Environmental Science Specialist

Kirk Johnson

*** **** ** ** • Minot, ND ***** • ***********@*****.*** • 701-***-****; 701-***-****

Summary of Qualifications

• Exceptional leader and team player with mentoring skills.

• Excellent communicator with oral presentations and writing/publishing experience.

• Multi-lingual—fluent in English and Turkish.

• Skillfully able to manage and serve cross-cultural teams from many different cultures.

• Professional and educational background experience in environmental and oil exploratory mapping.

• Successfully balanced 20+ years of professional public regulatory and private careers.

• Flexible self-starter able to readily adapt to new and unique job and personal environments.

• 23+ published articles in various magazines and journals.

Selected Career Achievements

Oversight and Regulation

• Regulated industrial, municipal and inert landfills throughout North Dakota; oversaw new landfill cell construction; created technical reports

and enforced federal and state environmental statutes, and investigated private/public dumping issues.

• Consulted with community leaders regarding landfill remediation, siting, design & closure issues.

Technical/Free-Lance Writing and GIS Map Creation

• Created detailed technical reports based on federal and state environmental statutes.

• Developed scores of GIS-based computerized maps based on real world environments.

• Researched and wrote 23 published articles for scientific and popular journals.

• Founded a 501(c)(3) non-profit scientific organization.

• Drafted subsurface geological maps for analyses of hydrocarbon pay zones.

Educational Counseling/Test Administration

• Advised professional military students on career path and coursework options.

• Managed student tuition programs and scholastic advancement.

• Administered all online course testing, CLEP and other placement testing and military advancement testing.

Non-Profit Organization Creation and Fund-Raising

• Founded and led a non-profit organization.

• Provided oral presentations and developed non-profit fundraising plans for organizations and individuals over a period of 16 years.

Teaching, Teamwork and Leadership

• Taught in secondary schools, guided students and developed a curriculum.

• Motivated teammates in foreign cross-cultural language learning and outreach settings.

• Guided communities and individuals in environmental rules and recycling programs.

• Trained oilfield geologists on analyses of petroleum hydrocarbon identification.

Professional Experience

Environmental Scientist October 2005 to present.

North Dakota Department of Health, Division of Waste Management

Sawyer and Bismarck, ND

Director/Map Creation Specialist June 2001 – August 2004.

International Ecological Partnerships

Grand Junction, CO

Educational Counselor July 2002 - July 2004

Central Texas College

Killeen, TX

Hydrocarbon Well Logger

Tooke Engineering, Inc.

Casper, WY

Education and Training

Master of Science in Geography 3.88 GPA. S.D. State University, Brookings, SD.

Bachelor of Arts in Earth Science 3.23.GPA. Minot State University, Minot, ND

Bachelor of Science in Education 3.83 GPA. Minot State University, Minot, ND

Specialized Training/Professional Development

• Completed 40 hour OSHA HAZMAT training and certificate, and yearly refresher courses.

Technical Programs

• MS Office Suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista

• GIS ESRI, Inc., ArcView, ArcInfo Map-Making Software

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