Kasi, PE, CM, serves as manager of Trinity’s Kansas City office. Kasi has provided air quality consulting services to a wide variety of industries since 2000. She has extensive experience working with electric utilities, mining operations, primary and secondary aluminum plants, soybean oil manufacturers, ethanol producers, cement manufacturers, lime manufacturers, chemical plants, and other general manufacturing facilities.

Kasi has particular experience in air quality permitting and the associated regulatory analyses and technical requirements. Her work includes all aspects of air quality dispersion modeling, federal Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) permit applications and permit drafting, federal Title V operating permit applications and permit drafting, regulatory applicability analyses, NSPS and NESHAP compliance projects, civil penalty assessments, custom compliance solutions, state construction permit applications, emission inventories, and stack testing management. She has completed regulatory evaluations of historical modifications and construction projects for multiple facilities in several EPA regions.

Kasi has a B.S. degree in Biology and Chemistry from Truman State University and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Kansas.

Maya Rao, PE, BCEE, serves as the Managing Consultant in Trinity’s Jackson, MS office, assisting Mississippi companies with their environmental permitting and compliance challenges. Prior to joining Trinity, Maya worked at the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) for 25 years, first as a permit engineer in the Air Division, then as a supervisor for multi-media permitting in the Energy Branch, and finally as Director of the Air Division from 2006 until 2014. Previously, she worked as adjunct faculty at Tulane University and LSU.

Maya has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Ravi Shankar University in India and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. She is a licensed professional engineer in Mississippi and a Board Certified Environmental Engineer. She is also a Certified Public Manager in the State of Mississippi and has served on the Board of A&WMA as Chair for the MS Chapter and is currently on the A&WMA Southern Section Board.

She has also served on the Board of Mississippi Energy Coordinator Association. She was Chair of the Administration Committee of the Association of the Air Pollution Control Agencies (AAPCA), Director of Southern States Air Resource Managers, Inc. (SESARM) and is currently on the Membership Development & Outreach Committee for the American Academy of Environmental Engineers.

Charles Lee, Ph.D., CM, is a principal consultant and manager of Trinity Consultants office located in Irvine, California. Dr. Lee has more than 14 years of extensive air quality monitoring and regulatory compliance and audit experience in local, state and federal environmental regulations. He has held various task-leadership and project management roles in diverse projects, assisting both private industry and government. He has significant experiences in air quality monitoring, air permit and regulatory compliance, permitting, air regulatory/permitting determination analysis, regulatory compliance audit, and preparation of emissions inventories, technical reports, EMS (ISO 14001)/EMIS, environmental due diligence assessment, risk management (CalARP and EPA RMP) and health risk assessment in South Coast AQMD, San Diego APCD, Bay Area AQMD, San Joaquin Valley APCD in California and EPA Region 9. His experience also includes multi-media environmental permitting and compliance assistance, CEQA assistance, CUPA permitting and compliance, spill responses (OSHA certified HAZWOPPER Trained (29 CFR 1910.120)), industrial wastewater permitting and compliance support.

Dr. Lee is an accredited lead verifier by the California Air Resources Board (ARB) to perform verification of GHG reporting in all industry sectors including oil and gas, process, transaction and general industry sectors under the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (AB 32). Dr. Lee is also an accredited lead verifier by ARB for Offset Projects for Livestock and Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) under the AB 32 and an accredited verifier for California Climate Action Registry (CCAR) and for Climate Action Reserve (CAR) for ODS verification. His credentials are valuable to entities seeking mandatory or voluntary verification of GHG emissions for different reporting and offset reduction projects as well as for GHG compliance and regulatory affairs.

Charles holds a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry with emphasis in atmospheric chemistry from University of California, San Diego and a BS degree in Chemistry from University of California, Irvine.

Emily Stewart serves as Manager of Consulting Services in Trinity’s Indianapolis, Indiana office. Emily assists clients in a wide variety of industries including steel mills, cement, power generation, and general manufacturing. She is involved in various air quality projects, including PSD, Title V, FESOP, MSOP, and SSOA permitting, compliance auditing, air emissions reporting and toxic release inventories, Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) plans, and other environmental compliance needs.

Emily serves as the primary instructor for Trinity’s professional training course on Air Permitting in Indiana, and has led custom training courses.

Emily is a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Indiana. Emily graduated with a B.S. in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Purdue University.

Steve Zervas serves as a Managing Consultant in Trinity Consultants? Ann Arbor, Michigan office. Mr. Zervas has 30 years of experience in the environmental field including roles in industry, consulting, and as a regulator.

Mr. Zervas has extensive experience in air quality including permitting (minor-state only, Title V, PSD, nonattainment NSR and synthetic minor permits); regulatory interpretation and compliance; and strategic planning and training. He has been involved in the development of new regulations and attainment/nonattainment re-designation efforts both as Agency staff and as part of industry stakeholders associations.

Mr. Zervas and his staff have performed numerous permitting, compliance, and applicability determinations; established recordkeeping systems; submitted required regulatory reports; prepared control technology determinations; developed written and verbal responses to violation notices; and helped negotiate the resolution of non-compliance allegations with local, state and federal agencies.

Adam Erenstein serves as Manager of Consulting Services for Trinity Consultants’ Albuquerque, NM office. He has more than 10 years of air quality and project management experience. Since joining Trinity in 2010, Adam has worked extensively with industries that have a strong presence in the New Mexico, including oil and natural gas, power generation, food products and mining operations.

Adam has assisted clients with a wide range of projects including regulatory applicability analyses, air dispersion modeling, Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), New Source Review (NSR), and federal operating permit (Title V) applications.

Adam received his bachelor’s degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences from the University of New Mexico.

Jeremiah is Manager of Consulting Services of the Birmingham, Alabama office. Since joining Trinity in June 2013, he has managed PSD and state-level permitting assessments for clients in various industries such as pulp and paper, wood products, natural gas, grain processing, chemical manufacturing, bulk gasoline terminals, fiber manufacturing, mineral industry, and glass manufacturing.

In addition, Jeremiah has project experience in toxics modeling assessments; ambient sound level monitoring for FERC-regulated natural gas industry projects; automation projects using VBA and MATLAB scripts; and dispersion modeling assessments with the AERMOD model. He enjoys projects that involve complex tool development.

Jeremiah serves as the instructor for several Trinity state-specific Permitting courses in Air Quality, Title V, and PSD. He earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.