Neptune and Company, Inc.

(720) 746-1803, ext. 5#

(720) 746-1605

Ms. Black has more than 19 years of professional experience in applying quantitative tools to problem solving. Her view of the project as an interconnected series of processes led her to an interest in systematic planning, data and design quality assurance, and data maintenance as these are areas where many projects fail. Ms. Black’s in depth knowledge and experience with systematic planning tools used by EPA, DOE, and DoD has allowed her to utilize her statistical background to assist project teams with resource optimization. Her most recent body of work has been more focused on bringing the results from successful environmental data collection to stakeholders via interactive web programs. The cost of environmental data collection is often extremely expensive, so Ms. Black has been working on ways to maximize the value of these data through improved access and analysis techniques. She has served in a number of leadership roles including task leader for Peer Review in support of the LANL ER Project. In that role, she developed strategies to improve quality of decisions and documents while increasing awareness across technical teams of similarities in problems and approaches She has co-authored several EPA QA guidance documents, provided statistical expertise for a wide range of environmental problems, and has worked on several web-based interactive tools for emerging environmental areas, such as brownfields development efforts. Ms. Black is widely recognized within the EPA community from the numerous technical training courses she has presented, and has gained a reputation for explaining complex statistical concepts without the extensive use of jargon.

Ms. Black earned a M.S. in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, and a B.S. in Statistics with Economics and Sociology from Montana State University.

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