Gary Yakub

Mr. Yakub is employed at Environmental Standards, Inc. as a Senior Quality Assurance Chemist. He has worked at Environmental Standards for three years.

Mr. Yakub has over twenty-five years of experience in the environmental field, working first as a laboratory analyst, then as the laboratory’s Quality Assurance Officer, and now as an environmental consultant specializing in corporate environmental liability issues.

As an analyst, Mr. Yakub has performed all phases of environmental analyses, including wet chemistry, metals and mercury digestion and analyses, volatile organic analyses, semi-volatile organic analyses, pesticide and PCB analyses, and microbiological analyses.

As Quality Control Officer, Mr. Yakub developed and instituted a complete Quality Assurance/Quality Control Program for the laboratory, including documentation, sample and data handling procedures, chain-of-custody, internal auditing, a performance evaluation program, ethics/data integrity, and data validation.

Mr. Yakub has published peer-reviewed, original research on a variety of topics in wastewater microbiology and written chapters for environmental microbiology textbooks.

As an environmental consultant serving the environmental community, Mr. Yakub currently provides laboratory accreditation assistance, laboratory compliance audits, environmental data validation, document preparation and review, and other services to the client.

Mr. Yakub received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA in 1984, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemistry from Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA IN 1986.

Contact Information: gyakub@envstd.com; 610-935-5577