LB&B Associates
July 2009 - Present
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Washington, DC
Deputy Project Manager & Safety Manager
Deputy Project Manager and Safety Manager for building management contractor at Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) headquarters. Responsible for maintenance operations, call center operations, customer service, and safety for maintenance and custodial employees. Responsible for interacting with customer safety and security personnel.
LB&B Associates
June 2006 – July 2009
National Archives & Records Administration
Washington, DC
Safety & Quality Control Manager
Safety & Quality Control Manager for building management contractor at National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) providing all services to maintain very narrow temperature and humidity controls to 9 billion pages of historical documents including Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights (Charters of Freedom). Also had shared responsibility with NARA staff for security and fire safety for entire building including vaults for Charters of Freedom and classified SCIF vaults holding sensitive Congressional and Presidential documents. Interacted with public at National Archives which receives over 5 million visitors each year and coordinated in-house construction activities for new exhibits in museum.
Associated General Contractors (AGC)
January 2003 – July 2005
Alexandria, VA
Associate Director, Safety & Health Services
Chief liaison between AGC and OSHA. Primary responsibilities included checking Federal Register daily for notices of proposed rulemaking and preparing written comments on rulemaking to OSHA; translating OSHA safety and health regulations into easily understood language for AGC members; preparing electronic monthly safety newsletter with database management of over 1,300 subscribers; prepared articles for other AGC publications; provided information to reporters on AGC's position on safety and health issues; coordinated AGC Annual and Mid-Year Conventions, Safety and Health Workshops including Construction Safety Excellence Awards (CSEA), regulatory updates on silica and hexavalent chromium, and make presentations to AGC Municipal & Utilities and Federal & Heavy Divisions members on OSHA and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rulemaking.
Served as AGC staff contact to OSHA Crane & Derrick Advisory Committee (C-DAC) Negotiated Rulemaking over one year period attempting to reach regulatory consensus on diverse issues representing all aspects of crane industry; served as AGC staff contact for OSHA Advisory Committee on Construction Safety & Health (ACCSH), OSHA Federal Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety & Health (FACOSH), OSHA National Advisory Committee on Ergonomics (NACE), and American National Standards Institute (ANSI A-10 & A-14). Also served as AGC Administrator for OSHA Challenge Pilot Program guiding contractors through safety and health program improvement process to qualify for Voluntary Protection Program (VPP); coordinating over 30 OSHA Strategic Partnerships between AGC Chapters and OSHA Area and Regional Offices which included gathering partnership Injury and Illness data statistics representing over 150 contractors, 18,000 employees, 30 million work hours with a combined Lost Time Rate of 1.1 (half National average) and Recordable Injury Rate of 4.3 (one-third less than National average); and prepared application and obtained signed agreement as first construction trade association with U.S. Department of Labor Partnerships for Compliance Assistance Program (PCAP) which assists small employers in complying with human resources and employment requirements such as Davis-Bacon Wages and workers' compensation. Also coordinated partnership between AGC and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reproduce Safety & Health Requirements Engineering Manual 385-1-1 and improve relationship between USACE Headquarters and AGC Federal & Heavy Division on safety and health issues.
West Virginia University
August 2002 – December 2002
Morgantown, WV
Graduate Student (Full Time)
Full time Masters student in Safety Management. Completed thirteen credits during first semester towards 36 credits required for graduation. Received 4.00 of 4.00 GPA for courses including Safety Management Integration, Control of Environmental & Personal Hazards, Safety Legislation & Compliance, and Fire Safety Management. Completed 25 of 36 credits with a GPA of 3.88. Expected completion date of July 2014.
U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion & Preventive Medicine (CHPPM)
September 2000 – September 2002
Fort Meade, MD
Industrial Hygienist
Perform inspections and desktop consultations for building indoor air quality and firing range issues. Perform health, sanitation, food service and nutrition inspections at child development centers (CDC) as part of unannounced comprehensive inspection team from Defense Logistics Agency and Army Materiel Command. Review engineering designs and blueprints for new construction and renovations of existing buildings. Employment through Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) using interagency agreement between U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and USACHPPM-North. Funding ended due to Army realignment proposal by Army Secretary White.
Edenspace Systems Corporation
July 1999 – September 2000
Sterling, VA
Manager, Field Operations
Responsible for field installation of all phytoremediation projects to decontaminate soils using plants to hyperaccumulate metals and radionuclides. Responsibilities included soil sampling to determine extent of contamination, installation of automated irrigation systems, applying fertilizer amendments, crop planting, crop monitoring, and biomass sampling and harvesting. Phytoremediation projects included lead, arsenic and radionuclide (depleted uranium) contaminated soils. Clients included government bases (Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Fort Dix, and Fort Meade), private industries and public utilities.
ICF Kaiser Engineering
June 1998 – July 1999
Hollywood, MD
Health, Safety & Quality Control Shift Supervisor
Responsible for health, safety and quality control for processing contaminated soils at Superfund site using continuous and batch thermal desorption under U.S. Army Corps of Engineers TERC funding. Duties included ensuring proper personal protective equipment (PPE) was selected and worn by shift workers including respiratory, hearing, head, eye and face protection. Also responsible for monitoring workers during cleaning and repair work in confined spaces, investigating work place accidents, and performing daily safety briefings prior to shift start. Performed hazardous air quality monitoring using flame ionization and photoionization detectors (FID/PID). Performed worker heat stress evaluations and ensured workers properly decontaminated clothing, hands and feet before leaving "hot zone.
Johnson Controls
January 1997 – June 1998
IBM, East Fishkill, NY
Regional Safety Specialist
Responsible for safety of 450 Johnson Controls, Inc. (...
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