Steve brings more than 36 years of experience from the public and private sector and strong consensus building skills, having managed a variety of contentious issues.

At EcoLogix Group, Steve provides strategic planning and stakeholder engagement services to various clients, and in this role, he facilitates multi-stakeholder teams and provides support for environmental compliance and stewardship programs. Steve serves as the senior project manager on stakeholder engagement and outreach efforts for several clients, leading the development and implementation of stakeholder engagement strategies.

Steve was assistant secretary at the Maryland Department of the Environment where he oversaw permitting, compliance, regulatory development, public outreach, strategic planning and internal services such as human resources, procurement and information technology. Steve managed the state agency compliance project, resulting in environmental management systems at more than a dozen state agencies. He was chairman of the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Partnership Steering Committee and served as the state of Maryland’s state liaison officer for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Steve was a member of the Governor’s Joint Executive Committee on Homeland Security responsible for developing Maryland’s Homeland Security Plan. He had operational responsibility for emergency response for hazmat, oil and radiological incidents across the state. He served on the Coast Guard’s Area Maritime Executive Steering Committee.

Steve spent more than 21 years at Baltimore Gas & Electric Company, and Constellation Energy, where he managed the group responsible for providing compliance assistance on a variety of regulated activities including air quality, climate change, hazardous and non-hazardous waste management, site assessment and remediation, community right-to-know, emergency response, groundwater, storage tanks, pollution prevention and recycling.

Steve holds Master of Science in Environmental Science from the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science & Forestry and a Bachelor of Science in Forestry and Wildlife Management from Purdue University.

Steve is a former board member for the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. Steve enjoys fly fishing, reading non-fiction (especially compelling biographies) and Big Ten basketball……”Go Boilers!”