Christopher Acton Email & Phone Number

Henderson, Colorado

• Respond to Environmental Emergencies. • Utilize correct PPE.• Drive heavy duty trucks and pull trailers when applicable.• Conduct fire watch and confined space entry watch while other employees are completing work.• Confined space entry and rescue when applicable.• Utilize hand and power tools to complete various maintenance jobs and/or fix field equipment.• Air quality monitoring with a hand held MSA Altair 5 Multigas Detector.• Conduct lock out/tag out procedures when applicable.• Utilize man lifts, oxygen/acetylene torch for decommissioning tanks.• Utilize pressure washers and vac-tron equipment for cleaning up customers sites and emergency responses.

Jefferson City

• Enforcement case work, administrative order drafting, penalty calculations, and drafting of assorted certified letters.• Contact with Public water systems, municipalities, city officials, board members, certified operators, legal contacts, and state and federal government personnel via phone or email. • Complete Compliance checklists for the Permits and Engineering section to grant public water systems a Permit to Dispense.• Complete monthly database reports for an Escalation Report.• Monthly Operator certification violation tracking database, and issuance of Notices of Violation, Letter of Warning, and Notice of Noncompliance letters. • Noncompliant Well Agreement database tracking.• Operational Evaluation Level report database updating for public water systems with disinfectant byproduct issues.• Administrative Order on Consent, Administrative Penalty Order, and Attorney General Referral monthly report tracking.• Back up for significant deficiency tracking, Revised Total Coliform Rule assessment tracking databases.• Work in a collective group to accomplish completion of compliance and enforcement procedures.• Verified data integrity and accuracy in documents and the Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS).• Volunteer of my work time to set up, attend, and communicate with Missouri citizens and students at the Missouri State Fair, Earth Day Festival, and Career Fair at University of Missouri St. Louis.

Columbia, Missouri Area

• Serve as Field Crew Leader for 2-4 field crew members while conducting field work per established safety and field protocols • Contact with citizens; local, city, state, and federal government officials; landowners; and other stakeholders to gain permission to access property to complete field work • Guidance to field crew members in the collection of water quality, fish species communities, and physical habitat data within Missouri wadeable streams• Accurate data entry in the field of all water quality, fish species, and physical habitat into a hand-held tablet • Sample all selected sites for aquatic macroinvertebrate communities in the Fall season• Work as a collective group to accomplish completion of selected sites throughout the summer• Use of ArcGIS and GPS units and programs• Apart of a Interviewing panel (4 individuals) to hire field crew members for the summer field work season• Identified resident fish species that were native to Missouri and kept accurate records of their numbers• Monitored fish populations using different equipment, including nets, seins and electrofishing backpacks and tote barge.• Use of State Purchasing Card to purchase field lunches, field supplies, overnight lodging, evening meals, and any other needed equipment or supplies needed to complete the RAM project • Adhere to established safety and sample processing laboratory protocols• Successful use of Microscopes to identify aquatic macroinvertebrates to a taxonomic level of order and family • Sort and count specimens to perspective labeled vials for further taxonomic identification to genus and/or species • Quality Assurance/Quality Check (QA/QC) of part time employees sorted material and count specimens to ensure accuracy and compliance to protocols• Work as a collective group to accomplish completion of macroinvertebrate samples• Adhere to lab safety and procedure protocols while cleaning glassware

Masters Of Natural Resource Stewardship (M.N.R.S.), Natural Resource Stewardship

Description can be found via the provided web address: http://www.online.colostate.edu/degrees/natural-resource-stewardship/rangeland-ecosy.

Masters In Environmental Policy And Management, Policy And Management With A Concentration Of Fish And Wildlife Management; Certificate In Nonprofit

Related Courses: Environmental Management Conservation Biology Watershed Management Environmental Toxicology Global Environmental Change.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Biology

Activities and Societies: None, mixture of online and on campus classes.Biology I & II Chemistry I & II Microbiology Zoology Anatomy.