Experience

Environmental Standards, Inc.

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Technical Chemist

  • Feb 1991 - Present

  Serves as Project Manager for various projects and specializes in the interpretation of analytical data and the coordination of analytical programs. Experience has included the planning, development, and execution of environmental, consumer product, and bio-monitoring sampling and analytical programs. Has reviewed and generated numerous Quality Assurance Project Plans (QAPPs) and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for field collection, laboratory analysis, and data validation. Has extensive experience with EPA analytical methodology and analytical data validation and has overseen the validation efforts for numerous projects. Prepares internalSOPs, trains QA chemists, prepares and evaluates budgets, tracks project costs, and reviews project invoices. Conducts performance evaluation (PE) studies and offers litigation support. Works with laboratories to develop analytical methods; performs third-party review of laboratory-prepared analytical methods; and prepares requests for proposals (RFPs). Example current projects include:•Company lead on QA support for numerous poly- and per-fluorinated substances (PFAS) projects. Aids in the improvement of laboratory methods to meet the needs of the various projects. Developed the in-house techniques used by the company to review the PFAS data from multiple laboratories and various techniques. Reviews PFAS data with regard to comparability across multiple laboratories in real world samples.•QA support for large sediment remediation project including technical assistance on QA/QC, data interpretation, development of several QAPPs, laboratory selection and coordination, rigorous PE program, and electronic and manual data validation. The latest phase involves a very challenging sampling/analysis program requiring the use of quality data for decisions in very short timeframes, necessitating constant coordination with the client, various field contractors, the data base contractor and the project laboratories.



University of Pennsylvania

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Research Fellow

  • May 1990 - Jan 1991

  Research efforts were directed toward the total synthesis of detoxin D1. Skills were developed in spectroscopic and separation techniques (1H-NMR, IR, flash column chromatography). Research also included experience with molecular modeling.

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Sep 1989 - Dec 1990

  Responsible for overseeing organic laboratory experiments in a classroom environment and grading laboratory experiments and examinations.