Barbara Rich I Voice Actor Email & Phone Number

I am a professionally-trained voiceover actor whose experience in the arts and sciences enables me to deliver high-quality audio from my dedicated ProTools studio. With a background in project management, I love to express your copy effectively, efficiently and with eloquence.Why work with Richcraft Studios? • A great pick for commercials and narrations • Top quality recordings in the format of your choice • Rapid and reliable delivery • Competitive pricing • Specializes in telling your stories

Bend, Oregon

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Bend, Oregon

Barb worked in a variety of functions as needed to support a small software company. Work included managing new software installations and upgrades to existing systems to support organizations that provide licensing services for such professionals as medical, environmental health, or contractor practitioners.

Providing continuing education to onsite system installers, maintenance service providers, registered environmental health specialists, realtors and builders.Provides organization and administration of training sessions.

Facilitating solutions for land use, development, and conservation projects.

Senior Environmental Health Planner • Project manager for the Groundwater Protection Project, an EPA grant-funded program to use the information and expertise gained during the La Pine National Demonstration Project to implement groundwater protection measures. Website available at www.deschutes.org/ search for Groundwater Protection Project.• Develop public policy & public information materials• Respond to requests for proposal (grant writer)• Evaluate applications from manufacturers to list nitrogen reducing onsite systems for use in Deschutes County, • Inter-agency coordination

Project manager for the La Pine National Demonstration Project, an EPA-funded grant program with a budget of $5,500,000. • Team leader for an interagency project staff of 12 people • Innovative system site selection and installation oversight • Coordinate sampling teams for wastewater systems and groundwater monitoring networks • Performance review of innovative onsite systems • Primary source of public education materials and contacts • Speaker for the project at numerous state and national meetings and conferences • Meeting facilitator for advisory committee • Water Pollution Control Facilities permit writer • Contract negotiator for vendors, installers, and property owners participating in the project

Reviewed and produced legally defensible findings on proposed land developments (review included all types of land uses, specialty included surface mining, flood plain and other natural resource applications)Produced and maintained public information materials, including developing and maintaining the department's first website

Merrimack River Initiative, June 1992 - July 1994• Primary staff support for the Merrimack River Initiative, in particular the Management and Executive Committees. Participants in the MRI included local, state, regional and federal agencies and organizations• Project manager for a $500,000 budget• Team leader for an interagency staff of 3 full-time and 2 part-time persons• Liaison between the four topical subcommittees (Water Quality, Instream Flow, Information Management and Resource Management), the Conference Planning Committee and the Management Committee. This required interaction with about 200 people meeting and working on issues within the Merrimack River watershed.• Facilitation support for developing action items and management support for implementing activities selected by the MRI for fundingInterim public outreach coordinator: produced the MRI newsletter and the participant directory; fielded information requests, spokesperson for the MRI at meetings and conferences, co-authored script and edited visuals for the MRI slide show• Team leader for 6 member committee to organize and produce two Merrimack River Watershed Conferences, June 7-8, 1993 and June 3-4, 1994. Published the Conference Book and the Proceedings for each conference• Grant writer seeking CWA Section 104(b)(3) funds from US EPA Region I for the MRI• Contract negotiator and manager for disbursing MRI funds to contractorsRunnins River Watershed, February 1992 - July 1992• Performed fieldwork in preparation for wet weather sampling and septic system dye testing• Produced wet weather sampling plan for the watershed including protocols for quality assurance and quality control• Wrote CWA Section 104(b)(3) grant proposal for household hazardous waste and storm water quality education at the town level

Toxic Reduction and Control Department, Industrial Monitoring and Pretreatment Section- Performed all duties associated with monitoring regulated industrial discharges to the MWRA sewerage system, including: File research, equipment preparation, taking grab and composite samples with proper preservation and transport techniques, and reporting- Monitored the MWRA sewage treatment plants’ sludge quality to support the beneficial reuse program. Rewrote the Standard Operating Procedure for the monitoring program

Capital Engineering and Development Department,,• Reviewed developments proposed under the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act for potential impacts to water supply sources or structures for the greater Boston Metropolitan area. Composed comment letters to the State Secretary of Environmental Affairs expressing the position of the MWRA.• Researched brackish and salt-water desalination technologies available to determine the feasibility of this option as a drinking water source• Prepared preliminary Local Source Feasibility Studies for the Ashland, Hopkinton, and Whitehall Reservoirs to determine their potential as drinking water supplies for the towns of Ashland and Hopkinton• Prepared preliminary Local Source Feasibility Study for a potential ground water supply owned by the town of ArlingtonResearched and developed a preliminary handbook on water supply protection planning for in-house use• Assisted the evaluation of the environmental impacts associated with proposed routes for the Wachusett Reservoir Bypass Aqueduct. This included one of the first use of GIS technology by the MWRA to map critical resources and threats

Ma, Energy & Environmental Studies (Water Resources Management), Graduate Studies

Bs, Geology/Mechanical Engineering