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Capabilities:
- Type of work:
consultant to the surface finishing industry for more than
12 years, with experience in aerospace, automotive and electronics industries
- Technical areas:
surface finishing process and facility engineering and design, software
development, process analysis and optimization, make/buy analysis, process/facility
audits and assessments, source reduction, waste and wastewater recycle and
treatment, development and implementation of integrated pollution prevention
and control programs, process modeling and simulation.
Background:
- Chairman and Co-Organizer
of the Annual AESF/EPA Pollution Prevention & Control Conference, past
Chairman of the AESF Environmental Committee, Chairman of the AESF
Pollution Prevention and Control Committee and a past member of the AESF
Board of Directors
- Certified Electroplater-Finisher,
and certified instructor, American Electroplaters and Surface Finishers Society
- Education: Purdue
University, B.S. (1979)
Some representative projects:
- Author of Waste
Minimization Self-Audit Manual: Metal Finishing for the Connecticut
Hazardous Waste Management Service. Co-author of the newly revised Pollution
Prevention Handbook, Edited by Thomas Higgins.
- Consulting with Concurrent
Technologies Corp., CAI Resources, MMTC and CAMP as a partner in US
EPA’s Environmental Technology Verification Program for Metal
Finishing, ETV-MF.
- Developed a WEB based
process model for the simulation of metal finishing processes for
NCMS, Ann Arbor, MI. Currently developing an update for US EPA.
- Turnkey delivery of
surface finishing lines and pollution prevention equipment for Pratt
& Whitney Aircraft, North Berwick, ME, in the implementation phase
of renovation project that encompasses surface finishing, hazardous
material storage and coolant recycling
- Consulted with CH2M
Hill for Hagar Hinge, Montgomery, AL, in the development of an integrated
pollution prevention and control plan which include recommendations
for process improvements that will significantly reduce the mass and
hydraulic load on wastewater treatment operations. The project included
conceptual design of a new wastewater treatment plant and development
of a budget for capital improvements.
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