REGULATORY SYSTEMS
Obligations, permits & reporting
Building and maintaining frameworks to identify applicable requirements, assign ownership, manage deadlines, document evidence, and prepare required environmental filings.
Career & education
Experience across systems, facilities, and responsibilities.
More than a decade of environmental compliance and management experience, built on graduate education in environmental science and earlier work in emergency communications.
2021–PRESENT
Environmental Engineer · Kordsa, Inc.
Support environmental compliance, environmental management systems, regulatory permitting, and continuous improvement across industrial manufacturing operations in Tennessee and North Carolina. The work spans air quality, water and wastewater, stormwater, waste management, reporting, agency coordination, and environmental risk evaluation.
2016–2021
Corporate environmental · Mohawk Industries
Supported corporate environmental programs across approximately 65–70 manufacturing facilities. Publicly documented project experience includes coordinating multi-site ISO 14001 certification activities, supporting certification maintenance and expansion, and work on the transition to ISO 14001:2015.
2006–2016
911 emergency communications
Ten years of dispatch and emergency communications, emphasizing public safety, coordination, and sound decisions under pressure.
Selected capabilities
Connecting regulatory requirements to daily operations.
My work combines practical site-level implementation with the systems needed to sustain compliance across departments and facilities.
MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Audits & corrective actions
Supporting ISO 14001 environmental management programs, inspections, internal audits, root-cause analysis, action tracking, and effectiveness verification.
OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENT
Resource efficiency & risk
Evaluating water use, wastewater, material streams, energy demand, operational controls, and environmental risk in collaboration with manufacturing teams.
Program experience
Industrial environmental disciplines
My experience includes Clean Air Act permitting and emissions considerations; NPDES and industrial pretreatment programs; stormwater and spill prevention; hazardous and universal waste management; EPCRA chemical inventory and TRI reporting; regulatory change screening; and legacy-site monitoring and corrective-action programs.
My approach is to translate legal and permit requirements into clear operational responsibilities, reliable documentation, and defensible follow-through—while looking for opportunities to reduce resource consumption and avoid unnecessary cost.
These descriptions summarize my professional experience. They are not a disclosure of employer-specific compliance status, facility performance, confidential financial results, or proprietary procedures.
Program portfolio
Environmental compliance across interconnected regulatory programs.
My work involves coordinating technical requirements, operating practices, reporting, and follow-through across multiple manufacturing facilities.
AIR & WATER
Permits, monitoring & reporting
Air-permit obligations and emissions tracking; NPDES discharge, industrial pretreatment, stormwater, spill prevention, and associated monitoring and recordkeeping.
MATERIALS & CHEMICALS
Waste, inventory & chemical compliance
Hazardous and universal waste programs, waste shipment documentation, chemical inventories, EPCRA Tier II and TRI reporting, and TSCA reporting and import/export considerations.
TRANSPORT & EQUIPMENT
Specialized obligations
Hazardous-materials transportation documentation, regulated equipment inspections, maintenance-related environmental controls, and associated compliance schedules.
SYSTEMS & ASSURANCE
Environmental management systems
ISO 14001 audit coordination, management review, inspection tracking, incident documentation, corrective and preventive actions, and evidence of effectiveness.
REGULATORY INTELLIGENCE
Applicability & change management
Screening federal and state regulatory developments, interpreting applicability, maintaining obligation inventories, and turning requirements into assigned operational tasks.
SUSTAINABILITY & DATA
Performance, reporting & improvement
Water, waste, energy, greenhouse-gas and resource-performance data; sustainability reporting support; and identifying operational efficiency opportunities.
This is a general description of program experience, not a claim of sole ownership of every company-wide program or an account of a specific facility's compliance status.
Research & professional development
Academic research and environmental management systems.
Connecting graduate research and continuing education with practical, multi-site environmental work.
GRADUATE RESEARCH · 2014
American chestnut, phosphite and ectomycorrhizae
My University of Tennessee at Chattanooga master’s thesis examined how phosphite concentrations influence growth, survival, and ectomycorrhizal formation in American chestnut seedlings inoculated with Pisolithus tinctorius.
MOHAWK INDUSTRIES · 2016–2021
Multi-site ISO 14001 certifications
My publicly listed project work includes coordinating cross-functional teams, supporting certification maintenance and expansion, and leading transition work toward the ISO 14001:2015 standard across multiple manufacturing facilities.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Selected courses and credentials
Communication and Interpersonal Skills for Technical Professionals — American Management Association (2019).
Asbestos Safety for the Competent Person — eTraining, Inc. (2018).
These are professional training credentials, not a PE license or professional engineering certification.
Academic foundation
Education
2014
M.S. Environmental Science
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2009
B.S. Biology
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
2005
A.S.
Chattanooga State Community College
How I approach environmental management
I see compliance as more than a checklist. Effective programs connect regulatory requirements to actual operations, assign clear responsibilities, maintain usable records, and make improvement part of routine decision-making.
My work has included identifying cost reductions and operational improvements alongside environmental compliance priorities. Across my manufacturing career, I have identified approximately $2.7 million in cumulative savings, based on my own project tracking.
This site describes my professional experience and interests; it does not offer professional engineering services or represent an engineering license.