Work History

I have 14 years of experience in the environmental consulting industry.   In graduate school, I conducted a botanical inventory of 1,250 acres in southern Wake County.   The assessment skills I learned in graduate school meshed with conducting Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) and environmental insurance audits during a year (1999 to 2000) with Quantum Environmental, Inc.   While at Quantum, I was exposed to the UST assessment and remediation industry.   

This allowed for a transition to SEI Environmental, Inc. in 2000, as their Phase I ESA person and cross-training as a field scientist in UST assessment and remediation.  Within one year, I was managing all of their remediation systems.   By 2003, I was a project manager and by 2005, I was senior project manager with a staff of 24 employees.  In my nine years with SEI, I worked hundreds of sites at all phases of assessment and remediation. 

In December 2008, SEI fell victim to the economic downturn and I seized the opportunity to create a new career path for myself as an independent contractor.  Since then, I have worked closely with several companies as their on-demand employee providing report writing and field services.   Contracts have ranged from Environmental Condition of Property reports for the Department of Defense, health and safety oversight of contractors at a brownfield redevelopment site which included fall prevention, oversight of closure activities for a hazardous waste storage facility, low flow groundwater sampling, soil sampling, and environmental records research. 

Certifications

• Certified Environmental Professional (CEP) in Environmental Assessment
  Academy of Board Certified Environmental Professionals, 2011

Education History

• MS Forestry (with Public Administration Minor) NC State University, 1998

• BS Botany (with Medieval History Minor) NC State University, 1994

• BS Horticultural Science  NC State University, 1994

• 40 Hour HAZWOPER Hazardous Materials Trainers, 1999

• HAZWOPER 8-hour Annual Refresher  Hazardous Materials Trainers (currently valid through August 14, 2014)

• Notary Public, 1999 (currently valid through March 25, 2014)

• Fall Prevention & Protection Orientation II Training  Miller Training, (valid through January 11, 2014

Publications

• Parker, DS 1992 Eriochola acuminata var. acuminata: New Noxious Weed of NC. CANCAS vol 38 #1

• Parker, DS 1998 Using Botanical Inventory Analysis to Shape a Longleaf Restoration Project. Thesis for Master of Science in Forestry  (http://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/ir/handle/1840.16/822)

• Gary B. Blank, Scott Bode, Douglas Parker, and Sarah Lynn Hitchner; Establishing a Forest History Baseline for Ecosystem Management & Restoration; Final Report on CP&L Contract, NCSU Depart of Forestry, March 1998 (http://legacy.ncsu.edu/classes/for784001/finalreport.htm)

• Gary B. Blank, Douglas S. Parker, and Scott M. Bode; Multiple Benefits of Large, Undeveloped Tracts in Urbanized Landscapes: A North Carolina Example; Journal of Forestry volume 100, number 3, April/May 2002 (http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saf/jof/2002/00000100/00000003/art00010)

Professional Associations, Honors, and Awards

• National Association of Environmental Professionals (http://www.naep.org/)
• North Carolina Association of Environmental Professionals (http://www.ncaep.org/)
• Certified Environmental Professionals Review Board, 2012
• Xi Sigma Pi Forestry Honor Society
• John Bowley Derieux Research Award, Collegiate Association  of the NC Academy of Sciences
• First Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium Award, North Carolina State University