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Steven R Deaver
Microbiologist/Chemist - GC and GCMS; Wet Chemistry and Water Lab Analyst; Ion Chromatography; Metals Analysis by ICAPES, Flame and Graphite Furnace AA; Hg by Flow Injection Mercury System (FIMs); Reporting, Data Analysis, SOP’s and Procedures and JSA’s; Total and Fecal Coliform Testing, Heterotrophic and Anaerobic Plate counts; EPA Method 1623 for Cryptosporidium and Giardia; Previously held USG Clearances; Chemistry Laboratory Manager
I have a wide range of experiences in the environmental sciences field from sampling and collection of air, water, and soil samples for chemical analysis and microbiological examination to organic chemical analysis by Gas Chromatography and GC Mass Spectroscopy. I have been an analyst using a number of different analytical techniques for metals analysis by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption, Flame AA, and Inductively Coupled Argon Plasma Emission Spectrometry (ICAPES), and Hg analysis by FIMS; Microbial examinations of water, soil and air samples by various methods. I have been a certified Principal Analyst for EPA Method 1623 for examination of water for the protozoan parasites Cryptosporidium and Giardia. I have held US Government Secret and Top Secret clearances through DOD and DOE that have expired. I have experience writing reports for analytical results, Job Safety Analyses (JSA’s), SOP’s for laboratory procedures, and writing and editing sampling plans.
I would like to secure a position in the sciences field where I can use my experiences and abilities to make a positive impact while growing personally and professionally.
Experience
June 2013-May 2017 AECOM (formerly URS Corporation) Austin, Texas
Senior Scientist
Process Technologies Organization (PTO) AECOM
As a scientist within PTO organization I was responsible for collection and analysis of Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD) process liquid and solid samples from coal fired power plants. These samples were analyzed for metals (Fe, Mg, Na, Ca, Al, Mn and others), Hg analysis by FIMS, and anions and cations by Ion Chromatography. This information was used to help identify and solve problems in the FGD system and coal combustion process. Process influent and effluent waters, limestone, coal, coal ash and other solid samples were also collected to further characterize the chemical makeup of the system. Samples were collected from power plants within the United States. I also interacted with client plant personnel and other AECOM team members to ensure that testing equipment was delivered to the site and that samples and equipment from our onsite testing were shipped back to AECOM once our sampling and testing were completed.
I worked on process problems encountered by our clients by performing bench scale studies in AECOM’s laboratories. These studies, designed by AECOM process engineers, helped solve problems by utilizing additives that have not been previously used in these plants. These studies require planning the test, write up of the test protocol, acquiring the test chemicals, set up of the test apparatus, running the test system, monitoring the test matrix for physical and chemical changes and makeup, sampling and analysis of the samples from the test, as well as reporting the test results.
I was the laboratory manager of the Solid Waste Treatment/Bioremediation Laboratory monitoring the daily operation of this lab. This required keeping up to date records of samples coming into and leaving the lab, writing all procedures, lab safety plans and JSA’s for this lab, and disposal of wastes generated by studies carried out in this laboratory.
October 2012-June 2013 Goodwill Staffing Services Austin, Texas
Chemist
Waste Permits Division Technical Analysis Group Texas Center for Environmental Quality
Contract Chemist reviewing waste audits to determine if clients from within the state of Texas were correctly classifying their waste streams and their waste were being properly disposed. I reviewed special waste permit applications for clients within the state who needed permission to dispose of wastes and materials that are not currently permitted or did not fall under the current rules of disposal. These audits and special waste permits involve using knowledge of chemistry, codes specified in Federal Regulations from 40 CFR, and knowledge of all current State of Texas waste rules to determine the suitability for waste disposal either in a municipal solid waste landfill or industrial waste landfills. I also reviewed trial burn data from hazardous waste incinerators within the state of Texas to ensure that chemical analysis data generated from these tests were properly bracketed with good Quality Control data.
June 2012- October 2012 Texas State Department of Health Austin, Texas
Laboratory Technician II
State Health Department in the Sample Receiving Area accessioning specimens for Serology, Bacteriology, Mycology, and Virology. The specimen volume for this area of the state health department is close to 2,000 specimens per day. My previous experiences in Chemistry and Microbiology allowed me to move to a number of different areas within this unit which is unusual for this job. My duties involved sample check-in, sample examination to determine to which laboratory the specimen should be delivered, entering specimen information and data into a LIMS system, labeling with the proper sample number and test required, and delivery to the appropriate labs.
March 2001 – October 2011 Signature Science, LLC Austin, Texas
Staff Scientist
Security clearances with DOD and other Government Agencies up to Top Secret level dealing with Classified Information
Gas Chromatography and GCMS studies developing methods for detection of Organophosphate compounds and compounds used in explosives
Training private sector and government employees in methods used for sampling and preservation for unknown samples for chemical and microbial examination
Chemistry Laboratory Manager overseeing scheduling, analysis and daily operations of SSLLC lab facility from 2001 to 2009; safety protocols, SOP’s, and disposal of hazardous wastes
Studies and projects looking at commercially available sorbent materials for collection of Organophosphates and other compounds; studies of methods of extraction of the compounds from sorbent materials and methods of cleaning for reuse of the sorbent materials
Field studies at government facilities that perform chemical releases; onsite and remote sample collections utilizing sampling devices, methods and materials for collecting released chemicals; on site extraction and analysis of collection media by GC and GCMS methods in a mobile SSLLC laboratory
Writing and editing sampling plans and sampling methodology documents for collection of unknown field samples; methods were used in the field by government and defense agencies
Principal Analyst for EPA Method 1623 for detection of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in drinking water supplies from 2006-2011; Certification by EPA for this method required analysis of ongoing precision and recovery samples to demonstrate capability and quarterly analysis of unknown QA samples received from EPA; method involves collection of water samples, filtration, concentration, immunomagnetic separation and immunoflourescence examination by fluorescence microscopy
Team member in destruction of pathogenic microbes project overseas; construction, operation and tear down of a laboratory facility in Uzbekistan to analyze Anthrax contaminated soils by several microbial techniques; laboratory analyst that examined over 1000 samples in a 1 month period; successfully detected and destroyed pathogenic microbes.
February 1979 – March 2001
Radian Corporation (URS Corporation)
Austin, Texas
Research Associate II to Research Associate V
Numerous field sampling projects to characterize air, water and solid wastes
Analysis of samples using a wide variety of analytical instrumentation and wet chemical methods; Total Organic Carbon in water; Atomic Absorption (AA), Graphite Furnace AA and ICAPES for metals analysis; Ion Chromatography ; Classical Water and Wastewater analyses using Standard Methods; Sample prep and digestions for metals analysis
Gas Chromatography for Pesticides and other organic compounds using various detectors, FPD, PFPD, TCD, FID
Bench scale studies of hazardous waste streams from industrial and petrochemical facilities using microbial slurries to degrade the materials
EPA study to characterize air emissions from the largest municipal landfill in the U.S. Over 40,000 measurements were made and the overall emission rate of methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, mercury, and over 120 individual VOC’s were developed for each major emission source present at the landfill
EPA project to develop emission factors for greenhouse gases from wastewater treatment systems. The work involved open path monitoring of emissions using FTIR and characterization of influent and effluent wastewater. Emission factors were developed for methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide, ammonia, and other species for use in updating the national and global emission inventories for waste management facilities
USDOE project to evaluate air quality for both the mixed waste and low-level radioactive waste disposal areas at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The emission fluxes of radioactive gases (tritium and radon) from the landfill were measured
Mr. Deaver assisted in data validation of measurements made at Reese Air Force Base; also participated in the groundwater surveys and sampling for that facility
Worked in Water/Wastewater Treatability laboratory doing routine and non routine chemical analyses of waters and wastewaters for ammonia, TKN, CN, Thiocyanate, PO4, BOD, COD, TOC, Oil and Grease; Performed microbial examinations of water and wastewaster for Total and Fecal Coliform plus Heterotrophic and Anaerobic plate counts
Education
Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
BS Microbiology, minor in Chemistry, Texas Tech University
References for Steven R. Deaver
Gwen Eklund
Program Manager for Weston and Associates
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Cassandra Hutson
Group Leader and Laboratory Coordinator at AECOM
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Bart Eklund
Principal Scientist at AECOM
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Craig Holloway
Chemical Engineer at AECOM
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