Project Manager Management

Job Objective

Business lawyer seeking professional opportunity to utilize business

and legal background, regulatory expertise and significant contract

drafting/management experience.

Summary of Qualifications

. Over ten years of legal experience with an emphasis on providing

business solutions to corporate problems and providing solutions to

liability management issues;

- Extensive contract drafting, review, negotiation and

management experience across many disciplines;

. Chief legal officer for technical start-up responsible for all

aspects of the business.

. Over twenty years experience of successful regulatory and

management experience in the environmental industry including:

- Successfully and cost effectively managing budgets exceeding

$40 million;

- Extensive regulatory experience at all levels;

- Environmental reserve management experience dealing with

senior corporate management;

- Extensive experience managing environmental investigation and

remediation projects;

- Developed solutions to large and small PRP sites;

- Successfully managed outside engineers, consultants, attorneys

and contractors; and

- Experience with environmental statutes including CERCLA, RCRA,

TSCA, CWA, CAA.

. Renewable Energy Permitting, Development, and Contract

Management Experience.

Professional Experience

2008-2010 ELM Investments, Peoria, IL

Executive Vice President, Business Development

- One of two employees that evaluated, developed strategies and

managed environmental liability transfer/risk assumption business

opportunities.

. Developed creative environmental liability transfer and

management approaches for two complex sites in NJ;

*Brought SBR consulting work to ELM Investments while pursuing

environmental liability transfer work.

2003-pres. SBR Holdings, Framingham, MA

Legal and Business Consultant

Providing diverse mix of legal and business consulting services to a

range of clients working on projects that included:

- Locating and permitting a contaminated site with ocean access for a

marine contractor client;

- Performed business development work for dredging company winning

large environmental dredging project and managing that project to its

successful completion;

- Evaluated and identified applicable sites for confidential utility

client;

- Assembled diverse and International Team to prepare an offshore wind

development proposal;

- Provided due diligence information, regulatory review and market

analysis associated with C&D recycling facilities in New England;

- Provided environmental counsel on contaminated sites being evaluated

for development;

- Permitted beneficial reuse of dredged material for use as landfill

cap and brownfield fill material;

- Wind Farm Development Experience including:

- Drafted and negotiated all land agreements (leases, options);

- Successfully evaluated and implemented permits associated with

wind energy development project in ME;

- Negotiated Power Purchase Agreements;

- Negotiated Turbine Supply and Maintenance Contracts; -

Evaluated applicable regulations and drafted permit applications

associated with land use and environmental aspects of the

developments

2003-pres HarborRock Holdings, Glen Mills, PA

VP Legal, Permitting, and Strategic Development

- Entrepreneurial company involved in converting dredged material into

a highly valuable lightweight aggregate;

- Working with Port Authorities and regulators to gain approval of

this technology;

- Obtained pilot study funding from Maryland Port Administration,

managed successful completion of all tests and presented findings to

MPA and its Innovative Reuse Committee;

- Dredged Material Management Solution experts.

2000-2003 Long Span Bridge, Frederick, MD

General Counsel

- Developed business plans and successfully obtained funding from

manufacturer/partner.

- Reviewed and negotiated all corporate documents associated with new

partner.

- Managed litigation on behalf of the company, developed litigation

strategy and managed actions of outside counsel.

- Developed and implemented all controls and legal systems for the new

business.

- Reviewed all marketing materials to ensure compliance with potential

copyright issues.

- Developed and maintained all business and legal systems including

drafting, managing and negotiating all contracts;

- Managed all sales projections, forecasts and results in

presentations to the Board.

1990-1999 Beazer East, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Environmental Manager/In-house Counsel

- Extensive experience across the US developing strategic approaches

for managing environmental liabilities and negotiating with regulators at

the local, state and federal levels to achieve these objectives;

- Extensive experience in regulatory environment, developing strategic

plans and negotiating across the US with regulators at all levels

working in federal programs including CERCLA, RCRA, CAA, CWA, TSCA

and applicable state counterparts;

- Experience developing and presenting information at the senior

management level and at public meetings;

- Managed over 100 PRP dump sites on behalf of the corporate entity,

negotiated with opposing lawyers and consultants and developed

strategic approaches to cost effectively manage these group arrangements;

- Managed historical corporate environmental liabilities associated

with the former Koppers Company, Inc. - gaining extensive experience on

managing potential environmental liabilities associated with former coke

facilities, coke byproduct recovery plants, coal tar processing plants, and

wood preserving facilities;

- Managed corporate liabilities in excess of $40 million;

- Revising and developing defensible and reasonable environmental

reserves;

- Established finite insurance policy for over $800 million in

corporate liabilities;

- Developing and implementing strategic plans to assume environmental

liabilities associated with sites; and,

- Significant and diverse Brownfield development expertise across the

United States.

1988-1990 Keystone Environmental Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Assistant Project Manager/Project Manager

- As an Assistant Project Manager, managed individual aspects of

projects (environmental investigation, sampling and remediation);

- As a Project Manager, managed all aspects of environmental

investigation and remediation projects.

1986-1988 koppers Company, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA

Environmental Coordinator

- Worked with project managers to develop and implement environmental

sampling programs across the US.

- Coordinated all environmental sampling.

Education

Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1985. BS, Environmental Studies

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 1991. MBA

Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA, 1996. JD

Admitted to PA Bar 1996; Admitted to MA Bar 2005.

Activities

Appointed and served as Town of Hopkinton Conservation Commission

Member - 2006-2008

. Managed implementation of the State Wetlands Protection Act.

Member of Hopkinton Land Use Subcommittee - 2007

. Member of team that proactively worked with seller of largest

parcel in town and potential buyers to ensure future development

would be consistent with town requirements.

Member of Demons Youth Hockey Board - 2006-2008

. Secretary, handled all reporting.

. Organized all organizational documents associated with this non-

profit, ensured it was properly registered with the State and

IRS.

Volunteer soccer, baseball and softball coach - 2000 - 2008

. Coached girls and boys teams from Kindergarten through 8th

grade.

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