Anthony L. Laquatra

Home Phone (412- 761- 0453) .
Cell Phone (786-255-2430) 17 Kilbuck ST
E-Mail alaquatra[at]gmail.com Pittsburgh, PA 15202


SITE SUPERINTENDENT/HEALTH&SAFETY OFFICER/QA-QC SPECIALIST


Education

Robert Morris College
Allegheny Community College
Avonworth High School

Certified trained in OSHA:
40-hour hazardous materials
8-hour hazardous materials refresher
8-hour hazardous waste supervisor
8-hour hazardous supervisor refresher
8-hour excavation competent person
8-hour confined space entry supervisor
8-hour confined space refresher
50-hour hazardous waste health and safety officer
Hearing & conservation & loss prevention
Initial blood borne pathogen
Personal protective equipment
Respiratory program requirements
Hazard communications
Site control and decontamination
Confined Space
Air monitoring instrumentation
Waste operations
Hazards and protection
Chemical handling
NSC defensive driver training
DOT General Awareness HAZ-MAT driver training
CPR and First Aid (Certified trained in DAN: Advanced Emergency Oxygen)
Rad Worker 1 & 2

Summary of Qualifications

Quality Control and Quality Assurance (QA/QC) - Experience with United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Air Force Base Conversion Agency (AFBCA), Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE), Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and various county regulatory agencies. Experienced and undergone and passed audits from AFCEE. Experience with engineer manuals dealing with health and safety, construction, demolition, drilling, soil and water sampling, and removal of storage tanks, aspects of hazardous, toxic and radioactive waste remediation technologies.
Experience with National Industrial Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) and environmental related health and safety Code of Federal Regulations (CFR).
Experience with flight line driving and security clearances for military installations.
Experience in wide variety of sampling techniques and equipment for gasses, liquids and solids.
Safety inspections reports for backhoes, excavators, front-end loaders, truck cranes, up to 200 ton capacity cranes.
Site safety officer for lead roof remediation project and installation of different roof systems.
Qualified operator of heavy equipment including: forklift, track hoe, articulating loader, backhoe, bobcats, compactor, excavator, and articulating dump truck and box dump truck.
Field experience with personal protection in supplied air (Level B), radioactive sampling (lead suit) and half and full-face respirator (Level C).
Field experience with topside support, safety/first aid & advanced oxygen resuscitation to project divers.
Experience as water pipe line crew installation Forman.
Project supervisor for a sanitary sewer evaluation survey (SSES) project, supervisor of subcontractor. Site Supervisor / Slurry Specialist, responsible for QA/QC, construction and site supervision for SB (soil bentonite) slurry wall project.





June 2008 - October 2009 Site Supervisor/Geotechnical Specialist

Geo-Solutions Inc. New Kensington, PA

Responsibilities and Field Work: Familiar with working with heavy equipment operations, exploratory well drilling, waste soil stabilization, and slurry trench cutoff walls. Has gained special experience and expertise in Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) as well as Heath, Safety and Environment (HSE) on slurry wall projects.
Worked as site superintendent and slurry specialist on several slurry cutoff wall projects as well as extensive supervision of well drilling and a variety of other construction projects. Site Supervisor / Slurry Specialist for the production of a special SCB (soil-grout) mixture to encase and protect new bridge foundations from geo-thermal stresses generated from a nearby geo-thermal power plant.
Site Supervisor / Soil stabilization, ground improvement of a foundation for a five story building using dynamic compaction with crawler crane, large steel tamper and the repeated dropping of the tamper. Slurry Specialist at the Albian Sands Expansion 1 project for construction of a slurry wall up to 130 ft. deep and over 1 mile in length.





January 2003 -May 2008Health & Safety/Project Supervisor

Innovative Technical Solutions Incorporated Merritt Island, FL

Clients: Government agencies including: Department of Defense (DOD), United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Air Force Base Conversion Agency (AFBCA), Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE).

Projects Sites: Former and active military base.

Responsibilities: include but not limited to; Safety of employee(s) and subcontractor(s), Topside safety support for dive operations, Overall management of various task assignments issued by the project manager/superintendent, Scheduling of fieldwork, Review of work performed, QA/QC of work performed both by the company and subcontractor(s).

Contaminates: Encountered on both hazardous and non-hazardous waste sites: PCBs, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, metals, in personal protection levels up to and including Level D. Work over and on water.

Field Work: Involved in all activities associated with: safety inspections and documentations as it pertained to the various construction activities (i.e.. sheet piling and concrete uniform section material installation) including but not limited to Safety Orientations for new personnel to job site, Safety meetings and topics of discussion on safety that day, Maintaining job site compliance with OSHA-Client-Company policies and regulations, Up keep of MSDSa on materials on-site, Monthly inspections of emergency equipment, Inspections of heavy equipment/vehicles/safety equipment/meters as they come on site for use and periodic follow-up inspections, Daily Reports on Safety, Submittal for safety awareness and goals awards for site personnel, Interviews with employees asking safety questions and if there are any safety concerns for the work being completed, topside support of dive operations including tending lines and safety watch for biological hazards and adverse weather, field mapping, measurements and documentation of progress of installed materials by subcontractor.

Time Frame: Project range up to approximately 15 months. Budget for projects worked on included up to six million dollars.

1989 January 2003Various Positions International Technology Corporation Monroeville PA

Positions: Construction Supervisor, Construction Forman, QA/QC Representative (Internal/DOD-USACE/AFBCA/AFCEE, FDEP), Site-Specific Health and Safety Officer, Environmental Forensic Technician, Sample Technician and Equipment Operator.

Clients: included but not limited to; companies, government agencies include: Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DOD), United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Air Force Base Conversion Agency (AFBCA), and Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence (AFCEE).

Projects: included but not limited to; industrial plants, landfills, superfund sites, waste treatment facilities, resource conservation and recovery act sites (RCRA), and military bases.

Responsibilities: include but not limited to; Overall management of various task assignments issued by the project manager/superintendent, Scheduling of fieldwork, Review of work performed, Safety of employee(s) and subcontractor(s), QA/QC of work performed both by the company and subcontractor(s).

Contaminates: encountered on both hazardous and non-hazardous waste sites include, PCBs, petroleum hydrocarbons, chlorinated solvents, metals (including arsenic and chromium), dioxins, furans, lead, asbestos, and Alpha/Beta/Gamma radiations in personal protection levels up to and including Level B.

Field work: include but not limited to; activities associated with: Daily reports on QA/QC, Air monitoring with direct/indirect reading with calibration of equipment and detection devises, Safety Orientations for new personnel to job site, Safety meetings and topics of discussion on safety that day, Maintaining job site compliance with OSHA-Client-Company policies and regulations, Up keep of MSDS on materials on-site, Monthly inspections of emergency equipment, Inspections of heavy equipment/vehicles/safety equipment/meters as they come on site for use and periodic follow-up inspections, Daily Reports on Safety, Submittal for safety awareness and goals awards for site personnel, Interviews with employees asking safety questions and if there are any safety concerns for the work being completed, Work on natural attenuations, Drilling investigations for soil and groundwater, Multiple well and boring installations, Well abandonment, Large-scale soil and water sampling plans, Soil and groundwater and surface water sampling for various mixed wastes, Calibration and use of water quality meters, Installation/removal of soil and water remediation systems, Landfill capping, Slurry wall construction, Various excavations, trenching and types of site restorations after remedial actions were completed, Abandonment of underground fuel lines, Underground fuel line remedial action (1 project alone was 24 miles of JP8 fuel lines exposed/cleaned removed or abandoned), Underground and above ground storage tank removals and associated fuel lines, fuel QA/QC inspections and management. Waste treatment plant waste stream conversion (from chromium metals to chemical oxidation system for chlorinated organics, Radiation work includes screening for health & safety of employees inside exclusion zone and screening of samples for radiation, Background radiation monitoring including the use of Alpha/Bata/Gamma radiation meters, and Railway litigations (forensic evidence recovery and processing)

Time frame of projects: range up to approximately 2 years.


1985 - 1989Health & Safety & Quality Control & Construction Costa Concrete Construction Pittsburgh PA
Work included construction of various concrete structures including slabs, foundations, sidewalks, and commercial buildings. Setting of the materials included direct pours and use of pumps.



References upon request