| EDUCATION | Texas A&M University
B.S. Chemistry 1967
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WASTEWATER
LICENSE | State of Tennessee
Grade IV Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator,
May 2005
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WASTEWATER
LICENSE | State of Texas
Grade A Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator,
August 2011
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| CONSULTANT ACTIVITY | Dupont White Pigment and Minerals
Envirocon
Industrial Technologies New York
Premier Environmental Services
Coast Watch Engineering and Planning
Flint Industries
Environmental Treatment Systems
Terrasimco
Municipal Wastewater Treatment plants
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INSTRUCTOR,
CE COURSES,
STATE OF TN | Water plant chemistry and operations
Wastewater treatment plant operations and operational theory
Water soluble polymer applications and theory
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| PUBLICATIONS | International Dredging Review:Evalulation of
an Advanced Geo-textile Tube Design for
Dewatering Industrial and Municipal Sludge,
May/June 2008, Volume 27, Number 3, pages 19,22-23
Municipal Sewer & Water:Better than Mobile, May 2008, pages 50-51 |
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| STRENGTH | Use overview of process as approach to problem solving; consultative approach to customer relations |
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| SKILL SETS | Primary and Secondary wastewater treatment plant audits, assessments, and operations
Wastewater process modeling
Sludge dewatering process modeling
Sludge dewatering, mechanical and geotextile tubes, process optimization; capital and operational econmonic cost performance; trial monitoring
Operator training, mentoring, champion development
Industrial and Municipal Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemistry, lab work through trial phase to startup |
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Liquid Solids Separations | Owner, November 1995 to present
| | Envirotech International Group, Incorporated | Vice President and Chief Technology Officer- Future Project Site Manager
- Burm reinforcement/creation Yellow River Delta; Hunan Province, China
- Marine Mattresses
- TitanTubes
- TitanBags
- Personnel training
- Electro-coagulation Yellow-River Delta Oilfield, Hunan Province, Sichuan Province, China
- Emulsion breaking and clarification of produced water
- Heavy metal removal various industrial wastewaters
- Trial phases
- Scaleup
- Personnel training
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| Envirocon Incorporated | Technology Consultant on large scale dredging and dewatering projects- Technology selection, trial phase and full-scaleup
- Chemistry selection
- Chemical feed equipment design and cost out
- Dewatering methologies
- Trial phases
- Facilitation of engineering and planning
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CoastWatch Engineering
and Planning | Vice President of China Operations Joint Venture responsible for the introduction,coordination, development and implementation of::- Technology selection, trial phase and full-scaleup of processes for treating produced water from oilfield production
- Technologies for wastewater, process water and drinking water plants
- Chemistry
- Treatment Strategies
- Filtration Methodologies
- Portability
- Electro-coagulation
- Trial phases
- Facilitation of engineering and planning
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| Industrial Technologies New York. | Consultant on development of mechanical and chemical methods at Bowater
S.C. plant for:- pond closures
- introduction of new end process that eliminates need for ponds in future
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| Consultant on development of dredging, sludge dewatering & raw materials recycle @ Millennium Inorganic Chemicals- development of "giant bag" dewatering methodology and application of low cost in-line dewatering chemistry technique
- development of mechanical/chemical technology for recovery of unreacted Titanium bearingore from dredged and dewatered waste sludge
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| Dupont | Consultant to White Pigments & Minerals Division, Starke, Florida
- develop process and chemical protocol for removal of humate from tailings ponds and production pond
- develop a chemical method and mechanical protocol for removal of radium from process waters that report to receiving stream
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| Consultant to White Pigments & Minerals Division, Wilmington DE- establish poultry industry as market that Dupont pursue for their new coag chemistry
- establish method for qualifying customers for the Dupont coag technology
- prove that Dupont coag chemistry/method best available technology in market place for primary treatment of poultry and beef wastewater
- produces best renderable DAF skimmings----lowest FFA and Peroxides in market place
- best organic removal efficiency including metal salts
- very wide window of operation
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| Poultry Industry | Wampler Foods, Marshall Durbin, Perdue- Develop and implement new sulfuric acid/HMW dry cat polymer technology for primary wastewater treatment
- drier sludge off DAF than achieved with beltpress
- eliminate land application
- cut rendering bill by more than 75%
- Presentation of sulfuric acid/HMW dry cat polymer program
- Get customers to look at overall cost of wastewater treatment on bottom line
- via development of spreadsheets looking at what-if analysis
- case study presentations
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| J. D. Meagher/Allwaste | Consultant acting as on-site process engineer
Consultant in market development and sales strategies
Marketing- Development of corporate marketing sales format to all Georgia Pacific and Westvace Mills leverageing active accounts at Big Island Virginia and Covington Virginia respectively.
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| Site Management Training- Nuances of operations, equipment, and personnel management, site project engineer
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| New Account Development- Follow up on leads from corporate mailout campaign , work with customers to develop optimum cost performance methods for waste volume reduction.
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American Cyanamid Co
and CYTEC | Technical Service/Sales Representative
1980-November, 1995
Water Treating, Mining Chemicals
Chemical- Selection and implementation of liquid/solids separation programs (2 and 3 phase) to resolve in-process water, wastewater, potable and sludge dewatering treatment scenarios
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| Mechanical:- Integration of chemical/polymer programs with mechanical protocols
- configuration of polymer feed systems
- optimization of mechanical dewatering systems
- resolution of water and wastewater treatment plant operational problems
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| Instructional/Mentoring- Assessment of training needs
- development of quality control programs
- writing instructional manuals
- providing on-site operator training and evaluation
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| Sales and Service:- 2.5 million dollar territory in Texas, 1983 to 1990, sales to municipal, industrial and resale
- Redevelopment of industrial water and wastewater treatment in West Virginia1990 to 1992-territory value to 1 million dollars
- Tech Service Rep out of Charlotte North Carolina, emphasis on high tech application of polymers in water and wastewater to industry
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City of Houston
Houston Texas | Co-ordinator of Quality Control
1970-1980- Responsible for establishing lab and sampling procedures
- Established computerization of routine lab tests
- Translated laboratory data to field
- Established waste plant operating criteria
- Trained lab personnel and wastewater treatment plant operators
- Solved biological problems
- Completed wastewater treatment plant research
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