Environmental Engineer Protection Specialist

Dr. David K Goldblum, P.E.

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Pikesville, MD 21208

Mobile Phone: 410-***-****

Email: *************@*****.***

WORK EXPERIENCE

US Air Force Reserves 3/1998 – 4/2013 Andrews Air Force Base, MD

Bioenvironmental Engineer (Retired from Reserves as Full Bird Colonel)

As Bioenvironmental Engineering (BEE) Officer-in-Charge (OIC) at 459th Aerospace Medicine Squadron at Andrews Air Force Base (AFB), MD, I oversaw our management program & industrial shop visits covering occupational health issues & public health programs. On last Health Safety Inspection at Andrews AFB, our BEE & Military Public Health Sections received perfect scores that resulted in our Squadron Outstanding Rating and our programs noted as benchmark programs in AF Reserve (AFR) Command. Also served as BEE OIC for AFR @ Youngstown Air Reserve Station (ARS), OH from 9/1996- 2/1998 and at Bergstrom ARS near Austin, TX from 7/1993-5/1996.

Pentagon (Arlington, VA) 1/2004 - 3/2019

US Army ACSIM (Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management)

1/2004 – 3/20191

Environmental Engineer/Environmental Protection Specialist

Technical Authority/Environmental Advisor in Environmental Division of Installation Services Directorate, ACSIM:

Responsible for technical direction of designated Army programs

Support compilation and analysis of environmental data

Support recurring and non-recurring data needs

Technical authority/expert in development/promulgation of fiscal oversight, policy & guidance in environmental areas affecting the Base Realignment & Closure (BRAC) programs advising ACSIM, BRAC Chief, Director of Environmental Programs & Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Environment, Safety & Occupational Health

Periodic environmental/engineering reviews of installation activities, including site visits to monitor environmental actions effecting property transfer

Reviewed over 100 NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) documents: Environmental Assessments(EAs), Environmental Impact Statements, & Records of Environmental Consideration/Environmental Condition of Property Reports

US Army National Guard (ARNG) Readiness Center (Arlington, VA) 12/1998 - 1/2004

Environmental Engineer

Environmental Compliance Operations Team Leader - Coordinate team actions including weekly activity reports, taskers for meetings, conferences, key missions in project validations and quarterly evaluations. Also, acted as Branch Chief when Branch Chief was absent

Program Manager for Emergency Planning & Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), Clean Air Act and Toxic Substance Control Act

Environmental Engineer - provide engineering support and technical review for ARNG project sites, assess statistical trends in ARNG enforcement actions via our Environmental Quarterly Reporting Mechanism, and review of EPA procedures on data quality objectives and assessment

Reviewed and analyzed over 25 EAs with key impact areas being air quality; water, biological, soil/geological, and aesthetic resources; transportation; utilities; hazardous/toxic materials; and employment and population impacts

US Army Corps of Engineers - Baltimore District 7/1995 - 12/1998

Chemical Engineer

Prepare and review chemical engineering aspects of environmental studies, work plans, design/survey analyses, scopes of work, government estimates, price negotiations memorandums, and plans and specifications for Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste projects

Technical document reviews: risk assessments, work plans, sampling & analysis plans, chemical data acquisition plans, treatability studies, cost studies, characterization reports, remedial investigation and feasibility study reports, decision documents, environmental baseline surveys, statistical evaluations, screening assessments, and bioventing R & D documents.

NEPA efforts include the review and analysis of numerous EAs with key impact areas being: air quality; water, biological, soil/geological, and aesthetic resources; transportation; utilities; hazardous/toxic materials; and socioeconomic factors which include employment and population impacts

Kelly Air Force Base & Bergstrom Air Reserve Station San Antonio/Austin, TX 4/1994 - 7/1995

Environmental Engineer

Program Officer for Asbestos, Hazardous Waste Management (HWM), Air Emissions Inventory, Pollution Prevention (PP), and EPCRA Programs. Strategic Environmental Research Development Program Database for Technology Needs Assessment, Non-cyanide Stripper Replacement Program, Chemical/Hazardous Material Authorization Request, and ECAMP (Environmental Compliance Assessment Management Program) Evaluation

Brooks Air Force Base (San Antonio, TX) 8/1988 - 9/1992

Bioenvironmental Engineer Military Active Duty Grade Level: Captain

From 8/1988 - 11/1989: Consultant in Environmental Quality with emphasis in Water/ Hazardous Waste Management in Occupational & Environmental Health Laboratory. Provided technical support to installation (base level) Bioenvironmental Engineers Air Force-wide.

*From 11/1989 - 9/1992: Chief Consultant for the Environmental Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Sections for the Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE). In addition, I served as AFCEE's Laboratory Audit Program Manager and was Technical Project Manager for an AF Reserve Base.

PPG Industries (Corpus Christi, TX) 10/1980 - 8/1982

Chemical Engineer

Developed software in technical support group

ACCOMPLISHMENTS & AWARDS

COMMANDER’S AWARD FOR CIVILIAN SERVICE – Feb 2019

SUPERIOR CIVILIAN SERVICE AWARD – Sept 2011

BRAC ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

1.Identified key Fort Monmouth sampling program deficiencies for BRAC Environmental Cleanup Program saving $8 million.

2.Analyzed and evaluated 7 Fort Meade environmental technical documents to expedite the BRAC position for EPA Region III removing a forced RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) consent order. Reviewed and analyzed RCRA permit at Fort Wingate expediting that installation environmental cleanup.

ARNG ACCOMPLISHMENT:

Mobile Fuel Tanker Policy - developed and coordinated this ARNG policy through legal interpretation, bringing these tankers under DOT jurisdiction rather than EPA so that costly secondary containment costs were avoided. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) impact issues were considered in formulating this ARNG policy.

CORPS OF ENGINEER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

In-house design projects: (1) Croom NIKE, MD - risk assessment and RI/FS report - our team prepared position for the Maryland Department of the Environment allowing the Army to avoid the expensive pump and treat action and employ natural attenuation for trichloroethylene contamination.

(2) Fort Totten, NY - risk assessment including ecological risk components – our team prepared position for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation allowing the Army to avoid the major dredging effort for the mercury contamination. This resulted in two publications, namely the human health risk assessment in the Journal of Hazardous Materials and the ecological risk assessment in the Journal of Environmental Quality Management. (3) Extensive air emissions review of Bolling Air Force Base, DC. (4) Columbia Gas Support with EPA Region III involving over 100 Superfund sites.

BERGSTROM ACCOMPLISMENT:

Pollution Prevention Program involved preparing executive summary report on general pollutant categories reviewed vs 1992 baselines, for Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission.

ACTIVE-DUTY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

1.Formulated Air Force (AF) position policies on lead maximum contaminant level (MCL) with pipe corrosion consideration and that dealing with Pentachlorophenol–treated pallets as regulated RCRA waste.

2.Determined wastewater flow network at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ during wastewater characterization; flow measurements were conducted - calculations enhanced data interpretation.

3.Critical evaluated risk assessment that resulted in a no further action decision for a site, where a costly pump treat remedial action was planned saving AF $2 million. This was published in a peer-reviewed journal.

4.Developed laboratory audit program from virtually non-existent to an active program covering 50 labs nationwide.

PPG ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Developed software in a technical support group to test thermodynamic consistency of vapor liquid equilibrium data, display physical properties of chemicals to assist process design, and convert units between SI and English units.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

Air Force Meritorious Service Medal

August 2005 at Andrews Air Force Base

Air Force Commendation Medals

September 1992 at Brooks Air Force Base

March 1996 at Bergstrom Air Reserve Station)

Air Force Training Ribbon (1992)

National Defense Service Medal (1992)

Air Force Longevity Ribbon (1992)

Air Force Longevity Ribbon with One Oak Leaf Cluster (1996)

Air Force Longevity Ribbon with Two Oak Leaf Clusters (2000)

Armed Forces Reserve Medal (2000)

Retired as Full Bird Colonel in Air Force Reserves

EDUCATION

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, Michigan

Doctorate - 8/1988

131 Semester Hours

Major: Chemical Engineering

Minor: Environmental Health Science

GPA: 3.90 out of 4.00

Rice University

Houston, Texas

Master's Degree - 8/1980

34 Semester Hours

Major: Chemical Engineering

GPA: 3.73 out of 4.00

Completed 3 extra chemical engineering course at Texas A&I University (now under Texas A&M University), while working at PPG.

Carnegie-Mellon University

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bachelor's Degree - 5/1975

125 Semester Hours

Major: Mathematics

Minor: Chemistry

GPA: 3.63 out of 4.00

Honors: Magna Cum Laude

AFFILIATIONS

American Institute of Chemical Engineers - Member

National Ground Water Association – Member

Society of Military Engineers - Member

Maryland Society of Professional Engineers – Member and previous President of Chesapeake Chapter

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES:

Professional Engineering (P.E.) Licenses in Maryland and Texas

PROFESSIONAL PUBLICATIONS

PhD Thesis: Biofilm Electrode for Screening of Toxic Chemicals: Electrode System Characterization. 1988

1. Oxygen Transport in Biofilm Electrodes for Screening of Toxic Chemicals. J. of AIChE (Vol 36, No. 1, pp. 19-28, 01/90)

2. Oxygen Membrane Electrode Uses as a Toxicity Biosensor. Environmental Progress (Vol 10, No. 1, pp. 24-29, 02/91)

MS Thesis: Fixation of Platelet Aggregate Size Distributions in Human Blood. 1980 - with manuscript - Stabilization of Platelet Aggregate Size Distributions

Using Glutaraldehyde. Thrombosis Research (Vol 40, No. 2, pp. 249-255, 10/85)

Goldblum, D.K. Pentachlorophenol Treated Wood Handling Disposal. US Air Force Consultative Letter 89-111EQ0008KHH, 10/4/89

Use of Risk Assessment Groundwater Model in Installation Restoration Program (IRP)Site Decisions. Environmental Progress (Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 91-97, 05/92)

Lab Audit Program:

1. Establishing Data Quality - Environmental Laboratory Audit Program.

Environmental Testing and Analysis (Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 23-27, 06/97)

2. Establishing Data Quality - Environmental Laboratory Audit Program - Semi volatile Organic Compounds Show Most Benefit (Air Force Hits QA/QC Target

for Labs). Today's Chemist at Work (Vol 6, No. 11, pp. 16-19, 12/97).

National Guard EPCRA Information Papers: March 25, 2002, and July 25, 2001

More Recent Publication:

The Fort Totten Mercury Pollution Risk Assessment: A Case History. Journal of Hazardous Materials (Vol 136, No 3, 8/06)

Increasing Business Value Through Proper Design and Operation of Landfill Gas Collection and Control Systems. Journal of Environmental Quality Management (Summer 2011, Vol. 20, No. m4, pp.49-62)

Assessing Ecological Risk from Mercury in Little Bay Estuary: A Study from Fort Totten in New York. Journal of Environmental Quality Management (Fall 2013, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 23-41)

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