Dr. Michael L. Babuin Email & Phone Number

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Dr. Babuin's passion to teach environmental and geological sciences spans his 30-year career. Orginally teaching at the RTP Campbell campus, and now at the Campbell campus at Fort Bragg, he has instructed adults of all ages successfully. Additionally, he teaches online university classes through the Blackboard Learning Platform. Dr. Babuin believes in a teaching style which emphasises relevant knowledge as applied to the community which we live in, and where necessary, how to mitigate and remediate environmental issues.

Raleigh, North Carolina

Chairman of the Board from 2013-2014 and managed a budget of 1.2 million for an organization of 9,500 members.

This job constituted pursuance of a lifetime dream and passion related to establishing a nationally recognized training center of excellence for an Olympic sport.As a past-member of the USATT Board of Directors as well as past Chairman of the Board for USA Table Tennis – the Olympic governing body of the sport in the USA – Dr. Babuin used his skills, contacts, and expertise to design and launch this nationally acclaimed center and see it progressing on a profitable pathway for long term sustainability. At this time, the challenge has been met, the center has been set-up properly and is running smoothly on a sustainable track for profitability. In this position (above) Dr. Babuin was responsible for development of programs and activities which generate revenue and activity for the training center. This included developing and executing five leagues/week, monthly tournaments, special events, membership for the general public, and many varieties of corporate events. He also was responsible for developing an approach to ensure the long term success of the center. In the brief time that the center has been open several amazing things transpired due to his initiatives including International visits by the Chinese National Table Tennis team, visits by top Pakistani athletes, and many other international dignitaries. Under Mike’s direction the Center hosted an International Table Tennis Federation ‘Level 1’ Coaching course for its coaches that was not only profitable, but invaluable towards furthering the education and credibility of the centers coaching staff. Finally, Dr. Babuin was able to negotiate an arrangement with the US Table Tennis Hall of Fame (HoF) to bring ‘the Hall’ to the center as a long-term fixture for the entire United States.

Home Office Lausanne, Switzerland

Cary, North Carolina

Responsible for permitting of capital projects related to roadway, utility infrastructure, and property acquisition. Typical projects included road widenings and water or sewer line projects which had impacts to riparian buffers, isolated wetlands, and stream channel impacts. These projects all required mitigation through the North Carolina Ecosystem Enhancement Program (NCEEP). Specific projects included environmental studies (audits) for properties acquired, as well as assessment of sites that required Phase 2 levels of investigation. Additionally, many projects required impacts to an adjacent stream so an internal stream mitigation ‘banking’ system was developed to manage the impacts from capital projects as applied to restoration of denuded and impacted stream reaches within several watersheds that compose the Town of Cary. As such, Mr. Babuin has extensive knowledge of stream restoration technology, including conducting public meetings, meeting with concerned citizens, and minimizing flood impacts in active floodplains adjacent to homeowner properties. A separate (major) responsibility included management, tracking, and oversight of the Best Management Practice (BMP) program within the Town of Cary. The Town has well over 1,000 BMP devices and Mr. Babuin was responsible for ensuring that each one remained within compliance of the North Carolina Division of Water Resources (DWR) (formerly the Division of Water Quality). Specific BMP devices that Mr. Babuin is intimately familiar with regard to design and functionality include bioretention areas; wet ponds, dry ponds, constructed wetlands; underground storage devices (USD’s); sand filters, level spreaders; grass swales; and bio-retention areas. All of these BMP’s required ongoing maintenance and interaction with BMP owners or agents which typically were HOA’s, commercial property management companies, and members of the development community.

Responsible for managing the Solid and Hazardous Waste Department in the Chapel Hill, North Carolina Office. Chief tasks included business development to sustain the departmental staff consisting of hydrogeologists, geologists, technicians, and occupational health professionals. Clients recruited and managed include AT&T, Waste Industries; mineral exploration and processing companies, and several chemical manufacturing companies. Specific projects covered a wide variety of topics including due diligence evaluations, environmental audits and assessments, solid waste permitting projects, master agreements with several clients for underground storage tank closures, brownfield re-development projects, and a host of other environmental projects.

(ES)Responsible for environmental and hydrogeologic/geologic aspects of consulting projects in the solid & hazardous waste industry. This included ‘cradle to grave’ consulting services including identification of future projects from municipal and local government sectors, marketing to these sectors, proposal development, corporate interviews to win the project, report development, permitting document development, technical writing, modeling and document compilation. Examples of specific projects performed include: 1) Solid Waste Management Projects such as landfill siting studies; master plans; recycling studies; ground water monitoring plans, geotechnical investigations, ground water assessment studies; methane gas monitoring plans; sanitary landfill permitting documents and reports; construction and debris landfill applications; land clearing & inert debris facilities; transfer station studies; 2) Hazardous Waste Management Projects such as ground water studies related to jet fuel spills at airport facilities; Superfund sites; brownfield redevelopment sites; 3) Projects such as abandoned gas stations; active as stations; and buried storage tanks at commercial businesses. (PM)Responsible for proposal development, interviews with prospective clients, and contract development upon award of the job. Following award, establishment of a project budget, developing the project team to successfully accomplish the project, executing the project within the confines of the contract, looking diligently for opportunities for change orders and amendments for any and all out of contract requests or requirements by the client. This entailed detailed and meticulous note taking, record keeping, and, coordination/communication with members of the project team, management team, and client. Upon completion of the project, was responsible for gathering and performing client satisfaction surveys to assess the performance of the project and the satisfaction level of the client.

Hydrogeologist responsible for development and implementation of the first ground and surface water monitoring program for approximately 100 solid waste management facilities throughout North Carolina. This program was launched prior to the Federal subtitle-D program but contained similar components so as the Federal regulations took precedence in final form in 1989, North Carolina was already in compliance with this particular program. Additional duties related to permit review for sanitary landfills, construction and debris landfills, and all other type of facilities managed by the Division.

Bachelor’S Degree, Geology

Post-Baccalaureate Studies, Geological Engineering

Master’S Degree, Geophysical Sciences

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Environmental Engineering