Professional services profile

                    

            Anthony Mitchell

 

                     anthony_mitchell [at] yahoo.com

 

                       

 

Managing facility siting, utility and environmental engineering projects since 1987.

 

Climate change:            Climate change audits and impact calculation.

Climate change mitigation plan development.

Carbon sequestration plan development, implementation oversight and monitoring.

 

Safety and health:          Workplace safety audits and risk reduction planning.

Occupational safety and health auditing and planning.

Compliance assessment and compliance assistance.

Pollution prevention planning and implementation.

Development and implementation of hazard communication programs. 

                                                Tuberculosis (white plague) education and Directly Observed Treatment Short Course (DOTs) program assistance.

 

Facility siting:                Facility siting and design.

 

Siting and design assistance for facilities to generate electricity or manage waste.  

Coordinates the development of siting criteria and training of government officials,

industry representatives and other members of the private sector.

 

Management of environmental impact assessments (EIAs) for large facility

siting projects and environmental impact reviews (EIRs) for small or midsize projects.

 

Negotiation, auditing, and implementation assistance for host community benefit

programs and community good neighbor agreements. Advisement on public service and social responsibility issues.

 

Capacity assurance planning to determine market needs for new environmental and utility projects.   

Calculation of demand for capacity needs for new facilities.   

 

Disaster planning and auditing, including an analysis of:

riverine floods, coastal floods, seismic events, air quality standards exceedances, and catastrophic events.  

 

Environmental auditing for property transfers, financing, valuation and underwriting.

 

Waste Management      Development and upgrading of plans and procedures for managing waste at industrial and

commercial facilities (waste generators), design of collection and storage arrangements,

assistance in selecting transportation, treatment and disposal options.  

 

Performance auditing of waste management facilities on behalf of customers

seeking to minimize liabilities.

 

Sample collection and the selection of analysis methods.

 

Source reduction and recycling audits. 

Preparation of pollution prevention plans. 

Pollution prevention audits.

 

Training in waste management operations, safety procedures and hazard communication. 

 

Utility management:       Feasibility studies for potential investors in new utilities projects.

                                    Capitalization planning.

Utility franchise planning.

Development of conservation incentives to reduce costs.

RFQ/RFP development and bid process management.

Development and analysis of utility rate structures.

Rate system development and negotiation.

Contract negotiation and implementation assistance.

Assistance with utility rate disputes.  

Development and implementation of collateral strategies for dispute resolution.

 

Government clients

Berks County Commissioners, PA

Berks County Solid Waste Authority, PA

Camden City, NJ

CETESB, Companhia de Tecnologia de Saneamento Ambiental, São Paulo BR

Florence Township, NJ

Government of Nepal (Arun III dam)

Indonesian Army

Indonesia’s leading hazardous waste disposal corporation

Kathmandu Municipal Corporation, Nepal

Lanchester Township, PA

Malaysia’s National Security Council

Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Pennsylvania Department of Health

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Pennsylvania State Police

Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA)

Philippine government

Pottstown Township, PA

Pollution Control Board of Tamil Nadu, India

Pollution Control Board of West Bengal, India

Resolution Trust Corporation, Virginia and West Virginia

Singapore Government

State of New Jersey

State of New York

Taiwan legislature

Thailand’s leading environmental research center

United States – Asia Environmental Partnership (USAEP)

United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA)

United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)

 

Private sector clients

Autodesk OEM, Kolkata India

Brakes India, a subsidiary of TVS, Tamil Nadu, India

Carbon sequestration and forestry managers in India, Zimbabwe, Sarawak Malaysia and the USA.

Chemical company in northern New Jersey that manufactured dioxin-based biocides

Ecuadorian oil pipeline project promoter

Eastern Mills, India

FIESP, Federacao das Industrias do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil

GIS firm in Sarawak, Malaysia

Henderson Nevada electrical utility

Isla Margarita’s water utility, Venezuela, for the recapitalization of a dam and utility system

Korean landfill operator, Pusan

New York City’s largest hazardous and nuclear waste collection facility

New York City solid waste collection companies (2)

Petroleum refinery relocation promoters, India

Private citizen groups in New Jersey and Pennsylvania concerned about

hazardous waste facility siting and reducing impacts from ongoing operations

Reliance Group, India

SIV Ltd., India

Sterling Group, India

 

Additional experience

 

Asia Television Limited (亞洲電視有限公司) formerly Rediffusion (麗的映聲)

Coal India Limited, Kolkata

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, JV (Haskins and Sells, India)

Gilgel Gibe III dam, Ethiopia, technical feasibility study

New Jersey Hazardous Waste Facilities Siting Commission

New Jersey Pollution Prevention Office

New Jersey’s radioactive waste facility siting project

NJIT hazardous waste land emplacement facility design project (EPA funded)

Pakistan’s PSEB

Royal Gurkhas

Tata Risk Management, JV

United States Army bio/chem weapons development center, Dugway UT

 

 

Education and Country Experience

 

Education:             Rutgers University MA in Public Policy (hazardous waste facility siting).

Rutgers University, B.A. in Labor Studies.

Rutgers University, Certificate in Journalism.

King George V School and Kowloon Junior School, Hong Kong.

 

Training:                Continuing education courses in soil engineering, landfill design and recycling program management,  

University of Wisconsin, College of Engineering.

40-hour health and safety training for hazardous materials incident response operations, Halliburton-NUS.

Hazmat transportation, University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey (UMDNJ).

ARC-Info GIS system training, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Special Weapons Training Center (SWTC) Fort Bliss, Texas, USA.

 

Languages:           English and Spanish.  Author of a leet primer, explaining the slang of computer hackers.

Studying Hindi, Urdu and Gulf Arabic. 

Author of a primer on business rhetoric.

 

Experience:            Brazil, Canada, Egypt, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands,

Pakistan, U.S.A., Venezuela and the Yemen.