ALAN GOELTZ
TIM JAREMA
BRIAN FINCH
THOMAS PETER
LEO DiFONZO
THOMAS LICKER
JOHN E. O’KREPKY, PE
MICHAEL DAKAK
CHARLES DEVICH
GORDON GRAHAM
JOHN LEWIS
GARY LEWIS
ROBERT McNAMARA
BILL BLAKE
STEPHEN POWELL |
BRIAN FINCH
Certified Hazardous Materials Manager
Manager, Environmental Division
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science, Biology, University of South Carolina
Master of Science, Environmental Engineering, Kennedy Western University
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
Brian Finch has over 17 years of professional experience that includes the investigation and remediation of many industrial sites involving hazardous materials and waste. Responsible for managing and supervising site assessment and remediation activities for ISRA clearance, RCRA, DOD and EPA corrective action and underground storage tank closure projects.
Additional project management responsibilities include developing compliance and/or project clean up costs, reviewing, interpreting and summarizing laboratory and field analytical results and site findings for technical report development, interacting with agency case managers, attorneys and clients regarding the management and progress of assigned projects. Also responsible for conducting environmental audits in accordance with ASTM standards, supervising monitoring well installations, soil boring activities, cause-and-origin investigations and evaluation of pesticide mis-applications.
- Perform RCRA hazardous waste and TSCA classifications and remediations
- Project Manager and Environmental Scientist for numerous BUST, ISRA,
- TSCA, RCRA and NJDEP sampling plans, remediation investigations and clean-ups
- Perform audits of disposal facilities
- Oversee RCRA hazardous, universal and listed material and waste storage programs
- Conduct Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments for real estate evaluation risk assessments and property transfers
- Direct and supervise many site investigations and/or remediations involving hazardous contaminants, such as petroleum, chlorinated solvents, heavy metals, pesticides and PCB contamination of soil and groundwater at sites in NJ, NY, PA, CT, MD, VA, IN, IL
- Responsible for project planning, cost estimation, scheduling, budgeting and supervision of field operations for subsurface investigations and site remediation at industrial, commercial, government and residential facilities
- Provide consultation to insurance carriers for coverage evaluation and determination and oversight of environmental consultants and contractors with regard to satisfying environmental claims
- Provide project planning, cost estimation and supervision for biological remediation
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
2001 to PresentInsurance Restoration Specialists, Inc.
1998 to 2001US Army-TECOM Vinnell Services
1995 to 1997Preferred Tank Services
1989 to 1995Insurance Restoration Specialists, Inc.
1987 to 1989Monmouth County Regional Health Commission
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS
- Institute of Hazardous Materials Management, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager
- NJDEP Certified Supervisor for the closure of underground storage tank systems and subsurface evaluation
- Certified Mold Remediation Technician (2001)
- NJDOH Registered Environmental Health Specialist, First Grade, B-1701
- Member, American Indoor air Quality Council (IAQ)
- Certified Microbial Remediation Supervisor (IAQ)
SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATION
- Operations and Safety for Hazardous Materials Site Activities (40 hours
- OSHA training) (USEPA Training Facility, November, 1988)
- Rutgers Environment & Public Health Course (August 1989)
- ILFC Small Tank Environmental Protection Systems (August 1990)
- Government Institutes – Federally Regulated Underground Storage Tanks (June 1991)
- The Princeton Course: Groundwater Pollution and Hydrology (July, 1991)
- Supervisor’s and Manager’s Health and Safety Training Course for Hazardous Waste Operations (OSHA 8 hour training) (August, 1991)
- Fuel Merchants Association of New Jersey; Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) Seminar (April, 1993)
- National Safety Council Lead Abatement Guidelines (March 1994)
- AIHA Elemental Industrial Hygiene (August 1994)
- Regulation amendments to the technical requirements for site remediation (April 1997)
- Peter Consigli, CR and MacGregor Pearce, MPH; Advanced Seminar for Water Claims (October, 1999)
- US Army Hazardous Waste Management (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
- US Army Hazardous Materials Transportation (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001)
- OSHA Final Rule Confined Space Training Lion Technology – Advanced Hazardous Waste Management (2005)
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