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Robin Barrows Bio: Robin received her BS from NCSU in 2001 in Environmental Science: Ecology Concentration. She received her Masters in Environmental Toxicology, Chemistry and Risk Assessment from Duke University in 2003. Prior to returning to school she worked for 13 years in the Engineering arena designing piping systems for electric generating power plants, pulp and paper mills, schools, and wastewater treatment plants. Since graduating from Duke she have worked as a consultant for the EPA with various companies. She is currently employed with the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Division of Air Quality, Toxics Protection Branch (NCDENR-DAQ-TPB
Bio: Kelly Boone founded and has spent the last four years running the Center for Sustainable Enterprise’s innovative and award winning student sustainability consulting program – CSE Consulting. The program is a natural extension of Kenan-Flagler Business School’s pioneering and critically acclaimed sustainable enterprise MBA curriculum. It provides rising second year MBA’s the opportunity to combine triple bottom line thinking and standard business analysis to supply world-class sustainability consulting to a variety of companies and enterprises. The program has delivered business specific actionable recommendations to eighteen select clients in its first three years of operation. Mr. Boone oversees all business development, operations, finance, and administration of CSE Consulting. A 2001 graduate of UNC’s Kenan-Flagler MBA program with concentrations in Sustainable Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, he won the MOOT CORP Global Business Plan competition in May 2001. After receiving his MBA, he led sustainable enterprise strategy, business planning, and market research as the Director of Business Development for Micell Technologies, a Research Triangle Park technology start-up. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University as well as a M.S. in Environmental Systems Engineering from Clemson University. 3. Craig
Bromby Bio: Craig is a partner at the Hunton & Williams Law Firm in Raleigh, NC. His practice focuses on administrative law and environmental compliance, specifically, water pollution control, wastewater discharge permitting, surface water and groundwater quality issues, pretreatment, wetlands and endangered species regulation.
Bio: Liz worked
with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Head Quarters on environmental
policy for 15 years, then was a private consultant before joining
Bio: Charles is a senior partner at the Hunton & Williams Law Firm in Raleigh, NC. His practice focuses on state and federal environmental, health and safety regulation, as well as administrative law and lobbying, with particular emphasis on the regulation of toxic and hazardous materials and wastes, air quality, land and water resource usage, and contaminated site remediation. 6. Ted
Cashion Bio: Ted Cashion
is the Eastern Region Compliance Supervisor for the North Carolina
Division of Waste Management, Hazardous Waste Section. He has worked
as an inspector with the Hazardous Waste Section and also with
Bio: Mr. Cheeks
has 22 years of service with EPA and has managed the RCRA grant
and hazardous waste management programs for North and South Carolina.
He is the current Regional contact for GreenScapes and RecycleMania,
and represents EPA Region 4 RCRA Division on Clean Energy and Climate
Change
Bio: Lindsay Cook’s professional practice includes the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene and safety, indoor air quality, microbial contaminants, laboratory health and safety, ventilation, ergonomics, and noise. He advises National Centers for Health Statistics, CDC, NIOSH and other federal agencies on Indoor Air Quality. Mr. Cook has a wealth of experience with managing and conducting health and safety audits and consultation in a wide range of industrial settings, including government and military facilities. Mr. Cook was previously Director of Facilities, Health, Safety, and Environment for CIIT Centers for Health Research, in Research Triangle Park, NC. Mr. Cook is certified in the comprehensive practice of Industrial Hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and is a Certified Safety Professional. He is a past Director and member of the Indoor Environmental Quality Task Force of the American Industrial Hygiene Association. He is also past Chair of the ANSI Z9 Accredited Standards Committee on Health & Safety Standards for Ventilation Systems.
Bio: George Crosby is the Environmental Health and Safety engineer for a cable manufacturing company in North Carolina. His professional experience covers over 30 years of industrial experience working for several large manufacturing companies and working in various positions within those companies. He have been a shift supervisor and also a superintendent of a facility. He has worked for companies with 200 employees and for a company with 2,000 employees.
Bio: Bob Dewald is vice-president of Pro2Serve’s division that focuses on security services for federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the National Nuclear Security Administration. He is a retired Air Force colonel, who previously served at the Defense Department as principal deputy secretary for nuclear security.
Bio: Dana Folley is a chemist with the North Carolina Division of Water Quality, Point Source Branch. She is responsible for pretreatment oversight. She has a BS in Biology from Smith College in Massachusetts and over 25 years of experience with the Division of Water Quality including biological assessment work and whole effluent toxicity testing.
Bio: Mahesh Gundappa is Vice President of Engineering at Blue Source. He is responsible for developing protocols for Blue Source’s diverse greenhouse gas project portfolio to meet evolving US and international standards for project-based emission reductions. He is also responsible for developing, outsourcing and managing engineering projects related to Blue Source’s investments in GHG emission reduction projects. Mahesh received his PhD and MS degrees in mechanical engineering from Virginia Tech and is a registered professional engineer in the State of North Carolina.
Bio: Labeed Kady is the Environmental Supervisor of the Programs Branch of the North Carolina Hazardous Waste Section of the Division of Waste Management. The Programs Branch assists other branches with overall program performance and provides customers with informational, regulatory and technical assistance. The Technical Resource Unit reviews and implements financial assurance, prepares and delivers enforcement orders, coordinates appeals, assists in waste determinations and handles special projects.
Bio: Mary Beth Koza is currently the Director of Environment, Health & Safety for UNC – Chapel Hill. She has overall EHS responsibility for developing innovative approaches to complex regulatory, technical, and University strategies. Mary Beth develops and implements critical proactive programs, management systems and information databases for compliance with both regulatory and University specific requirements. She has 28 prior years of experience in the pharmaceutical business. She holds a Bachelor of Arts/Chemistry from Kean University and an MBA in Pharmaceutical Science from Farleigh Dickinson University.
Bio: Penny is the Associate Director of the Sector Policies and Programs Division (SPPD) at EPA’s Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards, located in Research Triangle Park. Her Division is responsible for air emission regulations targeted at over 200 specific industries. These regulations control pollutants that affect ambient air quality, as well as toxic pollutants. Prior to assuming this position in February 2006, Penny was the Associate Director of the Emission Standards Division from 2003 to 2006, and prior to that, served as the Group Leader of the Organic Chemicals Group within the Emission Standards Division. Penny holds a Chemical Engineering degree from North Carolina State University.
Bio: Barry Maxwell
the Manager of Safety Services for the EI Group, Inc.
Bio: Michael "Mac" McNulty is an environmental, health and safety extension specialist at the North Carolina State University Industrail Extension Service.. He provides hazardous waste operations, emergency response and incident spill response education, training, exercise evaluations, and program development to North Carolina businesses and local, state and federal agencies. Over the past year, Mac provided initial and refresher training to the HazMat spill teams at manufacturers in Wilmington, Winston-Salem, and Raleigh, saving them $250 thousand to $5 million in insurance costs. 20.
Andrew Miles Bio: Andrew Miles currently Vice-President, Environment, Health and Safety for JM Huber in Atlanta, Georgia. Huber is a privately-held company with manufacturing divisions focussed on specialty chemicals, engineering materials, and wood products. In his current role which reports jointly to the Chairman of the Environment Committee of the Board of Directors and Executive VP, Andrew is responsible for Worldwide EHS and Regulatory Affairs activities for 32 manufacturing locations. Andrew has over 30 years of experience in the EHS management field including 16 years in the environmental consulting field, mainly with Radian corporation. Since 1993 Andrew has held a variety of senior management positions for chemical and specialty products companies including Dexter Midland, Great Lakes Chemical, Borden Chemical (now Hexion) and Huber.
Bio: Greg Miller is Senior Manager of Facilities Engineering at bioMerieux, USA in Durham, North Carolina. The company, bioMerieux, is French-owned with approximately 6,000 employees worldwide and with about 500 employees at the Durham site. bioMérieux offers integrated solutions for combating healthcare-associated infections through comprehensive infection control programs in the areas of prevention, surveillance, and intervention. Products of bioMérieux are used for detecting microorganisms in agricultural foodstuffs, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics, and these products are distributed in over 150 countries through 35 subsidiaries and distributors. Many of these products are manufactured at the Durham site. The company is committed to aggressive sustainability objectives, and Greg Miller works to achieve these sustainability objectives at the Durham site in coordination with bioMérieux global staff. 22.
Brock Nicholson Bio: Brock is the Assistant Director of Air Quality for the NCDAQ
Bio: Mr. Palma
has spent the past 11 years as a physical scientist with the United
States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Office of Air Quality
Planning And Standards (OAQPS), Sector Based Assessment Group in
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. His current responsibilities
include playing a key role in many of the agencies current exposure
and risk assessments including the Risk and Technology Review (RTR)
and the National Air Toxic Assessments (NATA). In addition, Ted
is part of the EPA=s air toxic monitoring steering committee that
is overseeing the development of a national ambient air toxic monitoring
network. 24.
Fern Patterson Bio: *Fern Paterson*
is a Title V/NSR Permit Engineer at NC DAQ. She has a Bachelor of
Science in Chemical Engineering from NC State and is a licensed
Professional Engineer in the State of North Carolina. Fern has over
six years of Air Quality experience with NC DAQ and in private consulting.
She currently works specifically with the chemical manufacturing
industry in North Carolina. 25.
Joseph E. Plamondon, Ph.D Bio: Joseph E. Plamondon, Ph.D., is a member of the frim of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. and its consulting affiliates, The Acta Group, L.L.C. (Acta). He is the former Director of Regulatory Affairs for Consortium for Environmental Risk Management, LLC (CERM). Dr. Plamondon has a long and distinguished career, and is well known in the industrial chemical community. As Director of Regulatory Affairs for CERM, Dr. Plamondon was responsible for research and development and new product development activities. He also provided strategic preparation and submission of premanufacture notifications (PMN) designed to avoid Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 5(e) consent orders and other adverse regulations. Prior to joining CERM, Dr. Plamondon was a staff scientist at Keller and Heckman LLP. Dr. Plamondon also brings a wealth of experience from his prior positions with Akzonobel Chemicals, Inc, Technology Sciences Group Inc., and Rohm and Haas Company. Dr. Plamondon holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Loras College, an M.S. in bio-organic chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis. Dr. Plamondon has presented at many conferences and professional meetings, e.g., the American Chemistry Council’s Global Chemical Regulations Conference (Living with TSCA), among others, and has written extensively on chemical regulatory matters. His most recent article, “The DuPont TSCA Enforcement Action: Implications for the Chemical Industry,” was published in Environmental Quality Management.
Bio: Jon Risgaard has been an environmental engineer with the Division of Water Quality for the past 5 years, and is currently heading an effort to expand and modify the State's Administrative Code on reclaimed water systems. Jon received a B.S. and M.S. From the University of Wisconsin Madison, and has 10 years of experience working with water and wastewater issues.
Bio: Gary works with the compliance section of the NCDAQ and has over 20 years of experience.
Bio: Brian R. Sherman works as the Director of Ergonomic Services with The Ergonomics Center of North Carolina (ECNC) / North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He has fourteen years professional working experience applying industrial engineering, human factors engineering and biomechanics concepts including ergonomics program development/application to the workplace. Before joining the ECNC, Brian worked for several large manufacturers including Johnson Controls, Incorporated, Honda of America, Manufacturing, Incorporated and General Motors Corporation. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University in 1992 and a Masters of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering – Human Factors Option from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 1995. Brian holds CPE certification through the Board of Certification in Professional Ergonomics and is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society.
Bio: Nick Spates is Vice President of Modular Process Control, LLC (MPC), an energy management consultancy that works with large energy intensive manufacturing companies. MPC develops a proprietary Energy Management System that assists clients in reducing energy consumption and costs by 10-20 percent while reducing greenhouse gases; without the use of capital. MPC has worked with over 250 clients in multiple site locations over the last 27 years. MPC serves the chemical, petrochemical, paper, steel, metal castings, tires, glass and refining industries to name a few. Mr. Spates has been in the Energy Management Consulting field for the last 15 years. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with a major in Marketing from the University of Florida, earned an MBA from Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Lake Forest, IL and did post graduate work at Oxford University in Oxford, England where he studied International Management. Over his career, Mr. Spates has worked throughout the US and overseas extensively in finding creative solutions to a host of business challenges and market opportunities.
Bio: Mr. Summers has over 18 years of experience in industry in corporate and division-level environmental management, specifically including environmental sustainability services, greenhouse gas inventory and management services, air quality permitting and compliance, wastewater treatment, permitting, and compliance, storm water permitting and compliance, energy audits, and Risk Management Plan and Process Safety Management plan development, auditing, and implementation. Mr. Summers is the URS project lead for the sustainability program management services for several clients, including a large home fashions manufacturer related to sustainability initiatives of large retailers.
Bio: Bill Taylor has nearly 30 years of safety experience. He is a former director of safety and health programs in both industry and municipal government, with diverse safety and health managerial experience, including a concentration in ergonomics. He is the author of Effective Environmental, Health and Safety Management Using the Team Approach (2005, John Wiley & Sons) and has also published award-winning articles on ergonomics and training. For over 18 years with ELB & Associates and its successor companies, Bill assisted a variety of clients in manufacturing, services, construction, and the public sector by conducting simulated OSHA inspections, safety and OSHA compliance training, and developing policies and safety management systems. He has visited a large variety of plants and facilities throughout North America and overseas. He is past-president of the North Carolina Chapter of ASSE, the North Carolina Association of Local Government Employee Safety Officials and the regional safety council. His specialties include safety management systems, OSHA standards training, and audits.
Bio: Mr. Walker
is Manager of Environmental and Engineering Services at EI. With
more than 25 years of professional experience, Mr. Walker is an
effective project manager and versatile technical supervisor. He
serves as the corporate manager of the environmental division of
EI, with personnel in offices in multiple states. The division services
the industrial, utility and banking sectors with expertise in industrial
environmental permitting and compliance, soil and groundwater contamination
assessments and remediation, and environmental and engineering due
diligence for property transactions. Mr. Walker’s client and
project management experience involves all facets of industrial
and hazardous waste remediation and management with particular emphasis
on industrial wastewater treatment and groundwater remediation and
permitting, including negotiations with state and local officials.
Specific areas of competence include industrial waste water evaluation,
characterization, reuse, treatment design, and permitting; groundwater
treatment; leachate treatment; stormwater permitting and management;
potable water treatment; underground storage tank (UST) management
and remediation; regulatory compliance at the local, state and federal
levels; facility siting and design; spill prevention, control and
countermeasures (SPCC) plan development; Process Safety Management
(PSM); environmental audits and assessments; and hazardous materials
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| For Additional Information Contact: Jim Kuszaj at jim@mcicnc.org or 919-834-9459 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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and Chemical Industry Council of North Carolina (MCIC) Telephone:
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