Shishir Mohan

Shishir serves as Trinity’s Managing Director of the Gulf/South Region, has over 30 years of experience with chemicals, petrochemicals and refineries located primarily in Texas and Louisiana. He has done extensive new source review permitting (major and minor) for a variety of chemical, refining and petrochemical facilities located in the Gulf Coast. He has also performed compliance analyses, audits, detailed studies, and/or training pertaining to MACT, NESHAP, and NSPS standards affecting chemical, petrochemical, and refining process industries for numerous companies all over the country. Mr. Mohan has performed extensive work in every major facet of air quality compliance for batch and continuous chemical process industries.

Shishir has a M.S. degree in environmental engineering from the State University of New York, Syracuse and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Institute of Technology, Varanasi, India.

Brian Burdorf

As an Operations Director in Trinity’s Gulf Coast Region, Brian oversees environmental permitting, compliance, and reporting projects that include facility siting, due diligence, expert testimony, federal and state permitting (including PSD, Nonattainment, Major Source MACT, New Source Review, Title V, and Deepwater Port Licenses), compliance assurance support, auditing, air quality impact assessments, and public hearing support. Brian also leads Trinity’s Environmental Justice practice and Trinity’s Australia operations.

Brian’s 30 years of experience includes permitting work on hundreds of projects located throughout the United States for operations involved in petroleum refining, liquid terminals, oil and gas exploration, production, processing and transmission, cement manufacturing, electric power generation, cogeneration, chemicals, steel manufacturing, mining, tire manufacturing, landfill gas and landfill gas-to-energy, aerospace, military, and alcoholic brewing.

In addition to his consulting work, Brian has prepared and instructed professional training courses for environmental professionals, including custom courses for corporations, regulatory agencies, and trade associations.

Brian graduated Summa Cum Laude from Texas A&M University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and has an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL.

Kathryn Connolly

Kathryn Connolly is a Principal Consultant for Trinity’s EHS Digital Solutions business based in Oakland, CA. She specializes in solution design and implementation that digitizes workflows and data collection for EHS business processes such as air emissions compliance, incident management, and sustainability metrics tracking.

Beth Ryder

Ms. Ryder is a managing consultant for Trinity Consultants located in Bend, Oregon. She began her Trinity career in the Seattle office and has since been a part of the Oakland, Albuquerque, Salt Lake City, and Phoenix offices. She assists clients with state and federal air quality permitting, compliance reporting, air emissions quantification, and air dispersion modeling analyses. She has worked with companies in a variety of industries, including data centers, mining, petroleum refineries, petroleum storage and distribution facilities, natural gas compressor stations, pulp and paper mills, wood products plants, semiconductor fabrication plants, and power companies.

Ms. Ryder is experienced in preparing comprehensive air permit applications including compiling emission inventories, performing emission calculations, conducting regulatory applicability studies, and conducting air dispersion modeling analyses. Ms. Ryder’s experience includes the use of AERSCREEN, AERMOD, CALPUFF, and results/mapping analysis tools such as ArcGIS, Surfer, and BREEZE 3D Analyst.

Ms. Ryder received an M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington. She received a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Oregon State University.