Leadership Management specialist with a track record of shaping the future of environmental, health and safety policy and business plans for Fortune 50 General Motors. Skilled in implementing effective P&L strategies, administering clean-ups, compliance, efficiency programs and creating "defect-free" compliance environments. Experience extends into decontamination, remediation, real estate development, plant demolition and brownfield construction projects.

• Chaired work team that wrote the GM Environmental Principles – see http://www.gm.com/ company/gmability/environment/gm_and_the_env/principles/principles.html

• Planned and implemented the re-organization of the Environmental Services Group in GM North America. This activity now a benchmark to Ford and Toyota

• In 1994, Implemented the GM Chemical Management Program that Saved $80 million in one year in GM/Delphi plants

• Authored the first "White Paper" in SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) History—to eliminate mercury from all automobiles/trucks

MBA, University of Detroit, 1992; B.S., Biology/Chemistry, University of Tampa, 1976; CHMM Master Certification, 1995;

Leadership/Creation of General Motors Environmental Principles. Served as Chairman of the "Environmental Policy Committee" that wrote the environmental principles that are the foundation of GM corporate policy today worldwide.

Cost Effective Regulatory Compliance. Manager of work team that assisted in the reorganization of environmental personnel in GM North America. Created and implemented processes to ensure environmentally compliant GM manufacturing plants. Efforts contributed to GM becoming profitable again in North America.

Proactive Planning and Execution. Lead group that performed a form of "hospice" to closed manufacturing plants. My team planned, managed and performed the final management activities to insure proper plant decommissioning. These tasks include working with hostile neighborhoods, workforce and management in a positive, considerate partnership. Revised decommissioning projects such that GM gains revenue, and changed the way business is done in the demolition industry.

Program Manager, Programs & Services, General Motors Worldwide Facilities Group (WFG), 2001 to Present. Provide integrated planning, project management and communications between GM divisions & staffs to the WFG Strategic Business Unit. Develop communicate WFG programs with corporate staff, divisions and manufacturing plant executive personnel. Represent WFG as a "lone voice" in planning, budget and operations issues.

Regional Manager, Plant Decommissioning Activity/Site Manager, GM WFG, 1997 to Present. Managed up to 12 Site Managers and over 500 project-determined (contract/hourly/salary) personnel in the plant decommissioning activity; controlled 12 million square feet of manufacturing space and appropriations of $98 million dollars. Decommissioned sites included large manufacturing complexes (such as Buick City in Flint, MI) to warehouses and were located throughout the United States.

Manager, Environmental Engineering, GM North American Operations, 1993 to 1997. Controlled a $16.5 million budget and supervised up to 18 full-time GM/Contract engineers. Lead a reorganized, common lean support function of all GM/Delphi facilities in the U.S. Launched as a special assignment an Intranet website (developed and input the first toxics emission report on the GM.com web site).

Superintendent of Environmental Management, GM North American Truck Division, 1992 to 1993. Proactive environmental compliance and permitting programs for twelve assembly plants and two metal fabrication plants.

Senior Staff Environmental Engineer, GM Truck & Bus Division, 1985 to 1992. Developed regulatory compliance programs for several manufacturing plants. Managed the division’s pollution prevention program and several cleanup projects for shutdown facilities, Superfund.

Environmental Auditor/Project Engineer, Environmental Activities Staff, 1979 to 1985. Performed periodic regulatory and engineering compliance evaluations at GM plants.

Process Engineer/Foreman, GM Fisher Body Division, 1976 to 1979. Supervisor of wastewater treatment plant.