John Willis Email & Phone Number

Brevard County Florida

Edit complex reports;Provide expert advice and testimony concerning contaminated sites;Make potentiometric surface maps; Make contaminent isoconcentration maps;Perform oversight for field operations.

Orlando Florida

Duties included all phases of project management including initial development, staffing, pricing, writing of proposals, specifications, and reports; client and regulatory body interaction/ negotiation, performing fieldwork and contractor oversight. Was the Program manager, section leader, QA officer and Health and Safety Officer for our field section and in control of the projects that were performed for the NAVFAC SE work orders under the BOC contract: the former Orlando Naval Training Center long term monitoring as well as the Jacksonville NAS Fire Fighters Training Facility and Jacksonville NAS Areas B and G long-term monitoring. These projects included the monitoring of over 650 wells and surface water locations for a broad range of parameters and the preparation of complex reports in a timely manner. I prepared work plans for the development of solid waste management plans, design of landfill gas monitoring systems and participated in the comprehensive assessment of environmental liabilities for NAS Pensacola and Whiting Field. Routinely involved in the characterization and/or remediation design for several sites in Florida under FAC 62-770 and 62-780. I also performed modeling of aquifer characteristics, hydrologic sampling/analysis, drilling oversight, screen zone and well characteristic determinations for potable water supply wells, deep injection wells, and aquifer storage (ASR) wells for sites throughout Florida.

Cape Canavera Air Force Station/ Cocoa Beach Florida

Primary responsibilities included managing projects to budget and schedule, report and technical document writing, writing proposals as part of a team, client interaction, and design and commission of contamination assessments and environmental baseline surveys. Provided technical oversight and Health and Safety support for environmental field operations. Acted as the Office Manager for Spec-Pro’s 45 Space Wing BOC offsite offices in Cocoa Beach for the period of one year. Typical assignments during this period of employment included the following: Designed and performed Site Contamination Assessments and RECRA/CERCLA based investigations for various locations with known or suspected soil or groundwater pollution on Patrick Air Force Base (PAFB), Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) and several Florida Army National Guard facilities; Removed or abandoned in place pollutant underground storage tanks; Prepared Environmental Baseline Surveys for the privatization of sites on CCAFS and PAFB, as well as for several National Guard sites. Surveys included the evaluation of potential property contamination that may have occurred over the period of US Military occupation and the compellation of geologic and hydrographic data. Several of the site assessments and surveys were of sites covering large areas. Inventoried, inspected and directed the proper abandonment of artesian water wells and septic tanks throughout Cape Canaveral Air Force Station; Performed the initial water use audit for and prepared the first Consumptive Uses of Water Permitting (CUP) for CCAFS for Saint Johns Water Management District; Wrote the Ozone Depleting Substances Management Plan and the Asbestos Operations and Maintenance plans for the 45th Space Wing; Wrote the range safety plan for the weather rocket launch complex; Wrote the environmental sampling portions for the ISO 9000/9001 Quality Assurance plan for SpecPro (Florida division).

Titusvlle Florida

Responsible for field data acquisition, analysis and evaluation; Drawing designs; Project specifications; Cost estimates; Onsite construction management and heath and safety support; Submittals and inspections for compliance with project specifications as well as the reporting and notifications required for each project to the client and governmental agencies. Routinely designed and performed petroleum underground storage tank (UST) removals, site contamination assessments (SAR), initial remedial actions (IRA), and site remediation projects (RAP). I also performed environmental audits, indoor air quality (IAQ) inspections and remediation, lead based paint and asbestos inspections as well as groundwater flow and pollutant transport modeling, interpretation of geophysical data for well screen placement, and report writing. During field activities, provided oversight of contractor’s compliance with plans, products and specifications, as well as health and safety support including radiological and air quality monitoring for OSHA compliance. Served as an on site geologist, health and safety officer and lead radiation worker at the Savannah River DOE site during site restoration activities.

Kennedy Space Center

My primary job was to perform compliance and background monitoring of surface and ground waters of Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Duties also included hazardous/toxic material spill response; soil sampling; exploratory drilling and sampling with a Geoprobe© direct push equipment and a field gas chromatograph; performing soil and water analyses in a screening laboratory, performing field analysis of water and soil samples; equipment pricing, acquisition, repair and calibration. Duties also included design and implementation of environmental databases, environmental trend analysis and report writing. Performed the initial contamination assessments at several former space launch complexes, one of which involved tracing two major DNAPL plumes, one for approximately ½ mile and the other for approximately one mile.

Merritt Island Flrida

performed groundwater and surface water monitoring and analyses, equipment repair and calibration, drilling for monitor well emplacements using hollow stemmed augers, boat maintenance and repair, SCUBA diving, sediment sampling and analysis. Designed, built, programmed, and operated a computerized sediment analysis system utilizing a digital balance, computer, and a 6 foot acrylic tube, the twin of which is still routinely used by Eckerd College Department of Marine Science as a primary investigatory tool.

Ms, Marine Science

Multidisiplanary degree requiring graduate level coursework and fieldwork in chemistry, physics, biology and geology as they apply.

Bs, Geology

The department was particularily strong in the fields of metamorphic petrology, clay minerology and the mapping of ignious and metamorphic.