., Cleveland, OH Technician
Operated, maintained, and measured emissions from rotary kilns, calcination equipment, fluidized bed reactors, and hazardous waste incinerators. Calibrated, operated, and maintained emission and process monitoring equipment.
EDUCATION
M.S. Air Pollution Control Engineering, University of Cincinnati, 1972
B.S. Physics, Purdue University, 1969
OSHA 1910.120 40-hr Hazardous Waste Site Worker Protection and 8-hr
Supervisory HAZWOPER Training
American Management Association Supervisory Management Training
Microsoft Office Pro, Advanced Visual Basic, SQL, UNIMAP, TRC, HIWAY, IRIS,
RADTRAN, CALINE, MEPAS, Java, JavaScript, HTML, Fortran, MS FrontPage,
Lotus, WordPerfect, Dreamweaver, E-Commerce, CGI, PERL
DOE Environmental Risk Management, Regulation, and Modeling
DOE Risk Communication
Cleveland Engineering Society Industrial Noise Control
EPA Technical Systems Audit
DOE Risk Assessment Model Review
EPA Air Pathway Analysis at Hazardous Waste Sites
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