Ms. Fitzpatrick is an environmental scientist with more than 30 years of experience in regulatory compliance and technology assessment. She has extensive experience in the metallurgical and food industries. She has conducted several hundred-compliance inspections and has evaluated control technologies applicable to the iron and steel industry for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Ms. Fitzpatrick has published a number of studies on air pollution control systems and has prepared air permit applications, including more than 30 Title V and Synthetic Minor operating permit applications, for numerous operations in various states, including: surface coating, food processing operations, material handling operations, cogeneration facilities, spray drying operations, organic and inorganic chemical manufacturing facilities. She joined IES in 1994.