Training Management

MINESH SHRESTHA

CHEMIST

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Place and Date of Birth: Kathmandu, Nepal – 26 February 1962

Civil Status: Married

Children: Two

Current Address: **** ****** ****

Reston, Virginia 20191

Telephone: 703-***-****

E-mail: abntqk@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE

Senior chemist with over 20 years of experience in water quality testing, including management

of accredited chemical laboratory as per ISO/IEC 17025:2005.

Education: M.Sc, Chemistry (1987, Tribhuvan University, Nepal) & Post Graduate Study in

Biogeography & Regional Assessment (1994, University of Saaraland, Germany)

Experience: 2007 to 2009:

Director/Senior Divisional Chemist of WTO/TBT Section in Nepal Bureau of

Standards & Metrology.

Responsibility: Operation of National Technical Barrier to Trade (TBT) Inquiry

Point, Notification of Information to World Trade Organization (WTO)

Secretariat, Geneva.

2003 - 2007:

Senior Divisional Chemist, Department of Mines & Geology (Nepal)

Responsibility: Management of Chemical Laboratory of the Department as a

Section Chief.

1989 - 2003:

Water Chemist, Groundwater Utilization Division under Department of Irrigation

(Nepal)

Responsibility: Physical, chemical and microbiological analysis of water

samples, interpretation of analyzed data and preparation of the reports.

1987 - 1989:

Quality Control Officer, Royal Drugs Limited (Nepal).

Responsibility: Physical and chemical analysis of various pharmaceutical raw

materials, intermediate and final products.

Other Professional Experience:

1990 to 2009:

Lab in-charge (part-time), Cemat Water Lab Pvt. Ltd. (nationally accredited Lab).

Responsibility: Over all management of the Laboratory for physical, chemical

and microbiological analysis of water, wastewater, soil, rock/minerals, food, etc.

Training:

- Training on Air Quality Monitoring & Management organized by Envirotech

International (India) 1992.

- Training on Hydrogeology, Microbiology & Organic Chemistry, organized by

Australian Geological Survey Organization (Australia), 1995.

- Advance training on Gas Chromatography, organized by Chemito Instruments

Pvt. Ltd (India) 1997.

- Training on Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) (Nepal), 2000.

- Training on River/Surface water Quality Monitoring (Pakistan), 2001.

- Training on Laboratory Assessor Training Course (ISO/IEC 17025:2005),

NABL, India, 2005.

- Training on Internal Audit of Environmental Management System (ISO

14001:2004) FICCI, India, 2006.

- Training on Hazardous Waste Management organized by FERS, Mahidol

University Thailand, 2007.

Special Skills:

- Extensive experience in operation of most of the Water Quality testing related

analytical instruments such as UV/Visible Spectrophotometer, Atomic

Absorption Spectrophotometer, etc.

- Experience in performing tests such as pH, EC, DO, TDS, Alkalinity, Hardness,

Cations, Anions, Arsenic, Mercury, BOD, COD, Total coli form, Faecal coli

form, etc. in water samples.

- Experience in Water Quality Data interpretation and report preparation.

- Experience in management of accredited chemical laboratory as per ISO/IEC

17025:2005.

Languages:

English- Very Good German-Very Good Nepali-Fluent

Hindi-Proficient Newari-Fluent

References:

Available on Request.

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