Rich serves as Regional Director of the Gulf region and Manager of Consulting Services for Trinity’s Houston and Lake Charles offices. With over 20 years at Trinity Consultants, Rich has a wealth of experience assisting industrial facilities with air quality permitting, including Title V Operating Permits and Prevention of Significant Deterioration / Nonattainment New Source Review permits.

A former director of Trinity’s Digital Solutions division dedicated to helping companies streamline Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) information management practices, Rich is particularly knowledgeable regarding selection and implementation of enterprise-wide environmental management information systems (EMIS) for industry. Rich is also well-versed in developing custom applications to enhance EH&S data management and has worked extensively to assist clients with data gathering and reporting systems, compliance tracking systems, regulatory determination functionality, and air/water/waste modules.

Rich graduated Magna Cum Laude from Texas A&M University with a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering.

Brad James, PE, serves as Regional Manager of Trinity Consultants’ Southeast Region offices. Commencing his career with Trinity in Charlotte, Brad gained significant experience assisting companies in a variety of industries in the Southeast with air quality and environmental compliance. In 2004, Brad relocated to Florida to assist Trinity in serving clients in the state. In 2007, Brad helped open Trinity’s first office in Florida, located in his hometown of Orlando. Later, Brad moved to Atlanta where he assumed the leadership role of Atlanta office manager in 2015. In 2023, Brad assumed the role of Regional Manager for Trinity’s Southeast Region.

Brad has assisted clients from varied industries including power generation, bulk storage terminals, asphalt products, wood products, building products, Portland cement, and food products with environmental regulations compliance. In supporting his clients, Brad has assisted with environmental management (auditing, regulatory strategy assessments, compliance management tools) and permitting (Title V, PSD, state permitting, and Case-by-Case MACT).

He has experience working with state and local agencies throughout the Southeast. With this broad client experience, Brad has presented on key topics of expertise including Climate Change Strategy, Title V Permit Compliance, and Environmental Reporting and he is the primary instructor of Trinity’s training course, Air Compliance Auditing for Industrial Facilities. Brad is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Florida. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering with High Honor from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Principal Consultant Tony Jabon, PE, serves as Regional Director for Trinity’s Carolinas, Louisiana, and Mississippi region (Charlotte, Raleigh, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and Jackson, MS offices). Tony is based in Trinity’s Charlotte, North Carolina office. Since joining Trinity in 1998, Tony has extensive experience providing consulting services to a variety of industries, including building products, wood products, and automotive assembly facilities. He specializes in PSD/NSR permitting, Title V permitting, NESHAP compliance, and Compliance Assurance Monitoring plans. Tony has also participated in client negotiations with various regulatory agencies and assisted facilities with compliance management services.

In addition to his consulting services, Tony is an instructor for Trinity’s national Title V Compliance Workshop course. He earned both a B.S.E. in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a M.S.E. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. Tony also holds a M.B.A. in Strategy from the Cox School of Business at SMU.

As a Regional Director for Trinity’s Pacific Northwest Region, Melissa Hillman is based in Trinity’s Portland, Oregon office and has more than 17 years of experience in environmental consulting, specializing primarily in large strategic account management and air quality. Melissa oversees offices located in Boise, Idaho; Portland, Oregon; and Seattle, Washington. The majority of Melissa’s experience involves growing corporate accounts through effective project management involving small to large environmental projects. Melissa has experience working in numerous states including Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Hawaii, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Washington.

Melissa specializes in a number of industrial sectors including data centers, electrical generation, chemical/fertilizer production, pulp and paper production, and cement manufacturing. Her area of expertise includes local/state/federal air quality permitting, air quality compliance, environmental audits, air emissions inventories, and litigation support. She has taught regional-specific air quality training courses in California and Nevada.

Melissa earned her M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California at Davis. She earned her Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in Chemical Engineering from Florida State University.

Principal Consultant Christine Chambers serves as Regional Director for Trinity’s Central States Region. Christine is based in Trinity’s Dallas, Texas office and has more than 20 years of experience in the air quality consulting field, including state and federal air quality permitting, environmental audits, emissions inventories, and litigation support. She has extensive experience conducting and managing long-range transport analyses including ozone impact assessments, reasonable progress, and Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) evaluations conducted in support of technical response comments to EPA Federal Implementation Plans (FIPs), various PSD permit applications, as well as a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) assessment. Modeling efforts included extensive sensitivity analyses to optimize the modeling domain and parameter values and discussions/negotiations with EPA, state agencies, and federal land managers (FLM).

Christine earned her M.S. degree in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. She earned her Bachelor’s of Engineering degree in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Environmental Engineering from Vanderbilt University. In addition, Ms. Chambers completed her Master of Business Administration degree at Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business.

Eddie Al-Rayes is Regional Director for Trinity’s California and Phoenix operations and is based in the Sacramento, California office. Eddie is involved with assisting the regulated community in the region with a variety of environmental permitting and compliance issues such as air quality permitting, air emissions controls, air quality dispersion modeling and impacts, implementation of digital compliance management tools, due diligence in support of mergers and acquisitions, agency negotiations, and environmental auditing.

Since the late 1990s, Eddie has supported clients across the West in EPA Regions 6, 8, and 9 and in various industry sectors such as petroleum refining, mining and metallic minerals processing, steel manufacturing, semiconductor, and electrical utilities. Eddie has also instructed professional training courses on state and federal air regulations in Texas and Arizona.

Eddie holds a B.E. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and an M.S. degree in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

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.

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.

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.

As Managing Director, he oversees and has P&L responsibilities for Trinity’s East Region consulting operations, which spans from Kentucky through New England. Kirk also leads Trinity’s refrigerant and ozone depleting substance (ODS) compliance services team through the execution of compliance audits and the development of compliance management programs driven by 40 CFR 82 and state-specific regulations. Kirk is the primary author for Trinity’s refrigerant and ODS regulatory training workshop that is provided across the nation. During his five plus years managing the air quality program for The Boeing Company’s Wichita, Kansas facility, Kirk also oversaw the implementation of the ODS compliance program for the facility.

Kirk earned both his MS degree in Environmental Engineering and BS degree in Aeronautical & Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University.