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Led overall compliance capabilities (Environmental, Health and Safety, DOT/PHMSA Compliance, and Emergency Response) for petroleum pipelines and associated facilities in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin, before relocating and managing KPL assets throughout Texas. Developed and mentored direct reports, employees and senior management leading to compliance results well below industry average.

Grew the environmental permitting, planning, and compliance practice in the Tampa market through client development and demonstrated skills. Managed a large number of Environmental Compliance related projects for key customers in the oil and gas, utilities, and transportation sectors. Projects consisted of various multi-media (air and water) permitting tasks, composing key compliance documents (SPCC, SWPPP, BMP Plans), and facility auditing.

Led overall EHS compliance capabilities for 7 deep-water dry bulk and liquid terminals located in the Southeastern United States. Responsible for all aspects of EHS performance, including but not limited to Environmental Permitting (Minor Source and Title V), Employee Training, Employee Safety, Incident Investigation/Root Cause Analysis, Process Safety Management/Risk Management Planning (PSM/RMP) for anhydrous ammonia, and overall EHS risk reduction.

Junior level staff member for a large-scale environmental consulting firm serving various industrial and commercial clients throughout North America. Provided a variety of multimedia environmental consulting tasks such as Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), environmental auditing, environmental permitting, safety training, incident investigation/root cause analysis, and managing and scheduling all field activities for the Tampa Office.

Junior level staff member for an environmental consulting firm serving various industrial and commercial clients throughout North America. Provided a variety of multimedia environmental consulting tasks from Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) to managing contamination remediation systems.

Environmental professional responsible for day-to-day operation of an environmental remediation system installed to remediate acetone contamination in soil and groundwater. Provided additional duties to the EHS department including conducting Industrial Hygiene (IH) sampling, facility audits, environmental permitting, safety and environmental training.