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Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Schriever Afb, Co

• Supervises 4 personnel, coordinates projects for all Installation level Environmental Programs, and collaborates with executive level leadership as an Element Chief. • Executed a $43,000 budget, serving as Approving Official, ensuring the evaluation of state-of-the-art scientific and engineering technologies are evaluation and incorporated into environmental compliance and restoration services.• Coordinated with Air Force Civil Engineer Center to analyze all potentially hazardous waste for toxicity, allowing for safe disposal of materials and compliance with federal regulations. Conducted quarterly hazardous material and hazardous waste training events.• Generated a multitude of regulatory reports to include Cultural Resources requirements to the State Historical Preservation Office; Air Quality Permit requirements to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; Waste Water Permit requirements to Cherokee Metro District; Hazardous Waste requirements to the Environmental Protection Agency. • Oversaw the Installation’s Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances remediation efforts, ensuring the groundwater for off base residents complies with EPA Lifetime Health Advisories.

Schriever Afb

• Organized, planned and directed activities of the Installation’s Hazardous Material and Hazardous Waste Programs.• Developed an Installation Exempt List, coordinating with Safety, Bioenvironmental Engineering and Fire and Emergency Services, to ensure 100% hazardous material accountability while identifying materials that are not subject to environmental regulations. • Managed wastewater program and completed 5-year permit renewal, continuing to authorize Schriever AFB to discharge industrial wastewater. • Conducted semiannual self-inspection of all programs to assess compliance with Federal, state, local and Air Force requirements and submitted to supervisor for validation. • Conducted annual environmental inspections of 24 units to ensure compliance with hazardous material, hazardous waste, and wastewater program requirements.

Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

• Provided leadership for 200+ multi-disciplinary personnel, including 35 medical providers, and 125 behavioral health clinicians.• Directly managed 5 second and third level supervisors overseeing clinical operations of 9 state correctional facilities. Conducted hiring interviews for Nurses, Mental Health Clinicians, Doctors and Mid-level Providers.• Monitored disease surveillance systems and the electronic health records for patients at 9 state correctional facilities.• Conducted the epidemiologic response to an influenza outbreak at the state’s only Intake Facility, integrating interdisciplinary team of professionals to include attorneys, public health specialists, public affairs specialists, biological scientists, environmental engineers, physical scientists, other governmental officials, and community groups.• Tasked with implementing the department’s chronic Hepatitis C treatment initiative, ensuring 2,200 patients received treatment and were tracked to ensure treatment success/zero adverse outcomes.• Maintained operational oversight of 2 Residential Treatment Programs, providing services to address the needs of Seriously Mentally Ill patients. Ensured compliance with American Correctional Association standards.• Assessed public health programs in the Department to ensure compliance with Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment standards and provided scientific advice to external health agencies, to include county and state health departments.

Peterson Afb, Co

• Provided leadership for 27 multi-disciplinary personnel, including 4 medical providers, fostering an environment of patient centered care and zero patient safety errors.• Executed a $27,000 budget, ensuring zero lapses in disease prevention services for 26,000 patients. • Created and edited 3 pandemic influenza response plans that resulted in 16,000 military and civilian personnel securing access to the Strategic National Stockpile. • Partnered with El Paso County Public Health and Evans Army Community Hospital to host quarterly meetings to disseminate relevant community health information and leverage training opportunities in the region.• Utilized the ESSENCE syndromic surveillance system to conduct routine disease surveillance and provided mentoring/training on utilizing this system.• Responsible for managing epidemiological investigations for all Tri-Service reportable communicable and foodborne illness, conducting data collection, coordination/execution of environmental health inspections, data analysis, control measure implementation, and risk communication.• Oversaw Medical Employee Health Program and TB testing and screening program for 3 military installations, ensuring compliance with OSHA and CDC guidance for 503 clinic employees.• From 2014-2016, coordinated Peterson Air Force Base’s response to Zika and Ebola, coordinating with regional Infection preventionists and specialty clinics, to provide scientific advice to external local/state health agencies.• Supervised the clinic’s childhood obesity prevention program (5-2-1-0), partnering health educators and community partners to host healthy cooking demonstrations and promote physical fitness.• Evaluated hospital-level medical programs and Installation-level policy as the Clinic’s Inspection Team Chief, overseeing training evaluation and managing 13 evaluators.• Developed and led communicable disease outbreak exercises to assess the accuracy of the epidemiologic reporting and surveillance.

Incirlik Air Base, Turkey And Denver, Co

• Conducted environmental health assessments of DoD-contracted food storage facilities in SE Turkey to ensure compliance with the Tri-Service and USDA Food Codes to validate the storage and dissemination of $10 Million in DoD subsistence overseas, guaranteeing proper health and nutritional standards.• Managed readiness standards for 7,000 servicemen, delivering medically qualified members to 11 theater commands.• Implemented annual flu shot drives, advising an 18-member team, which screened and vaccinated 2,700 patients in 1 day. Ultimately raising our empanelment’s immunity rates 49% in only 2 weeks. • Conducted case interviews for all patients diagnosed with HIV in conjunction with a medical provider: interviewed the patients, collected relevant information and provided a case report to the HIV Program at the Infectious Disease Service of Brooke Army Medical Center.• Conducted confidential contact tracing, allowing potentially at-risk partners to be tested for HIV.• Utilized ESSENCE syndromic surveillance system to conduct routine disease surveillance. Provided mentoring and training of employees on utilizing ESSENCE as well as other computer programs such as Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook. Proficiency utilizing CEDRS.• Monitored 9,000 beneficiaries for reportable medical conditions and potential public health emergencies, partnering with local health departments to ensure a consistent and effective response.• Tracked immunization data for all assigned servicemen to ensure they complied with the medical standards and requirements for 11 Combatant Commands.• Authored a vaccination awareness video and hand hygiene educational handouts in support of national patient safety week, developing community outreach initiatives for Installation personnel.

Master’S Of Public Health, Environmental Health

MPH degree with a concentration in Environmental Health Sciences and Epidemiology.

Bachelor’S Degree, Biology, General

Minored in Chemistry and Business. Overseas study program: 1 semester in Rome, Italy.