Our Leadership Team

Mr. Smith serves as Trinity's Senior Vice President, Business Systems and Processes. In this role, he provides strategic and management oversight for how systems and processes are deployed and used within Trinity Consultants, thereby enabling the firm to deliver value to our clients, achieve business goals, and position our operations for growth.

In addition to supervising and directing the firm's CRM, ERP, quality, knowledge, and learning management systems, he is responsible for setting standards and procedures used for executing consulting projects. Beyond these core functions, he also helps manage and execute business process improvement initiatives and, working in conjunction with Trinity's IT department, helps identify, evaluate, and choose technologies to implement to increase the productivity and effectiveness of our consulting operations and maintain Trinity’s competitive advantages in the market.

A specialist in air regulations and air permitting processes with more than 30 years of experience, Mr. Smith also continues to provide strategic air consulting services to select industrial and utility clients. His consulting work has been particularly focused on executing New Source Review permitting for large capital projects, completing complex air quality modeling analyses, and implementing air compliance management solutions. He has served in a variety of litigation support roles, helping clients respond to enforcement actions, preparing expert reports, and advising legal counsel on air-related technical, modeling, and regulatory matters.

Mr. Smith is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati, where he first obtained a Bachelor's degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) and then a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering (Summa Cum Laude). He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Georgia).

Ms. Chambers routinely supports clients during the early stages of greenfield and expansion projects by evaluating permitting constraints, regulatory risks, emissions impacts, and authorization pathways to inform siting and development decisions. She has extensive experience working with state and federal regulatory agencies and advising project teams on strategies that maintain operational flexibility while meeting environmental requirements.

She oversees Trinity's Central States Region, which includes offices in Dallas, Tulsa, Kansas City, St. Louis, West Des Moines, and Omaha. Her experience spans environmental audits, air quality permitting, air quality modeling, permitting strategy, federal permitting avoidance analyses, and compliance programs across numerous industrial sectors.

Ms. Chambers holds a Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University, a Master of Science in Environmental and Water Resources Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Civil Engineering with a concentration in Environmental Engineering from Vanderbilt University.