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Key People Edward Barnes |
At Avatar, we understand that our people are our most important asset. We have created an atmosphere that encourages innovation, fosters a variety of opinion, and demands ethical and honest behavior. Avatar is employee-owned, which gives everyone both a stake in our success and a responsibility to contribute to the overall well being of the company. The following brief professional profiles describe our key people.
Edward Barnes, CIH, PE Mr. Barnes has 40 years work experience in the environmental engineering and the occupational/community health industries; the past 20 years in consulting and the previous 20 years as a United States Air Force Bioenvironmental Engineering officer. He has worked across a broad spectrum of programs including: industrial hygiene, occupational health compliance, Title I and Title II engineering services, risk assessment, natural/cultural resources, air quality, hazardous materials/waste, pesticides, PCBs, asbestos, water quality, radiation protection, noise/vibration, and environmental management systems. He is a registered professional engineer, a diplomat on the American Board of Industrial Hygiene for 24 years, certified as a lead auditor of Environmental Management Systems, and a former Adjunct Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Mr. Barnes has provided consulting services throughout the United States, the Pacific Rim, Australia, and Europe.
Charles Dobroski Mr. Dobroski has over 30 years of experience in environmental compliance (water, soil) and environmental impact assessment, including extensive experience in managing environmental assessments, natural and cultural resource programs, baseline surveys, field sampling, risk assessments, wildlife studies, and ecological programs. He has directed and/or managed numerous risk assessments for hazardous waste sites for both CERCLA and RCRA projects, focusing on both human health and ecological aspects of the process. He has a strong NEPA background and has managed numerous field investigations in support of risk assessments and ecological evaluations. His ecological background and expertise in aquatic toxicology provide the basis for developing and managing aquatic and terrestrial sampling programs to effectively evaluate impacts of industrial activities to these environments. In addition, Mr. Dobroski provides a breadth of experience in supporting negotiations and resolution of technical issues within the regulatory arena.
James Walsh Mr. Walsh has been involved in the environmental industry for more than 29 years. He has broad experience in environmental compliance issues, and has directed and/or managed numerous environmental assessments for hazardous waste sites for Federal clients under both CERCLA and RCRA, including BRAC sites, munitions-contaminated sites, and FUD sites. These projects have typically included compliance, human health and ecological risk assessment, as well as risk communication strategies and associated public information and participation efforts. Additionally, he has used risk assessment methodologies for research institutions that have resulted in significant savings to industry, while maintaining strict environmental compliance. Mr. Walsh is experienced with NEPA regulations, occupational safety and health, and air quality compliance issues with a focus on air toxics.
Tod DeLong Mr. DeLong has over 24 years of experience in a wide array of environmental areas including ecological risk assessments, environmental assessments, contaminant impact assessments, 5-year reviews, forestry, long-term biological monitoring, wildlife evaluations, statistical analysis, and experimental design. He has been the technical manager for numerous risk assessments for hazardous waste sites for both CERCLA and RCRA projects, with a focus on the ecological aspects of the risk assessment process and managed numerous field investigations, toxicity assessments, and bioaccumulation studies in support of the ecological risk assessment process. Mr. DeLong has a strong statistical background and is experienced in performing probabilistic risk assessments for both ecological and human health risk assessments. He is also experienced in the environmental assessment (EA) process and with multiple regulatory frameworks and with regulators in most EPA regions and many states.
Lee dePersia, PE Mr. dePersia has over 28 years experience performing all types of environmental assessments, hazardous waste site investigations, remedial designs and remedial actions for federal, state, and commercial clients. He has managed small and large multitask projects and multidisciplinary teams on all types of CERCLA and RCRA projects. He is an active member of the Air National Guard and has served tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mr. dePersia is a registered professional engineer.
Deborah Jones Ms. Jones has 26 years of experience in environmental consulting, primarily in the areas of environmental assessments, environmental compliance and remedial investigation. Her skills include developing work plans and other project planning documents; evaluating and interpreting soil and groundwater geochemical data to assess extent of contamination; analyses of remedial alternatives; project management; and organizing and coordinating subcontractors and team members for large complex projects, meeting budget and schedule. She has completed many complex projects for federal clients such as EPA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and Federal Communications Commission.
Florence Sevold Ms. Sevold has 20 years of experience in the risk assessment field. She has performed many human health and ecological risk assessments for CERCLA and RCRA, including hazardous waste incinerator sites. As part of the risk assessment process, she has derived reference doses, reference toxicity values for mammalian and avian receptors, and human health criteria for short-term occupational exposures to inhalation toxicants. Ms. Sevold also has experience in technical review; material safety data sheet (MSDS) preparation and review; toxicological profile development; and database management.
Timothy Woods Mr. Woods has over 12 years experience managing and performing human health risk assessments at a variety of hazardous waste sites under both CERCLA and RCRA, as well as experience performing risk assessments for a number of state agencies. He has also managed large field and data management tasks. Mr. Woods also has experience using geographic information systems (GIS) and its application and implementation in the risk assessment process. In addition, he is experienced in the development and administration of computer networks and virtual private networks.
Kristina Early Ms. Early has over 11 years of experience conducting CERCLA and RCRA human health and ecological baseline and screening level risk assessments. She has experience with various statistical programs and probabilistic risk software, such as ProUCL, SPSS, and @Risk. Additionally, she has experience in utilizing EPA’s IEUBK and Adult Lead Model to evaluate lead risks and their implications in human health risk assessments. Ms. Early also is trained and experienced with Spatial Analysis and Decision Assistance SADA software (SADA). Her experience also includes field sample management, as well as management, analysis, and interpretation of large databases for various environmental media.
Sean Hettinger Mr. Hettinger has experience with preparing reports, data tables, and performing quality assurance checks. He has an asbestos air sampling technician certification and has experience with field work including water, air, and soil sampling.
Kathy Campbell Ms. Campbell has 17 years of technical expertise in hazardous waste site assessments using the U.S. EPA Hazard Ranking System. She also has experience with site reconnaissance and information collection, preparation and implementation of health and safety plans and field sampling plans, including environmental media sampling of groundwater, surface water, sediment, soil, and waste sources, and interpretation of media sampling analytical results for presentation in technical reports, primarily HRS evaluations.
Kimberly Randolph Ms. Randolph has provided consultation and technical assistance on Chemical, Biological, and Radiological hazards to several clients as well as maintaining Homeland Defense assets for Air Force installations. She has conducted IH investigations and developed recommendations to mitigate impacts on human health. She is experienced in communicating complicated technical findings and reports to various individuals in the chain of command throughout DoD, as well as to workers to improve their understanding of hazards in the workplace.
Tara Speck Ms. Speck has 1 year experience at Avatar assisting with human health and ecological risk assessments as well as field work experience collecting soil, groundwater, and biological samples. Some of her previous experience includes industrial hygiene sampling in the workplace as well as environmental conservation and management. Specifically, watershed education instruction, stormwater management, tree restoration and health, invasive plant and deer studies, and climate change studies. Ms. Speck is HAZWOPER certified and has received RCRA/DOT training.
John Williams Mr Williams has over 30 years of experience in environmental geophysics (i.e., projects related to Industrial and EPA REAC hazardous waste, and Federal HTRW contracts) and MEC geophysics under the Army Military Munitions Response Program (MMRP). His skills include geological and geophysical experience in both the technical and project management roles to provide high quality and cost effective geophysical surveys for munitions response sites. He has managed numerous geophysical investigations at HTRW and ordnance response sites, overseeing geophysical mapping, detection and discrimination for buried military munitions. He is extensively involved in the data analysis, quality control, report preparation, and review.
Cynthia Woods Ms. Woods has 19 years of experience in the risk assessment field. She has extensive experience preparing human health risk assessments and risk-based preliminary remediation goals for hazardous wastes sites including superfund sites, military bases, and commercial sites both under EPA Superfund guidance and under state environmental programs. As part of the risk assessment process, she has experience in all human health risk assessment tasks including assessment of site contaminants, toxicological evaluations, calculation of doses and risks, use of the EPA’s IEUBK and Adult Lead Model to evaluate lead risks and their implications in human health risk assessments and the Johnson and Ettinger model and EPA’s vapor intrusion guidance to evaluate potential indoor air risks from contaminants in groundwater and soil gas. Ms Woods also has experience in the preparation of 5-year reviews, remedial investigation work plans, record of decision documents, and proposed response action plans and communicating risk assessment results/issues to the public. She also has 8 years experience in medical research as a laboratory technician, performing experiments involving a variety of techniques including electron microscopy, histopathology, animal surgery, animal behavior, microbiology techniques, viral studies, and LD50 studies.
John Cassels Mr. Cassels has over 22 years of experience in environmental compliance, environmental assessments, with experience in all aspects of environmental investigations from project planning/design to field surveys, wetlands assessments, data collection, management and presentation, technical report writing, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and application development, geointegration, database analysis and cartographic presentation. Mr. Cassels’ strong ecological foundation, along with an appetite for ever-expanding technologies allows him to provide effective spatial information management resources to risk assessors and technically-oriented clients, including sophisticated spatial analysis tools, real-time data acquisition, database design, automation, and access, as well as the highest quality cartographic presentation available.
Joseph Loeper Dr. Loeper has more than 31 years of general experience with analytical chemistry. The last twenty-two years were involved with environmental consulting, providing data validation and Quality Assurance (QA) oversight for numerous projects and managerial/technical support for fixed laboratory and field analytical events.. His experience includes the technical management of chemists performing validation of organic and inorganic data for a variety of projects, coordination and oversight of laboratory support for non-routine analysis, development of QAPP's, and responsibility for laboratory audits and laboratory approval processes. Dr. Loeper has provided Quality Assurance oversight for numerous projects and managerial/technical support for fixed laboratory and field analytical events. Specific program experience includes RCRA, DOE, CERCLA, and numerous state environmental agencies.
OUR ASSOCIATES In addition to full-time and part-time staff, Avatar has brought together a group of highly skilled, senior-level individuals, who bring significant additional capability to our company. These individuals do most of their work outside of Avatar, but welcome the opportunity to work together as Avatar Associates, when needed. They all have long working relationships with Avatar members and are used to performing assignments as a seamless project team. These individuals greatly expand our ability to meet our clients’ needs.
Joseph Germano Dr. Germano has more than 30 years of varied experience in domestic and international marine environmental programs. His technical expertise is in the areas of benthic ecology, organism-sediment relationships, ecological risk assessment, and environmental impact assessment of ocean disposal. His project experience includes environmental baseline, impact, and site designation studies for diverse open-water dredged-material disposal projects and sediment quality surveys in a number of estuaries. Dr. Germano also has broad expertise in diverse aspects of marine biology and ecology, oceanographic sampling, sampling design and statistics, data analysis, and program management for offshore, estuarine, and coastal environmental impact analysis, monitoring, and research.
Lori A. Gray, CIH Lori Gray has over sixteen years of experience in recognizing, evaluating and controlling employees’ exposures to health hazards at their workplace. Ms. Gray has a broad background in managing and evaluating high-risk occupational health programs for the Air Force. Her skills are most evident in the areas of personnel monitoring and implementation of compliance based regulatory programs. Ms. Gray is Board Certified in the comprehensive practice of Industrial Hygiene.
Gary Lage, DABT Dr. Lage has more than three decades of experience in toxicology, both in its academic development as a scientific discipline and in consulting activities in risk assessment for industry and government. He is founding Principal of ToxiLogics, Inc., a firm that incorporates current toxicology of chemicals and modern risk assessment into scientific decisions. Dr. Lage is a recognized expert in the field of toxicology and risk assessment and holds numerous professional memberships and advisory positions. He has experience developing innovative solutions to environmental problems through the use of risk assessment and is widely recognized for communicating complex issues of toxicology and risk assessment to nonscientific audiences.
Laurence C. Smith, CIH, CSP Mr. Smith has over 28 years experience developing, auditing and managing occupational safety and industrial hygiene programs in the federal government and private industry. Industries in which Mr. Smith has experience include shipyards, aircraft manufacturing and maintenance, refineries, water and waste water treatment, vaccine manufacturing, and construction and HAZWOPER projects. Mr. Smith provided litigation support related to the World Trade Center collapse, and developed and managed project teams of health and safety professionals in Brazil, Mexico and Canada.
Scott Smith, PE Mr. Smith has 12 years of environmental engineering experience, conducting more than 150 environmental site assessments, soil and groundwater investigations, and remediation projects. These projects required knowledge of federal programs such as CERCLA, as well as state and local environmental regulations. During these projects, Mr. Smith served as project manager, cost estimator for remedial alternatives, and field lead. Mr. Smith’s remediation experience focused on quick response to environmental challenges discovered during site development, innovative environmental solutions for redevelopment of brownfields, and negotiations with regulatory agencies.
Michael T. Werner, Esq. Mr. Werner has over 25 years of experience in the environmental field. He has directed and/or managed numerous environmental impact assessments for major projects around the globe. His strong NEPA background includes developing compliance documents for complex and controversial projects, including field trials of genetically engineered agricultural products, international agricultural pest management programs, new Federal facility construction, power plant development, hazardous waste disposal, and dredge material management programs. Integrating his legal and ecology training and experience, he has provided litigation support and negotiated innovative solutions to complex projects involving multiple agencies, stakeholders, and non-governmental organizations.
Henry C. Woodcock, CIH Mr. Woodcock has over 30 years experience in managing industrial hygiene programs at Air Force installations, including two Air Logistics Centers, and in providing health and safety services for a range of clients. He has managed projects that have involved hands-on monitoring and exposure evaluations and complex engineering analyses. Mr. Woodcock is Board Certified in the comprehensive practice of Industrial Hygiene and a Diplomate of the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene.
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