Sterling Chemicals – Environmental compliance
Analyst/Programmer, Environmental Compliance (floating roof inspections) — 2006
Everyone knows floating roofs on the big storage tanks have to be inspected periodically. Along with the inspection, there are a lot of forms to fill out and send off to regulating authorities. Who to notify and when is determined depending on the type of tank and type of lid and what happened.
Anyone who has pored over a regulation manual to figure out what to do next knows what a tedious process it is. Wouldn’t it be nice to get a Computer Genius to come in and figure it all out just once and write a program that knows what to do next? Of course it would.
If you are in charge of one or two tanks, not such a big problem maybe. If you are in charge of dozens, or even hunreds or thousands of tanks you could find yourself in a regulatory compliance nightmare and everyone knows what a regulatory compliance nightmare means… Money. And lot’s of it. Missing a paperwork deadline can cost thousands of dollars in fines. Missing a required inspection before an accident and you don’t even want to think about how much it can cost.
Here is what i did:
- Worked with environmental compliance manager to analyze compliance requirements and application requirements
- Organized requirements into structured workflow
- Developed interface to existing inspection database so the inspector’s database would remain unchaged
- Wrote and tested the program
