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Hayward, Ca

- Implement all the NPDES and ELAP compliance regulations, procedures and standards along with 503-c biosolid - Design, lead and implement QA/QC protocol for the laboratory to satisfy the CA ELAP requirements for various parameters and analysis.- Increase the laboratory production by justifying the instruments, distillations and equipment by 300%.- Identify, evaluate and manage contract resources required to support water, wastwater and biosolids analytical testing for all stages of development. - Provide Quality Management System for an accredited fully operational laboratory operation under State of California regulation and managed by City government. - Monitoring sampling and analysis of Drinking water, Waste water analytical procedures for the City of Hayward and making sure to follow the protocols.* Optimized the method and instrumentation in order to increase production without loosing quality and avoid deviations from standard procedures.- Implementation and expansion of analytical procedures for water and wastewater including metals, nutrients, wet chemistry and microbiology testings.- Analytical and technical support for the wastewater treatment plant staff and water distribution and utility staff.- Develop request for proposals describing detailed work, and timeline requirements for submission to selected vendors; evaluate proposals and negotiate revisions; provide recommendation for vendor selection with clear rationale and justification for selection. - Building and maintaining a Comprehensive database management to replace the manual data entering and migration from paper management to Excel database.- Instruction on various workstation setup for various instrumentation, and repetitive data entries.- Train staff and laboratory technicians on ICP, IC, Cold Vapor mercury,- Increase the capacity of Lab to 300% production by addition of right tools and instrument in year and half.

Emeryville, Ca

- Serves as Technical Expert for utilization of quality principles and problem solving skills to develop and optimize instruments/processes that are aligned with the overall Quality/Regulatory needs and Business vision. - Maintain and troubleshoot instruments such as ICP-MS, ICP-OES, Mercury Cold vapor AA.- Train staff, chemist and technician on various metals digestions and instrumentation.- Provide formulation expertise and select the most appropriate formulation for contractors, clients.- Drive the key regulatory related decisions for Chemical Laboratory.- Direct analysis of samples by most high upscale instruments such as ICP-MS.- Act as a quality/regulatory director of the chemical management team.- Identify, evaluate and manage all the required environmental substance synthesis and analytical testing for all environmental media such as water, solids, soil, paint, wipe samples, air filters, etc.- Advising new and on-going businesses on policies and regulations of sampling and products.- Generated a new developed database for the inorganic laboratory for a nice looking and friendly report.

Emeryville, Ca

- Developed, supervised, managed Chemistry Laboratory programs that support water and wastewater treatment plant operations.- Expanded Lab to full service metal analysis utilizing sitting Perkin-Elmer ICP.- Developed a new digestion procedure for the wipe samples to maintain the recovery of parameters within 95-100% of actual values.- Implement and analysis of various performance test samples according to ELAP, and ISO 17025 regulations.- Develop the mercury analysis using a Leeman cold vapor AA to optimize and quality produce of analysis and report.- Provides quality and regulatory leadership or consultation to significant project managers and clients on support to project teams and business development.- Develop trace analysis of lead, cadmium, arsenic, selenium, thallium and beryllium using GFAA without losing production time and quality.- Working knowledge of common software applications and communication tools such as Microsoft Office, File Maker Pro, Windowa and Apple.

Rancho Cordova, Ca

- Work closely with chemist and lab technicians to ensure lab activities and analysis are aligned with project requirements.- Provide expertise and scientific direction regarding the evaluation and selection of new product technologies, in association with Lab evaluations and requirements from environmental and regulatory teams.- Provide formulation expertise and select the most appropriate analysis to satisfy the studies for the clients.- Manage the wet chemistry and metals lab and expand the analysis to provide full services analytical lab to the society.- Identify, evaluate and manage resources required to support analysis, documentation and data validation including analytical testing for CLP requirements.