Paul Mills
 

• Mr. Mills received his BS degree in Biochemistry and his MBA in Management from Michigan State University.  He has over 25 years experience in managing environmental research and quality assurance programs.  He served as an expert panel member who helped to develop and establish EPA's Quality Assurance Program.  He helped develop and lead the operation of EPA's Superfund Contract Laboratory QA Program.  He assisted in the development of methods, reference materials, and quality control procedures for EPA's Love Canal investigation.  He has developed and audited QA Programs under DOE, EPA, and DOD requirements.  He is the QA Manager for CSC, under the US Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence; Global Engineering, Integration, and Technical Assistance contract.  He provides QA consultation for government clients in CSC’s Regulatory Services business area.

• Mr. Mills had a major role in establishing analytical chemistry data management support services for investigation and remediation of contaminated groundwater at the Massachusetts Military Reservation on Cape Cod, MA.

• He reviewed analytical chemistry data for the bioremediation of oil-contaminated beaches at Valdez, Alaska, and from the EPA’s incineration of dioxin-contaminated soil at Times Beach, MS.  Mr. Mills also directed field and off-site analytical laboratory QA Programs for analysis of soils and ash during the incineration of explosives-contaminated soils at Nebraska’s Cornhusker Army Ammunition Plant.

• Mr. Mills served as an Expert Panel member to evaluate the results of soil sampling and analysis on the National Institutes of Heath campus, Bethesda, MD in response to community concerns about dioxin emissions from medical pathological waste incinerators. 

• He was Team Leader on a $45M World Bank mission to investigate and recommend funding for laboratory testing and pollution monitoring needs in four highly industrialized and populated states in India.

• Mr. Mills is a Certified Professional Chemist, Certified Quality Manager, Certified Quality Auditor, and Certified Software Quality Engineer.  Mr. Mills provides consulting services in software quality assurance, data management, and environmental investigations.  He is an instructor for his local ASQ Section, providing training courses to prepare students to take ASQ certification examinations.  He is also an instructor at the University of Phoenix’s Northern Virginia Campus.  He has presented several papers and a workshop on ISO 17025, the standard adopted by the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Conference (NELAC).  He served on the NELAC Membership Committee for 2 years.