Environmental, safety, and health consultant with 20 years of biotechnology safety program experience.

Led and managed Health and Safety Program for 150+ employees over six different facilities. Maintained compliance with local, state, and federal agencies with numerous permits and maintained an inspection record of zero violations during work period. Created and managed safety programs for Virdos’ advanced algal facility in Imperial County producing large scale collections of modified algal strains with funding from ExxonMobil. Responsible for all biosafety, USDA and CDC safety elements required for a research project focusing on engineered pig cells for optimized human transplantation partnered with United Therapeutics. Appointed Covid-19 Chairperson and was responsible for company’s regulatory compliance, employee protection program and trainings well as contact tracing and incident management. Participated as safety representative on San Diego HR Forum webinar attended by more than 100 participants. Spear-headed multiple environmental initiatives to reduce the company’s carbon footprint involving waste reductions and recharacterization. Diverted all medical waste into one of two recycling platforms as well as optimized chemical waste generation into recyclable profiles.

Performed EHS consulting to San Diego biotechnology companies including inspection audits, live safety training and permit creation and maintenance. Represented all companies during inspections from city, state, and federal agencies.

Lead Industrial Hygienist specializing in mold and chemical testing for Southern California companies. Performed senior level EHS consulting to biotechnology companies including program creation, implementation and maintenance, safety training and all safety compliance requirements.

Consulted and managed EHS safety program with a focus on Seimens' Positron Emission Tomography (PET) program.

Provided safety consulting services to more than 50 San -Diego based biotechnology companies with biosafety and fire safety compliance specialties. Chosen as sole EHS intern for San Diego City Fire Department to team up with biotechnology fire marshal to learn pertinent fire code regulations. This education was used to instruct San Diego biotechnology companies on how to prepare for fire inspections and maintain fire compliant facilities. Supervised entry level Industrial Hygienists.

Performed radioactive laboratory assays on high throughput 384-well plate ligase-based and kinase-based assays screened with large unknown compound libraries.