Tim Burton Email & Phone Number

Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Engineering and Construction

Vancouver, Canada Area

Vancouver

• Member of the Research Team which installed and operated two novel advanced wastewater treatment unit operations: a phosphorus-recovery operation (Struvite Recrystallizer Reactor) and a sludge volume-reducing operation.
• Duties include communication with team members, running PHREEQC chemical models, performing confirmation bench tests, collecting field samples, running analytical tests (e.g. Atomic Absorption Spectrometry, various.
• Troubleshoot the advanced microwave treatment process experiments.

University Of British Columbia

• Sole operator of the waste water treatment system of the Centre for Integrated Research for Sustainability (CIRS) building at UBC, a LEED-Platinum certified building.
• The treatment plant is an advanced treatment system that requires constant attention including planning and executing maintenance procedures, determining operational efficiency, troubleshooting, systems repair, sample.

Abbotsford

• I started this company as a plant tissue culture and propagation business.
• I developed sterile techniques that allow for disease- and pest-free growth of aquatic plants, which were produced and marketed throughout Canada, USA, and Europe.
• My research has led to the first known successful mass propagation of several endangered aquatic species.
• Tropica Aquarium Plants of Denmark uses plants I developed for their production

Vancouver, Canada Area

Abbotsford

• Responsible for running various undergraduate laboratory courses in the biology department
• Preparation of chemicals, scheduling
• Responsible for lab safety including hazardous materials, WHIMS

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Civil Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Cellular Biology And Genetics