Quality Assurance Management

MARK B. APPLEGATE, CIH

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

My professional focus has been in corporate management and/or consulting of operations, programs and facilities including environmental, hazardous waste, emergency response, military bases, biotechnology laboratories, industrial health and safety, and complex industrial operations. Over 23 years of experience including 15 years as a Certified Industrial Hygienist, over 17 years as Executive Director of an international EH&S consulting firm and over 14 years of formal communications training has developed capabilities to successfully direct, organize, develop, manage and communicate within complex and challenging environments and organizational structures. These capabilities have been developed and honed within the military, industrial, research, corporate and public sectors.

This experience base provides diverse and flexible capabilities that will greatly enhance any organization’s ability to manage programs or operate facilities efficiently, organized, healthy and safe with a sharp focus on financial goals and budgets.

The capabilities that evolved from extensive and direct EH&S, Hazmat/hazwaste, radiological experiences not only provides maturity, patience and flexibility working with one on one situations but also expands on the ability to effectively communicate on all organizational levels, with all professional types, international organizations and with public news organizations. Experiences, education and certifications provide the highest degree of quality assurance that programs, operations and facilities are managed effectively and efficiently with focused regard for Employee and Public, Environmental, Health and Safety goals.

PROJECT AND CLIENT LIST

MILITARY / US GOVERNMENT

US Department of Defense (DoD) US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA)

US Militaries - Air Force, Navy, Army US Department of Energy (DOE)

US Department of Ecology US Department of Fish and Wildlife

STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Cities of Seattle and Kirkland, Washington King County, Washington

FACILITIES MANAGEMENT

Kalama Services; Base Operating Services Trammell Crow Company / CB Richard Ellis

ENVIRONMENTAL / HAZARDOUS WASTE OPERATIONS

URS Greiner, Woodward, Clyde, Inc. Philip Services Corp., Hazwaste TSD Operations

Fluor Hanford CH2M Hill / CHG

INDUSTRIAL / OFFSHORE / LABORATORIES

BP Wells Boeing

Unified Area Command (UAC) Port of Seattle, Seatac Airport Authority

Transocean ZymoGenetics Biotechnology Laboratories

ACHIEVEMENTS INCLUDE

Provided technical expertise and functional guidance to Team Leaders, Health & Safety Coordinators, Environmental Coordinators, Operations, Project Managers, and Business Unit (BU) management with environmental, health and safety efforts for multiple clients. Assisted with offshore industrial hygiene and clean-up efforts after the BP oil spill from the Deepwater Horizon MODU explosion. Executive Director of Phoenix Health and Safety, Inc., a successful EH&S consulting corporation providing services for the US Pacific Northwest and international clients. Director of Environmental, Radiation, Safety and Health (ES&H), Hazardous Materials/Waste Transport, Storage and Disposal (TSD) operations and compliance as the Base Operation Service (BOS) contractor for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency of the Department of Defense (held advanced security clearance). Compliance includes NEPA, OSHA, EPA, Air Force, Army, NFPA, and DoD regulations. Activities included environmental analyses, workplace exposure evaluations for radiation (plutonium, americium, etc.), chemicals, hazardous waste/materials (dioxins, PCBs, etc.), management, storage, disposal and shipping, base radiation safety officer, emergency operations, IAQ, accident investigation and reporting and disaster readiness, incident readiness drilling and response management.

Responsibilities as a CIH and Manager of EH&S for the Seattle Fire Department included emergency response to and rapid hazards evaluations of ship fires, confined spaces and hazardous material fires. Responsibilities as manager of EH&S for other Seattle departments included landfill and haz waste site industrial hygiene and health and safety, municipal waste facilities health and safety, fleet safety, building health and safety, indoor air quality, accident prevention programs, construction safety, and more. Industrial hygienist and safety officer for the international corporation - URS Greiner, Woodward, Clyde, Inc. working almost exclusively on the U.S. Navy CLEAN program (base environmental, haz waste analysis and remediation).

In addition to advanced management capabilities are hazard evaluations and risk assessments, environmental sampling and analysis, personal exposure monitoring, environmental monitoring, providing HAZMAT training, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance and reviews, and expert witness. Developed advanced strategies for meeting environmental, safety and health requirements, ascertaining responsibilities, and program tracking and maintenance.

• Offshore EH&S operations and solutions evaluation and management expertise

• Directorship of complex operations, programs, and facilities

• Full spectrum environmental, industrial hygiene, H&S consulting and management.

• Expert in industrial hygiene advanced sampling strategies and programs, hazards evaluations, engineering controls, and evaluation/mitigation of worker exposures in complex hazards.

• Analytic Laboratory for in-the-field, on-site or laboratory analysis of environmental and hazardous waste chemicals.

• Expert on Hazardous Waste site inspections, ambient and personal monitoring and sampling, procurement, management, collection, storage and disposal.

• Developed successful ISO compliant ESOH management programs for unique and far remote operations in compliance with multiple military and federal regulations.

• Environmental and hazardous materials evaluations within industrial, manufacturing and infrastructure operations facilities.

EDUCATION, ACCREDITATION AND TRAINING

Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, Washington State University, 1981

- Advanced studies in Chemical Engineering, Mathematics, Physics & Biology

Certification in Industrial Hygiene (#7142) - Comprehensive Practice, 1996

Certified Radiation Safety Officer, Nevada Technical Associates, Inc. 1999

Public Speaking and Presentation, Dale Carnegie, Inc, `86 - `88; Toastmasters Int., `92 - `00

Advanced Sales and Management, Dale Carnegie, Inc. ’89 – ‘90

Safe Gulf and 6 in 1 (offshore oil industries EH&S training and survival procedures) 2010

Biosafety for Industrial Hygienists, ABSA, 2000

PADI Certified Scuba Diver 1999

Occupational Aspects of Emerging Pathogens, AIHA, 1998

Microorganisms in Indoor Air, AAIH, 1998

Fully 80-hour HAZWOPER trained, 1992

Advanced sampling strategy and instrumentation, University of Washington, 1992

Building Air Quality, EPA, 1991

Much more…

EQUIPMENT IN INVENTORY (PARTIAL)

• Photovac Voyager Portable Gas Chromatograph (dual sensor) (and all accessories)

• 10 Gillian Gilair 5 digital personnel air sampling pumps

• Digilert multiple source radiation monitor

• Grey Wolf IAQ monitor (temp., rH, CO, CO2) with datalogger

• High volume sampling pumps

• Particulate air monitors

• Supplied air systems, Powered Air Purifying Respirators (PAPRs), and other APR systems

• Drycal DC-Lite flowmeter (certified air sampling pump calibrator)

• TSI PortaCount Plus Quantitative Respirator Fit Tester

• Extensive air sampling accessories, multiple sample manifolds, cyclones, mold samplers, etc

COMPUTER PROGRAMS

Microsoft Office Professional Suite Adept

QuickBooks (financial program) Professional Adept

Computerized geographical mapping Adept

Environmental Plume mapping Adept

Portable Gas Chromatography operations Adept

LANGUAGES

English Adept

Portuguese Adept

Spanish Adept

German Competent

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