Lonnie Cowell

• Served as the Installation Pest Management Coordinator.
• Managed all Pest Management contracts while serving as the Contracting Officers Representative.
• Responsible for managing, reviewing, and maintaining all Pest Management service orders submitted.
• Consolidated, prepared and maintained correspondence, records and reports.
• Developed and adjusted surveillance plans used to check the contractors performance.
• Reviewed plans and specifications prior to contract solicitation.
• Supported Fort Polk’s Air Quality Management program by providing regional support for approximately 480 air emission sources by visiting approximately 160 sites per month.
• Assembled and maintained required installation air quality related records and reportables to include the Air Emissions Inventory (AEI) and the Toxic Release Inventory (TRI).
• Collected installation air quality data to support the installations Title V air permit information for report submissions.
• Gathers the installation’s air quality program records required by the installation’s Title V permit. Collects and updates compliance information for the air quality program in order to support processing and analyzing data to determine overall compliance status.
• Coordinated with hazardous material storage facilities such as used oil and greywater generators to identify appropriate storage requirements.
• Gathered data pertaining to the air quality and Petroleum, Oil, and Lubricants (POL) storage tank programs to government staff IAW with Army guidelines.
• Coordinated with other organizations to ensure successful maintenance of environmental equipment and files.
• Ensured the Ft. Johnson Environmental Program is being properly implemented by the various assigned customers and is in environmental compliance with Army Regulations, AR 200-1, EPA Guidelines, Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) Policies and best management practices.

• Supervised and evaluated staff to help improve skills, achieve daily objectives, and attain advancement.
• Mentored new employees on company policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure their success within the organization.
• Created and maintained safe and secure work environments for employees.
• Provided weekly work schedules to employees to accommodate business demands and vacation requests.
• Interviewed, hired, and trained staff associates and equipped to comply with company policies and procedures.
• Coached sales associates in product specifications, sales incentives, and selling techniques, significantly increasing customer satisfaction ratings.
• Implemented loss prevention tactics to deter thefts while maintaining a welcoming environment for all customers.
• Conducted regular performance evaluations of team members while providing constructive feedback resulting in enhanced productivity levels.
• Tracked trends and suggested enhancements to both challenge and refine company's product offerings.

Air and Space Operations Management

• Provided coordination, integration, and regulation of the use of airspace of defined dimensions.
• Ensured measures were employed to facilitate the efficient use of airspace to accomplish missions and simultaneously provide safeguards for friendly forces.
• Created a daily Air Control Order used to task and disseminate to components, subordinate units, and command and control agencies projected sorties, capabilities and/or forces to targets and specific missions.

Air Traffic Control Specialist

• Controlled the flow of air traffic and insured the safe, orderly and expeditious movement along air routes and at airports with a knowledge of aircraft separation standards and control techniques.
• Provided preflight and in-flight assistance to aircraft.
• Required a knowledge of the information pilots needed to conduct safe flights and the ability to present that information clearly and concisely.
• Required to have extensive knowledge of the laws, rules, regulations and procedures governing the movement of air traffic.

Materiel Management Supervisor

• Directed materiel management activities involved in developing, operating, implementing and analyzing manual and automated integrated logistics systems.
• Managed item and monetary accounting, inventory control, financial planning and warehousing functions.
• Provided materiel management expertise as related to ILS-S processes; accountable officer; responsible officer; and, responsible person obligations.

• Responsible for the reclamation of all used petroleum, oil, lubricants and greywater on Fort Johnson.
• Provided hazardous materials emergency response service as requested.
• Coordinated with storage facilities such as used oil and greywater generators to identify appropriate storage requirements/standards and coordinated the disposal of hazardous materials and/or waste.
• Monitored gauges and flowmeters, inspected equipment to ensure that tank levels, temperatures, chemical amounts, and pressures were at specified levels, reporting abnormalities as necessary.
• Recorded operating data such as products and quantities pumped, gauging results, and operating times.
• Conducted operations of all control equipment (valves, separators, disconnects, pumps, heaters, floats) associated with separation of debris, solid contaminants, and water.

• Supervised the activities of workers engaged in receiving, storing, testing, and shipping products or materials.
• Enforced safety and sanitation regulations.
• Monitored process indicators, instruments, gauges, and meters to detect and report any possible problems.
• Recorded operating data such as products and quantities pumped, stocks used, gauging results, and operating times.
• Responsible for implementing and managing unit programs such as hazardous material/used oil, pollution prevention, waste minimization, environmental compliance, and funding.
• Managed pollution prevention requirements and recommended solutions as required by state and federal environmental agencies.
• Inspected motor maintenance facilities for compliance with policies, rules and regulations pertaining to water pollution abatement. Coordinated with other agencies on safe use and storage of hazardous materials and hazardous waste.
• Implemented safety rules and regulations for transporting petroleum products that were incorporated into daily operations.
• Ensured databases were updated on a monthly basis.