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West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

Provide highly complex staff and project assistance to the department director in all divisions of Public Works including Sanitation, Street Maintenance, Street Lighting, Fleet Maintenance and Facilities Maintenance.Manage and develop team members across multiple disciplines including budget, procurement, solicitations, contract management, customer service, billing, payroll and the Keep West Palm Beach Beautiful initiative.Independently review, manage and maintain a $30M budget across three funds and seven cost centers. Oversee the tracking and management of over 180 contracts and solicitations.Create, implement and revise standard operating procedures as requested for all divisions of Public Works.Disaster preparedness planning and implementation.Maintain department website and all sub pages.Lead the Clean Streets Task Force, a multi departmental and citizen task force organized to address persistent illegal dumping, litter and abandoned vehicles throughout the city.Facilitate recurring interdepartmental coordination meetings with key departments to improve work flow and efficiency and increase operational understanding across department lines.

West Palm Beach, Florida

Provide highly complex staff and project assistance to the department director in all divisions of Public Works including Sanitation, Street Maintenance and Street Lighting.Manage and develop team members across multiple disciplines including budget, procurement, solicitations, contract management, customer service, billing and payroll.Independently review, manage and maintain a $15M budget across two funds and five cost centers. Initiate, track and manage all Public Works contracts and solicitations.Create, implement and revise standard operating procedures as requested for all divisions of Public Works.Disaster preparedness planning and implementation.Maintain department website and all sub pages.Assist in the development of the Clean Streets Task Force, a multi departmental and citizen task force organized to address persistent illegal dumping, litter and abandoned vehicles throughout the city.Facilitate recurring interdepartmental coordination meetings with key departments to improve work flow and efficiency and increase operational understanding across department lines.

West Palm Beach, Florida Area

Directed operation and activity of both field and laboratory staff.Supervise and develop a team of laboratory and field technicians through counseling, performance reviews and disciplinary meetings as needed.Act as primary point of contact to multiple state agencies (FDEP, FDOH, SFWMD) and auditors to meet permit requirements and maintain critical certifications. Coordinated with vendors, Procurement and Legal for contract solicitations and negotiations.Develop, implement, revise and ensure compliance with over twenty Standard Operating Procedures.

Tallahassee, Florida

Serve as a technical laboratory liaison to clients, managing approximately $1M of laboratory revenue annually. Create quotes and project set-up based upon the needs of the individual client. Responsible for scheduling delivery of project specific supplies as well as coordinating sampling, shipment and/or courier pickups of environmental samples. Ensure samples are received and logged into the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in accordance with governing regulations.Perform technical review of final data to verify that all data quality objectives have been met, as well as compile final client reports, electronic data deliverables (EDDs) and invoices. Lead and/or serve on various corporate committees to evaluate and develop company improvement plans when called upon by Senior Management.

Tallahassee, Florida

Managed staff of up to six analysts at a time; scheduled workloads, trained staff and performed final review of all analytical data prior to release to Project Managers.Streamlined processes and efficiency of the department to improve department on time delivery significantly in less than one year’s time.Improved data accuracy from the department drastically which resulted in fewer client requested data quality reviews and lab-related revisions.Successfully guided department staff through a major change in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and quickly became an expert user providing support to other company locations.Selected as the 2004 recipient of Laboratory Leadership Award for the Tallahassee location.

Narragansett, Rhode Island

Supervised and scheduled work for the volatiles laboratory.Reviewed complicated spectral data for integration errors and completeness.Worked effectively under time constraints and consistently produced reliable results.Performed routine instrument maintenance and repairs. Trained new employees in instrument and software operation, standard preparation, method interpretation and data analysis.

Narragansett, Rhode Island

Analyzed soil, water and air samples for volatile compounds using gas chromatographs equipped with mass selective detectors.Assisted in instrument maintenance and repairs. Analyst for the Contract Laboratory Program (CLP) through the U.S. EPA.

Conducted independent chemical evaluation of waste samples. Performed TCLP and organic extractions, metals digestion and ICP/AES analyses.Promoted twice in less than six months.