Project Manager High School

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Kenneth M. Bracken

Experience 2010 – Present KEMRON Environmental Services Atlanta, GA

Project Manager (Response Manager) – EPA /Federal Programs

• Manage CERCLA Superfund clean up sites for the USEPA. Responsible for cost projections, developing budgets, designing work plans, site health and safety, T&D, regulatory compliance and management of all site personnel. Interface with client and provide reports on work status, site costs and future financial projections.

• Assumed responsibility for a refinery explosion OPA clean-up operation in Puerto Rico. Total responsibility for project in excess of $7M .

• Requested by USEPA to initiate a large scale vehicle and residential lead clean-up operation in Puerto Rico.

2003 – 2010 AECOM (Earth Tech, Inc.) Richmond, VA

Project Manager (Response Manager) – EPA /Federal Programs

• Manage CERCLA Superfund clean up sites for the USEPA. Responsible for cost projections, developing budgets, designing work plans, site health and safety, T&D, regulatory compliance and management of all site personnel. Interface with client and provide reports on work status, site costs and future financial projections.

• Developed and managed specialized response teams for disaster response. Managed response teams for Hurricane Katrina/Rita and the Binghamton-New York flood responses with a combined budget in excess of $30M.

• Requested by USEPA to complete the clean up, dismantling, demolition and remediation of an abandoned chemical plant in a residential neighborhood. The site was on the National Priority List and had a total budget in excess of $8M.

• Selected as Team Chemist/Alternate Response Manager for the High Hazard Response Team. Training included CBRN training and Level A Tactics.

2003 Waste Management, Inc. Defiance, OH

In-Plant Environmental Manager – General Motors Power-train Plant & Foundry

• Managed all aspects of a large manufacturing plant’s environmental program to include: hazardous material testing, waste determination, storage and disposal; solid waste; used oil program; scrap metal salvage; and oversight of the on-site landfill and wastewater treatment plant.

• Responsible for client regulatory compliance, permit maintenance and all local, state and federal reporting functions.

• Requested to sit on advisory board for a proposed plant renovation.

• Initiated spent styrofoam mold into plastic recycling program

1997 – 2003 Safety-Kleen, (GS), Inc. Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Contract Manager – DRMS/US Armed Forces Support Contract-Southwest Asia

• Provided environmental consulting, training and hazardous waste management services in support of combined US military forces in the Southwest Asia AOR.

• Advised, planned logistics and facilitated hazardous material clean ups and removals from over 20 different base locations in 8 countries in the AOR, in addition to semi-annual joint forces training exercises and servicing US naval ships directly from 2 different port locations.

• Solely responsible for negotiating, establishing and handling all contracts and dealings relating to local business sponsorships, competent authorities, government ministries and import/export shipping permits. Point of contact and liaison with the 5th Fleet Naval Regional Contracting Center in Bahrain.

• Responsible for all aspects of the $ 2M per year contract, to include both financial reporting and invoicing, as well as preparation of all transboundary shipping and disposal documents, which included US (EPA, DOT), international (IMO/IMDG, Basel Convention) and Canadian.

1990 – 1997 Laidlaw Environmental Services, Inc. Clearwater, FL

Project Manager/Emergency Response Coordinator/Field Chemist – TSDF/Service Center

• Senior Project Manager coordinating all projects for company service center covering all of Florida and South Georgia. Responsible for cost projections, bidding, planning, staffing, health and safety, as well as on site management and/or oversight of all facility project operations.

• Emergency Response Coordinator responsible for all management aspects of the statewide FDEP-Abandoned Drum and Emergency Response Contract, worth in excess of $ 1.5M annually.

• Managed statewide FDEP Household Hazardous Waste collection program, covering every county in Florida, as well as over 30 individual county HHW continuing service contracts. Managed in excess of 200 collection events in a 4 year span.

Education 1988 Wittenberg University Springfield, OH

• BA Degree – Biology, minor in Chemistry

1984 Dunedin High School Dunedin, FL

• High School/College Preparatory

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