As a trained environmental and chemical engineer, Steve brings more than just his vision to Sage.

With almost two decades of air permitting and air quality compliance experience, Steve has prepared Title V Operating Permits, Risk Management Plans, SARA 313 Form Rs and supporting documentation, 40-50 standard exemptions, and Emissions Inventory Questionnaires. He has worked extensively with Benzene Waste Operations, and has obtained air quality permits for chemical, petrochemical/refining, and foundry facilities. Steve has also assisted in negotiations with various local, state, and federal agencies.

With over twenty five years of air permitting and air quality compliance experience, Kelly is an expert in preparing air permits. She has completed SARA 313 Form Rs and Emissions Inventory Questionnaires for several dozen of clients. She has worked extensively within the refining industry as an air quality regulatory analyst and has also assisted in negotiations with various local, state, and federal agencies including consent decree and penalties negotiations spanning over multiple industries.

Something notable about Kelly: she is a true sports fan, and has a lot of teams to cheer for: Go Hokies (VT), Tigers (LSU Grad), Red Stickers (St Joseph High School), Saints (LA transplant), Cowboys (true Texan), Astros (Houstonian), and Longhorns (family tradition)!

Joe Ibanez has many roles at Sage. Along with providing the leadership, strategic planning and vision for Sage, Joe participates in technical reviews and regulatory negotiation on projects. As a Six Sigma Black Belt, Joe has also helped develop and implement a company-wide performance measurement system focused on generating sustainable growth.

Joe’s background is primarily in Clean Air Act regulations, including PSD, NSPS, NESHAP, and SIP requirements. He has worked extensively with the refining and petrochemical industries preparing and negotiating complex Flexible, PSD, Maintenance Startup and Shutdown (MSS) and Title V Federal Operating permitting projects. He has also assisted in negotiations with local, state, and federal agencies and has designed and implemented environmental data management systems at multiple facilities.

Scott Muller is currently responsible for new business development. Scott assists clients with executing their environmental strategies by providing and coordinating resources across Sage’s offices and business units. He is also an experienced senior project manager, client service manager, and division manager.

Scott specializes in Clean Air Act consulting, and provides regulatory and technical assistance with all aspects of air quality permitting and regulatory compliance. Scott’s background includes State and Federal New Source Review (NSR) permitting, Title V permitting, air compliance audits, annual emission reporting, and air dispersion modeling. He has also gained detailed Title V and NSR permitting experience in several states, and specializes in project management, environmental agency relations, regulatory analysis, permit flexibility, environmental data management, and compliance enhancement.

Thoughts on engineering: Virtually all engineers can plan well, and most can implement a plan. Very few engineers verify that the plan is properly implemented. Those few that verify well will go on to manage the rest. Good verification requires great communication, and personal discipline.

Senior Technical Specialist Igor Shnayder has conducted air quality related projects and has been involved in numerous projects requiring air quality modeling for over 15 years through his work in the environmental compliance and permitting field.

Igor has prepared NSR Permit applications, Title V Permit applications, Emissions Inventories, Start-up, Shutdown, and Malfunction Plans, Risk Management Plans, SARA 313, Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plans, Spill Prevention, Countermeasure, and Control Plans, and other environmental compliance documentation for oil and gas, petroleum refining, metallurgical, SOCMI, and other industrial facilities in nine states.

Knowledgeable in state and federal environmental regulations for different industries and states, Igor has used MS Office, AutoCAD and various special (TANKS, GRI-GlyCALC, Surfer) applications to complete over two dozen significant simple, complex and special modeling projects.

Patrick Bartosh is Sage’s Technical Project Management, a role he performs with over 35 years experience in the environmental engineering and consulting fields. Patrick was the founding president of Zephyr Environmental, and has held senior-level positions at five other firms, including RMT, Inc. Prior to his role at RMT, Patrick managed the Cantor Fitzgerald Environmental Business Services office in Houston, brokering air and renewable energy credits.

Patrick’s primary areas of expertise are in air quality–related issues, management of multi-discipline projects, and in the role of liaison on behalf of the industry. He also has extensive client service and technical programs management experience, as well as a background starting up and staffing new offices that provide environmentally related services.

Randy Parmley brings three decades of experience in air quality consulting to Sage, where he runs the Gulf Coast Operations. While his background encompasses almost every aspect of air quality, Randy’s primary areas of expertise are in the areas of air quality permitting and atmospheric dispersion modeling.

Randy has worked extensively with the refining and petrochemical industries and has a strong reputation preparing and negotiating large and complex Flexible, PAL, PSD, Maintenance Startup and Shutdown (MSS) and Title V permitting Projects. Along with preparing approximately 2500 air permit applications and supporting dispersion modeling analyses, Randy has conducted regulatory, permitting, and modeling seminars in North America, South America, Europe and Asia.

Randy’s engineering and air quality background enable him to evaluate and communicate complex emission release and modeling concepts in an understandable and credible manner. As a result he has been used by many of the leading law firms specializing in environmental issues. Randy’s expert witness experience includes contested permit hearings, serving as a neutral mediation expert in merger and acquisition disputes, disaster/event modeling evaluations and testimony, and a variety of health-effect related toxic tort support efforts.

As an air quality expert with expertise in preparing permit applications, environmental assessments, atmospheric dispersion modeling studies, air quality and meteorological monitoring programs, and monitor sighting studies, Art Bedrosian occupies a key slot in the Sage leadership team. His knowledge of control technology analyses for hundreds of projects involving power plants, refineries, chemical plants, cement manufacturing facilities, and general manufacturing brings Sage clients the expertise and confidence in performing that essential work. Art has also developed a reputation in dealing with regional ozone issues, transportation air quality and noise matters, and has provided testimony on numerous occasions.

In addition to his air quality experience, Art has provided overall leadership, organization, and scheduling for hundreds of environmental and engineering efforts. He has managed multi-disciplinary endeavors and environmental assessments of various sizes for industrial facilities, surface mines, ports, waterways, power plants, and transportation projects. This multi-disciplinary management experience includes the quality assurance and overseeing of groundwater study preparation, underground storage tank removal efforts, waste management efforts, and training program development and presentation.

Larry Darcey brings with him 12 years experience in environmental compliance and permitting. Larry has also served as the environmental solutions manager at one of the largest refineries in the United States where he managed costs, prioritized projects, and provided guidance to the refinery’s engineering and projects groups on environmental aspects of capital projects. In this position, Larry also found himself tracking and managing resolution of multi-media environmental audit findings generated during a multi-million dollar, multi-year audit.

Larry specializes in air quality permitting and compliance, and has extensive knowledge and experience with the Benzene Waste Operations NESHAP or “BWON,” having performed BWON compliance work at nearly two-dozen refineries and chemical plants. Larry routinely conducts BWON training courses and is recognized as one of the few national experts on BWON.

Larry has also reviewed and prepared SPCC Plans, performed environmental site assessments, and has worked with hazardous and solid waste management and NPDES permitting. Larry is a registered professional engineer in Texas, Louisiana, New York, Oklahoma, Montana, North Carolina, and New Mexico.

About his industry reputation: Larry is known as the BWON guru, but prefers to be called “o-BWON-kenobi”.

Ramona handles the branding and online/offline communications for Sage and the family of companies. At the core of her experience is 6 years as a graphic designer before joining Sage in ’07, working in a variety of industries. The projects she ran ranged from logo design, identity systems, web design, interior design, and branding. Sage needed a champion to build their brands and keep each company’s messaging consistent. Ramona heads up this effort keeping Sage and family fresh and current in their customer’s minds.

Ramona’s personal philosophy: The word is made a better place through good design and the right messaging!

Buzz Harris is a Chemical Engineer with 38 years experience in industry and consulting. He began his career as a process engineer at the Texaco Port Arthur refinery, where he spent six years rotating through responsibility for all the major refining process categories. He joined Radian Corporation in 1976, where he worked 29 years before joining Sage in 2005. He has spent the last 31 years in consulting to the refining and petrochemicals industries. Buzz played a lead role in the fugitive emission studies that established the monitoring protocol, correlation equations, and emission factors for refineries and SOCMI facilities. He has been continuously involved in LDAR equipment leaks issues for 32 years, in projects ranging from bagging, training, database, regulatory development, and auditing. In recent years, LDAR audits have become nearly his full-time job, having completed more than 130 LDAR audits over the last eight years. Buzz has also been active in supporting the development of new LDAR technologies, such as Smart LDAR. He has played a part in most public demonstrations of infrared imaging of equipment leaks, and has participated in several private demonstrations. Buzz is active in development and presentation of training materials related to LDAR, and is a lecturer at LDAR University. He has presented several dozen papers on LDAR at workshops and meetings and has chaired several LDAR-specific workshops. He is regular participant on expert panels to field audience questions on LDAR and Smart LDAR.

On a personal note: Buzz moved to Austin in the mid-1970s to be close to the source of the Outlaw Country music scene. His mp3 player still includes a bunch of alt-country, roots rock, blues, and a wide variety of other music. If he comes to visit you for an audit, tell him about your favorite artist or a live music happening in the area.

David has over 28 years experience in a variety of areas within the environmental field. These areas include instrumentation system design, air toxics monitoring programs, fugitive emission programs, design and installation of continuous emission monitoring systems (CEMS) and mobile air monitoring systems, maintenance of infrared air monitoring systems (FTIR) and numerous projects related to LDAR. He is currently active in the areas of application of new CEMS technologies, meteorological system design, and ambient air network design.

In the LDAR field, David participated in several key bagging projects that eventually led to the development and enhancement of refinery emission correlation equations. He has initiated LDAR programs both here and abroad as well as managed a large scale refinery tagging inventory project. David provides training on a variety of LDAR issues to refinery LDAR staff and participates in symposiums dealing with topics of interest to the LDAR community. David serves as a member of an LDAR audit team that has conducted LDAR audits at over 100 refinery and petrochemical plants across the U.S and has served as the audit leader on 18 of these audits. David has recently completed a 9 month study on the application of SmartLDAR techniques to traditional LDAR programs and is active in evaluating the use of this new technology to the area of fugitive emissions. David is part of a three-person team of LDAR experts which will perform a comprehensive assessment of LDAR for a major oil company site, and is currently engaged in performing emission rate tests (bagging) in both state and federally funded programs, conducting consent decree LDAR audits, and in the updating of a client’s corporate LDAR manual.

Joe Wilwerding has 11 years of continuous environmental engineering experience which includes preparation of various investigations such as Consent Decree Leak Detection and Repair (LDAR) /Benzene Waste Operations NESHAPS (BWON), Clear Air Act (CAA) Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT), and Multimedia/Title V. He has developed in-depth knowledge in determining applicability of regulations, litigation and negotiation of technical support of national/global consent decrees with petrochemical companies regarding LDAR and benzene waste operations. Joe also worked as a compliance investigator and national technical expert for LDAR at the National Enforcement Investigations Center (NEIC). As a “consultant” for EPA headquarters and regional offices, NEIC performs investigations around the United States (including territories) at large petrochemical and manufacturing facilities.

To sum up Joe’s role at Sage: “Take me to your data”!

Franny has led the creation and evolution of HR and general administrative functions for fifteen years at companies ranging in size from $20,000,000 in revenues to $700,000,000. Franny specializes in implementing tools and streamlining processes to create stable but scalable platforms for organizational growth. Franny speaks at conferences across the country about effective, profit-focused, progressive support for entrepreneur-lead organizations. She is known as an exceptionally resourceful and forward-thinking HR leader.

Franny is the key liaison for Sage’s network of independent contractors, full-time, and part-time staff. Franny helps client service managers source the right human resources required to ensure an outstanding work product.

On a personal note: In between family responsibilities and guiding Sage to greatness through good HR practices, Franny loves gardening, travel and great food.