Real Estate Environmental Scientist

RESUME FOR EMMELLDA BEECH *

Emmellda Beech

Environmental Scientist, Technical Investigator and Data Analyst

Overview

Ms. Beech researches, analyzes, retrieves and organizes technical data for all types of Environmental projects. She has a unique ability to organize, prioritize and analyze large amounts of information efficiently in a useful and logical manner. Data includes current and historical, legal and environmental documents, building plans, building records, utility and substructure maps, hazardous waste operations and materials files, facility business plans, industrial waste and underground tank files, oil refinery and general engineering blueprints, litigation files as well as City, County and State records for data inclusion in real estate portfolio transactions on behalf of both buyers and sellers in the public and private sectors, and other environmental projects.

She has developed working relationships with city, county, state and federal agency personnel, and uses her considerable one-on-one relationship building skills to maintain a level of information retrieval beyond a cursory investigation, thereby increasing the client’s ability to make decisions based on all the available information. Discretion, tact and diplomacy are all skills she uses to the projects’ advantage when acting as a liaison between the Company and the agencies.

The data retrieved is generally used for inclusion in Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) for private industry, developers, and government agencies throughout the United States. Project sites have included vacant parcels, dairy farms, wetlands, commercial and retail complexes, business parks, municipal buildings, warehouses, single family dwellings, multi-tenant residential properties, local schools and universities, fire stations, gas stations, hotels, movie studios, supermarkets, restaurants, acute-care hospitals, medical office buildings, oil refineries, major ports and industrial/manufacturing facilities. She has performed building surveys, architectural surveys, limited asbestos surveys, industrial waste site surveys, land and utility mapping, assessor parcel investigations and chemical investigations. She has also provided field office supply maintenance and sample labeling, lab prep and soil sample delivery and disposal support for various field projects in Southern California. For the past 5 years, she has been expanding her expertise to include soil, air and groundwater technical data management and database entry, detail checking, Quality Assurance (QA) Quality Control (QC), field photo archive file management and database QC for the reporting phase of large scale groundwater remediation and air monitoring projects. Project Experience

Environmental Special Investigator, Former Kast Property Project, Shell Oil Products, 2013

She conducted chemical inventory investigations for Indoor Air and Soil Gas Sampling and Analysis Phase; QA/QC of LARWQCB responses to Residential Sampling and Analysis Reporting; Uploading, labeling and organizing of Residential Photographic Records as well as various special, project specific, time sensitive office assignments under the direction of Project Management.

Environmental Specialist, Shell Bakersfield Oil Refinery, Quarterly Groundwater Monitoring and Reporting, Shell Oil Products 2012- 2014

She provides groundwater sampling and gauging data entry and QA/QC, Data, figure, analysis, and spreadsheet and table analysis for the quarterly groundwater monitoring reporting program.

Environmental Specialist, Various Projects, URS Risk Assessment, Los Angeles Office, 2011

Performed quality assurance and quality control procedures on various tables and spreadsheets prepared for client reporting;

Areas of Expertise

Government Agency Liaison Services

Governmental Agency,Environmental and Historical Document Review

Document Retrieval, Analysis, and Organizing

Technical Data Analysis

Technical Data Entry

Quality Assurance/ Quality Control

Substructure, Sewer, and Oil Field Map retrieval

As-built Engineering Drawing retrieval

Vicinity, Building, and Land Surveys

Field Instrument Calibration

Marketing assistance

Administrative assistance

Product and Supply ordering

Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Photoshop, Irfanview

Years of Experience

With URS/AECOM: 24 Years

With Other Firms: 8 Years

Education

University of California,

San Diego

Registration/Certification

Cal-OSHA 8-hour Health & Safety

Supervisor

HAZWOPER

Asbestos Inspector

Defensive Driving

CPR/First Aid Training

Chronology

1992-2016/Environmental

Scientist/AECOM/URS Corporation/ Los

Angeles

1990-1992/Crowd Security Supervisor/CSC

Security Services/ Los Angeles

1984-1989/ Instructional Aide in Special

Education- Grades K-12/ Pasadena Unified

School District

Assisted Risk Assessment Department head in RA stored digital and hard copy file organization and project documentation.

Environmental Scientist, Pier G Reconstruction Projects, Los Angeles, CA, Port of Long Beach, 2009-2010

She provides ongoing support with As-Built engineering drawing retrievals and spreadsheet documentation for Piers A., G, J, and E in the Port of Long Beach, consisting of thousands of drawings.

Environmental Scientist, Technical Resource, ACTA Project, Long Beach and Los Angeles, CA, Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA), 2009

She provides ongoing technical support for the Phase I Investigations for the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority (ACTA), Alameda Corridor restructuring project including governmental and environmental agency file analysis, reviews and historical research.

Environmental Scientist, PEA program, Phase I research, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), 2001-2009 Conducted and reported California State mandated background research on utilities, land features, and hazard proximity, for multiple proposed new schools and school additions for LAUSD, in addition to Phase I ESA research at various agencies, utility companies and city halls, in Los Angeles County.

Environmental Scientist, Title V File Procedures Update, Air Quality Management District (AQMD) Audit, Exxon-Mobil Oil Company, Torrance, CA, 2004

She assisted as a scientist for ExxonMobil Oil Company, Torrance Facility. Title V files update procedure for an AQMD audit of Title V files. She assisted in the implementation of updated compliance, recordkeeping, and reporting requirement procedures, and cleanout of old, disused, and non-relevant health, safety, and maintenance files for removal to an approved storage facility, and. reorganized current and relevant files; Assisted in the writing of new health and safety reporting procedures for refinery personnel.

Environmental Specialist, Phase I Investigations, Agency File Reviews, Various International clients for properties in Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, and San Bernardino Counties in the State of California, 1996-2015

She assists project managers from various Aecom offices in complex Phase I investigations by performing governmental and environmental agency file reviews, vicinity surveys, and substructure and historical research for large real estate portfolio transactions on behalf of both buyers and sellers in the public and private sectors. Health and Safety Program Manager, Los Angeles Office, 1999-2001 Responsibilities included record keeping and safety class coordination, safety inspections, and health and safety briefings for new employees.

Project File Manager and Scientific Data Technician, Del Amo Superfund Site, Torrance, CA, Shell Oil Products, 1992-1999 She initiated the file protocols, Performed the initial data entry for the Del Amo Superfund site, including analytical data, groundwater levels, groundwater purge data, well construction sheets, sample summaries, chains of custody (for lab samples and waste), soil boring logs, geologist field notes, and sample location logs.

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