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Creditor Attorney

Created Corporation Commission filings, created and maintained website, and advisor on environmental regulatory matters.

Areas of Practice: Corporation Commission filings, Parenting Time and Legal Decision-Making Modification, Dependency, Guardianship, Severance, Adoption, Immigration Bond, Misdemeanor Defense, Debt Hearings, Guardian ad Litem assistant, and Veteran Benefits. Prepared immigration forms for work authorization, naturalization, citizenship, and asylum. Wrote client residency history with supporting documentation for DACA application, wrote pre-hearing statements for asylum seekers describing the reasons they cannot return home including State Department findings, news articles, and statutes.Prepared immigration forms for work authorization, naturalization, citizenship, and asylum. Wrote client residency history with supporting documentation for DACA application, wrote pre-hearing statements for asylum seekers describing the reasons they cannot return home including State Department findings, news articles, and statutes.

Contract Attorney: Reviewed Airbag Defect, Construction, Insurance, IP, Privilege, Financial Fraud, Real Estate, Business Ownership Disputes, and Regulatory Compliance issues. Supervised 9 reviewers on Airbag Defect project.

Family Law and Juvenile Law litigator with additional experience in Civil proceedings. Wrote pleadings, appeared in court proceedings, prepared discovery, researched case law and regulations, and consulted with clients.

Conducted home visits for foster children and wrote reports regarding their welfare.

Lead Environmental Management Program at an ISO 14001 site. Responsible for training all site employees in environmental regulatory awareness, maintaining environmental-related records, conducting internal audits and leading process improvement meetings.Managed 8 wastewater employees on 3 shifts. No notice of violations (NOV) received. Built regulatory chemical purchase databases to enable regulatory reporting. Maintained environmental regulatory programs and created necessary paperwork for compliance.Managed Hazardous and non-Hazardous Waste program at conditionally exempt site.Managed laboratory contractor including testing frequency, types of tests, costs, and documentation.Managed chemical inventory for department to ensure proper chemicals were delivered on timely basis and ensured employees were trained in their use.Maintained constant contact with Federal, State, County and City regulators to ensure smooth operations.

Health, Safety and Environmental Professional (HSE)Saved $45K by process improvements and elimination of outdated and unnecessary equipment.Developed, implemented and managed multi-site Asbestos Management System. System included securing permits, performing audits, managing budgets, and program overview including annual regulatory review. Maintained extensive interface with Facility Planners, construction/abatement contractors, and the Asbestos Training Institute. Supervised hazardous waste packing and shipping at both small and larger generator sites, wrote chemical waste profiles, tracked hazardous waste cost and volume and reported same both to corporate and regulatory authorities.Wrote and audited to the site Environmental Management Plan (EMP).Site Project Manager responsible for Phase I and II environmental testing of site to prepare for its sale. Project management included data collection of facility as-built diagrams and historic changes. Wrote procedures ensuring compliance with Federal, State and County Environmental regulations.Renewed non-Title V air permit with revisions. Audited site Environmental and Safety performance against procedures to assess programs' successBuilt regulatory manufacturing materials databases to enable regulatory reporting.Gave monthly safety and environmental training to department safety leaders and provided training tools and support for issues in their departments. Audited HSE related areas across sites' businesses. Increased employee safety and environmental awareness by creating technical reference database.Project manager for construction contractor safety program which involved conducting monthly contractor safety training, keeping scorecard of contractor compliance and auditing contractors for safety behaviorsRevised and maintained 3 sites' Contingency Plans.Managed bulk raw chemical and waste inventories.

Wrote processes and procedures to enable employees and administration to satisfy regulatory compliance in transportation, environmental, and safety. Supplied required documentation on a timely basis to regulatory agencies and corporate auditors.Designed and conducted chemical release drills.Member of Mohave County LEPC. Managed non-Title V permit and air scrubber which recycled waste.

Built chemical supply database and cross-references materials to TSCA listed chemicalsBuilt regulatory manufacturing materials databases to enable regulatory reporting. Utilized both wet and dry lab analysis techniques to enable engineers and engineers to operate production lines at an optimum using equipment such as FTIR, thermal analysis, titration, viscometer, and microscopes.