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EXPERTLY ORCHESTRATED GENIUS

Resume of KID, Ph.D.

Consultant

PRINCIPAL INDUSTRIES SERVED

  • Biotechnology
  • Chemical
  • Food Processing
  • Environmental Safety
  • Hazardous Materials
  • Medical Devices and Equipment
  • Pharmaceutical
  • Wastewater Management

EDUCATION

This expert received a Ph.D. and M.P.H. in Environmental Health from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN.

This expert has a B.S.A. in Agriculture from the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.

This expert received an A.A.S. in Agricultural Production from State University of New York in Cobleskill, NY.


EXPERTISE AND SERVICES

Forensic Sanitarian, Biological Safety Expert Consultant

This expert specializes in environmental health, safety and environmental protection, biological safety, and litigation support in public health issues. Further expertise includes expert testimony, environmental conservation policies, biological and chemical environmental protection, and radiological safety programs.

This associate offers specific expertise relative to epidemiological direction, infection control, hazardous waste management, transportation and emergency spill. Further expertise includes safety assessment, control of industrial wastes, environmental microbiology, and environmental health. Other areas of specialty are environmental auditing, hazardous materials management, epidemiology, communicable disease control, and institutional environmental health.

Additional experience and specialization includes environmental health practice, occupational health practice, industrial hygiene, and industrial toxicology. Further experience includes occupational toxicology, infection control, food protection, and water quality. Other areas of skilled background include water pollution control, occupational health standards, environmental sciences, institutional biosafety, radiation safety and radioisotopes, biohazard control, infrared thermometers, sound level meters, and measuring illuminance.

This associate has demonstrated specific expertise relative to testing equipment for electrical circuits and receptacles, disabled access survey tools, food inspections, easy lead-screening kits for use in the field, ultraviolet inspection light for the detection of rodent urine contamination, audit and inspection tools for children's play areas, disposable indicating thermometers, moisture detection meters, swimming pool test kits, humidity-measuring devices, and temperature verification.

Numerous studies of industrial hygiene related matters have included measuring thermal comfort, measuring water pressure and flow, tracking air movement, preventing slips and falls, APC plus airborne particle counter, indoor air quality monitor, refractometer, hygiene system for measuring cleanliness of food contact surfaces, thermometrics, HACCP, accurate motorized psychrometer, affordable thermocouple calibrator, hand hygiene, sampling for biological contaminants, air sampling instrumentation, surface sampling techniques, garage door safety stop pressure gauge, radiation monitor, monitoring ph, life safety in correctional facilities, facility management, sanitation and noise, improving ventilation quality, reducing infection risk, barber shop sanitation, proper hand-washing facilities, key environmental health considerations for food service providers, FDA food code, sanitary integrity of ice, handling lead contamination, regulating building temperatures, tracing the origin of skin irritation, writing a fire safety operations plan, latex glove allergies, airborne hazard threats, preventing mold problems, temperature and ventilation problems, and poisonous plants.

Additional areas of related expertise include food allergies and hospice emergencies, infectious disease control in prisons, contamination control technology, microbial contamination, biological contaminants, strategies of investigation and control, biological safety principles, contamination control, cleanroom disinfection, sterilization and biological validation, detection, enumeration and control of biological contaminants in clean room environments, HACCP, compliance monitoring, hard surface disinfectants and sanitizers, thermometry and basic calibration, contamination control technology, cleanrooms, microcontamination pharmaceutical manufacturing particulate and microbial control, control of microbial fouling in ultrapure water systems, devices to control microbial contamination in laboratory water systems, design and performance of single-lamp, high flow ultraviolet disinfectors, needle stick prevention program, safe needle disposal, safe use of tap water in bubble style humidifiers, microbiological considerations in maintenance of the sterile integrity of prepackaged, disposable items for use in health care facilities, microbiological air quality standards for hospitals, standards for health services in correctional institutions, agriculture, agricultural production, and conservation.


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Providing environmental health, safety and environmental protection consulting, industrial hygiene and biological safety consulting, expert testimony and related expertise to a wide variety of clients.

Forensic Sanitarian, Consultant, Expert Witness

Provided consultation and expert witness services in environmental health, safety and environmental protection to attorneys, governmental agencies, institutions and private industry, litigation support in public health issues.

Director of Biological Safety and Environment, Biosafety Officer, United States Dept. of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Plum Island Animal Disease Center, Greenport, NY

Established biological safety, environmental health, safety and environmental conservation policy and provided contractual oversight of all activities relating to these policies, directed biological, chemical, environmental protection and radiological safety programs.

Director and Biosafety Officer, Wayne State University, Office of Environmental Health and Safety, Detroit, MI

Established and directed research support service unit with nine professional employees and a budget in excess of $250,000, served as adjunct professor in the College of Engineering, Pharmacy and Allied Health and Biological Sciences.

Epidemiologist, Infection Control Coordinator, Samaritan Health Center, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Unit, Detroit, MI

Directed epidemiological and infection control activities in a 450 bed acute care community hospital.

Vice President, Director Of Operations, Health Care Risk Management, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI and Rennselaer, NY

Managed the technical operations of a consulting firm, served as environmental health and safety expert.

Post Doctoral Research Associate, National Environmental Health Association, Denver, CO

Developed performance and knowledge criteria document for the environmental health sanitarian profession.

Graduate Research Assistant, Doctoral Candidate, University Of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN

Conducted thesis research on passive contamination of sterile medical supplies.

Health Officer, Ringwood Health Department, Ringwood, NJ

Established and directed a full service municipal health department.

Industrial Hygienist, Air Pollution Control, Sanitarian, Department of Health, Metropolitan Health District, Newark, NJ

Provided on-site environmental health and safety services, conducted law and health regulation enforcement activities, served as resource consultant to local health agencies, departments and boards.

ADDITIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Sanitarian, Department of Institutions and Agencies, Trenton, NJ

Extensive teaching experience in areas related to Hazardous Waste Management, Safety Assessment, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Communicable Disease Control, Occupational Health Practice, Industrial Hygiene, Industrial Toxicology, and more.

Assisted in the development of the Graduate Certificate in Hazardous Waste Management and Environmental Auditing; the Masters Degree in Hazardous Materials Management and the Degree in Environmental Hazards Management within the College of Engineering.

Ferris State University

Adjunct Associate Professor, Allied Health Sciences, Environmental Health, Epidemiology

Communicable Disease Control, Institutional Environmental Health, Environmental Health Practice, Occupational Health Practice, Industrial Hygiene, Industrial Toxicology

Instructor-Division of Continuing Education, Fundamentals of Occupational Toxicology, St. Clair College, Windsor, Ontario

Health Director, Towns of Franklin, Lebanon, Salem & Sprague, CT

Associate, Risk Associates, LLC, Old Saybrook, CT

Health Director, Town of Westbrook, CT

Member, Old Saybrook, CT Water Pollution Control Authority

Owner, Terry Plum's, LLC, Old Saybrook, CT

Biological Safety Officer, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

President, Biosafety Systems, Inc., Detroit, MI

President, Burns Park Condominium Association, Ann Arbor, MI

Teaching Experience

  • Wayne State University
  • Adjunct Associate Professor, College of Engineering
  • Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management
  • Transportation and Emergency Spill
  • Introduction to Safety Assessment
  • Public Issues of Hazardous Waste
  • Waste Management Internship
  • Hazardous Waste Laboratory
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health
  • Control of Industrial Wastes
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
  • Environmental Microbiology
  • Adjunct Assistant Professor, Division of Health and Physical Education
  • Environmental Health

Organizational Activities

  • Conference for Food Protection
  • Vice Chairman – Plan Review Committee
  • Underwriter Laboratories, Inc.
  • Consumer Advisory Council, Corporate Council, Standards Joint Committees
  • Academy of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers
  • Board of Directors, Connecticut Chapter : Board of Directors, CHMM-Michigan President, Board of Directors : 1988-1991.
  • Water Pollution Control Authority, Old Saybrook, CT
  • Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Westbrook, CT
  • President, Governing Body Member : 1995 - 2002
  • Wayne County, Michigan
  • Commission, Hazardous Waste Facility Site Review Board
  • State of Michigan
  • Agricultural Advisory Comm. - Occupational Health Standards Commission
  • Institute of Hazardous Materials Management
  • Member Board of Examiners
  • Institute of Environmental Sciences
  • Vice Chairman - Michigan Section
  • Wayne State University
  • Chairman and Member - Institutional Biosafety Committee, Laboratory Safety Committee
  • National Environmental Health Association
  • Chairman- Institutional Section, Correctional Facilities Section
  • Member, Scholarship Committee
  • National Safety Council
  • Executive Committee Member-Health Care Section, Campus Safety Association
  • Member, Environmental Health Committee, R and D Section
  • National Sanitation Foundation International
  • Member-Council of Public Health Consultants, Standards 42, 49, 53, 54, and 55 Joint Committees
  • Chairman, Standards 14, 24 and 49 Joint Committees
  • New Jersey Environmental Health Association
  • Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer, Chairman-Registration Committee

Contracts Awarded

  • NSF International: Training and Course Development

     

  • ASPH Project, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center : Contributing author, Sanitarian's Desk Reference
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services : Evaluation of Hazardous Waste Education and Training
  • Ultrasonix Research, Inc. : Development of Ultraviolet Light Water Purification Technology, $20,000.
  • U.S. Veterans Administration, Doctoral Research Contract

PUBLICATIONS

Contributor, American Jails Magazine

Contributor and Editorial Advisory Board : Food Safety Magazine

Contributing Editor, Corrections Managers' Report

Contributor, Journal of Environmental Health (NEHA)

Reviewer, Journal of Environmental Health (NEHA)

Editor, ABSA Newsletter

Editor, Current Topics In Campus Health and Safety

Contributing Editor, Canon Communications : Microcontamination Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Particulate and Microbial Control

Editor, National Safety Council, Campus Safety Newsletter Health Care Newsletter

Contributing author, reviewer, editor to numerous trade publications and numerous publications related to Contamination Control Technology, Cleanrooms, Microcontamination Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Particulate and Microbial Control, control of microbial fouling in ultrapure water systems, devices to control microbial contamination in laboratory water systems, Design and performance of single-lamp, high flow ultraviolet disinfectors, needle stick prevention program, safe needle disposal, safe use of tap water in bubble style humidifiers, microbiological considerations in maintenance of the sterile integrity of prepackaged, disposable items for use in health care facilities, microbiological air quality standards for hospitals, Standards for Health Services in Correctional Institutions, and more.



NEWS & EVENTS

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