Eric Tempest Email & Phone Number

Decatur, Alabama, US

• Manage environmental compliance testing for process units in the petroleum, power, and chemical industry that are regulated by Title V, NSPS, NESHAP, NSR, BACT.
• Collaborate with Clients and vendors to problem solve engineering/compliance issues.
• Interface and maintain CEMS to perform audits & compliance testing at client sites.

• Perform Iso-kinetic and Non- isokinetic air quality and emissions testing, to help clients meet compliance goals set forth by the state and federal regulatory agencies.
• Employ various test methods (1 through 5) from CFR 40 part 60.
• Destruction & Removal Efficiency Testing, Boiler & Industrial Furnace Testing, Quarterly Cylinder Gas Audits, Continuous Emission Monitoring, RATA, and Dioxin/Furan Testing etc.
• Perform quarterly CPMS audits.
• Routinely repair and calibrate dry gas meters, S-type pitot’s, and wet test meters in-house and in the field.
• Support and or perform Relative Accuracy Tests Audits in various chemical plants & refineries, regarding their Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems.

• Prepare glassware and sampling equipment for emission testing, drive vehicles to client site, and setup up for compliance/ engineering tests.
• Conduct visual emissions readings on smokestacks in accordance with Reference 9, 40 CFR 60 Appendix A.
• Routinely repair testing equipment in-house and in the field.
• Perform quarterly Continued Parameters Monitoring Systems audits on afterburners

• Collaborated with staff, local groups, and vendors on solutions for alleviating hunger in the community.
• Responsible for coordinating personnel, shifts, and deliveries from charities that ultimately resulted in the distribution of 16.1 million pounds of food received by 32 counties.

• Converted 5 acres of fescue to native warm season grasses by doing a prescribed burn, and planting varying plant (grasses) structures to promote plant and animal diversity.
• Designed and executed an irrigation/erosion study that revealed the best farming practice, in regards to this study was no till, accompanied by cover crop, to allow maximum water and nutrient absorption.
• Researched how native species can assist in enhancing pollinator pollinations, provide refuge for wildlife and help landowners recuperate costs from marginal land expected published date-2016
• Performed statistical analysis on 3 years of data collected from the MDC sponsored pollinator study.
• Worked closely with Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) to increase habitat local species which included improving nesting, edge habitat, and delivered presentation on how to properly calibrate a Flex II seeder.
• Partnered with the Department of Natural Resources, to reduce the presence of invasive species and established brush piles to improve landowners, wildlife habitat.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Environmental Science

Biology, General