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Water & Sewer

Oversaw the execution of a variety of field projects in the contaminated land remediation space. Experience includes groundwater monitoring events, surface water monitoring events, soil delineation, light non-aqueous management plans, and landfill gas monitoring. Acted as direct liaison between company, clients and other key stakeholders.

• Meticulously collected, managed, and analysed weigh sensitivity and high-speed imaging data, interpreting it to advance reduction of emissions due to fossil fuel usage for power production• Key findings contributed to the knowledge of oxy-fuel combustion of coal• Designed and custom-built combustion experimental testing platforms which included a quartz- tube,drop tube furnace, and Hencken burner reactors• Installed, calibrated, maintained, and serviced testing instruments• Maintained inventory of gases, parts and other laboratory supplies while being mindful of budgets• Abided by combustion and fire safety regulations within a laboratory, including proper handling ofcombustion products and disposal of hazardous materials

Preparing laboratory sessions, guiding students through planned lessons, promoting safety, assisting in experiments, performing administrative duties.

Preparing laboratory sessions, guiding students through planned lessons, promoting safety, assisting in experiments, performing administrative duties.

Worked on an engineering team to reconstruct vehicular accidentsEffectively managed time between simultaneous casesCollected and managed sets of data focusing on crash worthiness of vehicles and acceleration of heavy vehiclesTrained to inspect vehicular accidentsTrained to use Total Station surveying equipmentDeveloped software program that communicates with Google Street View