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• Associate Mechanical Engineer in the Plant Engineering Services Group of the Facilities Maintenance & Construction (FMC) Division in the Operations and Maintenance (O&M) Department at East Bay Municipal Utility.
• Developed and established maintenance plans and procedures for mechanical, electrical and instrumentation systems at water treatment and distribution facilities in the District’s Computerized Maintenance Management.
• Performed capital project design reviews to improve asset management, operation and maintenance of new water utility infrastructure.
• Conducted engineering investigations to develop actionable solutions to support O&M groups. Projects ranged from reducing chemical mixer failures, improving lift station reliability, to increasing vehicle service pit.
• Managed, planned and coordinated with internal and external stakeholders to execute equipment troubleshooting, maintenance and repair at water treatment and distribution facilities.
• Designed and supported the construction of an automatic flow-pacing de-chlorination system for a reservoir to address a regulatory compliance issue.

• Assistant Engineer in the Commissioning Services Group of the Design Division in the Engineering and Construction Department at East Bay Municipal Utility District. Managed the commissioning (Cx) of a $20M ozone.
• Conducted weekly Cx progress meetings with internal stakeholders (Construction Management team, and O&M groups) and external stakeholders (Contractor and Subcontractors, Design Consultants) to plan, coordinate.
• Inspected equipment installation, identified deficiencies and recommended corrections to contractors, recorded field changes in as-built drawings.
• Developed and performed functional tests for each subsystem to verify the installed systems meet design intent and end-user needs.
• Responsible for testing the following ozone subsystems: Liquid Oxygen, Ozone Generators and Power Supply Units, Compressed Air, Cooling Water, Ozone Destruct Blowers, Emergency Generator, Automatic Transfer Switches.
• Performed instrumentation, control loop, input/output testing, and troubleshooted installation and operational issues with contractors.

• Progressively increasing responsibility from Project Engineer to Senior Engineer at kW Engineering, an energy engineering consulting firm. Experience included conducting energy and water audits to determine.
• Conducted energy and water audits, estimated costs and savings, and engaged commercial, municipal, and industrial customers in implementing efficiency solutions.
• Developed detailed reports that included analysis of utility data, benchmarking, energy balance, cost and savings of energy/water efficiency projects, load management, demand response and distributed generation.
• Audit experience includes industrial food processing facilities, wastewater treatment plants, higher education laboratories, and commercial office parks. Identified projects with annual potential energy savings of $10K.
• Managed a team of engineers to execute a portfolio of commissioning projects with budgets ranging from $10K to $150K by tracking milestones and monitoring project progress using a custom spreadsheet tracking tool.
• Provided commissioning of HVAC, lighting, plumbing, solar, greywater, and swimming pool systems for commercial and academic facilities.

• Technical Due Diligence:
• Managed a team of seven engineers and inspectors to complete over 1,800 verification inspections for Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)’s California Solar Initiative (CSI) and Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP). o.
• Lead cross-functional teams to complete technical due diligence reviews for utility energy efficiency incentive programs. o Review experience included efficiency improvement of industrial steam, compressed air.

• Guided RMI in establishing its policy position on sustainable biofuel development through quantitative and qualitative analysis of biofuels.
• Compared and contrasted the social and environmental impacts of various transportation fuels.
• Performed market analysis of biofuels, forecasted trends of key drivers that impact biofuel sustainability, and determined their implications for food and energy security.

• Research:
• Experimented with genetically engineered bacteria to renewably generate hydrogen from water and sunlight as a potential fuel source for fuel cells.Teaching:Environmental Microbiology Course & Lab: Led weekly.
• Evaluated cost effective technologies to reduce criteria pollutant emissions by 10-55% from transit shuttles.
• Estimated the costs and emissions reductions from adopting various options, such as fuel replacement, vehicle retrofits and diesel-electric hybrid vehicles.

Analyzed groundwater samples from a uranium-contaminated site to identify bacteria that decrease the spread of contamination. Publication:Nyman, J. L., Wu, H., Gentile, M. E., Kitanidis, P. K., Criddle, C. S. 2007. "Inhibition of a U(VI)-and Sulfate-Reducing Consortia by U(VI)”, Environmental Science & Technology, 41 (18), pp 6528-6533.

• Improved process performance and reduced run-time by optimizing filtration and chromatography units used in protein purification.
• Tested various parameters and its effect on membrane permeability and chromatography resins to improve purification process of therapeutic proteins.

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