LISA LAFORGE
** **** ***** *****, ***** Hamilton, Massachusetts 01982, 978-***-****
An accomplished environmental manager that has demonstrated professionalism, dedication, persistence, and commitment in important EPA projects.
Profile Driven technical professional with exceptional project management skills. Management experience, included support of EPA Region I, II, IX, and X contracts, specifically FIT, ARCS, START, RAC, and ROC contracts. Extensive knowledge of the EPA Superfund process and protocols as well as site as health and safety coordinator experience at hazardous materials sites. As a Project Manager, effectively coordinated site assessment activities; track schedules, budgets, and staff needs; training, developed health and safety plans and guidance, developed multi-media sampling plans, CLP guidance, shipping, interpreted analytical data; and prepared and reviewed site investigation reports.
Professional Project Coordinator, Practical Applications, Woburn, MA February-March 2020
Experience Support the Wastewater Operations and Engineering Consulting Departments with scheduling, project details, nvoicing, customer service, cost reporting, and procurement. Contact customers to collect details regarding urchase orders, shipping, billing, scheduling, and site asscess. Support laboratory courier pickups and chain of ustody documents.
Access Representative, Beverly Hospital; Beverly, MA 2007-2020
Perform accurate registration of patients, bed placement, verifying insurances for eligibility and benefits, Obtaining authorizations or pre-certifications, and assisting the patients and family members. Also, observing health and safety requirements, collection and/or notification of any out-of-pocket payments for insurance co- payments or deposits for services rendered, custom service skills with patients and other departments, and other essential role responsibilities.
Project Manager, Gannett Fleming, Inc.; Newton, Massachusetts 2001-2007
Managed 19 projects under the EPA Region I, II, IX, and X CERCLA Pre-Remedial Site Assessment work
assignment under the ROC contract; provided oversight and review of deliverables, project schedules and
budgets, and ensure compliance with contract reporting requirements. CERCLA Site Assessment Activities
included Task Work Plans, Preliminary Assessments (PA), Federal Facility Review Site Inspection (SI), Hazard
Ranking System (HRS), Prescore and Superscreen score, and HRS Documentation Record reports.
Project Manager, Tetra Tech, NUS Inc.; Wilmington, Massachusetts 1999-2001
Managed 6 technical staff and 30 projects under the EPA Region I RAC contract; provided oversight and review
of deliverables, project schedules and budgets, and ensure compliance with contract reporting requirements.
CERCLA Site Assessment Activities included Site Discoveries (SDs), PAs, SIs, Mini-SIs, Site Inspection
Prioritizations (SIPs), Expanded Site Inspections (ESIs), HRS packages.
Project Leader, Roy F. Weston, Inc.; Burlington, Massachusetts 1991-1999
Managed 6 technical staff and 30 projects under the EPA Region I START contract; provided oversight and
review of deliverables, project schedules and budgets, and ensure compliance with contract reporting
requirements. CERCLA Site Assessment Activities include SDs, PAs, SIs, Mini-SIs, SIPs, and ESIs, and HRS.
Project Manager, NUS Corporation; Bedford, Massachusetts 1986-1988, 1990-1991
Managed numerous PAs, SIs, and HRS package projects and provided technical support to other site leaders
under the FIT contract. Managed the Regional Health and Safety Program, the Regional Sample Control Center
Program, and the Potential Employee Exposure Record Program under the EPA Region I FIT contract.
Site Manager, GEI Corporation; Winchester, Massachusetts 1988-1990
Managed environmental site assessments relative to Massachusetts General law, Chapter 21E and Quarterly
Groundwater Monitoring Programs.
Education SALEM STATE COLLEGE, Salem, Massachusetts — B.S. Biology, Minor Chemistry, 1986
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, Massachusetts — Geology Course, 1987
Skills Dynamic personality and attitude that inspires people to want to work for me. Team player with demonstrated
ability and versatility to work with others to achieve a common goal such as interaction with different federal,
state, and engineering organizations. Excellent interpersonal, obstacles that arise at work and in the field by
planning, and communication abilities. Troubleshooter recognized for resolving problems and advisement and
negotiations cooperatively to the clients satisfaction. Exceptional abilities to research site information,
development of standard operating plans and/or guidelines, direction of field sampling efforts, evaluation and
tabulation of analytical data, and preparation of technical reports.
Accolades 1991 – Recognition of Effort and Contribution to FIT Program Award
1993 - Recipient of NENG's Employee-of-the-Month Award
1998 - Performance and Incentive Award
2001 - HRS Mining Assignment Recognition
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