Detail-oriented environmental professional with strong managerial and organizational skills. Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. Proven and extensive experience in corrective action assessments, soil and groundwater investigations, petroleum storage tank assessments, environmental due diligence, compliance services, baseline groundwater sampling projects, and staff development. Successful history of obtaining regulatory closure on a variety of sites through the VCP, Corrective Action, PST, and IOP programs. Additional experience includes litigation support, water quality assessments, and multi-asset portfolio management.
Senior Geologist 01/2010 – 06/2024
Environmental Remediation Team Leader 06/2024 – Current
• Manage an environmental team of 10 professional staff including staff development and mentoring. Responsible for review of employee time sheets, expense reports and management of team utilization, productivity, profitability, and business development.
• Provide senior level project management on large scale projects for commercial, industrial, and federal clients. Demonstrated leadership skills in managing projects from concept to completion.
• Effectively manage staff, budget, schedule, and resources on multi-faceted and multi-million-dollar projects, delivering results on time and within budget constraints.
• Manage and develop client relationships including coordination with clients to develop new projects and scopes of work.
• Provide Senior Level QA/QC Reviews on reports and deliverables before being issued as final.
• Develop comprehensive environmental technical reports to support regulatory decisions including APARs, Risk-Based Assessments, annual and semi-annual monitoring reports, and detailed site investigation reports. Working knowledge of TRRP, CA, and PST rules.
• Provide oversight of and assist in development of QAPPs, and associated attachments in support of federal and other large-scale projects.
• Develop detailed proposals and cost estimates for all phases of environmental services including due diligence, subsurface site investigations, petroleum storage tank assessments, risk-based assessments, and regulatory compliance services including stormwater and SPCC services.
• Develop and assist in preparation of RFP/RFQ response packages for IDC and other similar task-order based contracts. Regularly participate in interview phases during contractor selection process.
PFAS Remedial Investigations, Tinker and Altus AFBs | OK & Red River Army Depot (RRAD) and Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant (LSAAP) | TX. Project and QA Manager for Phase I PFAS RIs at Tinker and Altus AFBs, RRAD, and LSAAP to complete the lateral and vertical site characterization of AFFF release areas. The objectives of the RIs are to develop a comprehensive understanding of the nature and extent of PFAS in soil, groundwater, sediment, and surface water; determine the source strength of residual soil contamination; and develop comprehensive CSMs. Prescriptive and adaptive sampling locations in various media, coordinated with stakeholders through scoping meetings and documented in programmatic and/or site-specific QAPPs. The projects are managed using digital tools that enable stakeholders to collaborate and build consensus on adaptive characterization needed to achieve delineation in environmental media.
CORE5 Industrial Partners, Level II Assessment, VCP and MSD, Luna Road Development | Carrollton, TX. Project Manager and Senior Geologist responsible for Phase I and II, remedial investigation, and VCP closure of VOC and metals impacted soil, groundwater, and sediment at the Luna Road Development site. The site was formerly used for gravel mining and as a construction debris landfill. Technical services provided included completion of a Phase I ESA, comprehensive Phase II subsurface investigations, sediment and surface water sampling, geotechnical sampling, preparation of technical site investigation reports, preparation of scopes of work for additional investigation activities to delineate metals and chlorinated compounds in soil and groundwater, preparation of an APAR, obtaining an MSD ordinance from the City of Carrollton, and a final Certificate of Completion for the Site from the TCEQ.
DART, Environmental Response Indefinite Delivery Contract (IDC) | Dallas County, TX. Senior Geologist and Quality Control Review for a multiple work order Indefinite Delivery Environmental Response Compliance Contract for DART involving environmental services required for the current and future phases of light rail transit build out, bus operations, and commuter rail operations in the Dallas Metroplex. Services provided have included the completion of site investigations/contamination assessments to fully evaluate impacted properties, developing and implementing remedial actions under the TCEQ PST/TRRP rules to close sites with contaminated soil and/ or groundwater under the VCP, IOP, PST, or CA programs, providing comprehensive management and construction associated with petroleum storage or fueling system services, NPDES/ TPDES/SW3P compliance, and support required for emergency response services.
Texas Instruments, Former National Semiconductor Facility IOP | Arlington, Texas ‑ Project Manager for the investigation and IOP closure of VOC impacted groundwater at the former National Semiconductor Facility. Technical services included the evaluation of on-site soil and groundwater data, review of existing and historic site use data, development of the approved IOP Report, and preparation of a Technical Response to TCEQ comments to the original IOP submittal.