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Anaconda, Montana, United States

Anaconda, Montana, United States

• Providing leadership, mentoring, project support, process development, data management, operations management, technical writing, operational improvement, and technical expertise for mine remediation, water treatment.
• Team lead providing mentoring and leadership for a diverse group of eight scientist and engineers.
• Provide operations and data management, reporting, and operational support to the project manager, which primarily involves the operation and maintenance of a high-density sludge (HDS) water treatment system and.
• Provide ongoing technical expertise in semi-passive water treatment system development and evaluation.
• Developed sampling/analysis plans for filling data gaps to inform and optimize final water treatment system design.
• Provide ongoing technical expertise and support of Voluntary Clean Up Program (VCUP) for the remediation of lead in soil.

Denver, Colorado

• Influential leader dedicated to business development, process improvement, technology implementation, operator education, and continuous operational support to further the strategic mission of Newalta.
• Developed innovative treatment process for the complete recycling of offshore oil-based drilling fluids used at Hibernia, Terra Nova, White Rose, and Hebron oilfields within the local community of St Johns, Newfoundland.
• Designed, created, and implemented training program and progression programs for the benefit of operating personnel in Canada and the United States.
• Advised current (Shell, Syncrude, Terrapure, EOG, Whiting, Anadarko, BHP) and potential clients on technical manners related to analytical analysis and interpretation, waste disposal, regulatory compliance, and.
• Subject matter expert in chemical and mechanical phase separation techniques.
• Established methodology that generated a monthly cost reduction in excess of $86,000.

Arvada, Colorado

• Supervised a diverse group of 15 new and experienced employees in environmental testing based on EPA, NELAC, DOD, DOE, and many other certification programs.
• Integral in hiring and promotion distribution of wet chemistry employees.
• Collaborated with other group supervisors to create an effective training program for new employees.
• Coordinate 15 individuals to conduct more than 100 unique chemical analyses within strict deadlines (98.7% on time or early for greater than 5000 separate analytical samples).
• Coordinated preparation for DOD audit of wet chemistry laboratory, yielding the least number of audit findings in more than 20 years.
• Enacted process improvement strategy to increase automation and instrument utilization.

Mountain Pass, CA And Greenwood Village, CO

• Led and coordinated multiple researchers and projects including industrial and drinking water treatment, rare earth salt separations, acidic waste recovery, material processing using plasma, and production efficiency.
• Coordinated the planning efforts for development of new multi-million dollar research laboratory in Denver CO.
• Designed, conducted, and analyzed results of plasma experiments to establish a novel, efficient, and green process for rare earth metal production and mineral processing.
• Led and participated in the development of innovative, proprietary water treatment technology that created a multi-million dollar market for an underutilized production by-product.
• Transferred technology development on bench scale to collaborative partners in production scale processes for proprietary consumer product.
• Increased the efficiency of a continuous precipitation reaction for production of a rare earth carbonates improving recovery.