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Fountain Valley, California, United States

Greater New Orleans Area

• Manage and perform life support operations including water quality analysis and equipment maintenance in accordance to best practices.
• Perform both administrative and technical duties in response to facility and stakeholder needs.
• Responsible for training staff, volunteers, and interns in LSS/WQ operations.
• Responsible for and maintain departmental budget to meet both operational and capital goals.
• Participate in facility and institutional improvement projects.

Brooklyn, NY

• Managed and streamlined multiple laboratory operations including daily analyses.
• Trained and developed staff, volunteers, and interns in proficient WQ operations.
• Provided technical assistance to all stakeholders by responding, investigating, and proposing solutions to WQ needs/problems that might otherwise could have impacted animal care/health.
• Developed and managed the laboratory quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) program to ensure data validity and reliability.
• Developed, reviewed, and maintained technical standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and related laboratory operations manual.
• Performed administrative duties including budget and procurement.

Virginia Beach, VA

• Performed multiple complex analyses (nutrients, volatiles and semivolatiles organic compounds, etc.) from various environmental sample matrices (water, wastewater, groundwater, surface water, and biosolids).
• Assured adherence to SOP's, EPA, DEQ and DCLS approved protocols, Quality Assurance Manual, Chemical Hygiene Plan, and appropriate accreditation and certification requirements.
• Prepared technical and analytical reports which included QA/QC protocol for legally defensible data and/or analytical corrective action when necessary.
• Adhered to safety protocols and complies with established hazardous waste management.
• Supervised Laboratory Technicians within areas of responsibility.
• Recommended ideas for improving laboratory and facility performance processes and procedures.

Virginia Beach, VA

• Managed and streamlined multiple laboratory operations including daily analyses.
• Trained and developed staff, volunteers, and interns in proficient WQ operations.
• Provided technical assistance to all stakeholders by responding, investigating, and proposing solutions to WQ needs/problems that might otherwise could have impacted animal care/health.
• Developed and managed the laboratory quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) program to ensure data validity and reliability.
• Developed, reviewed, and maintained technical standard operating procedures (SOP’s) and related laboratory operations manual.
• Created the first state-approved (VADEQ) WQ lab for Citizens Science within the zoos and aquarium industry which has proven to be both a community partnership and revenue generating program.

Newport News, VA

• Performed various organic chemical analyses such as pesticides, PCB’s, and herbicides in waste, ground, and drinking water, in hazardous wastes, air, and soil samples according to EPA and NELAP protocols.
• Performed the operation, maintenance, and minor troubleshooting of assigned equipment and instrumentation in the organic chemistry department.

Newport News, VA

• Performed various biological analyses including microbiology (MPN, CFU, HPC), solids (TS, TSS, TDS, VSS, VDS), and BOD/CBOD.
• Performed the operation, maintenance, and minor troubleshooting of assigned equipment and instrumentation in the microbiology department.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

Bachelor’S Degree, Mathematics

Bachelor’S Degree, Zoology/Animal Biology

High School, Health Professions And Related Programs