Summary of Qualifications

British Petroleum/Atlantic Richfield

Director, External Relations, Health, Safety, Environment, North America

Los Angeles, California

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  Reporting to Bob Malone, Western Regional President on matters dealing with health, safety, environmental and security issues, as well as sustainable development.
  
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  Responsible for managing relationships of Non-Government Organizations (NGO’s), by ensuring dialogue channels remain open to discuss philosophical differences, as well as opportunities for pro-active environmental partnerships.
  
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  Matrix responsibility for EHS Groups across the nation in both upstream and downstream operations. EHS groups reported directly to their respective business units.
  

Los Angeles, California

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  Reporting to Byron Grote, facilitated a smooth and efficient integration/transition with BP (British Petroleum) preceding and following the acquisition.
  

Los Angeles, California

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  Managed the Corporation’s EH&S policies, activities, position and programs.
  
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  Managed Policy Assurance & Environmental Audits, Toxicology, Waste Water & Species, Air/Emissions, Bio-Technical Services, Waste Procurement Services, Corporate Safety and Aviation Services.
  

Los Angeles, California

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  Responsible for coordination of Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety policy and the implementation of the Safety and Quality Management Program, Operating Excellence System (OES).
  

Washington, D.C.

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  Assigned as a lobbyist, reporting to Robert Healy, to assist in the management of government and statewide relationships to ensure outcomes of legislative and regulatory activities were favorable to the company.
  

Los Angeles, California

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  Reporting to the President of ARCO Marine, Hersh Kohut managing three groups within the ARCO Marine division: Environmental, Health and Safety; Emergency Response; and the Safety/Quality Management and Audit Systems. Effectively coordinated activities and audits while promoting teamwork with positive safety and quality management outcomes.
  

Los Angeles, California

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  Responsible for the implementation of Emergency Response programs for the Products Company.
  
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  Influenced other parts of the Atlantic Richfield Company to effectively utilize the company resources in the area of Emergency Response.
  

Long Beach, California

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  Responsible for developing positions for ARCO Marine in relationship to Legislative and Regulatory issues.
  
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  Coordinated positions with the Washington D.C. government affairs staff and lobbyists to influence marine legislation.
  
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  Incident Commander for the ARCO Marine Oil Spill/Emergency Response team. Responsible for the recruitment, training and drilling of the employee staffed and contracted team of 100 people.
  

Anchorage, Alaska

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  Responsible for the Environmental, Health and Safety audit protocols and assessment of the EH&S aspects of the 800 mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline system operations in Alaska. Audit Training and Audit certification issued by Arthur D. Little in Boston, Massachusetts.
  

Long Beach, California

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  Supervised engineering operations of 10 company oil tankers. Ensured safe, efficient and reliable conditions were maintained on vessels, while adhering to regulations and industry standards.
  
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  Developed budgets for voyage related repairs and projects (in 1992= $3.5MM). Conducted studies/investigations into improving vessel performance.
  

Presentations/Public Appearances/Publications

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  ARCO and Emergency Response, Port Angeles Rotary Club, Port Angeles, Washington, April 1997. Speech given to the local rotary club to dedicate the shoreline signage donated by Atlantic Richfield Company.
  
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  California Maritime Academy Exposure, Greater Los Angeles High School counselors, ARCO Corporate Headquarters, Los Angeles, June 1992. Part of a series of lectures and speeches to Greater Los Angeles High School and Junior College counselors and teachers. Program was initiated by me and sponsored by ARCO to expose more students in the inner city of greater Los Angeles to the Maritime industry.
  
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  ARCO representative, Oil Spill Response Limited Board of Directors, Southampton, U.K., January 1994 to September 1999. Served as ARCO company representative on the Board of Directors of the worldwide oil spill response entity, as either the primary or alternate delegate.
  
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  Pollution Prevention in the Puget Sound, Washington State Science Teachers Association, Port Angeles, Washington, March 1997. ARCO representative at the Washington State Science teacher’s annual function. Lecture given on the pollution prevention programs at ARCO Marine and also on the crude oil refining process.
  
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  Guest Lecturer at the Harvard Business School MBA program on the topic of “Corporate and Social Responsibility” and “Sustainable Development in countries with oil-rich assets”.
  
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  Oil Spill Management. Marine Digest. Seattle, Washington, - April 1997. Authored article debating the issue of approaches in the science of Oil Spill/Emergency response management.
  
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  Dominaide First Math and Dominaide First Math Plus – June 2006. Co-Authored early childhood education program for assisting pre-school children in gaining a better understanding regarding the abstract and concrete concepts of numeracy/literacy at an early age.
  

Professional Affiliations

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  Chairman, External Advisory Board, California State University, California Maritime Academy
  
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  Member, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, National
  
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  Member, Los Angeles Chapter of Black Professional Engineers and Scientists, Los Angeles
  
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  Member, Society of Port Engineers, Los Angeles/Long Beach Chapter
  
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  Member, Board of Directors, Long Beach Boys & Girls Club,
  
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  Executive Director, Board of Directors, Dominaide First Math Plus
  
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  Member, Board of Directors, International City Theatre, Long Beach
  

Honors and Awards

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  ARCO Transportation Company Presidents Award, Marine Division, Long Beach, California, February 1990.
  

Honored for participation and involvement with High School youth and their counselors in the inner city of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas. Promoted corporate diversity awareness in the neighborhoods and areas in which we were allowed to work, whereby, as a company increased engineering and scientific exposure to youths in the Los Angeles community.

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  Trans-Alaska Pipeline System Audit Award, ARCO Transportation Alaska, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska, September 1994.
  

Recognized for participation in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System audit during the 1993-1994 time period.

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  Presidents Award, ARCO Products Company, February 1998.
  

Honored for involvement and participation with the Boys and Girls Club of Long Beach while serving as the ARCO representative on the Board of Directors.

Major Accomplishments

Increased corporate visibility in the Energy/Marine Transportation industry by developing an operating company image that strengthened public relations efforts.

Demonstrated sound business judgements; decisiveness; and well developed planning, analytical, and communication skills at a consistently high level of performance in a variety of progressively responsible and challenging assignments.

Participated as a member of the Steering Committee assisting ARCO Marine in achieving Safety/Quality Management Systems (ISO9000) audit certification.
Created the forward-looking plans for Dominaide First Math Plus as a global educational resource for early childhood education.

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