Steve Via – American Water Works Association, Regulatory Affairs
Manager
Steve Via is Regulatory Affairs Manager for the American Water Works
Association (AWWA) working in AWWA’s Washington, D.C., office. AWWA is an
international, nonprofit, scientific and educational society dedicated to the
improvement of water quality and supply. Mr. Via’s primary responsibility at
AWWA is working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other
federal agencies on the development of regulations that affect the drinking water
community. His work includes both federal policy and individual rulemakings
under SDWA, CERCLA, CAA, CWA, FIFRA, NEPA, RCRA, TSCA, and other
statutes. Over his 18 year tenure with AWWA, Mr. Via has been involved in the
national science policy and risk management discussions surrounding
disinfection by-products, pathogens, and a variety of emerging contaminants
including hexavalent chromium. Mr. Via has 30 years professional experience in
environmental regulatory compliance assistance related to federal and state
drinking water, wastewater, and solid / hazardous waste regulations.
Dr. Andrew Eaton, Eurofins-Eaton Analytical, Inc., Technical Director &
Vice President
Dr. Eaton has over 35 years of experience in the field of geochemistry and
analytical chemistry related to environmental problems. His expertise and
experience has focused on analytical methods development and issues of
detection, quantitation, and monitoring programs.
For the past 30+ years Dr. Eaton has worked primarily as a manager in the MWH
multi-state certified laboratory, now Eurofins Eaton Analytical, Inc, serving at
various times as Technical Director, Marketing Director, and Laboratory Director.
Dr. Eaton also serves as the AWWA representative on the Joint Editorial Board
for Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, with
responsibility for the organics, inorganic metals, and non-metals sections. Dr.
Eaton has also served on numerous AWWA, State, and EPA Workgroups,
including those responsible for developing new definitions of quantitation and
detection; evaluation of UCMR2 and UCMR3 programs, the Information
Collection Rule (ICR) workgroup responsible for setting lab approval and QA
requirements for disinfection byproduct analyses; and the workgroup evaluating
the database requirements for the ICR and the UCMR. Dr. Eaton also served as
an EPA requested expert reviewer of the UCMR. Dr. Eaton recently served as
an expert reviewer of preservation and holding time studies for EPA Method
1694 (Pharmaceuticals and personal care products).
Dr. Eaton has over 75 publications and presentations in the area of analytical
chemistry, quality assurance, monitoring, and detection and quantitation issues,
most recently focusing on PPCPs, Cr(VI), and UCMR3.
He provides technical direction for a staff of over 100 chemists and
microbiologists performing compliance and R&D testing for utilities, government
agencies, and private companies across the nation.
Paul Winkler – AB Sciex, Senior Field Applications Specialist
Dr. Winkler received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University
of Colorado Denver in 1978 and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the
Georgia Institute of Technology in 1986. He started his post graduate career at
the Dow Chemical Company where he was the Western Region Director for
mass spectrometry. After leaving Dow, Dr. Winkler worked for the Finnigan
Corporation developing LC/MS techniques including particle beam, thermospray,
electrospray and APCI. Dr. Winkler left Finnigan and began a 15 year career
working in contract laboratories in the environmental and pharmaceutical
industries where he worked on developing LC/MS/MS methods for a wide variety
of compounds and matrices. Currently, Dr. Winkler is a Senior Field Application
Specialist for AB Sciex.
Craig Marvin – Agilent Technologies, Global Environmental Industry
Manager
Craig Marvin joined Agilent Technologies, Inc., as the Solutions Business
Manager for the Gas Phase Division. Working from Agilent’s Little Falls facility,
Craig currently serves as the Global Environmental Industry Manager
responsible for Agilent’s business development, and strategic marketing activities
in the environmental industry. Craig has experience with gas and liquid
chromatography including mass spectrometers, total organic carbon and
inorganic chemical analyzers, systems for electroanalytical chemistry, and in vivo
microdialysis sampling systems.
Jonathan Beck, Ph.D. – Thermo Fisher Scientific, Senior Marketing
Specialist for Environmental and Food Safety
Received his BS-Chemistry, University of Minnesota
Received his Ph.D. – Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia; worked on
MALDI-ToF-MS/MS instruments investigating Surface Induced Dissociation of
peptides.
Post Graduation:
Jonathan spent 2 years at Specialty Labs in Santa Monica California, a clinical
diagnosis company, working on method development and validation on Triple
Quadrupole instruments.
Following that, he spent 3 years at Varian, Inc. in Walnut Creek California,
working in the LC-MS Triple Quadrupole applications lab as a product specialist.
Jonathan has spent the past 9 years at Thermo Fisher Scientific, with 7 years
focusing exclusively on Environmental and Food Safety solutions using the LCMS triple quadrupole instruments as well as our high resolution LC-MS
instruments, such as the Exactive Plus and Q-Exactive Plus. Since 2014, he has
been focusing on Ion Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry solutions for the EFS
market.