Exceptional success in integrating safety, occupational health, and environmental isues into business strategic planning and decision-making.
Successfully lead the development of the competencies needed to be a superior safety, health, and environmental professional.
Over 25 years of productive and successful experience in corporate and business-line management of safety, health, and environmental responsibilities


Professional Experience
THE LEEMANN GROUP, New Orleans, Louisiana
president(11/98 to Present)
Providing industry with innovative approaches to resdesign work processes to deliver higher quality and better performing value-adding services which adress the needs of operations while improving decision-making from the factory floor to senior management

DUPONT COMPANYNew Orleans, Louisiana
Specialty Chemicals Strategic Business Unit
Safety, Health, and Environmental (SHE) Systems Manager (11/96 to 11/98)
Led and developed the integration of SHE professionals' work into the line organization to allow operators and mechanics to make their own decisions about their personal safety and health and how they can avoid having their work impact the environment. Coupled with this transference of SHE knowledge to the operators and mechanics, the SHE professionals will be able to work on more complex value adding issues for the business.

Specialty Chemicals SHE Manageer, Wilmingtong, Delaware (2/91 to 11/96) Oversaw the Strategic and tactical integration of SHE devision-making into an extremely diversified (over 100 chemical products) two-billion dollar per year business servin 4000 customers from 26 worldwide union and non-union manufacturing sites ranging in population from 25 to 2500 employees. Began the transformation of how SHE professionals do their daily work to improve productivity and the quality of their work lives. Managed a stafff of seventeen SHE professionals and support staff. Reduces this staff to eight through re-assignments to new plant site SHE or business positions within one year.

DuPont Company, Wilmington, Delaware
corporate Environmental Affairs
Environmental Issues Manager (7/88 to 1/91)
Developmed corporate policy, standards, and guidelines adressing solid and hazardous waste issues. Assisted line organizations in regulatory interpretation and in influencing environmental legislation and regulations. Led the develpoment of an interactive electronic waste management tool directed at operators and mechanics.

CONOCO INC. (DuPont Subsidiary), Houston, Texas
Corporate Environmental Conservation
Senior Director Hazardous Waste Programs (11/81 to 6/88)
Provided technical support and cost-effective solutions to regulatory compliance issues. Negotiated permit conditions with federal and state agencies. Provided technical advice on marine and coastal etroleum spills (e.g "Alvenus" spill, Galveston Beach, Summer, 1984). Negotiated a de minimis buyout for the Bayou Srorrel Superfund Site

DRAVO UTILITY CONSTRUCTORS, INC.New Orleans, Louisiana
U.S Department of Energy Strategic Petroleum Rserve Operator
Environmental Affairs Manager (5/79 to 10/81)
Oversaw the development and implementation of the operations environmental compliance management program for five crude oil saltdome storage facilities and offloading docking facilities. Innovated an oil spill trend analysis tool to implement preventive measures and ultimately reduce spills from over 300 per year to fewer than two dozen per year. Managed 13 environmental professionals.

VTN LOUISIANA, INC. Metairie, Louisiana
Senior Environmetnal Engineer/ Project Manager(1/74 to 5/79)
Prepared over 30 environmental impact satements for client projects throughout the United States and the Panama Canal Zone. Projects included dredge and fill, air and rail transportation, flood control, navigation, military installations, housing and urban developments. watershed and coastal zone management programs.

ECOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENT, INC. Buffalo, New York
Environmental Specialist/Project Manager (1/72 to 9/73)
PRepared environmental impact statemens for liquid natural gas terminals and gasification facilities, pipelines and compressor stations, synthetic natural gas refinery complexes, and marine transportation facilities. Developed an industrial hygiene program for OSHA compliance for industry in western New York.

Education
The Union Institute, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ph.D., Systemic Management, 1999
Tulane UniversitySchool of Engineering, New Orleans, Louisiana
M.E., Industrial Hygiene & Environmental Sciences, 1972
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
B.S., Microbiology, 1970

Book and Publications
"An Application of Interactive Planning," in Ackoff, R.L. Recreating the Corporate Future Appendix B. John Wiley & Sons, June 1999.
"Integrating Corporate Envirmental Policy into Real Estate Transaction." Site Selection and Industrial Development Vol. 35, No. 5, 4 (1186)-6(1188), Oct./ 1990.
"Waste Minimization in the Petroleum Industry." APCA Journal. 38(6):814-823. June 1988
Spill Reporting Procedures GuideThe Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. 1995 (Originally published n 1984, updated annually, BNA Best Seller)