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Dawn A. Santoianni, Senior Quality Engineer Veritas Economic Consulting, LLC 1851 Evans Road, Cary, NC 27513 EXPERTISE QA/QC program development and implementation QA/QC and technical review of scientific studies Data acquisition systems design and programming Technical documentation development, editing and reviews
QUALIFICATIONS QA and data validation for commercial, municipal, academic and government clients
Ms. Santoianni has 18 years of experience providing quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) for government, industry, and academic clients on a range of environmental, regulatory compliance, and economic modeling projects. She has extensive QA, technical writing, editing, and scientific and regulatory document experience. Ms. Santoianni has developed QA/QC programs and performed quality reviews and audits for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Federal Highway Administration (FHA), Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), municipal governments, and academic research institutions. She has led QA/QC programs for several custom modeling projects including a national electricity generation and reliability model developed for EPRI; numerous economic models to support regulatory compliance submissions for power plants; a model to evaluate the benefits of Superfund restoration projects; and FHA test program data analysis, graphics development and report development.
QA review of custom model analytics and documentation QA/QC of Comprehensive Demonstration Study regulatory documents Development of QA documents for EPA including quality assurance project plans, standard operating procedures, technical guidance documents, and facility manuals.
EDUCATION M.S., Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, 1999 B.S., Mechanical Engineering, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1991 EPA Quality System Training American Society for Quality (ASQ) Membership and Software Requirements Engineering Training
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY QA/QC Experience Development of QA/QC program for unit-level national electricity market model that assesses economic, financial and reliability impacts of environmental policies. QA review of data inputs, results, technical documentation, and deliverables. QA/QC and technical editing of regulatory documents for six Exelon power plants, including review of statistical analysis, baseline evaluations and quantification of uncertainty. QA review of analytics and documentation in custom model that evaluates the economic benefits of various restoration projects for a Superfund site. Prepared Quality Assurance Project Plans for various research projects, including identification of data quality objectives, development of procedures data collection, standard operating procedures, inputs calibration and data validation. Managed data analysis and QA/QC of over 300 million experimental data points for Federal Highway Administration test program; managed production, editing and quality review of 10volume technical report and CD of results that was distributed worldwide. Performed comprehensive literature review of emission factors incorporating EPA and internationally published emissions data.
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Experience Veritas Economic Consulting, Cary, NC Senior Engineer, 2007 to present Orange County Commission for the Environment, Orange County, NC Vice-Chair, 2008 to present Engineer, 2006 to present Arcadis Geraghty & Miller, Inc., Durham, NC Research Engineer, 1999 to 2006 Applied Energy Research Lab, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC Research Assistant, 1997 to 1999 Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas, Inc., New York, NY Consultant, 1996 to 1997 Senior Engineer, 1994 to 1996 Engineer, 1991 to 1994
Areas of Specialization QA and Technical Reviews •
Managed data analysis and report generation for Federal Highway Administration test program; analysis and QA/QC oversight of over 300 million experimental data points.
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Managed design of results CD from FHA test program. Two-disc interactive CD was distributed worldwide to engineering professionals and government agencies.
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Assisted Duke University with the development of quality assurance documents for database procedures.
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Reviewed state-of-technology of power generation from animal waste, including anaerobic digestion, direct combustion, co-firing biomass with coal, and gasification.
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Provided technical editing and QA/QC review of comprehensive development study (CDS) documents for six Exelon power plants.
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Performed comprehensive literature review of international emission factor research and compared to EPA published emission factors and Emissions Inventory Improvement Program guidelines.
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Provide technical review of Orange County greenhouse gas emissions inventory; assist County and Chapel Hill/Carrboro political leaders in evaluating action strategies for reduction of county’s carbon footprint.
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Advised Orange County Commissioners on environmental and sustainability issues; responsible for formulating an ozone action strategy to be implemented county-wide.
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Assist with planning and design of Hollow Rock Park in Durham, NC to conform to conservation easements and preserve ecological and cultural resources along New Hope Creek.
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Honors and Awards Dean’s Fellow, North Carolina State University Graduated Magna Cum Laude, State University of New York at Stony Brook Tau Beta Pi—Engineering Honor Society
Selected Publications Santoianni, D.A., M.F. Bingham, D.M. Woodard, and J.C. Kinnell. 2008. “Power from Animal Waste—Economic, Technical, and Regulatory Landscape in the United States.” Journal of EUEC Volume 2, Paper #01. Available at http://www.euec.com/journal/documents/pdf/Santoianni.pdf. Yoo, J.I., T. Shinagawa, J.P. Wood, W.P. Linak, D.A. Santoianni, C.J. King, Y.C. Seo, and J.O.L. Wendt. 2005. “High Temperature Sorption of Cesium and Strontium on Kaolinite Powders in Combustors.” Environmental Science & Technology 39:5087–5094. Lemieux, P.M., C.C. Lutes, and D.A. Santoianni. 2004. “Emissions of Organic Air Toxics from Open Burning: A Comprehensive Review.” Progress in Energy and Combustion Science 30(1):1–32. Linak, W.P., C.A. Miller, D.A. Santoianni, C.J. King, T. Shinagawa, J.O.L. Wendt, J.I. Yoo, and Y.C. Seo. 2004. “High Temperature Interactions between Residual Oil Ash and Dispersed Kaolinite Powders.” Aerosol Science & Technology 38:1–14. Linak, W.P., C.A. Miller, D.A. Santoianni, C.J. King, T. Shinagawa, J.O.L. Wendt, J.I. Yoo, and Y.C. Seo. 2003. “Formation of Fine Particles from Residual Oil Combustion: Reducing Nuclei through the Addition of Inorganic Sorbent.” Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering 20(4):664– 669. Santoianni, D.A., M.E. DeCroix, and W.L. Roberts. 2001. “Temperature Imaging in an Unsteady Propane-Air Counterflow Diffusion Flame Subjected to Low Frequency Oscillations.” Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 66(1):23–36.
Selected Presentation Santoianni, D.A., M.F Bingham, D.M. Woodard, and J.C. Kinnell. 2008. “Renewable Energy from Animal Waste: Can Regulatory Incentives Overcome Economic and Technical Barriers?” Presented at the Energy and Environment Conference, Tucson, AZ. January 27–30.
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