Charles Jones

About Charles Jones

Mr. Jones manages the company\'s services in the Gulf Coast Region. He has over 20 years of experience in business development, account management, and project management for many diverse environmental projects. Key experience includes wetland delineation, permitting, and mitigation banking in the New Orleans, Vicksburg, Mobile, Fort Worth, Little Rock, Tulsa, and Galveston Districts of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. He has worked throughout the wetland environments of Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Texas, and extensively in the riverine habitats of the Amite, Calcasieu, Atchafalaya, Ouachita, Red, Pearl, and Mississippi Rivers. • Wetland Delineations • Section 404 and Section 10 permitting (Individual, Nationwide, District General), commercial development, industrial development, mixed-use developments, and residential subdivisions • Wetland mitigation bank establishment• Mitigation bank market analysis• Project-specific wetland mitigation planning and implementation• Conducting endangered species surveys and critical habitat identification• Coastal use permitting and mitigation coordination• Wild and Scenic Rivers permitting• Natural Resource Damage Assessment• Biota toxicity sampling• Conducting Phase I ESA consistent with the ASTM Standard (Designation E 1527 13) of commercial, industrial, and inactive and abandoned sites• Developing sampling work plans for hazardous site investigations• Collection of data in support of site closure under RECAP and Statewide Order 29 B• Estimating project costs• Procuring qualified contractors for project execution• Conducting multi-media Phase II investigations of soil, surface water, sediment, groundwater, and biota• Supervising the excavation and disposal of hazardous materials• Supervising the installation and development of groundwater monitoring wells• Supervising the plugging and abandonment of groundwater monitoring wells• Preparation of final technical reports

Experience

1. Director of Gulf Coast Operations

   Matrix New World Engineering

   Aug 2015 — Present · Baton Rouge, LA, US

Education

• Louisiana Tech University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Wildlife Conservation

  1984 — 1989

Skills

• Remediation
• Environmental Compliance
• Sampling
• Rcra
• Wetlands
• Nepa
• Environmental Management Systems
• Environmental Permitting
• Environmental Engineering
• Mitigation
• Hazardous Waste Management
• Groundwater
• Phase I
• Environmental Awareness
• Phase 1
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Water
• Environmental Consulting
• Mitigation Banking
• Environmental Science
• Water Quality
• Endangered Species
• Groundwater Remediation
• Water Resource Management
• Soil