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Develop and Manage the Process to Select a Single Medical Cannabis Dispensary I City of San Leandro
<br />B. ICF'S RESOURCES
<br />The ICF Team is comprised of advance-degreed professionals with proven project management
<br />success, direct medical marijuana application processing experience, and the multidisciplinary
<br />technical expertise necessary to ensure a rigorous, consistent, and unbiased evaluation of
<br />dispensary applicants. ICF staff bring knowledge in relevant fields, including medical cannabis,
<br />application processing, public health, finance and economics, law, security, risk assessment,
<br />and community outreach. Every one of our team members has supported application review or
<br />protocol development projects related to medical cannabis dispensaries.
<br />ICF's Project Manager for this work will be Will Cooper, who brings ten years of experience in
<br />application processing, economic analysis, and regulatory program evaluation. He recently
<br />managed a California-based team of ten analysts and economists conducting application and
<br />business plan review for the high-profile EB -5 immigrant investor program under the U.S.
<br />Citizenship and Immigration Services (UCSIS). The program involved the review and scoring of
<br />more than 500 applicants and extensive stakeholder engagement. Mr. Cooper also served as a
<br />subject matter expert (SME) related to corporate experience, staffing, and proposed business
<br />plans of 100 dispensary applications under the Massachusetts medical marijuana program.
<br />Eliza Johnston, PMP, Deputy Project Manager, brings a decade of economic, policy, and
<br />financial analysis experience for municipal, state, and federal clients, including significant
<br />stakeholder engagement support. She has extensive experience working with municipal
<br />governments, including the cities of San Francisco, Fremont, and Berkeley in the Bay Area. She
<br />served as the Program Manager for the USCIS application review program and the Deputy
<br />Project Manager for the Massachusetts medical marijuana application review project. For the
<br />latter, she provided client support and project direction, served as an SME for finance, business
<br />management, and staffing topics, and facilitated several Selection Committee meetings and
<br />discussions with the Executive Director related to applicant selection.
<br />The ICF team also includes a multidisciplinary team of SMEs who will support the development
<br />and scoring of the pre -qualification and RFP applications. Dean Gouveia, J.D. is an attorney
<br />with experience in municipal and property law, as well as a chemist with 28 years of expertise in
<br />public health risk analysis, regulatory compliance, agronomy field studies, and laboratory
<br />auditing. Steve Danielczyk, a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and Certified Safety
<br />Professional (CSP), has 27 years of experience in emergency preparedness and security and
<br />served as an SME for public safety, emergency management, and incident response aspects of
<br />the Massachusetts medical marijuana program. Kevin Palaia, PG, has 20 years of experience in
<br />environmental, health, safety, and compliance auditing and currently leads ICFs work in
<br />developing dispensary inspection protocols and protocols for testing grow media, finished
<br />marijuana and marijuana -infused products (MIPs). Josh Cleland has 23 years of expertise in
<br />chemical exposure and risk assessment, organic agriculture, food production, environmental
<br />science, and medical marijuana regulation. Bryan Luukinen has eight years of experience in the
<br />areas of pesticide toxicology, food safety, environmental health science, and risk assessment.
<br />We have purposefully identified a broad and deep range of SMEs to allow the necessary
<br />flexibility to adjust to the City's needs and to adapt to the specific review requirements of the
<br />pre -qualification and RFP applications as they are developed. The table below and attached
<br />resumes (Appendix A) provide additional qualifications of each of ICFs proposed staff.
<br />Use or disclosure of data contained on this sheet is subject to
<br />the restrictions on the title page of this proposal LM Page 5
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