Holly Baumstark
Chesapeake,VA
Summary
Experienced professional focused on meeting or exceeding objectives seeking Drinking Water Subject Matter Expert position. Offers advanced training and knowledge of industry best practices. Recognized for leadership, planning abilities and clear, direct communication style.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
Work History
Environmental Health Compliance Specialist
Virginia Dept Of Health - Office Of Drinking Water
Norfolk, VA
12.2017 - Current
- Regulate area that includes close to 500 waterworks
- Conducted sanitary surveys and assessments
- Review reports, plans, orders, and violations for accuracy
- Provides routine technical assistance to waterworks owners, operators, and field office staff
- Interprets and explains Virginia Waterworks Regulations and Safe Drinking Water Act to waterworks owners, operators and field staff
- Responds to complaints and request for information from public
- Maintains sampling frequencies and water quality data for compliance with state and federal regulations
- Perform monthly, quarterly, and annual data queries from SDWIS to determine compliance
- Liaison between field office and central office regarding compliance and enforcement matters
- Maintains extensive databases for each waterworks,
- Issues and tracks status of notices of violation, warning letters, consent orders and additional enforcement as needed
- Reviews and updates EPA’s ETT and ETTA reports and cross checks reports with open violation to reduce or remove systems from lists
- Serves as field office Data Manager and office subject matter expert on Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), in-house database Records & Reports (R&R), and Compliance Monitoring Data Portal (CMDP)
- Provide training when new staff are hired or when new products are rolled out
- Work with field office staff and waterworks owners to help maintain successful water systems in order to provide safe, clean, affordable drinking water to customers.
Environmental Health Specialist, Senior
Virginia Dept Of Health - Office Of Drinking Water
Norfolk, VA
05.2012 - 12.2017
- Covered area with over 130 regulated waterworks
- Conducted sanitary surveys and system assessments
- Reviewed waterworks operations reports for accuracy and treads
- Provided technical assistance to waterworks owners and operators
- Responded to requests and complaints from public
- Maintains sampling frequencies and water quality data integrity in Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) database
- Ensured water systems maintained compliance with Virginia Waterworks Regulations and Safe Drinking Water Act
- Issued notices of alleged violations and additional enforcement as needed
- Helped guide waterworks owners in technical, managerial, and financial aspects of how to maintain successful water system
Environmental Health Specialist
Chesapeake Health Department
Chesapeake, VA
06.2009 - 03.2011
- Conducted food establishment inspections to ensured compliance with Code of Virginia
- Determined issuance and denial of permits
- Conducted epidemiological investigations
- Performed rabies control and surveillance
- Provided environmental health education and food safety classes
- Inspected private well construction
- Investigated complaints and expediently resolved concerns.
- Quickly learned new skills and applied them to daily tasks, improving efficiency and productivity.
Nutient Chemist
University Of West Florida
Pensacola, FL
- Coordinated and performed analytical tests to comply with established standards and specifications.
- Maintained National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program certification for biochemical oxygen demand (BODs)
- Performed technical laboratory functions in compliance with regulatory agencies and safety requirements.
- Modified and adapted standard methods and procedures to solve analytical problems.
- Repaired, calibrated and safely operated laboratory equipment to reduce costly instrument downtime.
Microbiology Technician
Lovelace Respiratory Research Laboratory
Eglin Air Force Base, FL
- Recorded, analyzed and interpreted data
- Observed high health and safety standards
- Grew microbe cultures in different media from spent respirator cartridges - both manually and with specialized software
- Documented experiment progress and observations, compiled data and organized findings for analysis
- Sampled simulated smallpox, anthrax, plague and botulism to obtain data for efficiency of Joint Biological Point Detection Systems to be used against biological warfare
- Sterilized and organized glassware for field testing
- Prepared field simulant, media and E. coli control
- Worked flexible hours; night, weekend, and holiday shifts
Environmental Chemist
Southeastern Public Service Authority
Portsmouth, VA
- Multi-media experience ensuring compliance with local, state and federal environmental permits relating to various regulations (Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act)
- Performed site inspections
- Conducted visible emissions and stack testing
- Samples and analyzed ash, waste water, flue gas, deep well water, leachate and settling pond discharges, storm water events and other material at Waste to Energy Plant, Regional Landfill, and various transfer stations
- Coordinated compliance matters with VaDEQ inspector to ensure state regulatory compliance
- Compiled reports for EPA, VaDEQ and HRSD, including VPDES and Title V
- Participated in several pollution prevention initiatives and environmental excellence programs
- Maintained QA/QC in form of sample custody tracking, equipment calibrations, instrument maintenance and record keeping to maintain proper certification of labs
- Performed cost analysis studies as needed
Chemist
Severn Trent Laboratories
Pensacola, FL
- Coordinated and performed analytical tests to comply with established standards and specifications.
- Performed technical laboratory functions in compliance with regulatory agencies and safety requirements.
- Modified and adapted standard methods and procedures to solve analytical problems.
- Repaired, calibrated and safely operated laboratory equipment to reduce costly instrument downtime
- Performed standardized tests on organic and inorganic/metals compounds
- Established quality control measures for instrumentation and monitored data QA/QC to operate instrument with control limits
Chemist
TraceAnalysis, Inc.
Lubbock, TX
- Prepared and performed analyses for metals, inorganic and organic analytes
- Trained prep chemists
- Repaired, trouble shot, calibrated and safely operated laboratory equipment to reduce costly instrument downtime
- Established quality control measures for instrumentation and monitored data quality to operate instrument with control limits
- Updated SOPs, and routine daily work instructions to improve efficiency and productivity
Education
Master of Science - Environmental Management
University of Maryland University College
Adelphia, MDBachelor of Science - Biology
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TXSkills
- Regulatory Requirements
- Data Collections
- Federal and State Regulations
- Database Queries
- SDWIS Knowledge
- Compliance Monitoring
- Test Results Evaluation
- Regulatory and Compliance Understanding
Timeline
Environmental Health Compliance Specialist
Virginia Dept Of Health - Office Of Drinking Water
12.2017 - Current
Environmental Health Specialist, Senior
Virginia Dept Of Health - Office Of Drinking Water
05.2012 - 12.2017
Environmental Health Specialist
Chesapeake Health Department
06.2009 - 03.2011
Nutient Chemist
University Of West Florida
Microbiology Technician
Lovelace Respiratory Research Laboratory
Environmental Chemist
Southeastern Public Service Authority
Chemist
Severn Trent Laboratories
Chemist
TraceAnalysis, Inc.
Master of Science - Environmental Management
University of Maryland University College
Bachelor of Science - Biology
Texas Tech University
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