Petroleum Biomediation and Environmental Safety Expert

Technical Consultant #2185

Ppetroleum refining, synthetic fuels research, oil spill response, and environmental technology.
Biomediation technology: Soil and field testing.

Expert Witness Experience

Served as expert witness in a wrongful death suit brought against a major corporation.
Environmental auditor for litigation.

Undisclosed Company, Present

Senior Technical Advisor

Developed and field tested soil bioremediation technology.
Demonstrated and commercially designed a reactive barrier technology for groundwater treatment.
Provided consulting worldwide for a major petroleum refiner on site characterization and remediation issues.
Served as Beach clean-up advisor for Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
Wrote a major refiner's protocol for groundwater remediation by natural attenuation.
Audited former Canadian refinery sites in support of environmental litigation.
Generated attorney work product during Natural Resource Damage Assessment following Arthur Kill oil spill .
Served as project manager for Prall's Island Bioremediation Project.
Developed and implemented Exxon's corporate response to SARA 313 legislation (Community Right-To-Know).
Acted as a technical consultant for wet gas scrubbing technology.
Developed Exxon's ERE-100 corrosion inhibitor for gas treating units.
Established statistical approach to analyzing monitoring well data for Benicia refinery.
Performed root cause analysis of worldwide safety and environmental incidents.
Coordinated Exxon's DOE founder Coal Liquefaction Large Pilot Plant Test Program.
Led the Longer-Range Coal Liquefaction research group.
Conducted process optimization studies making use of a linear program model.

Credentials

Publications

Author of Instructional Text for Protocols in groundwater remediation by natural attenuation.