Overview
Licensed professional geologist with 22.5 years of conducting and managing
hydrogeological investigations and remedial actions under various environmental
programs. Specific experience includes:
* Monitoring well design, installation, and sampling (up to 200 feet)
* Recovery well design, installation, and sampling (up to 300 feet)
* Air, soil, sediment, sludge, surface water, groundwater sampling techniques
* Drilling techniques - Auger, air rotary/hammer, bucket auger, cable tool,
direct push
* Permitting - UIC, DOT, NPDES, well drilling, water supply, construction
(sediment and erosion control, landfill sitting)
* Geophysics - GPR, magnetometer, resistivity, gamma ray, SP
* Downhole methods - low-flow sampling, packer testing, caliper logging, video
and acoustic televiewing
* Pneumatic soil and hydraulic bedrock fracturing
* Statistical analysis of groundwater analytical data
* Contaminant fate and transport modeling (Modflow, ADT123, Biochlor,
Bioscreen, Bioplume)
* Soil remediation (hauling, thermal, stabilization, bioremediation, flushing,
venting, capping)
* Groundwater extraction (pumping, DPE, low-flow pumping, FP recovery
(active/passive)
* Remediation technologies (air stripping, steam injection, carbon, zeolite, OW
separator, bag filters, chemical oxidation, HRC(r), ORC(r), Newman Zone(r), ART
intra-well(tm))
* Aquifer pump testing and long-term yield analysis for PCWS and non-PCWS,
long-range plan development, Wellhead Protection Plan development
* SPCC Plan evaluation and development
* Geothermal system evaluation, permitting, and monitoring
* Vapor Intrusion assessment and remediation (Johnson & Ettinger modeling,
sub-slab soil gas sampling, indoor air sampling, mitigation system
design/installation)
Education
M.S. - Geology, 1989, Eastern Kentucky University
B.S. - Geology, 1985 (Cum Laude, Departmental Honors), University of Tennessee
Certifications
Licensed/certified professional geologist - AIPG
OSHA HAZWOPER Health and Safety Trained (40 hours)
OSHA Supervisory Training (8 hours)
Canadian National Railroad Safety Trained
Experience
Senior Scientist/Hydrogeologist - Heindel & Noyes, Inc., Burlington, VT, 8/2007
- Present
* Managed multiple Public Community Water System Source Permit Applications
through aquifer testing and analysis for determination of long-term safe yield
and aquifer wellhead protection evaluation/plan development.
* Managed chlorinated solvent contaminant site (dry cleaner) through private
PRPs and State program to include investigative drilling (soil soil gas, and
groundwater), indoor air evaluation and vapor intrusion testing, Corrective
Action Feasibility Investigation (CAFI) including in-situ chemical oxidation
(ISCO) pilot testing, utility mapping and downhole camera, and soil venting pilot
testing, and soil gas/indoor air monitoring and sampling.
* Managed several petroleum contamination sites from investigative phase to
Corrective Action Feasibility Investigation to Remedial Action Plan
implementation including ISCO, ISOC, bioventing, biosparging, MMPE, and biopile
technologies.
* Managed soil and groundwater investigation for large, urban PCE contamination
site, oversaw installation of multiple building sub-slab depressurization systems
for vapor mitigation, managed multiple indoor air sampling and vapor intrusion
IAQ events for over 55 building locations.
* Managed operation and maintenance of the largest geothermal heating/cooling
project in the state for a Veterans hospital to include monthly data logger
evaluation and quarter monitoring and system performance optimization reporting
under State UIC permit for first 18 months of system operation.
Senior Project Manager - ECS Mid-Atlantic, LLC., Roanoke, VA, 12/2005-2/2007
* Managed the execution of Environmental Site Assessments and Corrective Action
Plan development for leaking UST sites.
* Managed ongoing operation and maintenance (O&M) activities for numerous
groundwater remediation systems at LUST sites.
Project Manager/Senior Hydrogeologist - Delta Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Charlotte, NC., 11/2002-12/2005
* Managed multiple RCRA interim-status groundwater monitoring programs for
paper products and manufacturing industry.
* Designed and implemented accelerated bioremediation programs at multiple
industrial facilities using HRC and Newman Zone bioaugmentation amendments.
* Prepared multiple Monitored Natural Attenuation (MNA) Corrective Action Plans
for former textile and manufacturing facilities.
* Prepared RI/FFS for chemical manufacturing facility with ARARs for remedial
action ROD.
* Developed and implemented assessment program to achieve an industrial waste
landfill classification for a national paper mill client.
* Prepared Assessment of Corrective Measures and Selection of Remedy Reports
for a closed solid waste landfill.
* Developed and implemented a pilot study to assess the effectiveness of an
innovative groundwater remediation technology for the treatment of 1,4-dioxane
for a national electronic switch and sensor manufacturer.
* Developed Remedial Action Plan utilizing steam-enhanced extraction of No. 6
fuel oil for a national paper product facility.
Senior Hydrogeologist/Project Manager - HDR Engineering, Inc. of the Carolinas,
Charlotte, NC., 3/1995-11/2002
* Managed semi-annual groundwater monitoring program for a lined hazardous
waste cell containing stabilized and unstabilized lead and PCB-contaminated
soils.
* Managed and prepared bid/implementation documentation to remediate a 2-acre
parcel containing PCB and lead-contaminated soil as part of a Brownfields
agreement for a large industrial property.
* Oversaw implementation and evaluated data from the injection of HRC into
bedrock for treating a chlorinated solvent release from an unlined landfill
* Prepared Assessment of Corrective Measures Report for large landfill with
multiple releases.
* Conducted statistical analysis of groundwater monitoring data at numerous
industrial facilities to evaluate remedial actions and institutional controls.
* Conducted Phase I/II Assessments on multiple former industrial properties as
part of a Brownfields grant for community revitalization.
Hydrogeologist/Project Manager - Ogden Environmental and Engineering, Inc.,
Huntersville, NC., 11/1989- 3/1995
* Conducted EIA of an uncontrolled hazardous waste dumpsite at an active
vegetation management company as part of a criminal investigation. An RI/FFS was
also performed which lead to remedial actions involving the removal of buried
drums.
* Prepared a Remedial Action Plan for a national petroleum pipeline company at
their aboveground bulk fuels storage facility.
* Managed the execution of numerous Phase I/II Environmental Site Assessments
in accordance with ASTM standards on commercial properties.
* Supervised the tightness testing of more than 50 USTs at military
installations in Hawaii and Japan.
* Management of multiple petroleum UST sites for a major oil company to include
preparation of Comprehensive Environmental Site Assessment Reports and Corrective
Action Plans.
* Management of multiple petroleum UST sites for a major utility company to
include preparation of Comprehensive Environmental Site Assessment Reports and
Corrective Action Plans.
Hydrogeologist/Field Operations Supervisor - IT Corporation - Various Locations,
8/1987- 11/1989
* Management of over 40 active soil and groundwater remediation systems at
gasoline service stations for a major oil company.
* Prepared over 25 Comprehensive Site Assessment Reports and Remedial Action
Plans for a major oil company (discontinued retail operations).
* Field operations supervisor during the implementation of an RI study at a
large national chemical company; also assisted with the development of a Remedial
Action Program.
* Field operations supervisor during the execution of site characterization and
sampling activities at an industrial brass foundry. Recommendations for remedial
action were also developed from this characterization.
* Field operations supervisor during the execution of RI/FS at a state
superfund site.
Seminars
Ground Water Technology Course - IT Corporation
Monitored Natural Attenuation - EPA
Enigmas of Ground Water in Crystalline Rocks - AIPG
Understanding ORC(r)/HRC(r) for Accelerated Rocks - Regenesis
Affiliations
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