Environmental Experience

  • Coordinated corporate-wide high resolution GC-MS dioxin monitoring program for Westvaco, a leading manufacturer of paper products. Initiated computerized validation processes to reduce reporting errors and improve environmental monitoring efficiency. Audited commercial analytical labs and external data validators. Reduced overhead costs associated with this mandated environmental analyses.

  • Provided technical leadership as senior staff member of General Engineering Laboratories (GEL), a leading environmental and analytical laboratory serving municipal, industrial and environmental markets. GEL is known for its use of the world's most advanced instrumentation in a sophisticated, state-of-the-art facility located in Charleston, SC.

  • Led design and construction efforts to upgrade sample preparation and instrumentation laboratories. This renovation was critical to the successful implementation of an ultra-trace inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) in a commercial environmental laboratory.

  • Led installation, performance verification and conformation efforts to successfully bring the Agilent-4500 ICP-MS instrument into operation in a commercial environmental laboratory.

  • Earned Certification from the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (SC-DHEC) for Hazwaste environmental analyses in the Trace Metals section of the GEL laboratory.

  • First in the state of South Carolina to win approval for the use of the ICP-MS instrument for environmental analyses (SW-846, Method 6020, EPA Method 200.8). Over 700 pages of performance data submitted to the SC-DHEC.

  • Trained laboratory technicians in the theory and operation of the sophisticated ICP-MS instrument, allowing round-the-clock utilization of the equipment that resulted in significant improvements in throughput for the laboratory.

  • Experienced in EPA SW-846, RCRA, TCLP and other related methods and protocols for the collection, digestion, extraction and determination of inorganic and organic analytes by various instrumental methodologies.

    References:
    The U.S. EPA Solid Waste analytical test methods publication, "Test Methods for Evaluating Solid Waste, Physical/Chemical Methods," commonly referred to as SW-846.
    "Analysis of Drinking Water and Waste Water by ICP-MS Using EPA Method 200.8"

     

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