CALM INITIATIVE - Key Persons
Mr. Hardin's has over 30 years of professional experience has been focused on responsible waste management practices, sediment remediation, coal ash management and containment system design. His project experience includes the engineering design and construction of lined landfills, slope stability monitoring systems and wet ash basin closure projects in the Mid-Atlantic,
Job Titles:
- Chief Operations Officer
- Chief Operations Officer for the Coal Ash Liquid Management Initiative
Jeffie Hardin is the Chief Operations Officer for the Coal Ash Liquid Management Initiative. Jeffie has an extensive experience with business management and financial operations of small businesses. Over the past 25 years, Jeffie has worked closely with Chris to successfully start, operate and manage multiple consulting firms and sustainable farming businesses. Jeffie helps to keep the CALM Initiative "grounded" and believes in a "practical and tactical" approach to energy and environmental projects. In addition to the operations of CALM, she is a highly respected and well-known environmental and STEM educator in the community.
Job Titles:
- Senior Technical Coordinator
Mr. Traver has 40 years of diversified experience in design, fabrication and field operation of complex environmental remediation projects involving large scale contaminated sediment dredging/dewatering, soil/sediment remediation and difficult bulk materials processing challenges. From 2007 - 2014, he served as CH2M HILL's in-house principal technologist for sediment management &