PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

President

Environmental engineering and programming which has included design, construction and operation of air pollution, waste water, solid and hazardous waste treatment facilities and projects ($100,000 - $21,000,000), legislative and regulatory assessment for compliance with federal and state programs under the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, Toxic Substance Control Act, and the Comprehensive Response and Liability Act (Superfund/SARA).

Environmental Health, Health Physics and Industrial Hygiene programs which included managing research budgets, directed the design and implementation of employee health and safety programs, supervising litigation and acting as liaison between the firm and various government agencies, environmental groups and trade associations.

President & CEO - AG Environmental Services Inc. December 1991- Present

Serves as Chief Executive Officer for the company and is responsible for business development, sales, operations and engineering. Serves as project manager for engineering and certain geotechnical assessments.

• Manager, Environmental Projects, including Development of Environmental Impact Study, PSD Permits, PSD modeling of stationary and fugitive sources, and all other Environmental Facility Permits for a $380 Million EAF steel mill project in. Iowa.

• Manager, Environmental Projects, including Development of Environmental Impact Study, PSD Permits, PSD modeling of stationary and fugitive sources, and all other Environmental Facility Permits for a $400 Million EAF steel mill project in Alabama.

• Environmental Permits, including Air Permits, and all other Environmental Facility Permits for an $80 Million Tube mill project in Arkansas.

• Environmental Permits and USCOE site permitting for an EAF Steel Plant location in Texas.

• Environmental Permits and PSD/Title V site permitting for an EAF Steel Plant location in Louisiana.

• Title V Air permitting for various manufacturing facilities in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Iowa and Alabama.

• Review of HAP emissions and control technologies for a new EAF Melt Shop in Illinois.

• Development of Specific License application and training programs for Byproduct Source use at steel plants under NRC and Agreement state formats.

• Develop fugitive emission control programs for construction and Title V permit compliance and various operating facilities.

• Development and design of production supply water well fields in deep bedrock aquifers.

• Supervise radioactive contamination assessments and develop decontamination programs and treatment system designs.

• Project Manager for the long range groundwater management plan, Finger Lakes area landfill.

• Project Manager for the design, installation and operation of the landfill gas recovery systems at the Capuano Landfill, Cranston, Rhode Island.

• Project Manager for the subsurface investigation of petroleum contamination of fractured bedrock at a Saranac Lake, NY, site.

• Project Manager for design and permitting of an MSW/ Recycling Transfer Station expansion in Newfield, NY

President & COO - American Environmental Services Co., Inc. April 1988 - December 1991

Served as Chief Operating Officer for the company and was responsible for business development, sales, operations and engineering during the period. The company had a maximum of 25 employees during this period. Served as project manager for engineering and certain geotechnical assessment projects. The company provided specialty engineering, property assessments, remediation, emergency response and treatment services throughout the eastern U.S. and maritime Canada.

• Development of Environmental Impact Study and Facility Permits for $260 million steel mill project for Sydney Steel Company, Sydney, NS.

• Design and construction management of monofill landfill for EAF dust in Sydney, Nova Scotia.

• Project Manager for subsurface oil contamination at D. C. Cook Nuclear Plant, Bridgman, MI.

• Supervision of over 200 soil gas assessments and remediation design for VOC contamination using in situ technology for contaminated soil and groundwater.

• Design and installation of above ground and underground tank installations for chemicals and fuel products.

• Direct supervision of over 50 major industrial property assessments as part of real estate purchase.

• Approval of all technical and engineering services proposals for the company.

Manager Engineering and Planning - Haniel Environmental Services, Inc. &

BVER Environmental, Inc. February 1986 - March 1988

BVER was founded in 1980 and in 1985 became a wholly owned subsidiary of a German company, Haniel Umweltschutz, GmbH. The firm had a maximum employment of 150 employees at two principal locations. The firm’s primary products were mobile treatment of waste water (on site volume reduction and stabilization, management of sludges and slurries), an analytical services laboratory, and a remediation and response division that was subsequently awarded a regional ERCS (Emergency Removal and Clean-up Service) contract from the USEPA.

• Development and submission of the technical program that USEPA approved for ERCS contracting.

• Development of the project control, costing and procurement programs that were approved by USEPA as satisfactory for federal contracting.

• All project design and development approvals for mobile treatment and chemical remediation bids and proposals, nationwide.

• Business development planning and sales support for technical projects.

• Design and implementation of surface impoundment closures, facilities/process closures, emergency response, groundwater remediation, underground tank removals, and contracts design, construction and operation of waste water treatment facilities.

Group Manger of Environmental Control - Babcock & Wilcox, Tubular Products Group (TPG)

November 1979 - January 1986

Environmental engineering, compliance and operations at 5 plants in Pennsylvania, 1 plant in Indiana, 2 plants in Ohio, 1 plant in Wisconsin, 1 plant in Texas and 2 plants in Virginia. Operations at these plants included primary steel making in electric arc furnaces through finishing of carbon, alloy and stainless steel products.

Responsibility included emergency spill response and clean-up, environmental engineering, design of air pollution control, water/waster water, solid and hazardous waste systems, public, regulatory and government relations/compliance and health and safety programs.

Project Accomplishments:

• Supervised 3 major (more than 15,000 gallons) oil spill clean-ups and 25 minor oil spill clean-ups.

• Directed PCB clean-ups involving over 1250 cubic yards of soil and 2000 tons of steel.

• Supervised CERCLA clean-ups on site and off site.

• Design and implementation of 15 Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Plans.

• Developed programs and systems for first specific license to operate radioactive sources in a steel casting shop. First such license program approved by NRC.

• Supervised start-up and compliance of $21 million worth of waste water treatment facilities. System flows ranged from a low of 125 gpm to 125,000 gpm.

• Designed and implemented the first full scale operations for recovery of EAF emission control dust, a listed hazardous waste.

• Developed and supervised an on site chemical laboratory conforming to USEPA procedures and approvals for wastewater analysis.

• Developed, implemented and supervised programs for compliance with OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, Lead and Asbestos standards.

• NRC approved Radiation Safety Officer for handling of radiation sources under specific NRC license.

Plant Environmental Engineer: - United States Steel Corporation

February 1977 - November 1979

Responsible for design, coordination and installation of air pollution control, noise control, waste and water/waste water projects for 3 plants engaged in primary steel making through steel finishing of sheet products. Wastewater treatment systems included pumping stations, solids classification/clarification, sludge thickening, sludge dewatering, pressure filtration, cooling towers and return pumps and piping. Responsible for the revision and implementation of the spill prevention control and countermeasure plans including oil storage and treatment tanks and systems ranging from 250 to 300,000 gallons.

B.S. Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1976

USAF Survival Specialist and Instructor School, 1970

University of Pittsburgh, Mechanical Engineering, 1967 - 1969

Registered Profession Engineer (P.E.) - Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and States of New York, South Carolina, Iowa, Alabama and

West Virginia.

Registered Profession Engineer (P.Eng.) - Province of Nova Scotia, Canada.

Certified Hazard Control Manager - Master Level, International Board of Hazard (CHCM) Control Management.

Certified Hazardous Materials Manager - Master Level, National Board of Hazard Control (CHMM) Management.

Member American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) 1981 - 1986

AISI Committee Chairman:

Technical Committee on Environmental Quality Control 1982 - 1984

Subcommittee on Electric Arc Furnace Air Pollution 1980 - 1986

AISI Committee Member:

Executive Committee on the Environment 1982 - 1986

Technical Committee on Environmental Quality Control 1980 - 1986

Subcommittee on RCRA 1982 - 1986

Subcommittee on Ambient Air Quality 1982 - 1986

Subcommittee on Pretreatment Standards 1982 - 1986

National Association of Professional Engineers 1984 - present

Manufactures Association of the Tri-County (MATCO) Chairman:

Environmental Affairs Committee 1981 - 1986

Western Pennsylvania Citizen’s Roundtable on Hazardous Waste

Co-Chairman 1982 - 1986

Pennsylvania Chamber of Commerce

Select Committee on "Right to Know" Legislation 1983 - 1986

Pennsylvania Steel Industry Environmental Committee 1980 - 1986

Ohio Steel Industry Environmental Committee 1984 - 1986

Hazardous Waste Treatment Council 1984 - present

4th Annual EPA/AISI Symposium on Iron &

Steel Pollution Abatement (1983) General Chairman

National Groundwater Association 1991 - present

Association of Iron & Steel Engineers 1984 - present

Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers 1984 - present