Experience

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  Prince William County Sustainability Commission

  • Woodbridge, VA

  • Chair

    • Feb 2022 - Present
    • Woodbridge, VA

    Mission is to provide recommendations to the Board of County Supervisors on how to accomplish climate mitigation and climate resilience goals.

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  Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments: Climate, Environment, and Energy Policy Committee

  • MWCOG Region

  • CEEPC Committee Member

    • Feb 2021 - Present
    • MWCOG Region

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  Environmental Advisory Council

  • Virginia Congressional District 1

  • Environmental Advisory Council Member - appointed by Congressman Rob Wittman

    • Mar 2018 - Present
    • Virginia Congressional District 1

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  JRF Consulting, LLC

  • Manassas, Virginia, United States

  • Freelance Consultant

    • Sep 2017 - Present
    • Manassas, Virginia, United States

    Part-time consulting on climate change, greenhouse gas inventories and mitigation, climate adaptation and resilience, life cycle analysis, environmental risk assessment, resource management, and disaster management.

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  Citizens'​ Climate Lobby

  • Volunteer and Member of Steering Committee, Prince William Chapter

    • Sep 2017 - Present

    CCL Liaison to Sen. Mark Warner's office, member of Coastal Impacts Action Team.

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  Virginia Master Naturalists, Merrimac Farm Chapter

  • Prince William County, Virginia, United States

  • Board Member

    • Sep 2020 - Dec 2021
    • Prince William County, Virginia, United States

    Projects Chair: review projects that qualify for volunteer hours under VMN program.

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  Prince William County, Occoquan District Budget Committee

  • Woodbridge, Virginia, United States

  • Budget Committee Member - appointed by Supervisor Kenny Boddye

    • Mar 2021 - Sep 2021
    • Woodbridge, Virginia, United States

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  Bull Run Unitarian Universalists (BRUU)

  • Manassas, Virginia, United States

  • Vice President, Board of Directors

    • Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
    • Manassas, Virginia, United States

    Board representative on Personnel Comm and Endowment Comm, member of Green Team.

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  Prince William Conservation Alliance

  • Woodbridge, Virginia, United States

  • Board Member

    • Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
    • Woodbridge, Virginia, United States

    Member of the Board of Directors of PWCA, which works to establish desirable, equitable, sustainable communities, promote environmental stewardship, and create opportunities for residents to engage in decisions that affect the quality of their lives and the future of their communities.

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  ICF

  • Fairfax, VA, USA

  • Senior Vice President

    • Sep 1986 - Sep 2017
    • Fairfax, VA, USA

    Team Leader, Global Climate Change. ICF provides support worldwide on greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation, adaptation, and sustainability, and my team served as a program management office for ICF’s climate and clean energy programs for USAID (including Low Emissions Asian Development, the Energy Efficiency for Clean Development Program, and several task orders). We also supported ICF's work for many other clients including the US Environmental Protection Agency and 8 cabinet-level departments; European and Asia-Pacific government agencies; international financial institutions; UN agencies; state, provincial, and local governments; leading businesses; and NGOs. Previous position was Leader of the Climate and Sustainability Division, a group of about 120 scientists, engineers, policy analysts, economists, energy analysts, and communication and outreach specialists supporting leading public and private sector clients on policy and analytics.

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  Greenhouse Gas Management Institute

  • Washington D.C. Metro Area

  • Chairman, Board of Directors

    • 2007 - Jun 2016
    • Washington D.C. Metro Area

    GHGMI is nonprofit, U.S.-based 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is “to address climate change by building and supporting a global community of experts with the highest standards of professional practice in measuring, accounting, auditing and managing greenhouse gas emissions; meeting the needs of governments, corporations and organizations large and small.” The Board of Directors provides oversight, guidance, and advice to the Executive Director (Michael Gillenwater) and key staff of the organization. I served as a volunteer on the board starting with GHGMI's founding, and was chairman for its first 5 years.

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  Sobotka & Co., Inc

  • Project Manager

    • Sep 1983 - Sep 1986

    Environmental science, regulatory impact analysis

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  Versar

  • Operations Manager

    • Sep 1974 - Sep 1983

    Environmental review, risk assessment, regulatory and policy analysis