Christopher Howard, P.E. Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Career Highlight - Assisted with a 58% reduction in Methane intensity from RY 2021 to 2022. Assisted with a 42% reduction in GHG intensity from RY 2021 to 2022. - Successfully implemented a compliance program for a consent decree from the EPA, resulting in a successful termination without additional penalties. Responsibilities include:- Lead an internal team to implement and improve systems to comply with complex environmental regulations with a collaborative and flexible style. - Managed an EHS IT help desk with an on-call schedule that has approximately 8400 tickets per year.- Develop, manage, and coordinate the integration of EHS systems with other PDC Systems (e.g. WellView)- Led a team that streamlined annual GHG reporting from an annual process to a Monthly process to deliver monthly KPI’s to Senior Leadership

Career Highlight - received Project of the year award from Environment + Energy Leader for leading a team at PDC to implement a system that records measurements from a SCADA system every 15 seconds and in the event of a reading that exceeds a set threshold, Intelex's ACTS automatically creates and schedules an inspection while simultaneously sending the relevant inspection forms to the correct employee. If corrective actions are required, they are created and tracked to completion all within ACTS.

Denver, Co

Greater Denver Area

Career Highlight: Received two separate “Give Me Five” Awards. One for reducing costs by implementing an engine preventive maintenance system within an existing database and another for creating a system to reduce triplicate data entry and save 200 person-hours of data entry per year. Responsibilities include: Implement and improve systems to comply with complex environmental regulations with a collaborative and flexible style. Manage environmental contractors, track schedules and budgets, and review deliverables for cost effective and timely completion.

Greater Denver Area

Career Highlight:--Worked with an international multi-disciplinary team to implement an air emission compliance database for Canadian assets. Responsibilities include:--Led Encana’s mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions to the EPA --Project management of our US environmental database (ACTS)

Greater Denver Area

Career Highlight: Assisted with annual reporting of greenhouse gas emissions to the EPA. Responsibilities included:--Assisting in developing US division wide environmental compliance system for compliance tracking for air quality. --Conduct internal audits of environmental compliance programs--Project management of our US air emission database

Greater Denver Area

In this position I responsibilities included: --Colorado air emission permitting and compliance for oil and gas facilities from well head to gas plant in the South Rockies Business Unit (SRBU)--Calculate monthly emissions from new and existing facilities: approximately 26+ gathering facilities, 3 processing facilities including 1 PSD gas plant, and 1500+ E&P facilities --Manage air permit applications to comply with regulations, best practices and meet operating flexibility--Assist in development and maintenance of greenhouse gas emission inventory and reporting using EPA's e-GGRET--Prepare SRBU corporate air quality sustainability report --Prepare and submit environmental compliance reports to the EPA and the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division including but not limited to Title V, OOOO, ZZZZ, KKK, JJJJ, HH, and GHG MRR--Coordinate New Source Review permitting and compliance projects between engineering, EHS, operations, consultants, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment--Manage consultants for air permitting projects, air emissions testing, and sampling--Familiar with gas gathering, compression, and plant operation--Assist with preparing comments for new and upcoming regulations--Provide training for field personnel annually and with new air quality permits--Prepare and review air dispersion models for new source review--Assisted with multiple Lean projects

Fellow, Advanced Leadership Training Program (Altp)

The PURPOSE of the ALTP is to develop advanced knowledge and skills to increase the capacity to lead intentionally in an increasingly.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Environmental Engineering Speciality

High School Diploma