Partnership 2000

Speaker Biographies

Sharon Anderson: Ms. Anderson is the manager for the Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) Support Services Branch. She has worked for the Board for 16 years in several Permitting and Enforcement Division programs, including the LEA Evaluation Program, Board as Enforcement Agency Section, and the Headquarters Section of the Enforcement Branch. Ms. Anderson has also been a State inspector and worked as a professional in the petroleum industry for five years.

James Baker: Mr. Baker is a patrol sergeant with the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office and is currently assigned to the Eden Township Substation. He is a squad leader for the Special Response Unit (SRU), which performs SWAT related functions within Alameda County. Mr. Baker teaches tactical communication skills to new police officers in the Sheriff’s Police Academy and to experienced officers during their Continual Professional Training courses. In addition to law enforcement personnel, he has taught thousands of others including teachers, nurses, police related civilian personnel and volunteers, as well as, personnel from the Alameda County Department of Environmental Health.

Mark de Bie: Mr. de Bie is currently the manager of the Permitting and Inspections Branch. He came to the Board eleven years ago after leaving a position with the Stanislaus County Department of Environmental Resources. He has been a field inspector and a supervisor for various sections including Inspections, CEQA, and LEA training.

Don Dier: Mr. Dier has been with the Board since 1983, working in a variety of programs, including waste-to-energy, solid waste permitting and inspections, waste tires and the development of the Board’s landfill operator/inspector certification program. Prior to joining the Board he worked at: the Department of General Services designing and building energy projects at state facilities; the California Energy Commission developing cogeneration policy and projects; and the Air Resources Board controlling stationary sources of air pollution.

Bob Halstead: Mr. Halstead is a nationally recognized expert on energy and environmental policy, specializing in impact assessment of large-scale energy facilities and energy transportation systems. He has 23 years of experience with nuclear power and nuclear waste issues. Since 1988, Mr. Halstead has been Transportation Advisor to the State of Nevada Agency for Nuclear Projects. His primary responsibility is assessment of the impacts and risks of transporting spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive wastes to the proposed Yucca Mountain repository site. His duties include analyzing the transportation impacts of congressional hazardous materials and nuclear waste legislation. His most recent work for the State of Nevada includes a study of the vulnerability of nuclear waste shipments to sabotage and terrorist attack, an assessment of the radiological consequences of severe highway and rail accidents, and an assessment of potential radiation exposures from routine (incident-free) transportation of spent fuel and high-level nuclear waste.

Tom Hanley: Mr. Hanley came to California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health to enforce the Cal/OSHA Program in 1975 and was promoted to District Manager in 1989 where he managed the Oakland District Office for over four years. From 1994 through 2001, as regional manager, from his office in Anaheim, California he managed a staff of 75 and was responsible for Cal/OSHA enforcement operations from Long Beach to the Mexican Border. Tom is now the regional manager of the High Hazard Region Unit, which is responsible for the targeted enforcement of high hazard industries statewide. Tom Hanley has a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Berkeley and a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State University. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Robert Holmes: Mr. Holmes is the Regulations and Legislation Coordinator for the Permitting and Enforcement Division. He has been with the Board for 11 years in various capacities, including acting as the enforcement agency in jurisdictions where the Board is the enforcement agency. Prior to coming to the Board he worked for the Orange County Health Care Agency as a hazardous waste specialist.

Mark Leary: Mr. Leary is the Executive Director of the CIWMB. Prior to becoming the Executive Director, Mr. Leary was the Deputy Director of the Special Waste Division of CIWMB where he managed the Board’s market development and local assistance efforts for waste tires, used oil, and household hazardous wastes. Before joining the Board in September 1999, Mark managed the Browning-Ferris Industries’ (BFI) government affairs program in the western United States and Canada.

Howard Levenson: Dr. Levenson is the Supervisor for the Organic Materials Management Section at the CIWMB. He served as Advisor to Board Member Paul Relis from 1991 through 1998. Prior to that, he was a senior associate in the Oceans and Environment Program of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), a non-partisan analytical support agency of the U.S. Congress. He has worked on a range of environmental issues, including marine pollution and municipal and industrial solid waste management. He was the primary author of OTA’s 1989 assessment, “Facing America’s Trash: What Next for Municipal Solid Waste?”

Paul Manasjan, M.S., R.E.H.S.: Mr. Manasjan has over 16 years experience in the field of public health, ten years of which are in solid waste management and fours years as program manager for the City of San Diego LEA.

Laura Niles: Ms. Niles has been with the Board's Permitting and Inspection Branch since 1994, inspecting and permitting landfills throughout the State. Laura also assists with the SWANA Manager of Landfill Operations Program and is a SWANA certified landfill inspector. Prior to her currently she spent 4 years with the Board’s State Recycling Program. Laura attended CSU Sacramento and received a B.A. in geography with an emphasis in physical geography and planning. Before her Board position she was a flight engineer with the USAF on C-141B aircraft and holds two A.A. degrees with the Community College of the Air Force for both aircraft maintenance and flight engineering.

Diane Nordstrom: Ms. Nordstrom has been with the California Integrated Waste Management Board since August 2001 in various programs such as landfill closure, site remediation under the 2136 program, and waste tire management. Prior to that she worked at Cal Trans in the Engineering Services Branch in District 4. Ms. Nordstrom currently manages the Board’s Local Government Waste Tire Cleanup Grant Program, which provides funding to local agencies for the clean-up, transport and disposal of waste tire piles in California. Ms. Nordstrom has a Bachelor of Arts degree in geology from CSU. Sacramento.

Julie Nauman: Ms. Nauman is currently Acting Chief Deputy Director and was the Deputy Director of the Permitting and Enforcement Division four years prior at CIWMB. She is the former Chief Deputy Director of the California Department of Housing and Community Development. She has an extensive background in land use planning and policy.

Bill Prinz: Mr. Prinz is an Environmental Health Specialist employed with the City of San Diego Planning and Review Department, LEA Program, Permitting and Enforcement. He previously worked with the County of Riverside Department of Environmental Health conducting investigations within a wide variety of environmental health programs.

Dianne Range: Ms. Range has been with the Board since 1991, working in the Diversion, Planning and Local Assistance Division. First, in the Office of Local Assistance, assisting jurisdictions in implementing diversion programs, and then with the Waste Analysis Branch’s Disposal Reporting Section, working with cities and counties on various elements of the Disposal Reporting System, including issues surrounding alternative daily cover.

Carla Repucci: Ms. Repucci is the new program manager for the Board’s Farm and Ranch Grant Program. Prior to her current position, she spent 10 years with the Board’s Used Oil Recycling Program where she was a grant manager for the rural counties. She has a B.S. in Environmental Science from California State University, Sacramento.

Allison Reynolds: Ms. Reynolds is the Regulations Facilitator for the construction and demolition and inert debris tiered regulations with the Permitting and Enforcement Division. She has been with the Board for 12 years in various capacities, mostly in the Permitting and Enforcement Division, including stints in Markets and Diversion Planning and Local Assistance. Prior to working on this regulations package, Allison facilitated the transfer/processing and ash handling regulations.

Greg Schirle, R.E.H.S: Mr. Schirle has over 14 years experience as an Environmental Health Specialist employed with the County of San Mateo, and nine years with the Local Enforcement Agency.

Mike Schmaeling: Mr. Schmaeling has been working in the environmental health field since 1977. He spent 4 years in the Air Force inspecting food facilities, slaughterhouse operations and temporary military encampments. Then, while going to Cal Poly, Mike also worked for the Space Shuttle program as a Safety Inspector. The County of Santa Barbara hired Mike as Hazardous Materials Specialist in 1987.After working in that field for couple of years, Mike transferred to the Solid Waste program. With very little solid waste training available, he quickly discovered that LEAs needed to work together. He became active in the Solid Waste Specialist of Southern California. In this group, he found the benefits of networking with other LEAs. CIWMB staff also saw the benefits of this networking and soon developed the Roundtables as a method to network with LEAs. Mike has served as chair of his district’s Roundtable for several years and has been the Chair of Enforcement Advisory Council for the last two years. His goal and vision for developing a strong "partnership” between the CIWMB, SWPC of CCDEH and the EAC has taught him the importance building strong personal relationships and effective communication skills. The only things that deter Mike from achieving this goal are his love for his family and his passion to go surfing.

Dave Volden: Mr. Volden has been with the California Integrated Waste Management Board since September 1988 addressing areas such as landfill closure, markets development and waste tire management. Prior to that he worked in law enforcement for 13 years with the LA County Sheriff’s Department. Mr. Volden currently manages the Board’s Waste Tire Enforcement Grant Program, which provides funding to local agencies to enforce laws and regulations related to the storage, handling and transportation of waste tires in California. Mr. Volden has degrees in Biology and Petroleum Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Scott Walker: Mr. Walker is the supervising engineer managing the Integrated Waste Management Board's Remediation, Closure and Technical Services Branch. He is a California Registered Professional Civil Engineer (PE) and Certified Engineering Geologist (CEG) with over fifteen years experience including with the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board (from 1986 to 1992) and the Waste Management Board.

Linda Wise: Ms. Wise has been with the Yuba County Environmental Health Department since 1999, working in the Solid Waste Local Enforcement Agency (LEA) section. Beginning one year ago she became the manager of the Solid Waste Program, overseeing daily LEA activities, program development, and grant administration. In her free time, Linda serves as a commissioner for the Yuba County Fish & Game Commission and is actively designing youth educational programs relating to careers in fish and wildlife sciences. Prior to coming to Yuba County, Linda was a graduate student in the Wastewater Utilization Program at Humboldt State University. While there, she performed research on wastewater bioaersolization, water quality of urban lakes, and fish implant impacts on alpine lake ecosystems. She has presented her research results at conferences such as the American Society for Microbiology, American Society for Limnology and Oceanography, and the American Fisheries Society

Kelvin Yamada: Mr. Yamada is the Counter Terrorism Coordinator for the Department of Health Services under the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Grant. He currently oversees the development and coordination of the Department's Bioterrorism Response Plan. He is also lead, along with the Office of Emergency Services, for the development and coordination of California's plan to distribute resources from the National Pharmaceutical Stockpile. Prior to coming to the Department of Health Services in November 2000, Kelvin's career included 11 years at the Department of Toxic Substance Control performing emergency response coordination at major hazardous materials incidents and clandestine drug laboratories. Kelvin has a Bachelor of Science Degree from California State University, Northridge in Environmental and Occupational Health Science.

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Last updated: October 26, 2007