Eric Chang Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Atlanta, Ga

• Lead, direct, manage, and implement the Environmental Audit program. Perform lead audits at over 260 facilities to assess compliance with regulations, permits, plans, and company policies. Ensure safety briefings at each audit. Prepare clear and concise audit reports identifying discrepancies and corrective actions, and ensuring that all issues were corrected.• Built and developed different MS Power Apps including:1. Mobile Finding Location App to collect audit notes, pictures, & GPS locations;2. Mobile Corrective Action App for auditees to submit corrective actions & proof of closure;3. Auditor App for audit reports and audit data libraries;4. Audit Admin App for scheduling audit plans, permissions, notifications, & approvals/rejections;5. Audit Dashboard for upper management utilizing PowerBI.• Utilize audit data for system-wide improvements in plans and permits, training, and knowledge share.• Changed culture of past audit process to value-added auditing implementing a collaborative learning, improvement, and commitment process. • Redesigned audit program to best-in-class standards, incl. development of information management system, facility risk matrix, protocols, self-assessment checklists, metrics and KPIs. • Serve as technical authority on environmental protection, providing consultation to large and diverse geographical area of over 400 facilities in 22 states. Maintain knowledge of emerging regulatory changes.• Lead, direct, and manage the Environmental Training & Awareness program. Educate understanding of environmental requirements to over 500 personnel, through development of classroom, interactive CBT, video, and posters on various regulatory topics.• Utilize best practice project management skills in correspondence and reports, preparing annual budgets and cost estimates, writing status and progress reports, managing project schedules with milestones, and developing graphs and analytical data for briefings with upper management.

Atlanta, Ga

• Google Datacenter: Served as a facility EHS technical specialist, providing multi-media compliance assistance, consultation, and assurance; inspections; audit preparation; ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 conformance and improvement; training; reporting and recordkeeping; SWP3 and SPCC Plan revisions; and corrective and preventive actions. Recent ISO and OHSAS audit had zero non-conformance findings and several positive findings.• Oglethorpe Power: Revised Environmental Baseline Manuals for three energy facilities, including Air, EPCRA, SPCC, NPDES, Hazardous Waste, HAZMAT, Groundwater, FIFRA, and Solid Waste regulatory and corporate requirements. Manuals communicated to the facilities, Oglethorpe’s engineering standards and practices.• CEMEX: Developed and assisted the facility in implementing a Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC) Plan for cement operations. The plan included procedures, methods, response, and equipment requirements to ensure the prevention and mitigation of oil spills.• Albemarle: Performed air audit at a refining catalyst facility. Assisted with audit and protocol preparation and project management.• Southwire: Performed environmental compliance audit at a copper wire manufacturing facility. Assisted with audit, protocol, and report preparation.• BP Nashville Terminal: Performed SPCC and FRP investigations to confirm secondary containment engineering design specifications and plan revisions.• United States Postal Service: Performed environmental compliance review of a mail processing facility which involved reviewing environmental plans, organizing document management of environmental files, and collecting asset and aspects data. Prepared summary reports of compliance review findings and corrective actions.• Newell Rubbermaid: Reviewed and developed the company’s ten Corporate Environmental Compliance Standards, covering topics as hazardous waste, oil handling, air, wastewater, emergency response, etc.

Atlanta, Ga

• Provided management, multimedia env. regulatory & technical support, govt. interaction, and mentoring for Oriented Strand Board (OSB) manufacturing facilities in AR, MS, FL, and SC. • Permitted both capital & other projects for facilities, several w/ return on investments. Helped business understand risks & costs around env. impacts in order to make strategic decisions. Improved efficiencies through permit revisions, renewals, modifications, and requests to State agencies.• Notified and managed incidences with State agencies, and mediated issues with compliance enforcement agencies.• Developed, implemented, and trained on company’s Risk Management System (specifically environmental). Product deliverables included SOPs, guides, tools, training classes & materials, best practice knowledge shares, quality assurance & quality control, and assessments. • Assisted business with vision development, strategic planning, operations excellence, financial projections, and hiring and assessment of talent.• Hired numerous consultants for various projects. Set expectations, scope, schedule, and agreed upon budgets, with constant communication. Provided orientations and training to consultants to ensure alignment on values, the management system, risk, and urgency on compliance. • Developed and trained over 50 facilities on the corporate waste management compliance standard. Helped facilities fully understand their waste management requirements.• Performed environmental compliance audits at Georgia-Pacific facilities.• Worked with accountants to balance AROs (landfills) and true-up financial accruals. • Configured environmental compliance builds in Enviance, a cloud-based Environmental Management Information System that helps collect, manage, notify and report real-time data.• Helped perform and manage environmental due diligence for the successful acquisition of four facilities.

Atlanta, Ga

• Developed a comprehensive plan to manage solid waste for a Zero Carbon, Zero Waste city, called MASDAR, in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E. • Wrote the City of Atlanta’s 10-Year Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan, approved by the Atlanta Regional Commission, the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA), and City Council. • Managed budget, scope, schedule, and deliverables for long-term sustainable solid waste management for the City of Atlanta’s Dept. of Public Works. • Developed and prepared Green Procurement Plans, Pollution Prevention (P2) Plans, Ozone Depleting Chemical (ODC) Management Plans, and Solid Waste Management Plans for various Air Force, Marine Corps, and Army Reserve Bases in the U.S. and abroad. • Wrote “One-Plans” for two Air National Guard bases, that combined more than 30 separate environmental and emergency response management plans into one comprehensive and cohesive document, while meeting all applicable federal, state, Air Force, Air National Guard, and local regulations. • Performed environmental compliance audits at two power generation facilities. Prepared an Air Force base golf course for their annual compliance audit, in which they received no negative findings during their audit.• Developed and completed a petroleum and arsenic-contaminated soil cleanup report at a Naval Air Station. • Managed and developed environmental management system implementation plans and gap analyses at a pulp and paper facility and two Air Force bases.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: Association of Environmental Engineers and Scientists

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Civil And Environmental Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Society of Civil Engineers, The Environmental Forum, Chi Epsilon

Chemistry