Vincent Jude Tomaino, P.E.
9505 Bells Valley Drive – Raleigh, North Carolina 27617
919-676-9794
Objective
A position as a Civil / Environmental Engineer.
- Professional Engineer with 14 years experience in air quality and water supply engineering.
- Experienced in Program Development and Project Management.
- Outstanding communication skills, able to deal with clients, regulators and public.
Environmental Engineer II, NCDENR, Division of Environmental Health, Public Water Supply Section, Technical Services Branch, 2000 – Present.
- Environmental Review – Developed environmental review program to end USEPA restrictions on issuing new loans. Won USEPA approval for revised procedures to harmonize reviews under federal and state regulations (NEPA and SEPA). Negotiated “standard blanket comments” with Federal agencies. Wrote standard operating procedures for staff.
- DBE - Developed the Disadvantaged Business Enterprise / Affirmative Action (DBE/AA) program. Trained engineers to perform DBE reviews. Wrote contract specifications to ease burden on owners and contractors while ensuring compliance with evolving state and federal mandates. Oversee ongoing program.
- Outreach - Write and publish a series of factsheets and policy documents to provide guidance to applicants and engineers. Give presentations at conferences.
- Guide applicants through funding process. Coordinate project financing with other funding agencies. Review payment requests.
- Review Plans and Specifications for compliance with requirements that protect public health. Inspect funded projects to ensure compliance with requirements that protect public funds.
Environmental Engineer I, NCDENR, Division of Air Quality, 1996 – 2000.
- Technology/Productivity - Wrote and maintained software that drafted air quality permits. Initiated (1996 to 1999) Air Quality Permits Branch webpage, enabling electronic distribution of documents.
- Policy Development – Performed technical and “what-if” analyses for policies such as regulation of condensable oils as VOCs.
- Performed technical analysis of Air Quality Permit Applications:
+ estimated emissions,
+ determined applicability and likely performance of proposed control equipment,
+ determined regulatory applicability, and
+ wrote air quality permits.
- Performed facility inspections.
- Reviewed emission inventories.
Project Director, earlier Assistant Project Manager, Entropy, Inc., 1992 – 1996.
- Project Management - Single point of contact for petroleum and chemical industry clients. Cultivated Master Service Agreements. Oversaw all phases of emissions testing projects from initial contact to follow-up of deliverables. Established safety requirements.
- Engineering & Technical - Developed profitable Air Dispersion Modeling Program. Conducted Emission Inventories. Primary contact for unusual or technically demanding testing (e.g. exotic pollutants / hazardous locations).
- Communication - Wrote testing protocols. Supervised report writing.
Research/Teaching Assistant, The Pennsylvania State University, 1989 – 1991.
- Instrumentation - Modified total sulfur FPD (Flame Photometric Detector) to measure sub-ppb levels of sulfate aerosol.
- Ambient Air Monitoring - Determined diurnal trends in atmospheric sulfur burden. Correlated sulfate aerosol levels with measurements of other pollutants. Operated Meteorological Monitoring Site.
- Teaching and Presentation - Taught meteorology lab course for non-majors.
Systems Administrator, earlier Marketing Intern, Mastech Systems Corporation, 1988 – 1989.
- Technology/Productivity - Installed and operated 11-PC network under BTOS.
- Marketing - Performed market intelligence; made initial client contacts.
Warehouseman, Gordon Terminal Service Company, 1985 - 1987
- Production Line - Transferred, blended and packaged petroleum products in containers ranging in size from quarts to railroad tankers.
Graduate Studies in Civil and Environmental Engineering, NCSU, 1995 - 2005
MS Meteorology, The Pennsylvania State University, 1991
Graduate Studies in Physical Oceanography and Meteorology, NCSU, 1988 - 1989
BS Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, 1988, National Merit Scholar
Registered Professional Engineer in North Carolina and Pennsylvania