EducationChemical Engineering, BS
University of Houston 1983 - Magnum Cum Laude Undergraduate Study in Chemical Engineering Texas A & M University 1979-1980 - G.P.A. 4.0 |
Technical ExperienceThirty-two years experience in:
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Experience Summary
Areas of experience include analytical chemistry, chemical engineering, quality assurance, litigation support, and project management. Analytical chemistry work includes sample preparation, gas chromatography, and atomic adsorption analysis. Chemical engineering experience is in the petroleum industry and includes computer process simulation, process design, crude evaluation, manufacturing cost determination, and exposure to all operating areas within a refinery. Quality assurance experience includes assignment as Quality Assurance Manager for a federal Superfund site, laboratory coordination, data management, raw data reprocessing, and data review. Data review has included extensive data validation and usability determinations for numerous diverse projects under various EPA Regions, CERCLA Superfund, Louisiana’s RECAP (Risk Evaluation/ Corrective Action Program), Texas State Superfund, the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP), and the Texas Petroleum Storage Tank (PST) program. Experience in performing TRRP-13 and Texas state Superfund reviews and preparing Data Usability Summaries includes a broad range of sites (e.g., LPST, hydrocarbon processors, automotive parts/ repair, recycling scrap yard, semiconductor manufacturing, nylon manufacturing) and various analytical parameters (e.g., Metals, VOC, SVOC, BTEX, TPH, Herbicides, PCB). Litigation support includes performing literature searches, theoretical chemical calculations, data interpretation/ evaluation, and preparation of expert reports (see Projects - Litigation Support). Project management experience centers on data usability projects for environmental sites involving thousands of samples.
Project Summary
Ms. Scholz is currently the President of Quality Assurance Associates, a limited liability company that provides quality assurance services to the environmental industry and for litigation support. Key projects include:
- Assignment as Quality Assurance Manager for a federal Superfund site, which included preparing the Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP), providing analytical expertise to the environmental firm, coordinating with the laboratory, and providing oversight of the Level III or Level IV data validation (primarily electronic) of more than 500 samples submitted for the complete analytical suite (volatile organics, semivolatile organics, RCRA metals, pesticides, and PCBs);
- Comprehensive data validation and usability reviews for several sites under various EPA Regions, CERCLA Superfund, Louisiana’s RECAP (Risk Evaluation/ Corrective Action Program), Texas State Superfund, and the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP-13);
- A third-party audit of on-site laboratory and QA procedures for a major oil company under the NPDES general permit for off-shore oil rigs;
- Litigation support for a case involving alleged eye injury due to toxic chemicals being deposited on ophthalmic surgical instruments during the sterilization process;
- A contract with the TCEQ to develop procedures for salvaging GC/MS environmental analysis data that was improperly processed in order to make it appear that all QC requirements were met;
- A similar litigation support project to determine the effects of improper processing of GC analysis data on the reported results for pesticide/PCBs; and
- The development of algorithms to check for errors and standardize reporting limits in a database containing thousands of records of analytical data for a large contaminated site.
Employment History
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Quality Assurance Associates, QAA L.L.C.
College Station, TX Jan. 1994 to present President and Principal
Senior Environmental Engineer
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Flory Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Pearland, TX Dec. 1989 to Dec. 1993 Assistant Quality Assurance Manager
(French Limited Superfund Site)
Engineering Consultant (Hazardous Waste Treatment Process)
HazMat Database (Lewis Publishers)
Litigation Support
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Atlantic Richfield Co.
Houston, TX Refinery Jan. 1984 to Oct. 1986 Process Engineer
Atlantic Richfield Co.
Houston, TX Refinery June 1983 to Aug. 1983 Summer Engineer
Spectrix Corporation
Houston, TX June 1976 to Aug. 1982 Summer Lab Technician
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Publications
- Flory, D.A., Scott, R.B., and Todd, T.F (now Scholz, T.G.), "Quantitation of Priority Pollutants in Sludge Samples", Proceedings of the 137th Southwest American Chemical Society Regional Meeting, San Antonio, TX, (Dec. 11, 1981).
- Flory, D.A., Biemann, K., Barker, C., Biller, J.E., Scott, R.B., Fencl, M.K., Nooner, D.W., Todd, T., (now Scholz, T.G.) and Lichtenstein, H.A., "North Slope Oil-Rock Correlations Using Computerized GC-MS Comparisons", Alaska North Slope Oil-Rock Correlations, (Tulsa, OK: AAPG), 663-670; (1985).
- Scholz, T.G., Flory, D.A. and Keith, L., Hazardous Chemical Regulations Database, Lewis Publishers (now CRC Press), Boca Raton, FL, (Nov., 1991).
- Scholz, T.G., Flory, D.A., and McGinley, L.L., "Automated Data Assurance Manager (ADAM)", Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Waste Testing and Quality Assurance Symposium, 692-706, Washington, DC (American Chemical Society and USEPA, July 23-28, 1995).
- Scholz, Taryn G., McGinley, Louise., and Flory, Donald A., ”Data Quality Assessment: It’s Not Just Pushing Paper”. Environmental Protection, 7,37-38, (September, 1996)
- Scholz, Taryn G and Flory, Donald A., ”Clearing Up The Confusion", Environmental Protection, 10, 37-41, (May, 1999)
