EDUCATION AND SPECIAL TRAINING

8-Hour Hazardous Site Supervisor Training, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120

40-Hour Health and Safety Training, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.120

20-Hour Confined Space Training, OSHA 29 CFR 1910.146

Certified Sentry Gas Monitoring System Technician

Certified Operator for Thermo/Catalytic Oxidizer

Certified Sur-Lite/John Zink Flare Systems Operator

Certified Competent Person Awareness for Trench/Excavation Safety, OSHA CFR 1926

96-Hour Certificate of Training for Electrician/Electrical Theory

Certified Polyethylene Fabrication Specialist

Certificate:  Ground Water Monitoring and Sampling Technology

Certificate:  Electrical Ladder Drawing Training

  PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Mr. Svorinich has worked in the environmental field since 1985, with an additional 10 years’ experience working in the oil/petroleum refinery industry.  His experience includes operations, construction, engineering assistance of pollution control, remediation, energy recovery systems, and refinery processes.  Mr. Svorinich’s environmental experience has primarily included landfill gas control/recovery and associated landfill services including post-closure care.  Other environmental remediation project experience includes engineering assistance, operation and construction of groundwater and leachate pump and treatment systems, VOC (Volatile Organic Compound) vapor extraction, and air stripper systems. 

Mr. Svorinich has participated in and/or managed and directed numerous projects that have received industry recognition.  Mr. Svorinich was involved with management and operation of the Industry Hills Civic Reception Convention Complex Landfill Gas-to-Energy and Migration Control facilities.  This Complex received the “Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement” award during the 1980s.  In addition, this same project received the Gold Award in 1997 for innovations in LFG utilization from the Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) National Awards Program.  Also, other projects Mr. Svorinich managed/directed include the 1998 SWANA recognized Scholl Canyon project, Glendale, California with a Gold Award for LFG utilization and in 2000 the City of Berkeley, California with a Gold Award for exemplary post-closure use of a landfill.

As a Project Manager of SCS Field Services, Mr. Svorinich has directed or provided oversight for more than 75 long-term operations and maintenance projects (including post-closure care), 50 combustible gas monitoring projects, and 30 leachate or groundwater remediation/treatment projects. 

The range and types of Mr. Svorinich’s project-specific experience includes:

• Landfill gas migration control system startup, adjustment, and long-term operation, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting and repair. Key projects performed for the City of Berkeley, City of Sunnyvale, City of Mountain View, Placer County, San Joaquin County, Stanislaus County, Monterey County, San Bernardino County, Santa Cruz County, and City of San Jose.

• Landfill gas-to-energy recovery system startup operation/gas compression, and delivery services at key sites including Industry Hills Sheraton Golf/Conference Center, City of Glendale Scholl Canyon, Watson Biogas Systems, Richmond Electric Generation, and, NEO project sites at Visalia, Woodville, and Yolo. 

• Landfill post-closure maintenance services including landfill gas systems operations, site surface repair, groundwater/leachate monitoring and system maintenance.  Key projects performed at the Berkeley Marina, Geer Road, Ascon, City of Mountain View/Shoreline Amphitheatre, and Placer County Landfill sites.

• Landfill gas collection system construction including blower/flare stations, gas/leachate and groundwater extraction wells, monitoring probes, horizontal collection system piping, and condensate collection and disposal facilities.  Key projects include Redwood and Vasco Road, Colma, Geer and Keifer Road, Potrero, Contra Costa, Crazy Horse and Johnson Road Landfill sites.

Mr. Svorinich has additionally participated and/or supported air/gas environmental impact assessment testing projects at selected landfills.  He has been responsible for performing Bay Area Air Quality Management District Rule 34 compliance testing and system operation at various Bay Area County sites, as well as SCAQMD Rule 1150 site testing at landfills located in San Bernardino and Riverside Counties (California).  In conjunction with this testing, Mr. Svorinich operated various types of instruments, meters, measuring devices, and analytical equipment for control system evaluation and control testing.

Mr. Svorinich also managed, provided technical support, and performed LFG field pump test programs at numerous landfill sites.  These sites were located throughout the United States and were both active and closed.  Services included design and installation of test facilities (including wells, probes, headers, condensate collection/disposal, blower test rig), collection of baseline and dynamic pump test data, analysis of test results, and development as conceptual collection system design and construction cost estimates.  Subsequent participation in design, design review, construction review, startup, initial balancing, and routine operation, monitoring, and maintenance in various capacities at these sites.

Prior to Mr. Svorinich joining SCS Field Services in 1991, he worked 10 years in the oil/petroleum refinery industry.  Mr. Svorinich supervised, operated, repaired, and performed maintenance on high pressure gas and liquid pumps, compressors, exchangers, and other refinery processes.  Key plant operations included a Delayed Coker Unit, Alkalization Unit, Hydrogen Cracking Unit, and Crude Oil Reforming Unit.