EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

EXPERTISE

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATIONS & AFFILIATIONS

EDUCATION

REPRESENTATIVE PROJECT EXPERIENCE

• Principal-In-Charge for a major RI/FS at an electronics manufacturing facility in California's "Silicon Valley". The site was on the NPL and regulated under CERCLA by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). The scope of work included investigations, quarterly groundwater monitoring, risk assessment, hydrogeologic modeling, closure activities, interim remedial measures, agency negotiations, community meetings, coordination with PRPs at adjacent sites, and final remedial action planning. Developed an innovative project management teaming approach by assigning the entire project team to the client's facility for the duration of the project to fully integrate with the client's personnel and objectives.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge and Project Manager for a $250K Underground Storage Tank Site Closure project for a major truck rental facility in Los Angels. The scope of work includes strategic planning, research on regional conditions, subsurface investigations of soil and groundwater, negotiations with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), and remediation planning.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge for a $500K to $1MM annual environmental assessment contract for a major national financial investment company. The scope of work included conducting numerous environmental assessments of property throughout the U.S. to apprise the Investment Company and its counsel of potential contamination from previous site activities. These assessments generally involved comprehensive research and review of site history and aerial photography; site reconnaissance, asbestos surveys, and subsurface sampling and analysis.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge and Project Manager for a RI/FS at a State Superfund Site in Salinas, California. The site owner ran a scrap metal recycling and salvage yard and leased the property from a major railroad company. Site contamination included polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), lead, copper, and zinc. The scope of work included investigations and remedial action planning, negotiations with the California Department of Health Services (now DTSC) and California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), public hearings, negotiations among PRP's, and depositions at arbitration hearings.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge for a 3-million-dollar remedial investigation (RI) program for the California Department of Health Services (now DTSC). Directed investigations of seven State Superfund Sites throughout Northern California that were contaminated with various chlorinated solvents.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge for a 1.4-million-dollar E.P.A. Superfund remedial investigation and feasibility study (RI/FS) for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Fort Ord in Monterey, CA. The project involved the investigation of ground water at a former landfill contaminated with chlorinated solvents.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge for a 2-million-dollar, three-year environmental compliance program for the former American Forest Products Company. The project covered five facilities, three of which were on the California State Superfund list due to pentachlorophenol and dioxin contamination, and called for site investigation, remedial action planning, groundwater monitoring, and development of facility-specific hazardous waste management plans. As a result of the successful design and implementation of the remedial measures by Mr. Klimberg, two of the Superfund facilities were among the first such sites delisted by the Department of Health Services (now DTSC).
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge and Project Manager for a one-million dollar asbestos abatement and seismic upgrade of a five-story building in Oakland, CA. The scope of this project included conducting inspections, testing building materials, designing asbestos abatement measures (which included systematically removing floor tiles, ceiling materials, and acoustical sprayed on materials while tenants remained in the building), conducting air monitoring and surveillance, providing construction management and industrial hygiene services, evaluating the building's structural performance after the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake, and designing seismic upgrades for the building.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge and Project Manager for RI/FS at an abandoned railroad switch yard in San Francisco which was contaminated with lead, arsenic, polynuclear aromatic (PNAs), petroleum hydrocarbons, and a variety of volatile and semi-volatile priority pollutants. The scope of work included: investigation of soil, sediments, and groundwater; risk assessment; remedial action planning; and agency negotiation.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge for a $300K environmental assessment of mercury contamination at a major County Park in the foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains. The site was formerly the location of mining operations, which were one of the largest producers of mercury in North America. The scope of work included investigating: (i) the extent of total and organic mercury species contained in surficial soils, (ii) mercury vapor concentrations venting from retort mine vents and variably distributed sediment of the mining operation, (iii) mercury contained in airborne dust, (iv) mercury content of vegetation; (v) mercury concentration in surface water.
  
  
• Principal-In-Charge and Project Manager for a groundwater and air monitoring program for two municipal landfills in Kings County, California. The program, conducted in accordance with the "Calderon Bill," included design and installation of air and groundwater monitoring wells, collection of air, soil and groundwater samples for physical testing and chemical analysis, evaluation of groundwater contamination and air quality, and preparation of Solid Waste Assessment Reports to the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and Air Pollution Control District.
  
  
• Principal Investigator for a site contamination investigation and remedial action design of a site in California's "Silicon Valley" which was contaminated with organic solvents. The project included the design of an innovative scheme for removing contaminated soils adjacent to a highly sensitive "chip" manufacturing facility while protecting the foundation support for the building.
  
  
• Project Manger for a site investigation at an abandoned leather tanning facility in San Francisco contaminated with heavy metals. The scope of work included research on historic operations, audits of abandoned facilities, identification of hazardous materials, and assessment of site contamination.
  
  
• Project Manager for an abandoned Johns-Manville site contaminated with asbestos containing materials. The scope of work included research of historical site operations, assessment of the extent of asbestos containing materials, and design of a major remediation program which involved the excavation, transportation, and disposal of asbestos containing materials.
  
  

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE