Field Advisor

Bio

As a native of Florida, Cheryl has been involved in the stormwater, erosion and sediment control profession since 1985. During her years of experience in the construction industry, her responsibilities have ranged from FDOT project coordination, site evaluations, NPDES inspections, design proposals and cost estimating. Although, materials utilized for Best Management Practices and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans are her primary area of expertise, she has owned and operated her own business since 2005 and focuses on education and training of regulatory requirements as well.

She has been a State Certified Inspector since 1999 and a State Certified Trainer since 2002 for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Stormwater, Erosion and Sedimentation Control Inspector Training Program. She has taught more classes and has certified more people than any other trainer in the state. In addition she is an FDEP Advanced Inspector / Instructor and has taught at a number of FDEP Train the Trainer Programs.

As of February 2007, she was contracted by the Florida Stormwater Association to teach the Level One and Level Two Stormwater Operator’s Certification Course and The Best Management Practice Selection Program. She is a licensed continuing education provider through the Department of Professional and Business Regulation and the Board of Professional Engineers. She is also a certified communications trainer for the People Map System.

Recently, she has been contracted by CBI-Systems in Texas as their State of Florida Representative and is scheduling and conducting hands on webinars for their computer software tools developed for compliance of NPDES, MS4 Permits and the Clean Water Act.
She is an author for Stormwater USA’s online training certification programs and a trainer for Storm Water Solutions / Stormwater USA Webinar Series.

Conference exhibition, teaching and moderating of training classes are the functions that she is most well-known for throughout many of the construction affiliated entities. These entities include the Florida Engineering Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, Florida Public Works Association, Florida Chamber Environmental Permitting and Florida Transportation Builders Association.