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Brian Burdorf

Kathian Pellot on June 4, 2025

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.

Jay Hofmann

Victor Camara on June 2, 2025

Jay Hofmann is a member of the Trinity Consultants Board of Directors and Divisional President, Environmental Consulting . A 33-year veteran of the firm, he has served in several key roles at Trinity, an 1800-person EHS, engineering, and science firm with more than 80 offices worldwide. The firm’s initial focus was on air quality consulting, with niche expertise on the complex permitting process for large, industrial facilities. Over the past two decades, Trinity has expanded from an air quality consulting firm into a multi-media environmental consulting, water and ecology, built environment, and life sciences company.

Jay joined Trinity as an environmental consultant in 1986. He later served as Chief Operating Officer and in 2001 was named President and CEO. In 2023, he stepped down as President and CEO while continuing to remain active in the business.

He has substantial consulting experience and is a recognized authority on Clean Air Act (CAA) regulations, air pollution (source) impact assessments, air pollution control technologies, and environmental management systems. He has also conducted process development work associated with air pollution controls used in oil refining operations and conducted research of the formation of acid rain. His consulting focus is CAA compliance and training. He has routinely been called upon to train environmental professionals and to formally evaluate prospective capital projects involving upgrades and implementation of new and more efficient process in a variety of ways. He has developed and taught numerous private and customized CAA classes to major industrial companies.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Council of Industrial Boiler Owners (CIBO) and he has been active on CIBO’s Environmental Committee since 1994. CIBO works closely with the EPA, the United States Department of Energy, state regulatory authorities, and other governmental bodies to effectuate common-sense environmental regulation.

Jay earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also received an M.S. degree in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Arizona and has completed executive business training at Dartmouth’s Tuck Executive Program.

Jose Orsini

Radhika Silhar on May 30, 2025

Mr. Orsini currently serves as Director of Trinity?s EHS Performance & Risk Management (EPRM) Business Line. Mr. Orsini has over 35 years of multimedia environmental permitting and compliance expertise. Mr. Orsini?s technical experience includes sustainability & climate change, energy management and auditing, transaction diligence, permitting for major and minor air sources, preparing environmental impact statements and environmental assessments for NEPA compliance, air quality monitoring, permitting for fill/dredge activities on waters of the US, hazardous waste management, spill prevention control and countermeasure plans, wastewater and storm water permitting, toxic release inventories, chemical accident prevention, chemical terrorism, facility security, MARSEC, fire prevention, occupational safety and health, and hazardous chemicals reporting.

Mr. Orsini has assisted organizations in industries such as cement and concrete batch plants, oil & gas, general manufacturing, metal recycling facilities, steel and aluminum mills and foundries, food processing plants, distilled spirits plants, chemical manufacturing and distribution plants, pulp and paper, petrochemicals and plastics, rock crushing and quarries, sand processing, site developers, manufacturers of plastics and composites, and building materials suppliers. He has conducted comprehensive EHS audits and assessments and general EHS and sustainability work at various industries in the conterminous United States, Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay. Mr. Orsini also assists clients in responding to federal and state notice of violations and enforcement on environmental non-compliance issues.

Mr. Orsini earned a Master in Environmental Engineering and Science from The Johns Hopkins University?s Whiting School of Engineering, and held the Certified Energy Auditor (CEA) designation from 2013-2019.