Current Projects

• Executive Director of the California Product Stewardship Council, managing budgets, employees, contractors, and seven major grant projects; lobbying state legislators and providing expert testimony at state hearings, drafting legislation, conducting press interviews, managing press consultant, and designing and implementing overall policy strategy
• City of Napa, conducting waste assessments at City facilities, calculating waste generation, estimating possible waste reduction through recycling, and estimating reductions in green house gas emissions as a result of implementing recycling programs

Prior Special Projects

• Product Policy Institute (PPI) as National Outreach Director to encourage the start of Product Stewardship Councils around the United States (see PPI Annual Report)
  
  
• R3 Consulting Group as:
  • Marin County Zero Waste Strategic Plan
  • Fort Collins, Colorado Hazardous Materials Study
  • Beverage Container End-of-Life Management Report to the Department of Conservation, Division of Recycling
  • Project Manager for City of Napa Enclosure Standard Development project
  • Project Manager for sharps collection strategy reports for Sonoma, Alpine, Calaveras, El Dorado, and Tuolumne Counties
  • Project Manager for universal waste and sharps collection management strategy for Mariposa County
    
    
• Conversion Technology Investigations for the California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB) Chair.
  During the energy crisis in California in 2002-2002, CIWMB Chair Linda Moulton-Patterson became extremely interested in the potential to take materials from the waste stream and investigate the potential for environmentally safe ways to convert that material into various energy sources. Heidi was responsible for directing and overseeing CIWMB staff activities on the safety and viability of conversion technologies and ensure the board was fully informed of results from such activities.
  
  
• Project Manager, Sonoma County Waste Management Agency, Extended Producer Responsibility Implementation Plan. This plan outlines the history of what local governments have done to manage wastes and what a local government can do via ordinance to reduce waste management costs and increase convenience for the public to recycle.
  
  
• Project Manager, Report to the CIWMB titled Framework for Evaluating End-of-Life Product Management Systems in California, the landmark report which included 8 case studies on different management systems and recommended California consider pursuing a an EPR policy framework”. See the PowerPoint presentation to CIWMB.
  
  
• Task Manager, City of Tucson, Arizona, Waste Reduction Implementation Plan. Responsible for analysis, recommendation, and implementation planning of source reduction alternatives for integration with existing city programs.
  
  
• Targeted Implementation Assistance (TIA), Office of Local Assistance, California Integrated Waste Management Board. Heidi was recognized so widely for her strong and positive working relationships with local jurisdictions struggling to meet the state waste reduction mandates that it inspired the Board to create a TIA team comprised of Heidi and two other key staff to focus their energy on the jurisdictions having the most trouble to help them get into compliance. The program was so successful that not one of the jurisdictions Heidi worked with was fined and all came into compliance.
  
  
• Project Manager, Product Stewardship Institute’s National Paint Product Stewardship Dialogue, September 2003 – September 2006. Managed schedule and meetings for national multi-stakeholder dialogue between over 50 representatives from local, state and the federal government, the paint industry, paint recyclers, and related organizations and interested parties, facilitated and organized technical workgroups and managed project work, organized project workload and tasks, developed presentations on dialogue work for stakeholder meetings, developed budgets and reports to participants.