My Story
In 2001, I moved from hazardous abatement into environmental consulting and immediately ran into the same problem over and over again: handwritten Chain of Custody forms.
They were messy.
They slowed projects down.
They caused errors, rework, and delays at the lab.
And they made final reports harder for clients to understand.
Everyone accepted it as “just part of the job.” I didn’t.
To fix it, I built a digital version of the lab’s COC in Excel. It wasn’t fancy, but it worked. The forms were typed, legible, consistent, and branded to our company. Errors dropped. Labs processed samples faster. Reports were cleaner.
That spreadsheet quietly followed me through every role I held — Project Manager, senior consultant, and eventually President. Other teams noticed. It became a competitive advantage. I kept it in-house on purpose.
Then the iPhone came along.
In 2010, sitting in a school parking lot waiting for my son’s basketball practice to start, it clicked. If a phone could replace maps, cameras, and notebooks, why was Chain of Custody still stuck on clipboards?
I sketched out what a mobile-first workflow could look like — something a field tech could actually use, on-site, in real time. No pen. No scanning. No retyping later.
What followed were years of development, false starts, wrong development teams, hard lessons, and persistence. The idea never went away, because the problem never went away.
Eventually, the vision became real.
After decades in the environmental industry, one thing became impossible to ignore:
handwritten Chain of Custody forms were holding everyone back.
They caused delays.
They introduced errors.
They created confusion for both field teams and laboratories.
So I built a better way.
What started as a simple Excel tool evolved into a fully mobile solution designed to eliminate handwriting, streamline lab submissions, and give companies the flexibility to brand and customize their forms without friction.
Interactive COC is the result of years of real field work, lab experience, and constant refinement.
It’s built for the people doing the work — technicians in the field, analysts in the lab, and everyone in between.
If you’ve ever been slowed down by a messy COC, this platform is for you.
Interactive COC is the result — a modern, mobile-first platform designed to simplify lab submissions, improve accuracy, and save time for both field teams and laboratories. Every feature exists because it solved a real problem I faced in the field. Nothing was added just to look impressive.
With more than four decades in environmental consulting and hazardous materials work, I’ve spent my career simplifying complex processes, improving speed and accuracy, and building tools that actually make work easier. Interactive COC is the culmination of that mindset — blending field experience, lab insight, and practical technology.
If you’ve ever felt the frustration of a messy COC, duplicate data entry, or a lab calling days later with questions, this is exactly who I built this for.
I hope you find it as useful as I have. And if you see ways it can be better, I want to hear them.
This is just the beginning.