Joseph Lapka Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco, Ca

• Provide internal management consulting to City departments; drive results on large, complex projects on schedule and on budget for leaders in Public Works, Recreation and Parks, Human Services, Human Rights, and Police among other departments• Managing a team of analysts in the data management and visualization unit of City's COVID-19 Emergency Operations Center. Oversee the development of the City's COVID-19 data tracker (https://data.sfgov.org/stories/s/fjki-2fab)• Partnered with the Mayor’s Office, City Attorney’s Office, and Chief Data Officer to assess the City’s compliance status under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act – the project supported creation of the City’s first Chief Privacy Officer position and culminated in the introduction of an ordinance by the Mayor to designate the City as a hybrid covered entity• Working with the Human Rights Commission’s Office of Racial Equity to develop the City’s first ever citywide racial equity framework and racial equity report card• Redeveloped and re-launched a citywide program for measuring street cleanliness and maintenance – developed new standards for the objective assessment of street conditions, established new evaluation procedures and protocols, built a mobile application for performing the evaluations, and developed a website to inform and educate city leaders and the public• Supervise analysts, contracted consultants, and application developers; develop analysts’ skills and critical thinking so that they can independently lead increasingly complex projects

San Francisco, Ca

• Analyzed traffic collision data to optimize the time, place, and nature of traffic enforcement in support of the City’s goal to eliminate traffic deaths• Developed a training course for City analysts on the use of the statistical software package R; delivered the course in a live classroom setting to more than 200 analysts through the City’s Data Academy

San Francisco, Ca

• Gathered and analyzed evidence to develop and initiate enforcement actions against parties that violated the Clean Air Act and associated air quality regulations; negotiated settlements with the responsible parties• Established a mobile source enforcement program in the Region 9 office in cooperation with the Office of Regional Counsel and EPA’s national Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance• Settled the nation’s first mobile source enforcement case involving illegal devices that defeat particulate filters on diesel trucks

San Francisco, Ca

• Implemented federal permitting programs for large stationary sources of air pollution - researched air pollution control technologies, assessed potential air quality impacts, established emission limits and other permit conditions, drafted technical documentation to accompany proposed permits, assessed and responded to public comments on proposed permits, assisted in the preparation of legal briefs upon appeal of issued permits, reviewed and commented on permits proposed by local air quality agencies• Regularly briefed senior Agency officials on complex technical and policy issues, and developed recommendations for Agency action

San Francisco, Ca

(Temporary leadership development program rotational assignment)• Supervised a staff of eight involved in ambient air monitoring, air quality modeling, data analysis, and geospatial analysis• Guided staff in analyzing state submittals under EPA’s Exceptional Events Rule; successfully concluded a 14-month effort to evaluate submittals in a precedential case that survived an appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals

Arlington, Va

• Researched innovative technologies for the cleanup of contaminated sites

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Managed a wastewater sampling program at university facilities to ensure compliance with wastewater discharge limits• Launched an inspection program to determine the University’s compliance status with regulations governing the spillage of polluting materials

Ann Arbor, Mi

• Assisted staff in updating regulations pertaining to EPA’s Motor Vehicle and Engine Compliance Program

Professional Certification In Geographic Information Systems, Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Master Of Public Administration (Mpa), Public Administration, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Pi Alpha AlphaEmphasis in public policy

Bse, Civil & Environmental Engineering