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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

 Providing Senior EH&S/CIH and radiation evaluation and consulting services for premier clients such as the Washington DC government, Prominent DC Universities including updating Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasures (SPCC) plan, providing indoor environmental complaints investigations, and Heating, Ventilation, Air-Conditioning (HVAC) evaluations and consulting for multiple building types, locations, and activities. In addition, provided similar services for Washington, DC federal services including Department of General Services (DGS), Department of Capital Projects (DCP), Metropolitan Police Department (MPD), Fire and Emergency Medical Services (FEMS), DC Public School (DCPS), Department of Parks and Recreation (DPR) and DC Administrative Groups including the Office of the Mayor. Corina Virus/Pathogen Subject Matter Expert (SME) and sole industrial hygiene, EH&S consultant for Washington DC government. Provided programs, site, location and activity specific health and safety plans, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and miscellaneous protocols for workers protection from pathogen exposure. Examples of SOPs include sanitizing procedures, social interaction procedures, pathogen personal protective procedures, etc. SME on ventilation, HVAC systems as they relate to healthy IAQ and potential pathogen reduction or mitigation. Provided SME evaluations of prospective sanitizing equipment both portable and/or system installation. Organized and provided an emergency research project regarding the public’s concern for lead contamination within children’s playgrounds including Poured-in-Place (PIP) rubber surfaces. Conducted comprehensive study of over 300 playgrounds and produced a report of over 2700 pages. Provided multiple administrative, public and community presentations of the process, results of the process, and the risk assessment to the public and the children.

Alexandria, Virginia, United States

 Developed and integrated USMS international construction and management standards for Indoor Firing Ranges and H&S aspects of detainment facilities including ventilation and biosafety. Provided comprehensive health and safety analyses of accident, incident, and illness incidents including identifying and isolating key focus areas for improvement and integration into a limited financial budget. Identified effective action items and assisted the contracting office in the design, development and launch of both large and small-scale contract vehicles to efficiently address key areas of health and safety needs.

Kirkland, Washington, United States

 SME in industrial hygiene management and hands-on advanced sampling strategies and programs, hazards evaluations, engineering controls, and evaluation/mitigation of worker exposures to complex hazards situations. Expert in applying analytical and evaluative methods to resolve problems. Specialized in complex problem resolutions such as remote locations, highly hazardous, and unusual conditions including nuclear/radioactive/mixed contamination, military gas agents, novel protein (biological) hazards evaluations, and emergency responses.

Washington, Dc

 Served as sole safety and occupation health subject matter expert with responsibility for developing policy, setting objectives, developing and managing short - and long-range requirements, evaluating effectiveness of efforts, and providing DOE representation and guidance on standards and criteria. Review, compile, analyze, and interpreted data from accident and loss event reports and other sources regarding injuries, illnesses, property damage, environmental effects or public impacts to identify causes, trends and relationships, ensure completeness, accuracy and information validity. Extensive Industrial Hygiene field work included providing on-site H&S evaluations of operations and multiple facilities including Process Safety Management. Provided mentoring and team lead of safety and health specialists and a team of H&S professionals providing new abilities to extend and modify existing techniques and develop new approaches in solving a variety of worker safety and health problems at multiple DOE sites.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States

 Provided on-site industrial hygiene, health and safety evaluations of multiple facilities within military posts worldwide. Inspected, reviewed and identified areas of improvement to eliminate or reduce the frequency, severity, and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses. Included industrial hygiene, safety and health findings and reports into proprietary DoD EH&S database (DOEHRS). Provided mentoring and management for multiple teams of safety and health specialists and industrial hygienists providing new abilities to extend and modify existing techniques and develop new approaches in documenting and solving a variety of worker safety and health problems.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Identified, assessed, and assisted in the management of risks for work involving genetically modified organisms. Developed and trained researchers on chemical hygiene program elements and created the process for development of multiple novel virus’ Safety Data Sheets (SDS). SME concerning recognition of potential pathogenic exposures, symptoms, and causes, identification of source and routes of potential pathogenic exposures, biological safety disinfection, containment, transport, PPE and handling policy and guidance on work with biological/pathogenic agents. Developed laboratories Biological Safety Program elements for BS-2 agents.

Johnston Atoll

Effectively organized and managed a team of 12 highly skilled professionals under difficult, remote conditions working with hazardous waste/materials including biological, radiological and chemical wastes and contamination, extensive construction activities, and complicated health and safety issues associated with remote island operations. Developed and managed all regulatorily and mission required programs for base support operations.Facility H&S responsibilities included airport, seaport, fire station, hospital, construction, housing, food and recreation, power production, water purification, communications, and command and control facilities. Responsible for evaluating, investigating, mitigating, and storage of nuclear contamination (i.e. plutonium, americium) and biological waste (e.g. anthrax).