Engineering Consultant | Program Management | Environmental | Water Infrastructure & Technology | Compliance
SUMMARY
PROGRAM MANAGER - Accomplished engineer and leader with 20+ years of progressive success in environmental management, water infrastructure & technology, and product design/development. Built teams, motivated people, and delivered innovative cost-saving solutions.
- M.S., Chemical Engineering
- Professional Engineer (Maryland)
VALUED SKILLS
PROVEN LEADERSHIP – 10+ years as manager • Built and led multidisciplinary teams and programs • Mentored junior professionals • Chaired governmental interagency group • Delivered 20+ presentations at technical symposia
PROGRAM & PROJECT MANAGEMENT – Manage $15M design / $250M construction for City of Baltimore water infrastructure improvements • Performed $17M in global annual services through 6 programs and 5 subordinate offices • Continuous improvement through lean six sigma and A3 • Drove performance through balanced scorecard strategy and challenging metrics
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT – Solved customer challenges in water, air, soil, waste, and permitting • Expert services in water treatment & design, energy & water conservation, sustainability (E.O. 13514), and real property management
WATER INFRASTRUCTURE & TECHNOLOGY – Manage 80+ design-bid-build water utility projects • Won $1M in water treatment research grants • Earned recognition through journal articles and symposium presentations • Evaluated Defense water technology proposals • Designed and performed remediation bioreactor scale-up experiments
REGULATORY ANALYSIS & COMPLIANCE – Analyzed EPA and FDA requirements to grow business and advance customer compliance • Delivered expert auditing services (EMS and EPAS) to global customers
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT – Led development teams to field 4 product lines • Developed prototypes and wrote NSF Protocol P248 to test them • Drove innovation through stage gate processes
Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, SAP, GIS, Stage Gate, Lean Six Sigma, EPA & FDA Regulations
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Program Manager
The Louis Berger Group
March 2014 – Present
Baltimore, Maryland Area
Lead a Program Management consultant team for Louis Berger Water Services to deliver 40 miles per year of water main replacement to meet aggressive and high-priority goals for the City of Baltimore.
• Manage $15M design / $250M construction to replace 120 miles of water main by FY2018.
• Oversee 80+ City projects with water utility impact.
• Deliver Water Program Management through both staff embedded at City Offices, and through 4 matrixed offsite teams (which include Minority and Women Business Enterprises).
• Apply lean sigma principles to streamline and standardize processes to deliver quality water engineering designs on-time and within budget.
Director
Environmental Health Engineering, Public Health Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 2009 – Present
Senior executive leader of a matrixed multidisciplinary team of technical professionals. Led them to advance environmental quality and compliance for satisfied, repeat-business global customers.
• Motivated multidisciplinary team of technical professionals in 6 programs and 5 subordinate offices to deliver $17M in environmental management, compliance, and auditing projects, annually, to customers worldwide.
• Developed inaugural Portfolio strategy map to drive improvements. Used lean six sigma and A3 methods to achieve a 15% overhead cost savings and a 20% capacity gain.
• Change management success! Singled-out by the Surgeon General for implementing improved portfolio/project management and enterprise oversight practices.
• Published annual 700-line work plan to synchronize & direct portfolio projects.
• Business Development – grew Defense Logistics Agency work to 100% of its environmental auditing efforts ($1M at 18 facilities); managed 100% of Army Medical Facility environmental compliance programs ($3M at 35 facilities)
• Client Focus – planned and performed rapid drinking water monitoring effort for a key client: 8,000 samples at 600 facilities in 68 locations, in a 3-month period.
• Delivered $750K, annually, in Environmental Condition of Property (ECOP) projects to support National Guard Bureau real property management.
• Developed innovative, cost-saving services for air, water, & soil management challenges, and for waste management and sustainability (E.O. 13514).
• Delivered expert environmental management consultation (CWA, CAA, RCRA, and SDWA), and comprehensive auditing services (EPAS and EMS), to global Defense customers (e.g. ACSIM, IMCOM, DLA, and NGB).
• Managed manufacturing site environmental permits, sustainability efforts, and green procurement opportunities.
• Regulatory Analysis – wrote policy to implement FDA Food Code for Defense, and trained over 360 food supply and food safety professionals at 20 sites worldwide to ensure success.
• Compliance Success! Achieved record low Notice of Violation (NOV) rates, enterprise-wide, for Army medical facilities.
• Implemented changes in Clean Air Act compliance requirements (Title V, NAAQS, GHG, emissions inventories) for Defense.
• Active Compliance – developed opportunities through regular interface with regulators and customers on the Safe Drinking Water Act Senior Steering Committee (EPA), Waste Pharmaceuticals in Water Work Group (EPA), and the Defense Food Risk Evaluation Committee (FDA).
• Product Development Success – built and led cross-functional team to field mobile water packaging systems for 4 military camps in the Middle East – reduced their drinking water supply costs by 500%.
• Provided expert efficacy and risk management consultation in the development and fielding of the new pesticide-treated Army combat uniform (ACU-P).
• Approved product ingredient statements, in collaboration with FDA regulators and customers, as part of Defense Recipe Committee.
• Developed risk assessments and international food supply compliance strategies (FDA and USDA) as member of the Defense Food Risk Evaluation Committee.
Senior Consultant, Australian Defense Force, Canberra, Australia 2007 – 2009
Senior U.S. consultant to Australian Defense for environmental, compliance, and public health issues. Developed strategic policy and exercised environmental compliance program oversight.
• Won competitive appointment as U.S. Exchange Officer to the Australian Defense Force.
• Developed environmental, compliance, and public health policy for over 50,000 uniformed members.
• Advanced Australian Defense strategic environmental, compliance and public health programs by researching and delivering formal responses to 20+ Member of Parliament inquiries.
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