| Matthew Conway sits on the Rock the Earth Legal
& Technical Committee. From 2003-2006, Matt served on the
RtE Board of Directors. In addition to his work with Rock the
Earth, Matt has worked as an environmental professional since
1994. Presently, he is the Senior Environmental/Safety Engineer
for an internationally-renown Fortune 500 manufacturer located
in the western United States. He is directly responsible for all
aspects of environmental/safety permitting and compliance as well
as implementation, maintenance, and auditing of ISO 9001 and 14001
management systems. Prior to this position, Matt worked as a project
manager and a field scientist for an environmental engineering
and consulting firm for approximately 5 years. In this position,
he provided environmental services to industries, commercial businesses,
utilities, attorneys, municipal and state governments, and financial
institutions. Matt's duties and responsibilities included: preparation
of proposals, scopes of work, and budgets; investigation, characterization,
and remediation of soil and groundwater contamination at hazardous
waste and "Superfund" facilities; closure of underground storage
tank (UST) systems; due diligence assessments; compliance audits;
permit support activities; sampling and technical services; regulatory
compliance; and waste management. Matt received his B.A. in 1989
and a M.S. in 1994. During his graduate studies, Matt jointly
interned with Arizona Public Service and the University of Arizona's
Environmental Research Laboratory. In additional to traditional
technical environmental compliance work, he was directly responsible
for maintaining a wastewater reuse project utilizing plant species
adapted to brackish waters at an electrical generating station.
Matt participated in the development of Best Management Practices
(BMPs) for the beneficial on-site reuse of the wastewater for
plants with landscape and wildlife habitat values. He also participated
in a study that utilized several species of plants to intercept
and transpire brackish wastewater from bottom ash and fly ash
ponds resulting from coal combustion. |
