• Ph.D. Industrial Engineering
  (Industrial Hygene & Safety Engineering)
  Texas A&M University, 1984
  
• Environmental Health Science (M.S.)
  California State University Northridge, 1980
  
• Chemistry/Biology (B.A./B.A.)
  California State University Northridge, 1975

• February 1988 to present
  
  Currently an independent consultant providing health & safety services to organizations in the hazardous waste & industrial fields. Hazardous waste services include safety program management assistance, site safety plan preparation or review, training, & field audits. Industrial services include plant audits, indoor air quality surveys, Mold testing & abatement plans, & regulatory compliance audits.
  
  
• March 1987 - February 1988
  
  Business Unit Health & Safety Officer (BUHSO), the official representative of safety matters for operations in the San Diego, Phoenix, & Tucson offices of Woodward-Clyde Consultants, assuring compliance with all appropriate State & Federal health & safety requirements.
  • Writing and/or authorization of safety plans for all operations in region(s).
  • Securing & disseminating toxicological, epidemiological, & industrial hygiene information to prepare teams for hazards encountered in the field.
  • Maintenance of employee records pertaining to medical monitoring, training, & chemical & radiation exposure.
  • Safety equipment selection, calibration, & maintenance.
  • Training of employees- OSHA mandated 40-hour initial training, annual refresher training, First Aid, CPR, selection & use of instrumentation, & site-specific training.
  • Establishment & maintenance of inter-office telecommunications network.
  
  
  
• November 1985 - January 1987
  
  Regional Safety Coordinator for Los Angeles office of Ecology & Environment. Provided health & safety oversight for operations under contracts to Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) & California Department of Health Services, including operations of EPA Field Investigation & Tactical Assistance Teams.
  
  Special Projects:
  
  • Corporate Emergency Chemical Response Team (CERT).
  • Chief Safety Officer for operations at superfund sites including;
    • The community contamination investigation at Montrose Chemical plant in Torrance, California
    • Remediation operations at Operating Industries Landfill in Monterey Park, California
  • Underground tank program, McClellan Air Force Base in Sacramento, California.
  • Chief Safety Officer for the phase two IRP investigations at Air Force Plant #2 in Tulsa, Oklahoma & Norton Air Force base in Riverside, California.
  
  
  
• January 1984 - November 1985
  
  Region VI Safety Coordinator for the Dallas Office of Ecology & Environment, Inc. Under contract to the Office of Emergency & Remedial Response of Environmental Protection Agency. Responsible for activities performed in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, & Oklahoma.
  
  Other activities:
  
  
  • Team leader/project manager for EPA investigations of uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
  • Regional Computer Coordinator implementing microcomputer installation of geotechnical applications & management data systems.
  • Major author of corporate Standard Operating Procedure for investigation of radioactively contaminated mixed waste sites.
  
  
  
• 1979 - 1984
  
  
  • Under grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health to develop personal air sampling device incorporating real time respiration data.
  • Under grant from Texas Transportation Institute to collect & analyze Houston highway noise data for validation of computer model used for highway construction planning.

• The doctoral program at Texas A&M University emphasized engineering control methods for chemical, physical, & ergonomic hazards in the occupational environment, as well as the classical areas of engineering management; production, cost analysis, & labor relations.
• Dissertation involved the design, construction, programming, & testing of a microprocessor-controlled personal air sampling pump responding to the respiration of the wearer.
• Undergraduate Research Activities:
  • Physiological effects of specific protein deficiencies in pregnant rats. Three dimensional reconstruction techniques of mitochondrial structures based on electron microscopy.
• Graduate Research Activities:
  • Masters Thesis, CSUN; Flowrate & Air monitoring for Benzene.
  • Dissertation, TAMU; A Respiration Modulated Air Sampling Pump.

• "Flowrate Associated Variation in Air Sampling of Low Concentrations of Benzene in Charcoal Tubes", AIHAJ (06/82).
• "Factorial Analysis on the Microcomputer", AIIE (1985).
• "A Respiration Modulated Personal Air Sampling Pump,"
  Appl. Occup. Environ. Hyg. (12/94)

• A holographic gas analyzer

• Member of Texas A&M chapter of Alpha Pi Mu, the national industrial engineering honor society.

• American Academy of Industrial Hygienists
• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
• American Industrial Hygiene Association
• Association of Hazardous Materials Professionals

• Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH#: 3921)

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