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Customer focused and detail oriented hazardous waste site cleanup professional with 36 years of experience in the capture, management, and execution of environmental investigation and remediation projects. • Thorough understanding of many of the State and Federal environmental regulations including those in Massachusetts, New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Michigan, Rhode Island and others. • Manager of large complex environmental site investigation and remediation projects. • Experience has included the management of multi-million dollar consulting operations. • Grew size of one operation from $1 million to $20 million over a six year period.• Significant and extensive experience in the evaluation of environmental liabilities and the development of cost to closure estimates.• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams of people (from technicians to engineering PhD’s) on both a small (3 to 5 people) and large (90 to 100 people) scale. • Developed and implemented a comprehensive entry level scientist training program.• Mentored approximately 25 scientists who have now attained their professional licenses.Recently Completed Projects:Evaluation of Environmental Liabilities and Regulatory Negotiations for General Motors BankruptcyCompleted evaluations of existing data, and other due diligence activities as necessary, in order to provide most likely cost estimates for the completion of all necessary environmental investigations and remediation to achieve regulatory compliance for 32 former General Motors (GM) plants and other formerly owned properties. Evaluation of Environmental Liabilities of 284 Shopping CentersDesigned and directed the evaluation process completed by a team of scientists to produce a range of possible site remediation costs due to prior impacts from site dry cleaner operations. The most likely cost of $29 million was developed within the one week timeframe required by the client.

Listed skills include Remediation, Environmental Awareness, Cercla, Environmental Remediation, and 14 others.