1. DJS Consulting 1000 Spanish River Rd., Suite 4B
Daniel Spandau Boca Raton, Florida 33432
Tel. 561-239-0090
dspandau@OfficeRx.biz
Dan Spandau is President and Senior Consulting Partner
with DJS Consulting, Inc. He has been working in the
environmental field for over 30 years and has worked
specifically with Petroleum Retail Marketers since the late
80’s. His work has been focused in the storage of
petroleum products, regulatory representation, evaluation
of insurance risk transfer instruments, environmental remediation, audits,
training, and the design and implementation of management systems to help
monitor business practices.
Dan has a degree in Chemistry and an MBA with a focus in Information
Management. He spent 10 years working with the EPA and the Department
of Energy developing instruments to monitor Environmental Pollutants.
In 1988, Dan started a commercial environmental laboratory for a Pump and
Tank contractor in the Northeast. As an executive member of the staff, he
helped expand the business into a national firm that offered Engineering,
Permitting, Construction, Maintenance, and Environmental services to
Petroleum Retail Marketers and Distributors. Dan has been an independent
consultant since 2000.
Dan’s focus over the last 5 years has been assisting Petroleum Marketers
and Distributors, Environmental Law Firms and Real Estate Investment
Firms deal with regulatory changes by helping them evaluate, design and
implement programs to streamline regulatory compliance.
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2. Daniel J. Spandau, CIE Selected Projects:
Environmental Risk Consultant
Multinational Oil Co. – Assessment of 471
properties to advance the purchase of a public
company. Identified the scope, pricing, and timetable
Years of Consulting Experience: 25 for an aggressive assessment program which was
used to evaluate the environmental risk and potential
Education: exposure at each property. Assisted in the analysis
and cost benefit criteria for additional assessment
Master Business Administration, IT requirements. Developed summary analysis and
New York Institute of Technology category exposure classifications to assess overall
potential exposure. Purchase completed within the
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry scheduled timeframe.
State University of New York
Mini-major Oil Co. – Developed and populated a
cost matrix of environmental exposure for over 1,000
properties to assist senior management to properly
Areas of Expertise:
document an environmental accrual schedule. This
schedule became a key factor in the eventual split of
Multi-dimensional environmental risk analysis
a public company into 2 separate public entities.
Environmental exposure risk transfer instruments
Environmental Law Firm – Various environmental
Environmental laboratory chemical analysis
and compliance related investigations to support
Environmental cost estimating and bid specifications
property acquisitions and sales.
Management Strategic Planning, Implementation and
Various Independent Oil Marketers Ass. – Trained
Training
Corporate staff members, Owners, Operators, and
contractors in State specific compliance guidelines .
Review of key items that must be focused on to run a
Registrations/Certifications:
Retail Gasoline Station within the required
guidelines, i.e. Inventory Management & variance
Certified Pollutant Storage Systems Contractor –
analysis, Stage I & II, Methods of Leak Detection,
Florida Dept. of Business and Professional Reg.
required documents, forms and logs, spill response
Certified Indoor Environmentalist - IAQA
and housekeeping.
Property and Casualty – Fl Dept. of Ins. - dormant
Major Oil Co. – Compliance management and
Memberships program design for various departments that include:
American Chemical Society IOMA, PEI, Rotary Terminal and Transportation Operations, Retail
International, Marketing Operations and Wholesale Delivery
Operations. Compliance tasks include field
Professional Profile: inspection, field inspection guidelines, field
inspection training, compliance documentation
Over 25 years experience providing environmental organization, and development of management field
services to Fortune 500 companies. Specializing in inspection/tracking reports
environmental risk assessment, and strategic
Major Oil Co. – Restructuring of a compliance
opportunity analysis. Designed and managed
management system to improve tracking and timely
programs to assist clientele evaluate and manage risks
corrective actions at over 1500 separate properties.
associated with environmental exposures. Assisted
Scope of work included the identification and
companies thru acquisitions and sales. Held various
reassignment of critical compliance overview of
positions bidding and managing construction
company personnel; development of training
programs (design/build) of groundwater treatment
manuals, audit forms and associated training of
plants, and soil & groundwater remediation systems
employees and subcontractors; flowcharting of MIS
for various public & private firms, municipalities and
AS400 database application to log, track and report
public agencies. Designed, developed and managed
on compliance status; development of trend analysis
compliance programs for major oil companies.
criteria to identify critical issues; development of
Research background in environmental chemistry,
maintenance program flowcharts to use data collected
laboratory and field identification of organic
to predict rather then react to upcoming compliance
compounds.
task requirements.
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3. Spandau, D. NYS Petroleum Bulk Storage (PBS)
Comm. Geoprobe Co. – Assisted in the development
Compliance Audit Review Manual, Major
of a Membrane Interface Probe (MIP) and the rapid
International Oil Company, September 2005
identification and verification of chlorinated and
aromatic contaminants in the subsurface. This Spandau, D. Florida DEP Compliance Program
environmental tool has been used successfully by Tank Inspections, Submitted to Florida Department
many consulting firms during field investigations at of Environmental Protection, June 2003
federal, public and private properties. Spandau, D. Sensing Tools To Assist In-Situ
Remediation, Presented at the Battelle Conference,
Risk Assessment and Evaluation - Hotel & Marina,
Orlando, FL, June 2003.
U.S Virgin Islands - Third party investigator to
Spandau, D. Subsurface Direct Sensing: Tool and
evaluate historic uses, review reports, and assess
Technology Development, Presented at the Florida
investment exposure for a consortium of real estate
Remediation Conference, Orlando, FL, November
investment companies. Tasks included multiple site
2002.
visits to identify and document any potential
environmental exposures, report discrepancies with Spandau, D. Pseudo Real-Time Compliance
any of the historic documents and information Monitoring of Effluent Discharges for Volatile
supplied, and identified any additional investigations Organic Compounds, Presented at Conference on
that were necessary to fully ascertain the Environmental Decision Making: Strategies for
environmental exposure. FOI requests and local Cost-Effective Compliance & Quality Management,
agency file review, helped identify additional IBM, Watson Research Center, November 1998
responsible parties. Risk transfer instruments were Spandau, D. Effluent Discharge Monitor - EDM 1000
identified to potentially limit and cap the investor’s U.S. Patent No. 5,496,733, March 1996.
exposure.
Spandau, D. Laboratory Comparison Studies of
Commercially Available Remediation Products for
Mattice Chemical – Superfund – The removal of
Soil Washing and Bioremediation, review for Getty
high concentrations of chlorinated and aromatic
Petroleum Corp., March 1992.
hydrocarbon contaminates in the groundwater was
required. Managed and developed qualifications Spandau, D. Health and Safety Aspects Planning,
package, design/build team, and bid package to Better Buildings, Two Part Article, November 1990,
construct, test and operate a 6 million dollar April 1991.
treatment system. Project completed and transferred Spandau, D. Implementation of a Laboratory
to a long term treatment plant operator. Information Management System in a Small
Commercial Laboratory, New York Institute of
Environmental Testing Laboratory – Laboratory
Technology, Westbury, NY, September 1990
Director and Vice President of Environmental
Dietz, R.N., Spandau, D.J., Senum, G.I., D’Ottavio,
Testing Laboratories, Inc. (ETL) for over 10 years.
T.W., and Goodrich, R.W. Determination of
The laboratory maintained certification in over 15
Femtoliter (fl) Quantities of Perfluorocarbon
states.
Compounds, Presented at the American Chemical
Various Major Oil Companies & Broker Accounts –
Society 196th National Meeting, Los Angeles CA,
Vice President and manager of an environmental
September 1988.
group located in the NY tri-state area. Responsible
D’Ottovio, T.W., Goodrich, R.W., Spandau, D.J., and
for the assessment, evaluation, remediation and
Dietz, R.N. A Database of PFT Ventilation
agency reporting for ~200 locations.
Measurements, BNL: #41680 prepared for VERSAR,
Brookhaven National Laboratory – Chemistry Inc. (EPA) August 1988.
Associate in the Department of Applied Science, Spandau D.J., D’Ottavio, T.W. and Dietz, R.N.
Division of Environmental Chemistry. Participated LIMS at Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Tracer
in many research programs for the advancement of Technology Center. Presented at the First
Environmental Chemistry and the development of International Laboratory Information Management
Instrumentation Systems Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA June 1987.
Leahy, D.F. and Spandau, D.J. Mobile Laboratory,
Informal Report, BNL #3966, March 1987.
Publications, Patents & Presentations: Gaffney, J.S., Spandau, D.J., Kelly, T.J. and Tanner,
Spandau, D. Compliance Audit Program R.L. Gas Chromatographic Detection of Reduced
Implementation for Retail Gas Service Station, Major Sulfur Compounds Using Ozone Chemiluminescence
International Oil Company, June 2007 Journal of Chromatography, 347, 121-27 1985
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4. DJS Consulting Inc. 1000 Spanish River Rd., Suite 4B
Daniel Spandau Boca Raton, Florida 33432
Tel. 561.239.0090
dspandau@OfficeRx.biz
DJS Consulting, Inc. is an independent consulting firm assisting clients with Regulatory
Environmental Compliance & Environmental Risk Management services. DJS Consulting
works closely with a team of client and client vendor personnel to create a comprehensive
compliance management program.
Environmental Risk Management Services
• Identify clients risks based on a variety of data, business practices, regulatory
requirements, historic reports and database searches. Determine possible risk
alternatives and business strategies to deal with real and perceived environmental
issues
• Risk based alternative may include the identification of:
Indemnification options
Insurance risk transfer instruments
Financing alternatives
Opportunity cost/expenses
Regulatory restrictive options
Remedial Alternatives
Audit Services
Site audit services, independent verification of compliance status
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Audit trend tracking and identification of areas of concern
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Audit training and procedural reviews and updates
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Environmental Services
• Phase I and Phase II preparation
• Property transfer analysis
• Analysis of Risk Transfer options
Regulatory Environmental Compliance
• Assist with the development of strategic environmental corporate plan
• Process development to maintain a proactive environmental compliance program
• Task development that identifies each required step for a comprehensive
environmental compliance program
• Flowcharting and development of in-house or web based software that will
automate data input, tracking and reporting functions
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5. DJS Consulting Inc. 1000 Spanish River Rd., Suite 4B
Daniel Spandau Boca Raton, Florida 33432
Tel. 561.239.0090
dspandau@OfficeRx.biz
Flowcharting and development of in-house or web based software that will send out
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auto-notifications to all responsible parties to expedite the closure of all
documented non-compliant items
Development of Forms, Logs, Procedures and Manuals that will be used by company
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personnel and outside service provides to comply with program requirements
Development and delivery of environmental compliance training programs
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(management and operators) to reinforce program scope and objectives
Environmental Compliance Document Management – www.PBSdocs.com
• Document management portal that is secure and web accessible where
environmental compliance documents are stored and maintained
• Documents are stored and sorted by location, document type and upload dates
• Document access has security limits based on User Name and Password
• Company locations are profiled based on Federal, State and Local regulatory
requirements to identify all compliance document requirements. Each document is
identified for: frequency of renewals, responsible party for renewal, and time
requirements for pre-notifications
• Responsible parties are notified if any document is near expiration or requires any
action (based on profile)
• Management reports detail document status
• Web portal also maintains company forms, logs, manuals and web links
• Web portal maintains environmental compliance calendar of important dates,
meetings and events
Compliance Audit Data Management
• Web accessible portal that tracks Audits and analyzes compliance data
• Audit trend identification by:
o Client Geographic area/ sub-area/ location
o Responsible Party i.e. Manager, subcontractor, operator
o Regulatory issue/s
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