Quality Assurance Safety Officer
Resume:
ROBERT WAYNE BRUTON, M.S.
US ARMY- ** years www.linkedin.com/in/rwbruton1/
*********@*****.***
Manager, Coordinator, Director
HSE: Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Compliance
EMGT: Emergency Management
Executive Summary
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Award winning Environmental Meticulous investigational skills- for
Compliance Officer, Program Director accidents, regulatory violations, after-
• action reviews
Battlefield tested manager- excels under
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pressure- dependable Skilled at conducting professional
• research, developing protocols, and
Experienced, proven director of
authoring SOPs
emergency services, emergency planning
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and continuity Accountability- regularly responsible for
• equipment and contracts worth millions
Extensive experience in environmental
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compliance, resource sustainability Global experience- confident anywhere,
anytime
Education
Master of Science- Occupational Safety & Health- Columbia Southern University
[Concentrations- Safety Engineering, System Safety Engineering, Safety & Accident Prevention, Advanced,
Industrial Hygiene, Fire Protection Technology, Advanced Toxicology, Business Ethics, Advanced
Ergonomics]
Bachelor of Science- Emergency Management- University of Maryland
[Concentrations- Emergency Response Preparedness, Continuity Operations Planning, Exercise &
Evaluation Programs, Homeland Security, Global Terrorism, Federal & State Government Policy, Public
Safety, Advanced Application Software]
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
• Confident working with DOD, OSHA, • Open to continued certifications, training,
FEMA and other Federal, State and local and continuing education hours (CEH)
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agencies Accustomed to travel and short notice
• Adept in OSHA Regulations Standards deployment
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CFR 29- 1910 Well written, authored numerous SOPs,
• Experienced in composite risk presentations and reviews
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management Ethically and morally sound
• Flawless accountability of multi-million • Confident leader- can provide purpose,
dollar contracts/equipment direction, and motivation
• Performance oriented project manager • Excellent analytical, quantitative,
• Well versed in emergency response plans organization and multitasking skills
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and business continuity Meticulous, objective investigator
• Experienced instructor/trainer
Experience: UNITED STATES ARMY: 1995 – present
Director of Tactical Emergency Services & Logistics
Program manager over all operational aspects of tactical emergency services including rescue, evacuation,
and fire-fighting operations for a military live-fire training area encompassing 100 square miles.
Responsible for equipping and training rotational support teams comprised tactical field ambulances/crews
and fire trucks/operators and armed guard security teams.
Manages the TOC and serve as the liaison between civilian staff employees and the US Army. Serves as the
Army’s primary interface between military training operations and external contractors, governmental
stakeholders, and NGOs.
Performs as the Primary Environmental Compliance Officer responsible for munitions security, hazardous
material spill response, unexploded ordinance (UXO), and protection of an endangered species habit.
Results: Trained 15 tactical ambulance crews to proficiency in tactical patient extractions and navigation
during live-firing training exercises; taught crews how to communicate and combine resources with
external emergency services such as local police and sheriff agencies for transport of casualties
through different jurisdictions.
These training and coordination efforts resulted in the organization being able to conduct over two
dozen life-saving air and ground emergency medical evacuations from a field environment to Level I
medical care with zero loss of life.
Trained and coordinated agency fire truck operators and equipment to combat wild-fires caused by
military grade munitions; and how to coordinate those efforts with US Forestry to contain major fires
from leaving training areas and threatening local civilian lives and property.
Trained and supervised 15 armed-guard security teams to secure and protect all munitions required
for ground and air dropped weapons and ammunition.
The culmination of these efforts resulted in zero loss of weapons or ammunition during training
rotations that prepared over 25,000 soldiers for deployment.
Chief Environmental Compliance Officer
Led a team of 5 Environmental Compliance Officers for an organization whose facilities included over 300
pieces of heavy equipment and vehicles, 11 tons of petroleum products and hazardous material, and 4 hazmat
collection and recycling platforms.
Trained compliance officers to be subject-matter experts in:
• disposal and recycling of all hazardous • energy management that saves taxpayer dollars,
materials reduces emissions, reduce air pollution
• controlling air pollution sources • spill response operations and hazardous material
including paint booths, parts washers and control and transportation
fuel tanks • National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
• environmentally sustainable-
technologies that increase quality of life
• natural resources management
Results: Developed and implemented a zero-tolerance environmental program that increased the
organization’s compliance rating from 39% to 98% in one fiscal year. This effort resulted in the
organization winning the Fort Hood Environmental Stewardship Award.
Safety Officer
Range safety officer at the largest US live-fire and maneuver training area in Europe: patrolled and inspected
unit-level training ensuring that commanders had qualified safety officers and NCOs, acceptable composite
risk management practices, functional fire-fighting capabilities, and emergency medical personnel and
patient transport vehicles.
Responsibility encompassed 45 live fire ranges, 135 artillery firing points, equipment and targetry valued in
excess of $135 million, and 57,000 acres of forest in Bavaria, Germany.
Efforts ensured the training of infantry, armor, artillery, and military fixed and rotary wing aircraft while
maintaining safety and environmental compliance IAW all Army Regulations and the Conventional Forces
Europe Treaty.
Results:
Selected above his peers to serve as the Senior Safety Officer for the first NATO training operation
in Novo Selo, Bulgaria during Operation Bulwark. Under this direction, the US Army was able to
use an abandoned Soviet Union military area to train over 600 soldiers to proficiency with all
assigned company level weapons– without a single injury or unsafe act.
Government Subcontract Quality Assurance Rep
Oversees a multi-million dollar range targetry and maintenance contract. Responsible for ensuring that
contractor’s provide realistic battlefield conditions and live-fire exercises that simulate what war fighters can
expect to encounter when they are called into conflict.
Areas of quality assurance and oversight include: training exercise and operations preparation and activation,
range support maintenance, engineering and fabrication, life-cycle support.
Results:
Ensured the customer (the US Army) receives the best live fire products, pyrotechnics, services,
maintenance, and field operators available during all complex day and night training operations.
Vigilantly maintains the highest level of proficiency is achieved without a single loss of life or injury
to contractor or support personnel.
Certifications, Awards, Authorizations
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DOD Secret Security Clearance Government Contract Quality Assurance
Representative
• Valid US Passport
• Equal Opportunity Representative
• Environmental Compliance Officer Cert
• HAZMAT Handling & Transportation
• Observer-Mentor-Trainer Cert
Cert (US & Germany)
• Safety Officer • FEMA: ICS 100, ICS-200, IS-315, IS-
450, IS-559, IS-634, IS-700
• Government Acquisition Officer
• Energy Conservation Officer
Veteran- OIF; Operation New Dawn; Three tours in combat as a leader.
Awards: Purple Heart, Bronze Star Medal in combat (x2), Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation
Medal (x5), Army Achievement Medal (x6), Army Good Conduct Medal (x5), National Defense Service
Medal, Korea Defense Service Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Global War on
Terrorism Medal, NCO Professional Development Ribbon, Kuwait Liberation Medal (Saudi), Kuwait
Liberation Medal (Kuwait).
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