Christopher Trees Email & Phone Number

Encinitas, Ca

* Prepared and executed $29 million annual budget for a California Special District that included administration, operation, maintenance, and capital improvement funding. * Responsible for inter-agency agreements related to water rights, water purchases, rights-of-way, and other regional matters. * Responded to customer inquiries and developed an acceptable resolution to a variety of customer support situations.* Developed cost saving procedures that involved restructuring the staff and developing a new rate structure to save $3 million per year. * Increased revenue for capital improvement projects by $4 million per year. * Developed and implemented the water and sewer master plans, $100 million capital improvement program and updated the standard drawings and specifications. * Responsible for preparing the $5 million annual capital improvement program budget and the $200,000 annual engineering department budget and reported the status of the budgets to the Board of Directors during public meetings.

* Environmental cleanup of soil and groundwater contamination using vapor extraction, thermal oxidizers, catalytic oxidizers, activated carbon, ozone injection, steam injection, oil/water separators, air strippers, and horizontal drilling techniques. * Performed site investigations and assessments, supervised drilling crews, designed , installed, and operated remediation systems for soil and water cleanup. * Instrumental in development of new remediation technique using ozone injection for cleanup of manufactured gas plant site.* Designed full scale system using steam injection to mobilize heavy hydrocarbons and enhance cleanup efforts.

* Performed site investigation and assessment for contaminated soil and groundwater. * Designed, installed, and operated remediation systems including activated carbon, thermal oxidizers, oil/water separators, vapor extraction systems, and groundwater pumping systems. * Supervised drilling crews during installation of soil borings and groundwater monitoring wells.* Performed groundwater pumping tests and analyzed subsurface soil and groundwater flow conditions.

* Propulsion systems division responsible for avionics integration of aircraft engines, auxiliary power unit, fuel system, and fire supression systems on the C-17 cargo aircraft team. * Developed manufacturing test procedures to ensure cockpit controls correctly operated systems prior to final flight checkout.