Project Manager Management
Resume:
H. JOSEPH HAMILTON
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Agronomist/ Natural Resources Planner/ Environmental Consultant
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY:
Over thirty years of technical and professional experience in natural resources planning, land
management, feasibility studies, agriculture/environment consulting and environmental impact
analysis.
CORE COMPETENCIES
Environmental Impact Assessment Environmental Audits
Environmental Management Planning Project Evaluation
Natural Resources Planning Scientific Research
Soil Science/Crop Agronomy Technical Writing
QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS
Operations & Management
Analyze, implement and manage corporate-level changes that significantly improve
revenues and profitability.
Direct marketing and sales activities that result in the creation of high-end accounts
leading to millions in new revenues, annually.
Analyze and evaluate processes and procedures, as well as cost controls to identify waste
and eliminate excessive expenditures, resulting in drastically improved profitability,
Create and foster highly-efficient workplace and field operations environments that
motivate team members to perform at top proficiency and ensure consistent compliance
with best corporate practices.
Areas of Expertise
Development and management of nationwide environmental assessment programs.
Development of sustainable land management practices, policies, and implementation.
Soil scientist-Soil fertility evaluation and control; experimental design for soil and plant
nutrient studies.
Project monitoring and evaluation/feasibility studies for infrastructure development
including agro-processing facilities.
Strategic and programmatic environmental impact assessment and environmental
management planning.
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Professional expérience:
Agriculture & Environmental Consultant Calabash International, LLC
2010 - Present Gwynn Oak, MD
Evaluate environmental impacts. Prepare and manage environmental reports;
work on a full range of environmental planning services including categorical exclusions
and environmental reviews.
Competence in the scoping and documentation of complex federal projects as
regulated
by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council of Environmental
Quality Assurance (CEQUA); participate in the development of environmental impact
assessment for development projects in emerging economies primarily as stipulated by
the World Bank and other development agencies.
Coordinate special projects on agriculture and environmental planning for Federal
and State Agencies, consulting companies, and financial institutions. Conduct soil
fertility evaluation, soil-plant-water relations studies, and crop advisory/agronomy.
Review value added agriculture planning and policy, plan and organize a farm
cooperative. Conduct marketing and export of farm machinery and chemicals.
Perform qualitative and quantitative project monitoring and evaluation,
participatory, impact and cost effective project evaluation. Have a propensity for
monitoring and evaluation of development projects in natural resources and biodiversity.
Agriculture & Environment Consultant AEB Consultants
2006-2010 Kingston, Jamaica
Participated in the research and production of a Sustainable Development Master Plan on
the South Coast of Jamaica. The Study was funded by the Inter American Development
Bank, (IDB) under the Multi sector Investment Programme.
Knowledge and Attitude Study of over two thousand households across 14 Parishes in
Jamaica. The objective of the study was to determine the level of awareness of citizens on
environmental issues, their attitudes and perception to environmental protection and
management.
Socio economic baseline survey of domestic banana and plantain producers in the banana
producing regions of Jamaica. A systematic random sample of 1,800 potential
beneficiaries under a European Union farmer support program was undertaken.
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Undertook a coffee yield verification and adjustment study. Estimate the biological yields
of the crop over a six year period using some diverse parameters. Monitor the harvesting of
the crop over a one year period and made estimates of lost due weather conditions and
biological pests.
Natural Resources Planner: -Water Mgmt Admin Maryland Dept. of the
Environment 1998-2015 Baltimore, MD
Review and evaluate State Highway Administration wetlands
mitigation plan proposals to determine adherence to regulations. Review permits
applications for shoreline development projects such as stone revetments, breakwaters,
groins, piers, and marinas.
Review and document State Wetlands Licenses/Permits, which
include both individual and general authorizations. Designed, created, and monitor
wetlands growth and development for the Maryland State Highway Administration.
Review wetland-permit applications from private developers, corporations and
homeowners to determine adherence to regulations under the US-Army Corps of
Engineers and the Maryland State Programmatic General Permit.
Reviewed over two thousand wetland license applications, which includes
shoreline projects review and wetland mitigation projects; and participated in the
selection of major wetland mitigation sites to compensate for the Maryland State
Highway Administration project impacts
Instruct project consultants and SHA staff on the
technicalities of wetland creation, restoration, and/or preservation. Review mitigation
permits applications for tidal and non-tidal wetland mitigation projects under the US
Army Corps of Engineers and the State of Maryland permit regulation.
Sr. Environmental Project Manager Acquent Consultant Group
2013 – 2013 Santa Fe, NM
As the Project Manager for the DC Department of Health (DOH), Environmental Public
Health Tracking Project; a Bio-Terrorism initiative. The Environmental Health Agency
(EHA) and the State Center for Health Statistics Administration had a multiyear grant
from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish a District-Wide
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program (D.C. EPHTP). The EPHTP is a major
undertaking by the CDC to track all chemical, biological and environmental exposures
that could have negative health outcomes to state residents.
Responsible for developing requirements to achieve cross-agency data sharing, data
integration and data warehousing for maintaining environmental, morbidity and mortality
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data, and implementing an Environmental Public Health Information System.
Responsible for planning a DOH Enterprise Architecture system that provides a
functional business model that uses information and technology to support DOH, other
District agencies, Federal agencies and private partners nationwide. Participate in
interviews/JAD sessions with key stakeholders.
Soil Scientist/Land Planner Jamaica Ministry of Agriculture
1980-1985 Kingston, Jamaica, W.I.
Participated on the Comprehensive Rural Inventory and Evaluation
System (CRIES) for the development of a land inventory system for Jamaica in
collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Applied remote sensing techniques and geographic information system
(GIS)
for land use studies and environmental management plans. Direct soil analytic operations
for all methods of soil analysis, water samples, and plant substrate.
Conducted soil fertility evaluation and control, field plot
experimental design,
crop advisory/agronomy, soil-water-plant relationship.
Environmental Consultant Ministry of Water, Housing & the Environment
1985-1986 Kingston, Jamaica
Collaborate on all aspects of irrigation for intensive crop production.
Determine
crop water requirements and irrigation frequencies for cropping systems.
Assist in the design of major irrigation projects including the capital
outlays. Monitor available water resources for irrigation and potable uses; stream gage
rivers and perform groundwater logging. Coordinate with Irrigation engineers on
conveyance and distribution networks
Evaluated the agronomy and economics of irrigated agriculture in the Rio
Cobre Basin, St. Catherine, Jamaica
Extensive soil salinity reclamation study applying agro-climatic factors and irrigation
methodologies on the arid loess soils under cotton in Uzbekistan, Central Asia.
Developed appropriate farm cropping patterns and best management practices for
all soil types and climatic conditions; collaborate on irrigation systems design. Evaluate
the financing and marketing potential of irrigated water users.
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Studied all of the Inland basins of Jamaica and the associated water sheds
including the agro-climatic factors that are directly associated with precipitation, surface
and groundwater resources, and irrigated agriculture.
Education:
New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ
MS, Environmental Science (1996)
Utah State University, Logan, Utah
Postgraduate course work in soil and water chemistry (1988)
Lumumba University, Moscow, Russia.
BS/MS, Agronomy (1980)
MS-Thesis: The Phosphate potential of the ferralitic soils of the Republic of Georgia under tea
(Camelina Sinensis)
Language:
Fluency in Russian and English
References are available upon request.
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