Wendy Merz is a Principal Consultant with more than 23 years of environmental consulting experience. In her current role, she coordinates Trinity’s service offerings and works with our local Environmental Consulting offices on projects related to environmental sustainability. She is also experienced in environmental regulatory compliance strategy development and air quality permitting across multiple industry sectors, which she leverages to support industrial clients in addressing today’s challenges associated with the transition to a low-carbon economy. This support includes corporate GHG inventories (Scope 1, 2, and 3), product life cycle assessments (LCAs) and environmental product declarations (EPDs), GHG reduction strategies, and target-setting.

She also supports clients with various corporate environmental sustainability initiatives, including program development, environmental KPI identification, and tracking. She is an experienced project manager of large projects with geographically diverse team members and client sites and is an experienced presenter and instructor on sustainability topics and environmental regulatory requirements.

Ms. Merz has supported clients in variety of industries including natural gas production, transmission and distribution, power generation, petroleum refining, cement manufacturing, lime manufacturing, steel manufacturing, secondary aluminum manufacturing, synthetic fiber manufacturing, food processing, asphalt manufacturing, and transportation services. She also has extensive experience in the regulatory requirements for stationary engines enrolled in Demand Response Programs.

Ms. Merz graduated from Lehigh University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering and from University of Cincinnati with a Master of Science degree in Environmental Engineering. Prior to her consulting career, Ms. Merz worked in the oil industry for six years and taught high school chemistry for five years. Ms. Merz opened Trinity’s Philadelphia Office in 2012 and managed the office for seven years.

Kirk serves as Managing Director for Trinity’s East Region and has over 27 years of environmental experience with a focus in the air quality regulatory arena. Kirk’s regulatory expertise includes air permitting (NSR/PSD/Title V), NSPS/NESHAP/MACT compliance, emission inventories, enforcement/litigation support, compliance/due diligence auditing, and state/local air quality regulations. With an in-depth understanding of air regulations and air permitting processes, Kirk helps industrial clients develop and execute strategies for addressing their air permitting requirements associated with capital projects, while optimizing the client’s business objectives against regulatory requirements.

A member of Trinity’s Executive Operating Committee, Dr. Hung-Ming (Sue) Sung joined the firm in 1989 and has provided technical and management consulting support in environmental, health, safety, sustainability and quality issues to clients globally for three decades. She developed and implemented Trinity’s ISO 9001 quality management system that has been certified since 2002 in its Dallas headquarters location. She leads the development of Trinity’s occupational health and safety management system to comply with legal and business requirements globally. She serves as a senior advisor to various business lines in Trinity including EHS information technology (IT) solutions, EHS performance and risk management, the BREEZE® Software group, and Trinity’s environmental consulting teams globally. In 2006, Dr. Sung started Trinity’s operations in China to support industries, institutes, government agencies, and foreign investors. Today, Trinity’s China operations have become the leading expert company in China in environmental permitting assisting industries and local agencies for environmental quality improvements.

Dr. Sung has been involved in projects such as regulatory compliance analysis and management and EHS management system development, implementation, and auditing. She has been involved in many EHS due diligence assessment projects for clients globally. Using her extensive regulatory knowledge of the petroleum and energy industries, she has assisted clients in identifying and implementing cost-effective EMS and IT solutions for tracking and reporting EHS key performance indices (KPIs) including advanced OSHA 300 reporting system for large oil and gas companies. She has supported clients on both USEPA RMP and OSHA PSM programs to ensure compliance. She also manages the SANGEATM 4 software sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute (API) that is used for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reporting by oil and gas companies.

Dr. Sung is a registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) with a doctorate in Environmental Engineering. She has been an environmental committee member of the American Fuels & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) since 2001. She was an Adjunct Professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas (2011-2014). She has taught many professional development courses provided by Trinity and other professional organizations. She has developed more than 20 courses and instructed more than 100 training workshops to environmental professionals all over the world. She consistently receives the highest reviews on her technical knowledge in course topics.

She received a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from National Chung-Hsing University, an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Marquette University, and a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Christi Wilson, Principal Consultant in Trinity’s Pittsburgh office, supports clients with completing emissions inventories, preparing sustainability reports, and developing tactics and strategies for emission reduction targets.

Managing Director for Trinity’s West Region, Vineet has more than 20 years of environmental consulting experience and significant expertise on air quality issues. Vineet is a recognized strategic advisor and thought leader on complex air quality issues facing regulated sources including climate change and sustainability matters.

As a Managing Director, he also oversees and has P&L responsibilities for Trinity’s West Region consulting operations and Trinity’s Mobile Source and Fuels business line. The majority of his consulting experience involves managing and supervising environmental strategy, permitting, and compliance projects in Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, South Dakota, Texas, Washington, and several other states. Vineet has provided services to clients in a variety of industries, including oil and natural gas (upstream and downstream), refining, cement, chemical, electric utilities, building products, pulp and paper, agricultural and dairy, food processing, tire manufacturing, railroad operations, aerospace, construction, agriculture, and food products.

Vineet is experienced in all facets of environmental permitting and compliance from greenfield major sources to minor sources, managing large projects from conception to operations, project planning and strategy development, performing site investigations and audits, supporting enforcement and compliance cases, advising senior environmental professionals on technical issues that affect capital investments and associated environmental permitting and compliance requirements. He has delivered technical papers and numerous presentations on a variety of environmental subjects. In addition, he has prepared and taught industry-specific workshops for several facilities covering various environmental topics as multi-day custom corporate and state agency training events, to targeted seminars and webinars on specialty air quality topics. Vineet has also provided expert witness support in Clean Air Act litigation cases.

Vineet earned his MBA from Southern Methodist University, an MS degree in Environmental Engineering & Air Quality Management from Montana Tech, and a BS degree in Civil Engineering from the Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology in Bhopal, India. Vineet is also a CARB accredited Lead Verifier for all GHG sectors.