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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Project engineer responsible for designing, delivering, and commissioning of municipal wastewater equipment packages across Australia and NZ on-time, on budget, for: - Huber rotary drum coarse, and fine screens- Huber screenings dewatering wash press'- Huber storm screens- Huber screw press sludge dewatering and emulsion polymer systems- AEROSTRIP fine bubble diffuser and blower aeration packages.Key acheivements:- Delivering Australia's largest AEROSTRIP diffuser installation into Melbourne Water's 150 MLD Western Treatment Plant 5W project, featuring a short-cut nitrogen shunting process. The independently verified clean water test acheived SOTE results for the diffuser design exceeded the design requirements by 17%, providing significant energy and CO2 emission savings to Melbourne Water.- Delivering the AEROSTRIP diffuser and SS/HDPE pipework installation into Sydney Water's 70 MLD Advanced Water Recycling Centre- Conducting SOTR clean water testing in accordance to the ASCE Standard both onsite, and at the diffuser manufacture's purpose built test tank in Austria.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

-Process/project engineer for completion of FEED and detailed design deliverables for 1.2MLD advanced recovery WTP in South Rumaila oilfields, Iraq for BP- Electrical, civil and mechanical design sub-contractor management- Overseeing and reviewing all vendor packages and equipment procurement

Melbourne, Australia

- Proposal and tender bid technical lead- Flowsheet development and optimization of technology portfolio- Providing process engineering support to the project delivery team

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Sewage System Optimisation team- Providing process engineering support to sewerage treatment plant (STP) operators in order to produce compliant effluent and continually improve TW's sewage treatment processes- Experienced in working across conventional MLE and non-BNR plants, including SBR, hybrid trickling filter/solids contact tank, IDEA, Pasveer Ditch and lagoon plants- Identifying and resolving process bottlenecks- Conducting field trials and assessments to optimise the performance of TasWater’s STPs, including biological nutrient removal, disinfection, anaerobic digester and biosolids treatment and reducing plant energy consumption

Adelaide, Australia

My three month contract at Membrane Systems Australia PTY LTD (MSA) as a Graduate Engineer involved undertaking the following tasks:- Feasibility, concept and detailed design of water and wastewater treatment systems- Liaising with clients and contractors in a junior project management role to facilitate project delivery within the specified timeline - Creating, modifying and reviewing plant P&IDs- Process safety assessments, including being involved in the HAZOP team- Site inspections and Root Cause process investigations - Creating documentation for MSA’s Quality Management system

Adelaide, Australia

Involved in an ongoing bio-additive dosing optimisation project of CTTG’s 1.5 ML/d waterreuse facility.Key roles:- Perform laboratory tests simulating sequenced batch reactor operating conditions to assessthe effects of the addition of a bio-additive in reducing ammonia and nitrates concentrationand determine the optimum dosing strategy- Assess the performance of the bio-additive in conjunction to the use of existing coagulants- Perform daily TNT laboratory testing of several sampling points to provide data of plant KPI’s- Discussing day-to-day plant control methodology with site engineer and plant operator

Adelaide, Australia

As part of my undergraduate course requirements I undertook a 12 week unpaid work placement at SA Water. During my time at SA Water I undertook a feasibility study of assessing the capability and requirements of Adelaide's three metro wastewater treatment plants to reduce their power consumption. The primary aim was to achieve this by increasing the reliance on electricity generated from on-site produced biogas that is combusted in combined heat and power gas engines.Key aspects of the project included:- Utilising excel to perform calculations using raw data to determine: thermodynamic performanceof gas engines, sludge and gas flow rates, composition of treated sludge, performance of anaerobicdigesters and modelling future predicted inflow based on population growth.- Determining parameters affecting plants’ ability to increase biogas-generated electricity.- Conducting optimisation feasibility assessments to determine infrastructure requirements toincrease power generation using biogas.- Evaluating effectiveness of trade-waste use at Bolivar over its one-year trial period.- Making recommendations to improve onsite-energy production improvement for the three plants- Presenting the findings and recommendations of the feasibility study to Assets Management

Blair Athol

I had a dual role as one of the stores mechanics and sale-persons, where I undertook customer repairs and services along with building store display bicycles. In addition I provided retail sales service to customers to ensure they have a positive experience with Specialized products.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Honours), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: University of Adelaide Cycling Club, University of Adelaide Engineering Society,

Education record

Activities and Societies: 2011 NT winner and National Finalist - Plain English Speaking Competition, SACE Board of Studies Merit: English.