Nicole Muñoz is the Vice President of SCS’s Environmental Certification Services division. In this role, she supervises environmental and sustainability performance spanning a broad range of industries, from green building, textile & apparel, electronics, and jewelry. She is a regular participant in technical working groups for the maintenance and development of product sustainability standards and indoor air quality standards, such as Sustainable Apparel Coalition Higg Index, Textile Exchange Global Recycle Standard, ANSI/BIFMA e.3 Furniture Sustainability Standard, NSF/ULe 440 Health Based Indoor Air Quality Standard and ANSI/BIFMA M7.1/X7.1-2011 Furniture Emissions Standard and Health Product Declaration Open Standard.

Before joining the company, Nicole conducted environmental testing and analysis as an analytical chemist for environmental testing and semi-conductors industries, and served as an environmental health regulator for Monterey County Public Health Department in California. During her tenure at SCS, Nicole has been promoted into roles of increasing technical and managerial responsibility, including auditing, standards development and program development, and divisional managing director. She has extensive international and domestic auditing experience, and has been instrumental in developing sustainability metrics for material use, energy and atmosphere impacts, human and ecosystem health, and corporate social responsibility.

• B.S. Biological Sciences, Environmental Toxicology (University of California, Riverside)