Patrick Felling Email & Phone Number

Woodstock, Virginia, US

Oversee County's Solid Waste program, North Fork Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant, and two Sanitary Districts (Toms Brook-Maurertown and Stoney Creek).

• Responsibilities:
• Direct a staff of 16 full-time and 22 part-time employees
• Propose and administer an annual operating budget of $2.25 million, plus capital expenditures
• Manage the County’s solid waste program, including a sanitary landfill, 13 satellite collection sites, a recycling center, and a household hazardous waste program
• Ensure the landfill maintains compliance with all federal and state regulationsAccomplishments:
• Oversaw the construction of a new, $3 million landfill cell

• Responsibilities:
• Coordinate updates to the Comprehensive Plan, providing policy and GIS support to the citizen review committee and the Planning Commission
• Administer the Conservation Easement Program, shepherding grants and easements from application to closing
• Coordinate the County’s response to the new State stormwater regulations
• Oversee the Agricultural & Forestal Districts program, including all aspects of processing additions, withdrawals, and renewals
• Provide staff support to multiple commissions and citizen committees involved with community development, natural resource protection, and long range planning

• Directed policy initiatives in Virginia, focusing on land use and water quality issues
• Used GIS to analyze policy issues, creating maps to support decision-making
• Managed multiple projects, including a $500,000 effort which involved six organizations and numerous localities collaborating to promote profitable techniques for environmentally-sensitive development
• Co-sponsored workshops on leading-edge land use options

• Managed detailed contracts, timelines and deliverables for Information Technology services, working closely with clients to convey their needs to systems analysts and programmers
• Performed business analysis to enhance client operations and to ensure they take full advantage of custom-made IT systems
• Restored unstable data system at state arboretum by overhauling relational database and adding improved end-user functionality

Honolulu, HI, US

• Provided compliance assistance to small businesses regarding all major federal and state environmental and natural resource laws
• Conducted environmental site assessments for businesses to help them meet the requirements of major federal and state laws
• Served as intermediary between regulatory staff and businesses with hazardous operations
• Sponsored workshops for industry groups
• Resolved complaints against the environmental regulatory agency
• Recommended changes to state regulations to avoid placing an undue burden on small businesses

Mses, Mpa, Environmental Policy

Bs, Geology