Profile:
• The first employee in an entrepreneurial endeavor resulting in at least 100% growth of the full-service environmental services and consulting company in each of the first four years as the sole employee.
• 9 years of progressive experience as an environmental technician, laboratory manager, environmental consultant, engineer, project manager and department head.
• Experience providing environmental, health, safety and compliance consulting to small and large industrial, commercial, municipal, manufacturing, oil and gas, power generation, health care, and mining clients in Colorado.
• Strong interpersonal skills including acting as a liaison between facility personnel, corporate offices, regulators, contractors, laboratories, subcontractors and consultants.
• Strong technical knowledge including recent passing of the fundamentals of engineering (FE) exam, resulting in engineer-in-training status with PE test scheduled.
• Experience working in an ISO 9000-compliant environment.
Education: B.S., Chemical Engineering, Montana State University, 06/99
Relevant Experience & Accomplishments:
Program Coordination
• Entrusted with wastewater compliance assurance program for 80 facilities, including compliance assessment, report preparation, permit management and sampling, achieving a clean record with no enforcement actions, fines, shutdowns or permit revocations in five years of responsibility.
• Developed and implemented drinking water, waste water, storm water and hazardous waste management programs for industrial, commercial, energy and extraction industry clients, ensuring public health, compliance and safety goals were met.
• Audited and inspected client environmental, health and safety programs, improving measurable safety parameters in each month of execution.
• Established and managed EPA-compliant analytical laboratory for the analysis of metals in water, including methodology and quality control and assurance program development.
Management/Supervision
• Successfully managed field services and consulting program with $300,000 annual budget, increasing revenues during each of the first three years of management.
• Directed recruitment, training, evaluation and retention of 3 employees.
• Provided dynamic leadership throughout the business development cycle, from entrepreneurial start-up managing change through established corporation handling success.
• Effectively managed new projects including marketing, requirements identification, scope development, documentation, procurement, resource allocation, cost evaluation and execution.
• Implemented ISO 9000-style management systems.
Employment History:
Aquionix, Inc., Denver, CO 03/00 - 02/09
Aquionix is a Colorado-based full-service environmental company specializing in clean water act consulting, environmental management systems implementation, GIS system design, OSHA and MSHA health and safety training and consulting.
Project Manager/Consultant 06/07-02/09
• Managed the wastewater sampling program including client base development and relationship building, operational development, logistics coordination, department operational budgeting, supply-chain management, resource allocation, scheduling and employee leadership development and performance evaluation.
• Generated requests for proposals (RFPs), proposals and bids for projects.
• Headed up wastewater treatment system installation projects.
• Improved internal company procedures using controlled documentation of standard practices, self-audit programs and improved compliance requirement tracking systems in Excel and Access.
• Participated in strategic planning, business development and department policy & procedure development.
• Conducted independent auditing and inspection of client hazardous waste, safety and health programs.
• Designed and implemented covert municipal collection system-wide contaminant source determination study in support of EPA enforcement actions.
• Implemented database tracking system for analysis of drinking water quality parameters in support of surface water reclassification hearing.
• Advanced compliance assurance service offerings to NPDES, Hazardous Waste, Drinking Water, Storm Water and Wastewater Pretreatment permits for priority clients.
• Interpreted, synthesized and summarized various regulations pertinent to client facility operations and presented to client personnel.
Environmental Engineer I 03/05-06/07
• Developed compliance plans including drinking water monitoring plans, storm water management plans and spill prevention plans.
• Consulted for drinking water clients including performing corrosion control study, alternate source water studies, disinfectant optimization studies, disinfection byproduct precursor minimization study and fluid mechanics analysis.
• Worked closely with regulators and facility operators to achieve successful mitigation of permit violations, including contaminant source investigation and minimization, process analysis and drafting corrective action letters and other official regulatory correspondence.
• Performed sampling for compliance with NPDES and storm water permits and groundwater m...
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