Mary Denney is the Environmental Services Manager for Pacific Lutheran University located just outside of Tacoma, Washington. She manages a Team of 38 individuals who together maintain both Custodial and Waste Diversion operations for the PLU campus. She has been with PLU for almost 14 years and manager of the Department for about 5.5 years. Prior to that, she was with a Commercial Cleaning company starting as a custodian and working up to a Lead position. Since becoming the Manager, she has become very involved in ISSA, IEHA and the Cleaning Management Institute. She has earned her Custodial Supervisor and Train the Trainer Certifications and has achieved her goal to have her entire custodial Team become Certified Custodial Technicians through CMI.