Mark Abramovitz
Odenton,United States
Summary
Environmental Protection Specialist possessing over 10 years of specialized skills in environmental contaminant analytical analyses. Provide high quality analytical services to employees, fields and regions to assist in obtaining environmental sample analyses and interpreting data to provide information to restore, remediate and evaluate habitat and species. Monitor lab performance, catalog tracking and computer data projects inclusive of maintaining laboratory status chart. Collect, analyze, compile and interpret data to resolve problems and/or situations. Experience with processing result and creation of final data reports using Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) and Environmental Contaminations Data Management System (ECDMS). Knowledge of chemistry in environmental samples. Ability to communicate in writing and interpret field or laboratory data. Knowledge of producing pricing sheets for purchase order generation using Excel. Ability to interpret a variety of computer or instrument generated data, analytical thinking, and writing. Computer knowledge of technical support to Quality Assurance/Quality Control, contract labs management, and data management.
Overview
37
37
years of professional experience
Work History
Environmental Protection Specialist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
03.2015 - Current
- Manager of the workflow for ACF coordinating with the primary investigator, ACF, and contract laboratories regarding the status of catalogues, sample receipt dates, and data receipt dates to ensure samples are processed within holding times to maintain sample integrity.
- Ensures that Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for all incoming samples, instruments and chemical methodologies used in analyses are following the standards of the Good Laboratory Practices Act.
- Provides high level analytical chemistry services and data analysis for organic, inorganic, and other emerging contaminants of concern analyses (e.g., personal care products, hormones, neonicotinoids) to Primary Investigators.
- Serves on analytical workgroups which evaluate new instruments including those which may automate methods currently performed manually, to maintain cutting edge technology for the Service.
- Advisor to sample submitters in areas of environmental sample collection, data interpretation, and analytical requests needed to restore, remediate and/or evaluate habitat and/or species.
- Provides raw data, data summaries, and reports to help inform Primary Investigators (FWS, USGS, NPS) of contaminant issues of concern.
- Respond to inquiries about sample sizes, detection limits, turnaround times and QA/QC requirements.
- Assists the field Primary Investigator and contract laboratories to test and validate contract laboratory results such that the precision and accuracy of the data is verified, repeatable, and capable of withstanding scrutiny in court.
- Ensures that valid, up-to-date methods and state-of-the-art instrumentation are used for laboratory comparisons to verify contract labs are performing within expected Excellency levels.
- Performs routine maintenance on instruments used in the preparation of performance test samples.
- Works daily with the Primary QC officer in developing and refining a QA protocol for Contaminant sampling, laboratory standards, data analysis and data reporting.
- Serves on the QA/QC Team to review procedures for consistent and reproducible results.
- Provides delivery orders to analytical labs and authorization to ship orders to Fish and Wildlife Service sample submitters.
- Manages all financial aspects of catalog needs for the Service. Creates itemized pricing sheets detailing analytical requests and submits information to the budget staff to ensure purchase orders and acquisition requests are developed and issued in a timely manner.
- Reviews purchase orders and acquisition requests to ensure all aspects are correct relative to the catalog and the analytical request.
- Assists with the preparation of proficiency check samples and homogenize and spike soil, sediment, tissue, vegetation and water samples with known chemical concentrations for ongoing evaluation and monitoring of each contracted lab.
- Consolidates the laboratory data, and performs analytical calculations (e.g., Grubbs Outlier Test) for the preparation analytical reports.
- Interprets and evaluates all testing results to determine their chemical significance, to ensure that all the information requested has been determined, and that all results are valid.
- Works with the Database Manager in the processing of results and the creation of final data reports of Electronic Data Deliverables (EDDs) using the Environmental Contaminants Database.
- Assists Database Manager with data and records management for to ensure results are available, when appropriate, for external release via the contaminants mapper.
Physical Science Technician
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
01.2004 - 03.2015
- Served as IT assistant in process of results and creation of data report using ECDMS.
- Oversaw catalog tracking to ensure catalogs are processed in a timely manner by the labs.
- Provided delivery order to analytical labs and authorize to ship samples to contract labs.
- Reviewed approved catalogs to be processed.
- Prepared proficiency check samples to contract labs.
- Tracked sample receipt dates to ensure samples are processed within holding times.
- Reviewed purchase orders and acquisition requests to ensure all aspects are correct relative to catalogs and the analytical requests.
- Maintained a comprehensive log of all procedures for reporting and tracking purposes and quality assurance.
- Created, edited, copied, validated, and submitted catalogs after review of submitted work request.
- Created itemized pricing sheets using EXCEL detailing analytical requests and submitted information to Business Services for the creation of purchase orders.
Laboratory Technician
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
01.1988 - 01.2004
- Prepared environmental samples that included homogenization of soil, sediment, plant and tissue for samples with known chemical concentrations to evaluate each lab’s analytical program.
- Blended different fume solvents such as petroleum ether, ethyl acetate, hexanes, and acetone according to proper measurement for each sample extraction.
- Set up silica gel extraction for different fractionation and concentration for transferring to vials for analyzing.
- Assisted Analytical Chemists in routine maintenance of analytical instrument and analysis of organic samples by gas chromatograph and evaluated technical and standard operations.
- Recorded and wrote laboratory reports.
- Performed preventive maintenance and maintained records on organic instrumentation including homogenizers and gas chromatographs.
- Assisted in writing Standard Operating Procedures for the Analytical Control Facility.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - General Science
Gallaudet University
Washington, DC01.1985
Skills
- Experience with processing result and creation of final data reports using Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) and Environmental Contaminations Data Management System (ECDMS)
- Knowledge of chemistry in environmental samples
- Ability to communicate in writing and interpret field or laboratory data
- Knowledge of producing pricing sheets for purchase order generation using Excel
- Ability to interpret a variety of computer or instrument generated data, analytical thinking, and writing
- Computer knowledge of technical support to Quality Assurance/Quality Control, contract labs management, and data management
Summary Of Experience
Environmental Protection Specialist possessing over 10 years of specialized skills in environmental contaminant analytical analyses. Provide high quality analytical services to employees, fields and regions to assist in obtaining environmental sample analyses and interpreting data to provide information to restore, remediate and evaluate habitat and species. Monitor lab performance, catalog tracking and computer data projects inclusive of maintaining laboratory status chart. Collect, analyze, compile and interpret data to resolve problems and/or situations.
Awards
- 2013-2024, Achievement Award - US Fish and Wildlife Service, Falls Church, VA
- 2011-2012, Two times Special Achievement Award - US Fish and Wildlife Service, NCTC
- 2010, Appreciation for Extraordinary contributions to response and restoration of Gulf Coast after Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Training
- 2017-2022, Participated in webinars, 4 hours Per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) In Connecticut: The Latest Developments, 1-hour PFAS analysis by the new EPA Method 533, Quality Assurance, Part 1, PFAS Sample Collection, Part 2, PFAS Navigating Analytical Method Options, Part 3, PFAS: Advanced Discussion of Data Defensibility and DoD QSM, Part 4, PFAS in Source and Ambient Air, Part 6, Quality Assurance, Part 1, PFAS Sample Collection, Part 2, Best Practices for Collecting Soil Samples for VOC Analysis, Groundwater Sampling for PFAS
- 2019, Completed 8 hours PerkinElmer's Environmental Air, Water, Soil and Cannabis Workshop.
- 2018, Completed 40 hours Continuous Learning Training- Water Quality Standard Academy (USEPA – Office of Science and Technology).
- 2017, Writing Foundation - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2016, Microsoft Access 2010 Introduction, Intermediate, Advanced - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2013, Introduction Microsoft SQL - Howard County Comm. College, Columbia, MD
- 2011, Introduction to Microsoft Excel - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2011, Intermediate Microsoft Excel - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2011, Introduction to Microsoft Word - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2011, Intermediate Microsoft Word - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2009, Adobe Acrobat 9 Professional Adobe Flash CS4 – Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, New York
- 2008, Introduction to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 4.01 - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2007, Introduction to PowerPoint 2002 - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2007, Advanced PowerPoint 2002 - DOIU, Washington, DC
- 2007, USFWS Employee Foundations - NCTC, Shepherdstown, WV
- 2006, Environmental Studies Field and Laboratory Techniques - NCTC, Shepherdstown, WV
- Annually, Perkin-Elmer Instrumental Analysis Seminar
Personal Information
Citizenship: United States
Timeline
Environmental Protection Specialist
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
03.2015 - Current
Physical Science Technician
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
01.2004 - 03.2015
Laboratory Technician
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
01.1988 - 01.2004
Bachelor of Arts - General Science
Gallaudet University
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