Stephen Pepper is a senior consultant with more than 15 years of  experience in health and safety management in the oil and natural gas industry. He has a solid understanding of federal, state, and local regulations, and is a compliance expert. He has expertise in fire protection, contingency planning, emergency planning, and project management budgets ranging from $100 million to $4 billion. He has demonstrated experience in identifying, building, developing, and motivating teams to efficiently deliver impactful safety products and processes to businesses.  Areas of expertise include strategic planning, cost controls, disaster planning/recovery, process improvement, project management, field engineering, site inspections, resource allocations, profit optimization, risk management, audit protocol development, and crisis advising.