My name is Kristine Davies and I am a Senior Consultant in Trinity's St. Louis office. I have been with Trinity for almost 2-1/2 years. I will give you a little background on my education and career to this point, so that you know a little bit about where I come from...
I have a very different background that many consultants here, as I am not a life-long consultant. I attended the University of Tulsa for my first three years of college, then graduated with my chemical engineering degree from the University of Minnesota. I worked for a year at a hazardous waste transport, storage and disposal facility in Minnesota before moving on to work for The Boeing Company in Wichita, KS as a Research and Development/Manufacturing Engineer. After 6 years in the production world at Boeing, I took a job in Environmental Engineering where my focus was Air Quality and new chemical introduction (among other things). I worked in Environmental at Boeing for 5 years before I moved on to Trinity. During my tenure at Boeing, I also completed my master's degree in environmental science with an emphasis in biology at Wichita State University. (Ask me about wading through the creeks of Wichita to find bugs for my internship with the City of Wichita!).
Since joining Trinity I have worked on a wide variety of projects, including PSD permitting, state construction permitting, atmospheric dispersion modeling, MACT compliance, operating permits, endangered species analysis, and multi-media compliance audits. The industries that I work with are also wide-ranging. Aerospace is obviously my specialty (as evidenced by my background and username), but I have also worked with tire manufacturing, printing, coatings and chemical manufacturing, cement, pharmaceutical manufacturing, and food manufacturing. Throughout the year I also teach courses, deliver luncheon seminars, and attend conferences. In addition to the consulting and sales activities, I supervise two junior consultants as well as the business development/admin person in our office.
On the personal side, I grew up in Omaha, NE. I have been married for 17 years and have two children: a 16-year old boy and an 11-year old girl. Add to that two dogs and a guinea pig and we have quite a lively household! In my spare time (of which there is little), I enjoy volunteering and spending time at church, sports of any kind, reading, and traveling (which mostly involves visiting friends and relatives).