Manager Management

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGER

QUALIFICATIONS PROFILE

Highly competent, quality-focused, and seasoned professional with extensive experience in promoting environmental and health safety, focused heavily in ensuring compliance and managing audits with expertise in water, air, and wastes in various facilities.

• Remain abreast with relevant state and federal regulations as well as OSHA compliance utilized well in program development and implementation.

• Reliable in delegating and executing tasks properly, on time, with high quality, and compliant with all safety procedures and policies.

• Commended for efficient use of resources, guaranteeing no waste in materials or equipment used to generate greater profit and savings for the company.

• Utilize excellent interpersonal skills in providing the highest quality of service to clients, communicating effectively, and training subordinates.

• Display effective time management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in handling difficulties encountered while executing assignments and tasks amidst daily high-pressure situations.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC. (2001–2012)

Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager Houston, TX 2010–2012

Capitalize on industry expertise to ensure strict and consistent compliance with environmental health and safety standards for 22 medical waste treatments and transfer facilities throughout the country.

• Aligned and integrated environmental health and safety compliance throughout development of operational and contingency plans, along with lockout tag-out, and confined space of medical waste treatment and transfer facilities.

• Maintained observance to applicable permit conditions, plans, and state and local regulatory requirements by setting in place and executing internal tickler system.

• Developed recommendations and evaluation reports after conducting comprehensive assessments on air, water, and waste conditions within assigned facilities.

• Led successful negotiations with the local government to secure permits for the operations of the medical waste treatment infrastructure at a local and state level.

Lead Environmental Assessor Houston, TX 2008–2010

Managed the orderly assessment and deployment of various integrated waste management services of solid waste, regulated medical waste, recycling, confidential documents, universal waste, and hazardous waste to hospitals in the Houston, Texas area.

• Maintained high level of accuracy and attention to detail in conducting waste assessments across the US and implementation in Houston for solid medical, hazardous, universal, and electronic wastes generated at customers’ facility.

• Determined potential efficiencies and opportunities for implementation after careful analysis of volumes and costs generated by waste streams in customer locations.

• Enabled customers to efficiently reduce waste to reach their sustainability goals by creating and presenting accurate assessment reports.

CAS Environmental Auditor Houston, TX 2006–2008

Led conduct of efficient environmental, health, and safety audits on air, water, and waste at landfills; hauling companies and transfer stations throughout company branches nationwide as well as establishing and implementing federal, state, and regulatory audit protocols to ensure thoroughness and accuracy of audits.

Compliance Audit Services Data Analyst Houston, TX 2005–2006

Provided support to the Compliance Audit Services (CAS) group and legal management by auditing program data and preparing status reports on the CAS audit program and company violations.

Environmental Protection Manager Northwood, OH 2001–2004

Provided expert oversight to employees in charge of site compliance to ensure all safety and environmental requirements are met for three landfills, seven hauling companies, and three solid waste transfer stations in Ohio.

• Directed conduct of highly accurate environmental reviews in partnership with site management to quickly resolve and address applicable environmental issues and produce appropriate environmental reports, including annual and quarterly waste reporting, Title V permit compliance reporting, Tier II reporting, and waste water reporting requirements for 13 assigned sites.

• Drove cost reduction by strictly adhering to compliance requirements and secured alterations to permits in collaboration with Ohio EPA and other regulatory agencies.

EARLIER CAREER

MARATHON ASHLAND PETROLEUM, LLC

Safety/Environmental Intern Findlay, OH 1999–2001

Upheld high standards in preparing Tier II reporting, TRI reporting, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) reporting, Fire Prevention and Protection Plan template development for the Terminal Transport and Marine Division.

C & W TANK CLEANING, CO.

Assistant Safety Officer Oregon, OH 1999

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration, with focus on Marketing: 2009

THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON – Victoria Victoria, TX

Bachelor of Science in Environmental and Hazardous Materials Management,

Minor in Public Administration with Emphasis in Compliance: 2001

THE UNIVERSITY OF FINDLAY Findlay, OH

CREDENTIALS

Certified Professional Environmental Auditor Registered Environmental Property Assessor

Certified Environmental Auditor Healthcare Environmental Manager

Healthcare Environmental Manager RCRA & DOT Training Underground and Aboveground Storage Tank Training EHS Auditing Skills Course Registered Environmental Property Assessor and Certified Environmental Auditor Phase I and Phase II Assessment Training Health and Safety Compliance Auditing

AFFILIATIONS

Member, The Auditing Roundtable Member, Board of Environmental and Safety Auditor Certifications

Member, National Registered Environmental Professionals

3rd Place MBA competition for capstone course

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Audit Tracking Software Environmental Tickler System Microsoft Office Suite (Access, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Outlook, Project, and MapPoint) Development of Healthcare Environmental Assessment Tool for Auditing Purposes

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