ECI Tool Belt Training: DPR and Enhanced Source Control - On Demand

Theodore Higgins began his career with the City of Los Angeles LA Sanitation & Environment, Industrial Waste Management Division (IWMD) as an Industrial Waste Inspector, now called Environmental Compliance Inspectors in October 2001. He currently works as a Chief Environmental Compliance Inspector in IWMD’s Fats, Oil & Grease (FOG) Inspection Group. He is responsible for managing an inspection program with an inventory of nearly 10,000 food service establishments (FSEs). As a newly hired inspector, he was part of the implementation of the Fats Oils & Grease (FOG) program. He has worked in other inspection groups with IWMD including significant Industrial Users Inspection Group (SIU) regulating some of the largest companies in Los Angeles including Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, Food Processors, Metal Finishers, etc. as well as Local Industrial Users (LIU) such as Car Washes, Industrial Laundries, Food Processors, etc. After his promotion to Senior Environmental Compliance Inspector, he worked in the Significant Industrial Users group and LASAN’s new RECYCLA Program. In 2017, he was promoted to Chief Environmental Compliance Inspector. His current and past city activities and recognition include serving the division as a “Sector Champion” for the Car Wash Industry where his role is to maintain collaborative partnerships with the Car Wash Business Sector to strategize how to make businesses grow and become more sustainable; representing IWMD by participating in a national focus group on Micro beads/Micro plastics Pollution with the Nation Pollution Prevention Roundtable; IWMD Employee Excellence Award 2012; Emerging Leader recognition by the California Water Environment Association in 2018; Pretreatment, Pollution Prevention & Stormwater (P3S) Person of the Year Award by the LA Basin Section of the CWEA 2019; and representing LASAN on the SCAQMD Environmental Justice Inter-Agency Task Force. Theodore holds Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree from Woodbury University.

Jeremy Grant is the Environmental Compliance Supervisor for Ventura Water. He has fifteen years’ experience working in the wastewater pretreatment field and ten years’ experience as a hazardous waste specialist. He is responsible for implementing the Environmental Compliance Program which includes wastewater pretreatment/source control, recycled water, and the cross connection/backflow device certification program for the City of Ventura. 

Jeremy holds a BS in Environmental and Occupational Health Science.

Austa Parker is an environmental engineer specializing inpotable reuse regulations and policy development around the U.S. She has aMasters and PhD in Environmental Engineering from the University of Colorado atBoulder and has been working on potable reuse engineering, permitting, andoperations projects around the United States for over a decade.

Anne-li Steutel Maron is a marketing and business development strategist that joined Kando in 2018. Before Kando she worked for 10 years at the Israeli Ministry of Economy, where she represented the Israeli water and the cleantech industry in The Netherlands and the USA.

Anne-li Steutel-Maron holds a BA in Communications and a Master’s in Public Management with a focus on public private partnership in the water industry.