James (Jim) Burgess

Experience

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  Sage ATC

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  Geosciences Business Unit Leader
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  AGS

  Jan 1989 - Jan 1990

  Geologist

  Field Manager for environemental subsurface exploration assessment projects.

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  Applied Earth Sciences, Inc.

  Jan 1990 - Jan 1994

  Project Manager - Environmental Geologist

  Managed projects for environmental site assessments, abatement, and remedial activities. Independently originated, designed and directed an innovative mobile groundwater-sampling-and-treatment unit which saved time, labor, storage and disposal costs. Directed contractors for excavations/tank removals, remedial system installations and disposal operations. Tracked numerous project budgets and controlled budgets within submittal and fiscal constraints. Reviewed and submitted invoices. Authored and submitted many reports and conducted peer reviews. Provided business development and managed trade show booth. Interfaced directly with the TNRCC and the EPA. Main clients were three major oil companies and one major chemical manufacturer. Show less

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  Safety-Kleen

  Jan 1994 - Jan 1999

  Project Manager - Environmental Geologist

  Allocated and managed project resources through task delegation to project team members. Saved millions of dollars through innovative approaches to environmental liabilities, and additional savings through efficiencies. Supervised contractors, and directed project-team members. Authored many reports, conducted peer reviews, and submitted reports for groundwater monitoring, NAPL recovery, assessment, closure and tank-removals. Developed invoices through budget compilation and tracking. Conducted marketing with proposal and scope-of-work preparation. RCRA, UST, Railroad Commission and haz-waste industrial operations. Main clients were a major railroad, in-house waste facilities, and industrial corporations. Show less

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  My 1 Earth

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2007

  Senior Manager

  Consulted professional environmental services to consulting companies, major oil companies, a major hazardous waste company, a bank, a major railroad and a major pipeline company. Managed technical accounts for remedial and compliance projects. Contributed first remediation expertise for consulting offices, mentored Hydrogeologists, Engineers and Technicians. Created office growth by expansion of existing projects and by winning bids on new projects. Progressed sites toward conditions for closure in accordance with risk directives. Main environmental consulting companies were: Sound Environmental Strategies, EarthSense Americas, IEA, Inc., Cameron Cole, LLC, and Saftey-Kleen; Most projects conducted under OSHA, TRRP, RCRA, UST, MTCA and TRRC regulations. Show less

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  TRC Companies, Inc.

  Jan 2007 - Jan 2008

  Sr. Project manager

  Successfully completed projects for a petroleum terminal, a former tar plant, a metal forge company, and a municipal utility. Created and implemented an innovative exit strategy for an environmentally-impacted facility. Successfully conducted and completed another environmental cleanup that had been booked as a liability for several years. Directed Professional Geoscientist for these projects under Texas TRRP regulations.

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  Antea Group

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2011

  Branch Manager/ Sr. Project Manager

  Maintained responsibility for administration of Houston area office operations including: performance evaluation and calibration of staff; communication of management directives to staff; organizing and conducting meetings for management, clients, and staff; enforcement of company policy and training requirements; tracking profitability of project managers; marketing and business development. Coordinated integration of multi-office projects. Maintained project/portfolio performance targets, manage multiple Project Managers, and provided peer review. Managed and coached effective project teams, enforced management systems. Promoted staff development, conducted technical presentations. Accountable for on-boarding of contractors including qualification review and contract negotiations. As Sr. Project Manager, managed portfolio of Shell USA petroleum pipelines, terminals and a former refinery projects, generating sales through add on/follow on work. Administered complex and high risk projects tracking cost-to-closure and annual budgets. Directed project programs under TRRP, RRC, and RCRA regulations in Texas as the managing Professional Geologist for these and Underground Storage Tank projects (also projects in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and Tennessee). Expanded project load by serving as EHS first-responder Site Manager for Emergency Response to a pipeline release in Indiana and one in Illinois. Improved client relationships acting as rotating site-operations EHS supervisor for BP Pipeline/RM at high-profile pipeline-gasoline-release site in a residential neighborhood that impacted two water-main pipes and other utilities. Successfully mitigated issues with USEPA, City, State, neighbors, and all utilities. Show less

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  RB Environmental, LLC

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2013

  Principal Manager

  Principal Manager for remediation and compliance projects; groundwater, waste and soil. Projects include direction of a refinery’s sampling program with 332 monitor wells; a RCRA-facility groundwater sampling program; refinery outfall sampling, compliance activities for a haz- and non-haz-waste landfarm; geotechnical drilling programs; facility assessment investigations; operation and maintenance of a 36-well total-fluids-with-LNAPL recovery system; PG for PRACR of a former chemical plant under VCP; evaluation of enhancements for a operable unit under a CERCLA Superfund Site. Show less

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  Sage ATC

  Jan 2013 - now

  Geosciences Business Unit Leader

  Guiding the direction of Geoscience projects and personnel to grow business sector through a broad spectrum of clients including chemical plants and refineries. Acting PG on many challenging projects. An example project involved assessment and remediation of a methanol release to the ground. Jim determined that the remaining contaminant was adsorbed in a manmade liner media surrounding the process area and storage tanks. Excavation would have been extremely costly because of where it was, would have likely resulted in shutting down the facility processes, and may have undermined the integrity of the process structures. He negotiated with TCEQ noting that the liner is part of the containment system for the tanks and process area, was man-made and therefore not environmental media. This argument allowed the contaminated media to be controlled under OSHA administrative controls instead of being excavated, which providing a remarkable cost savings to the client. Jim is currently working with ATC Group Services LLC (ATC) for integration of Sage Geosciences within ATC. Show less