Expertise

Agrochemicals

• Endangered species environmental risk assessments.
• Technical oversight for conducting tests to obtain agrochemical registrations.
• Regulatory scientist and manager with 23 years of experience agrochemicals and agricultural chemical registrations.
• World-wide regulatory experience for agricultural chemicals.
• Broad-based academic training in natural products, analytical chemistry and applied microbiology and higher plant taxonomy.
• Authoring and presenting regulatory rebuttals, position papers and environmental risk assessments.
• Broad-based industrial experience in designing, conducting and monitoring plant and animal metabolism studies.
• Environmental fate studies, both laboratory and field scale, and flow-through fish bio-accumulation studies.
• Experienced in both ground and surface water monitoring studies; field and aquatic dissipation studies.
• Proficient in environmental computer modeling programs such as: SCI-GROW, GENEEC, PRZM/EXAMS, EPISuite Estimation Methods and PBT profiler.
• Use of microbial synthesis as an alternative to conventional chemical synthesis.
• Expert witness on regulatory and environmental issues related to agricultural chemicals.

Industrial Chemicals

• REACH environmental risk assessments (REACH - Regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals).
• Environmental risk assessments including: Persistent / Bioaccumulative / Toxic (PBT Studies); very resistant and very bioaccumulative (vBvP) studies; and persistent organic pollutants (POP) assessments.
• Aquatic ecotoxicology testing.
• International Uniform Chemical Information Database (IUCLID 5) training.
• Expert witness on environmental risk assessment of chemicals.

Experience

Chemtura, (formally Crompton, Uniroyal Chemical), 1996 - 2008

• Manager of Environmental Fate, Registration Chemistry and Toxicology and Environmental Risk Assessment.

Springborn Laboratories, Inc., 1992 - 1996

• Manager of Environmental Fate and Metabolism Programs

FMC Corporation, 1987 - 1992

• Senior Research Chemist
• Manager of Metabolism and Environmental Fate, Agricultural Chemicals Group

Mobay Corporation, 1985 - 1987

• Senior Chemist, Agricultural Chemicals Group

University of Texas, 1982 - 1985

• Postdoctoral Fellow, Applied Microbiology

Honors & Publications

Publications

• Over 20 publications.

Education

• Ph.D. Natural Products Chemistry, University of Maryland
• B.S., Pharmacy, University of Maryland