Omitz Leadership

Phil clark is one of the nation's leading experts in hydrogen and infrastructure.

Phil is dedicated to advancing the Hydrogen Economy by promoting safety as its core tenant. He’s a certified safety professional and certified industrial hygienist who’s worked in the safety and health industry for the last 15 years. For the first 5 years of his career, he was the industrial hygienist for the Navy SEALs and the Naval helicopter maintenance and repair teams on the West Coast. But for the last decade, Phil has provided safety expertise and conducted process hazard analysis for renewable hydrogen research, supporting researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as they’ve pioneered advancements in catalyst development, dispensing efficiency, and reliability testing amongst other contributions to the industry. Phil's passion for helping people efficiently navigate safety requirements has led him to start up his training, consulting, and software company, Omitz, to help engineers and startups more easily navigate codes and standards.

Environment, Health, and Safety: 15 years experience in the trenches of DoD, DoE, and consulting in industry.

Reformed Bureaucrat: My mission is to help others optimize efficiency and avoid needless bureaucracy.

Omitz Insight Engine: Creating Omitz is my way of making amends for all my bureaucratic transgressions.

It Doesn't Have to Take Months or Years to Master Complex Requirements

The journey to understanding and mastery begins with simplifying at every step, which we can help people achieve through trainings and consulting. Omitz helps you understand how requirements are organized and break them down into their essential elements.

Requirements and Regulations are Obnoxious...but Essential.

Regulators...Mount Up.

Requirements are Overwhelmingly Big and Complex

Federal, state, local, RAGAGEP, company policies...where do I even start?

Internal and external references ensure confusion and compliance anxiety.

Requirements are Essential and Effective

Regulations and requirements effectively protect people, public, and places

They level playing field for all parties and help create a fair and safe environment for everyone.

The Making of a Bureaucrat, a reformed one, at least.

About Phil

2008

First job out of graduate school! Amazing experience (I was the industrial hygienist for the Navy SEALs on the West Coast and got to wear body armor!).

But oye...the regulations. My first experience with bureaucracy...

2011

Started my disdain for wordy regulations early in my career. I jumped into the app craze and started an auditing company with some friends to help people conduct field audits.

(sooo many ways it could be improved, but it was a good way to test the waters).

2012

I landed my dream job working with researchers in the Department of Energy who were building the future of energy.

My first experience working with the hydrogen industry (which still felt like it was a long way off).

And, bureaucracy...

2013

H2 @ Scale...Toyota Mirai...all of a sudden, things begin to pick up speed in the hydrogen world. Project begin to come through our doors faster than ever and we struggle to keep up - but ever the bureaucrat, I keep the researchers in line.