Redwood is a consulting and advisory firm committed to accelerating scientific and engineering based innovation in the areas of advanced functional materials, water & wastewater treatment technologies, energy and life sciences.Recent projects involving innovative water and wasewater treatment technologies include:- Sales and marketing strategy for anaerobic biological process to treat industrial wastewaters - Establish equipment representative network for inert microfiltration membrane product line - Market research for "green" bio-based treatment chemical for reverse osmosis membranes- Market research for on-site chemical production system for water and wastewater treatment- Due diligence for innovative water treatment technologies for investment companies- Review proposals and recommend funding water technologies for federal and state agencies- Microbrewery water audits to select options to reduce water usage and wastewater disposal costs- Subject matter expert for preparation of MASSCEC Water Technology Industry Report http://www.masscec.com/content/massachusetts-water-technology-industry-roadmap

Responsible for business unit strategy to commercialize new processes, materials and chemicals for water and wastewater treatment in industrial and municipal applications including non-chlorine disinfectant (ferrate), biological/chemical based nutrient recovery processes (nitrogen/phosphorus), bio-based water treatment chemicals and advanced membrane materials. Also, responsible for selling water and wastewater related environmental services. Sold research program to American Petroleum Institute (API) to provide critical assessment of the experimental design and quality control of the congressionally mandated US EPA Hydraulic Fracturing Case Study to Assess Potential Impact on Drinking Water Resources. Sold series of research programs to Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) to evaluate proposed technologies using a multi-decision criteria model to remediate hyper-eutrophic lake closed because of cyanobacteria outbreak using nutrient control technologies.Sold research program to Ohio Department of Environmental Protection (OEPA) to develop a multi-criteria decision model to evaluate proposed technologies for treatment of flowback and produced water.Sold series of engineering consulting contracts to several university grantees under the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate and de-risk the deployment of prototype human waste devices for third world communities.Sponsored internal research programs to develop in-house capabilities for infrastructure pipe line inspection and repair technologies leading to significant externally funded research programs from USEPA and industry research groups including Water Environmental Research Foundation and Water Research Foundation.

Developed business for membrane systems in municipal wastewater reuse. Reviewed municipal proposals for drinking water and wastewater treatment. Provided recommendations on bid/no bid decisions, pricing and warranties. Negotiated municipal equipment supply contracts with general contractors, municipalities and engineering companies. Developed business for membrane products for industrial water market. Coordinated domestic and overseas sales staffs to sell membrane products to OEMs and end users. Negotiated industrial membrane supply contracts with OEMs for domestic and overseas markets.Sold first three ultrafiltration membrane systems for tertiary treatment of municipal wastewater for total sales revenue of over $2.3 million.Sold first three high temperature ultrafiltration membrane systems for clarification of raw beet and cane sugar juice for total sales revenue of over $750,000.Sold ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis membranes for OEM portable drinking water systems for military and emergency response for total sales revenue of over $2.5 million.Established worldwide OEM network leading to sales contracts of more than one hundred membrane systems over a seven year period with total membrane sales revenue of over $30 million.Established presence in the rapidly growing membrane market for water and wastewater treatment in China and India leading an increase of membrane sale revenue from zero to over $5.0 million over a five years period.

Supervised Sales and Marketing Group that commercialized a novel electrodialysis (water splitting) technology including contracts to supply equipment and services for the following projects: Department of Energy (DOE/PETC) demonstration project at Niagara Mohawk Power Plant, Dunkirk, NY under a $2.5 million cooperative research contract for supply of an electrodialysis membrane system to investigate a novel coal flue gas desulfurization process.Electrodialysis membrane system to ADM, Decatur, IL to convert raw lactate and gluconic fermentation liquor to purified organic acid products in a bio-production corn wet milling operation. Created major venture for central processing of spent hydrofluoric acid at the Allied Signal, Baton Rouge, LA production facility including collection of spent acid from and return of recovered acid to local oil refineries for reuse in refinery acid alkylation plants.

Coordinated cooperative research proposals that resulted in more than $8.0 million of project funding. Projects included development of coal fired power plant flue gas desulfurization and coal gasification technology. Supervised process engineering group responsible for operation of a pilot plant facility used to evaluate experimental processes and catalysts for the petroleum industry. Supervised technical service team during the start-up of new oil refineries including inspection, start-up and training of all process unit operations. Lived and worked in overseas locations included Columbia, Saudi Arabia, Burma and Romania.