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1250, 1252, and 1254 Edgewood Road, Redwood City Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration Proposal March 25, 2009 Page 25 RESUMES TRA CHRISTINE SCHNEIDER SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER II Ms. Schneider is a Conservation Biologist and licensed Landscape Architect with over 20 years of professional experience in environmental planning. She has over 15 years of project management experience with CEQA analysis, habitat restoration projects, and multi-tasked environmental planning projects. Her background as a landscape architect includes experience in all phases of landscape planning and analysis, design, and construction. In 2005 she was named Vice-President for Environmental Analysis at TRA. Since joining TRA in 1995, Ms. Schneider has used her management and problem-solving skills on a variety of environmental planning and natural resource projects. She has prepared environmental documentation for trail projects, open space studies, and wetland and riparian management plans. She has also prepared analysis for permits, including Individual and Nationwide Permits for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Section 1602 permits for the California Department of Fish and Game, and Regional Permits through the California Regional Water Quality Control Boards She is familiar with both terrestrial and aquatic monitoring protocols and parameters, and uses both skills in wetland and riparian restoration projects. As a practicing landscape architect, Ms. Schneider worked on numerous habitat restoration projects, from providing ecosystem-scale recommendations to reconstructing a natural swale and small landscaped area as a demonstration project at a new municipal wastewater treatment plant. Selected Projects · One of the major authors of the SCVWD's Steam Maintenance Program EIR. Assisted the District on issues related to that project starting in 1995. Assisted the District in obtaining various US Army Corps of Engineers permits for temporary maintenance work from 1995-1997. · Currently, Project Manager for the Stevens Creek Trail Corridor project, a joint venture between the City of Cupertino and the District. TRA started on this project in 2004, preparing the biological studies for the park master plan that includes a creek side trail, park facilities, environmental education center, realignment and restoration of Stevens Creek to its historic channel and extensive habitat restoration. TRA prepared the Initial Study/Mitigated Negative Declaration on the entire park and restoration project in 2006. TRA is currently finalizing the Plans, Specification and Cost Estimate package for the City, and is performing baseline bird surveys that will be used to study restoration success of the riparian restoration project. · She has been preparing CEQA documentation for the City of Pacifica for over fifteen years. She was one of the authors of the City's Recycled Water Treatment Plant EIR (1994), Fairmont Estates Subdivision EIR and Addendum (1998 and 2001), and the Pacifica Police Station EIR (2000). She managed the preparation of the Outlook Heights Project, Final EIR Addendum (formerly Sunset Vista Retail Project)(1999), Outlook Heights Phase II Project, Final EIR Addendum (formerly Sunset Vista Skilled Nursing [Manor Care] Project)(2000), Calera Parkway IS/MND (2000), Outlook Heights Phase II, Maintenance, Environmental Revisions (2001), Pacifica Bowl Development Project EIR (2002), Capistrano Bridge Fish Ladder IS/MND and Wetland Permitting (2003), Pacifica Skatepark IS/MND (2004), Connemara Project Addendum and Supplement to Milagra Terrace Subdivision EIR (2004), and the Walgreens Drug Store IS/MND (2007). She has TRA ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, INC.