Education and Training:

• West Anchorage High School, High School Diploma, 1989.
• BS Chemistry, University of Alaska (UAA) 1996.
• Certification Officer Training, EPA Headquarters in Cincinnati, OH (Organic and Inorganic disciplines).
• Certification Officer Training, EPA Region 9 Headquarters in Richmond, CA (Microbiology discipline).
• Certification Officer Training, EPA Region 4 in Montgomery, AL (Radionuclide methods).
• Annual bench training at the Idaho Bureau of Laboratories (IBL) in Boise, ID. Training included EPA 200.7, 200.8, 245.1, 300.0, 353.2, 365.1 and 524.2.
• 40-hour Hazardous Waste Operation and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) training. Annual 8-hour HAZWOPER Refresher training (completed in March of 2019).

 

Work experience:

Jacobs
Chemist III; 2016 – 2019

Responsibilities:

• To ensure that all submitted data met the Project Screening Levels (PSL), Target levels, or Action Limits for the project as given in the project work plan. The data that was not met was reported to the Project Manager (PM) or the authors of the reports. All data was reviewed for regulatory compliance;
• Review laboratory Quality Assurance Plans (QAP), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Limit of Detection (LOD) and Limit of Quantitation (LOQ) to ensure they met the scope of the project;
• Prepare and manage Work Plans, Scope of Work (SOW), and Response to Client Comments (RTCs) for multiple projects;
• Sample management, including soil, groundwater, surface water, waste characterization, and air toxics sampling, for multiple projects;
• Review laboratory results for exceedance of regulatory limits. These included Alaska 18 AAC 75 Tables B1, B2 Human Health and/or Migration to Groundwater (MTGW), and Table C Human Health, EPA Regional Screening Levels (RSL) Resident Soil or Tapwater, Target Hazard Quotient (THQ)=1.0 or 0.1, EPA Vapor Intrusion Screening Levels (VISL) calculator, and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation (ADEC) Vaper Intrusion limits. The limits for trichloroethene (TCE) in groundwater were based on the EPA Technical Memorandum published in 2012 (0.0026 mg/L). Often, 1/10 ADEC limits are used for site criteria if an EPA RSL is not established for an analyte. Familiar with Alaska 18 AAC 78 regulations;
• Review data to ensure that Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) criteria were met for super sacks, tailings, and various other matrices. Also reviewed data in support of discharge permitting (APDES);
• Review waste characterization results for disposal. These were compared to 20 times RCRA limits, or were submitted for Toxicity Characterization Leaching Procedure (TCLP) and reviewed for RCRA exceedances;
• Enter Electronic Data Deliverable Data (EDD) into the database. Often submitted as Corps of Engineers Loading Tool (COELT) or a proprietary Excel format;
• Prepare exceedance or notification level documents for multiple projects to be used in final reporting;
• Prepare crosstab results for multiple projects reporting to government agencies for pre-draft, draft final, and final reports, including RCRA tables;
• Complete ADEC checklists for air, soil, and groundwater data;
• Solicit and review bids for multiple projects for award. Reviewed limits to ensure that the limits of detection (LODs) did not exceed the project screening levels;
• Assist report authors in data quality assessments (DQAs) for Site Investigation (SI), Limited Field Investigations (LFI), Remedial Investigations (RI), Risk Assessments (RA), Feasibility Studies (FS) and other reporting;
• Review data to ensure it complied with the work plan and current ADEC Department of Defense (DoD) versions 4.2, 5.0 and 5.1, and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reporting requirements;
• Work with database development and Geographic Information System mapping (GIS) compatibility.

TestAmerica, Inc.
Quality Assurance Officer; 2014 – 2015

Responsibilities:

• Quality Assurance Officer (QA officer) for the Anchorage, Spokane and Honolulu laboratories;
• Author and review Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Work Instructions (WIs), and general analytical requirements;
• Author and review laboratory QAP;
• Review of Method Detection Limit Studies (MDLs);
• Review of Initial Demonstrations of Capability (IDOCs) and Continuing Demonstrations of Capability (CDOCs);
• Know of EPA, Standard Methods (SM), DoD TNI (formerly known as the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference or NELAC) and other approved programs for drinking water, Underground Storage Tank (UST), and waste analysis;
• Conduct routine internal laboratory audits on an annual or biennial schedule;
• Know current State of Alaska 18 AAC 80; 18 AAC 75 and 18 AAC 78 regulations;
• Provide technical assistance to Anchorage, Spokane and Honolulu laboratories by means of verbal communication or written documentation;
• Know State of Alaska, DoD, and EPA approved methods for contaminated sites sampling and analysis. Generated memorandums and signature pages for Alaska methods and general Contaminated Sites requirements;
• Author and review Corrective Action Reports (CARs), control charts and other laboratory documentation;
• Provide weekly and monthly reports for corporate Quality Assurance (QA) regional managers including metrics and current tasks;
• Provide weekly and monthly audits and reports for the regional Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) Officer;
• Act as the local EH&S Officer by proxy for the regional manager. Conduct monthly training for the EH&S manager;
• Conduct initial and refresher training for laboratory ethics;
• Correspond with government certifying authorities to maintain individual laboratory certifications;
• Routine review of data reports to ensure that they are accurate and meet the needs of the clients.

State of Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation
Chemist IV: Drinking Water Laboratory Certification Officer-Chemistry and Laboratory Approval Officer-Contaminated Sites for the State of Alaska. Provide backup to the Drinking Water Laboratory Certification Officer-Microbiology; 2007 – 2013

Responsibilities for the Laboratory Certification Officer-Chemistry Drinking Water:

• Review of initial and renewal applications via in-state and reciprocity;
• Conducted on-site audits routinely and upon request;
• Review of SOPs;
• Review of laboratory QAP;
• Review of MDLs;
• Review of IDOCs and CDOCs;
• Know EPA, Standard Methods (SM), and other approved methods for drinking water analysis;
• Develop and maintain the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS);
• Conduct routine on-site laboratory audits on a biennial or triennial schedule;
• Know current State of Alaska 18 AAC 80 regulations for compliance;
• Provide technical assistance to laboratories by means of verbal communication or written documentation.

Responsibilities for the Laboratory Approval Officer-Contaminated Sites Program:

• Review of initial and renewal applications including laboratory Performance Testing (PT) results;
• Review of SOPs;
• Review laboratory QAP;
• Know Alaska and EPA approved methods for contaminated sites sampling and analysis. Authored memorandums and signature pages for Alaska methods and general Contaminated Sites requirements;
• Development of application and validation requirements for method modifications (specifically, reduced volume methods);
• Maintenance of the LIMS;
• Know current Alaska 18 AAC 75 and 78 regulations;
• Provide technical assistance to laboratories by means of verbal communication or written documentation.

Responsibilities for the Laboratory Certification Officer-Microbiology Back Up:

• Conduct routine on-site laboratory audits on a biennial or triennial schedule;
• Know current Alaska 18 AAC 80 regulations. Assisted in the revision of regulations;
• Maintain proficiency as an analyst for the ADEC microbiology drinking water program.
• Perform annual PTs on Colilert®, multiple tube fermentation (FT), membrane filtration (MF) and heterotrophic plate count (HPC) by pour plate and Sim-Plate®.

Analytica, LLC
Senior Chemist; 2005 – 2007

Responsibilities:

• Extraction and analysis of EPA 504.1, 508, 552.2, 8270C, 8082 and AK 102 and AK 103. Provided back up for 524.2 and AK101;
• Preparation of all associated standards and reagents;
• Work with gas chromatography (GC) and gas chromatography-mass spectroscopy (GC-MS) instrumentation (Agilent and Varian);
• Entry and validation of data in the LIMS system;
• Coordinate annual PT events and certification activities;
• Coordinate and provide responses to onsite audits;
• Directly responsible for method development;
• Mentor new personnel.

Analytica, LLC
Senior Chemist; 2003 – 2005

Responsibilities:

• Extraction and analysis of EPA 504.1, 508, 552.2, 8270C, 8082, AK 102 (DRO), AK 103(RRO) and SM 5540C (MBAS). Provided back up for 524.2 and AK101 (GRO);
• Preparation of all associated standards and reagents;
• Authored, edited and reviewed SOPs;
• Work with GC and GC-MS instrumentation (Agilent and Varian);
• Entry and validation of data in the laboratory LIMS system;
• Project management for several major clients;
• Coordinate annual PT events and certification activities;
• Coordinate and provided responses to onsite audits;
• Mentor new personnel;
• Perform Simulated Distribution System (SDS) determinations by SM 5710A-D.

Northern Testing Laboratories
Laboratory Technician; 1997 – 2003

Responsibilities:

• Extraction of EPA 504.1, 508, 515.1, 552.2, 525.2, 615, 625, 1664, 8081, 8082, 8150,
• 8270C (including TCLP preparation), SM 5540C (MBAS);
• Analysis of EPA 504.1, 508, 515.1, 552.2, 525.2, 608, 615, 625, 1664, 8081, 8082, 8150, 8270C and AK 102/103;
• Analysis of full list and PAH by 8270C (including TCLP preparation), surfactants by SM 5540C (MBAS), and glycols and alcohols by ASTM 3695;
• Preparation of all associated standards and reagents;
• Author, edit and review of SOPs;
• Entry and validation of data in the laboratory LIMS system;
• Mentor new personnel;
• Work with GC and GC-MS instrumentation (Varian);
• Work in the Prudhoe Bay laboratory for a period of six months and provided support and on-site technical assistance for several AK and wet chemistry methods.

 

Position Specific Skills:

• Work with regulatory limits and comparing data with regulatory limits;
• Know of units, analytes of concern (such as TCE) for project assessment. It was routine that units had to be converted to meet project limits. For example, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) are often reported as μg/Kg. These results were converted to mg/Kg;
• Extensive experience with computer applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, Adobe Acrobat, and Access;
• Extensive experience with LIMS database management systems. Experience with three commercial and one proprietary LIMS (Apsen, StarLIMS, Access and Analytica);
• Extensive experience of email correspondence utilizing the Outlook Express Email program;
• Extensive experience with phone systems including the receipt, transfer and voicemail response to incoming phone calls;
• Extensive experience of instrumentation software;
• Extensive experience with chromatography, mass spectroscopy and manual integration interpretation protocols;
• Extensive experience with generation and review of control charts, MDLs, LODs, Limits of Quantitation (LOQ), Reporting Limits (RLs), etc.;
• Participate in several laboratory audits by private and governments entities;
• Experience with interpretation of method or regulatory requirements and generated interpretation and policy in the form of memorandums, general email disseminations and technical documents to all laboratories;
• Routine review of program specific documentation including SOPs, IDOCs, PTs, Detection and Reporting limits and QAMs;
• Extensive experience of all laboratory protocols including safety, hazardous chemicals, compounds and solvents, ethical practices, proper handling of pressurized gases, etc.;
• Routine communication with laboratory staff, managers and Government personnel;
• Routine provision of objective assessment of project data or determinations within regulatory limits.

Phone: (907) 659-2145