Mark Balhoff, Senior Consultant
Education: BS Chemical Engineering; Louisiana State University
Years Experience: 10+
Key Project Experience:
Customized Tools
Created custom chemicals management system for a paint company to track shipments and chemical compositions for reporting against various regulations. Built an optimal process to receive and incorporate daily data feeds from another system without breaking existing data.
Led design and implementation stages to integrate global pharma facility EHS and corporate metrics data post-merger into a harmonized infrastructure that retained five years of historical data. Data scopes encompassed, among others, GHG emissions, water, waste, and safety.
Developed end-to-end data management tools for EPA and commercial clients that automated the processing, summary table generation, and preliminary QA. Supported dozens of clients from this foundation.
Programming languages include C++ and Python.
Key Project Experience, continued:
Environmental Compliance
Annual Reporting - Streamlining and enhancing annual reporting for multiple petroleum refining clients (Tier II, TRI, annual emissions inventory, Mandatory GHG Reporting).
Benzene Tracking and Reporting - Prepared BWON TAB for oil and gas clients while optimizing steps in each process to produce faster, more confident deliverables.
Emissions Inventory including Scope 1, 2, 3 - Developed from the ground up potential to emit criteria pollutant inventories, actual emissions tracking , and corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories per the GHG Protocol for multiple clients in the petroleum refining and chemical industries.
Sector Experience:
Upstream Oil and Gas, Petroleum Refining, Chemicals, Renewable Fuels, Renewable Power, Logistics, and Waste Services.