Jeffrey O’Ham
Vice President & Technical Director
Industrial Recovery (IR) Systems International

EDUCATION

B.S. Chemistry, Atlantic Christian College, 1985
B.S. Biology, Atlantic Christian College, 1985

TECHNICAL / PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE

Environmental Audits
Remedial Investigations
Feasibility Studies
Site Remediation
Treatment System Design and Operation
Low Temperature Thermal Desorption
Vacuum Distillation Systems
Stabilization and Chemical Fixation
Soil Vapor Extraction Systems
Air Sparging/Stripping Systems
Free Product Recovery Systems
Groundwater Pump and Treat Systems
Laboratory Analysis and Methods Development
Environmental Permitting and Regulatory Compliance

PROFESSIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Mr. O'Ham has over fifteen years of professional environmental experience which includes work ranging from the design, management and implementation of complex environmental audits, remedial investigations, feasibility studies and remediation system design and operation. Mr. O'Ham has over nine years of specialized experience in the design and operation of vacuum-enhanced low temperature thermal desorption (LTTD) systems along with real world field experience with numerous other technologies for the remediation of groundwater, soils, sludges, oil exploration drilling waste, tank bottoms and a wide range of chemically impacted industrial process wastes.

Mr. O'Ham is the inventor of various generational designs of the Matrix Constituent Separator (MCS) LTTD treatment systems, lead developer of a vacuum drum and static bed high-vacuwn LTTD system designs and the original founder of TerraChem Environmental Services, Inc. which launched the original modular LTTD design into the environmental market in the early 1990’s.

Mr. O'Ham is fully competent to operate and train personnel on Hewlett Packard, Perkin Elmer, Varian and Tracor Gas Chromatographic instrumentation utilizing flame Ionization, Flame Photometric Hall, Electron Capture, NP?? And Thermal Conductivity Detectors, all atomic adsorption equipment including Flame, Furnace and Hydride generators, inductively coupled plasma units, Bomb Calorimetry, Finagan Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy, Infrared units and X-ray fluorescence. Mr. O'Ham also has extensive field experience operating heavy equipment ranging from backhoes and excavators to compactors and chop saws.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY (PROFESSIONAL CAREER)

McLaren/Hart, Inc.
TerraChem Business Sector R&D Headquarters
Technical Director
December 1993 to February 1998

Mr. O'Ham served as senior project manager and technical director for McLaren/Hart in their LTTD R&D headquarters located in Charlotte, North Carolina. Responsibilities included further developing the business and technical capabilities of the LTTD treatment process. Mr. O'Ham was the lead technical resource for trouble-shooting and system optimization on projects utilizing LTTD system designs. He has developed and implemented the use of this technology to treat a broad range of Petroleum Hydrocarbons, VOCS, Semi-Vocs, PCBS, Mixed Waste, Pesticides, Mercury, PCPS and Creosote and various other organic and inorganic constituents.

Since 1993, Mr. O'Ham has been responsible for the implementation of LTTD systems designs at over 30 project sites throughout the United States and abroad from a technical or filed management capacity. Mr. O'Ham has an exceptionally high level of operation expertise with respect to the MCS technology and other similar LTTD system designs having managed over 50 LTTD projects in his professional career totaling over a half million cubic yards of impacted soils, sludges and process waste streams. He is intimately familiar with the scoping, costing, permitting, mobilization, operations, community relations and overall safe management of LTTD treatment systems.

TerraChem Environmental Services, Inc.
President & Founder
December 1989 to December 1993

Mr. O'Ham founded TerraChem Environmental Services, Inc. As the business vehicle to introduce his patented low temperature thermal desorption technology into the market. The company was proficient in conducting a wide range of environmental remedial services and construction projects ranging from $10,000.00 to $1.6 Million in size. Mr. O'Ham spearheaded the growth of the company from $280,000.00 in sales to $3.5 Million with a staff of 22 employees in three (3) years.

Projects included work for clients such as the US Department of Defense, US Army, US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Army Corps of Engineers and many Fortune 500 companies. Soil remediation projects utilizing his patented LTTD treatment system ranged in size from 500 tons to 20,000 tons. Additional remedial investigation and site remediation activities included conducting groundwater monitor well installations, free product recovery systems, groundwater extraction and treatment systems, in-situ and ex-situ soil vapor extraction systems, infiltration galleries, stabilization and chemical fixation of soils and installation of site-specific air emission control system equipment.

Bold Research Laboratory, Inc.
Vice President & General Manager
May 1986 to December 1989

Mr. O'Ham built the business from the ground up for the purpose of focussing on the environmental testing market. Successfully gained federal and state certifications for wastewater, drinking water and hazardous waste testing. Managed a staff of 18 professionals and started a geotechnical group within Bold Research Laboratory which provided clients with RI/FS services.

The laboratory also provided FDA and USDA services for the evaluation of foods, drugs and products. During this time Mr. O'Ham also founded an industrial trouble shooting group whose sole purpose was to evaluate and solve manufacturing problems which occurred in many common industrial practices. Mr. O'Ham was also the lead chemist providing testing services to the US Tobacco Stabilization Cooperative for the development of analytical and chemical analysis methodologies of pesticide residues in tobacco products. These methods were accepted by the Cooperative and implemented worldwide.

Southern Testing and Research Laboratories
Laboratory Manager
May 1982 to May 1986

Initially served as a technician in the water testing laboratory and over the course of three years rose to the level of laboratory manager. Responsibilities included managing a staff of 26 employees which provided services in the environmental analysis, drugs, foods, feeds, nutritional labeling and agricultural sample analysis markets.