Quality Assurance Engineer

Paul Livingstone

Email: **********@********.***

Address: ***** ***** *****

City: Elk Grove

State: CA

Zip: 95757

Country: USA

Phone: 916-***-****

Skill Level: Experienced

Salary Range: $104,000

Willing to Relocate

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Paul L. Livingstone

10095 Tuzza Court

Elk Grove, CA 95757

Tel.: 916-***-****

Email: **********@********.***

EDUCATION

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA

Post-doctoral Student (Environmental Engineering/Atmosphere)

5/1997-4/2000

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA

*Ph.D. (Geophysics/Atmospheric Chemistry)

9/1991-6/1997

Dissertation: -Tropospheric Ozone: Effects of Cloud Chemistry and Boundary Layer Processes- (UM Press, 1997)

*S.M. (Engineering Science/Environmental)

9/1991-6/1994

EXPERIENCES

ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, Zhejiang, P.R.C.

Foreign Research Professor (0.35 m RMB/y)

2/2012-Present

*Authored a book -Chemical Modeling for Air Resources- and taught one third of an undergraduate major course.

CALIFORNIA AIR RESOURCES BOARD, Sacramento, CA

(Staff) Air Pollution Specialist ($4051-$9082/m)

5/2000-5/2011

*Worked on O3 and PM modeling in the Planning and Technical Support Division to support State Implementation Plans, and worked on contract managements and model development in Research Division. Developed an efficient non-negative matrix factorization method; Developed a model component for boundary layer processes; Investigated O3 and PM air pollution episodes observed in Southern California in 1987 and 1997, in Central California in 1999 and 2000, and during the California Regional PM10/PM2.5 Air Quality Study; Assessed effects of ethanol fuel emission, dairy ethanol emission, and ship emission scenarios on O3 and PM in central California.

BAY AREA AIR QUALITY MANAGEMENT DISTRICT, San Francisco, CA

Atmospheric Modeler ($91K/y)

9/2003-9/2004

*Compared U.S. EPA CMAQ and CAMx model processes and performance on two O3 episodes observed in central California during 1999 and 2000. Participated in quality assurance of observed meteorological data in a number of networks over central California.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Stanford, CA

Postdoctoral Student, ($3000-$4000/m)

5/1997-4/2000

*Improved a coupled gas-aqueous chemical radiative model by solving for pH values and activity coefficients of individual ions in highly concentrated solutions, and studied major oxidation pathways of SO2 over a range of aerosol water pH values, liquid water contents, and temperatures to construct a compressed gas-aqueous mechanism of SO2 for photochemical modeling. Analyzed the effect of sub-grid segregation in a chemical radiation model on O3 production. Compared the Carbon Bond Mechanism IV, an Adjusted Carbon Bond Mechanism, and a 4000-reaction chemical mechanism on their predictions of oxidants and related species.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge, MA

Graduate Research Assistant ($1500/m)

7/1992-6/1997

*Improved the Harvard-GISS chemical transport model by implementing two sparse-matrix, vectorized chemical ordinary differential equation solvers (SMVGEAR and NEWRAF) with flexible interface for inputting coupled gas-aqueous chemical mechanism and a 6-stream radiation transfer solver. Parallelized the FORTRAN program using Message Passing Interface. Analyzed effects of aqueous-phase cloud chemistry on tropospheric O3 in global latitudes using a conceptual model and retrieved column liquid water from satellite observations as a constraint; validated the conclusion with a 3-D chemical-transport model, which solves coupled gas-aqueous photochemical reactions online, for continental U.S. during summer and winter. Investigated seasonal budgets of reactive nitrogen species and O3 over continental U.S., and their export fluxes to the global atmosphere, and extensively evaluated 3-D model results with observations.

FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tallahassee, FL

Graduate Student Assistant ($1200/m)

8/1990-8/1991

*Assisted Professor Winchester in the research on statistical analysis of acid rain monitoring data to assess patterns of atmospheric deposition of ammonium nitrate to watersheds, and carried out literature review of global change research in China for U.S. National Academy of Sciences study.

CHINESE RESEARCH ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES, Beijing, China

Graduate Student Researcher/Ass. Engineer (70-100 RMB/m)

8/1986-7/1990

*Worked in the Institute of Atmospheric Environment on acid rain and particulate source analyses. Developed a regional receptor model; Analyzed aerosol elemental composition data acquired from seven medium-sized cities and remote areas; Analyzed rain ions.

NANKAI UNIVERSITY, Tianjin, China

B.S. Student in the Dept. of Chemistry and Dept. of Environmental Science

9/1981-7/1985

*Took comprehensive undergraduate courses on inorganic, organic, physical, structural, analytical, and environmental chemistry as well as fundamental physics, mathematics, biology and computer. Received thorough laboratory trainings on chemical glassware and instruments (>1 day per week for 3.5 years, and the last semester in lab full time probing the treatment of aromatics in wastewater) as well as on fundamental physical instruments.

SKILLS

Atmospheric Models CALGRID, CAMx, CMAQ, CVPS, HARVARD-GISS CTM, MCIP,

NEWRAF, NMFROC, PCA, PMF, SAQM, SMVGEAR (GATOR-

GCMOM), WRF(MM5)

Chemical Lab Glassware and instruments

Computer Graphics Excel (Access), IDL, Matlab, NCAR Graphics (NCL), Pave, R,

S+, Verdi, Vis5d

Computer Languages Basic, C (C Csh (tcsh, bash), Fortran, MPI, Python, R, S+

Teaching `Introduction to Industrial Ecology & Environment` (Professor,

ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY, winter, 2012);

`Environmental Geoscience` (TA for Professors D.J. Jacob &

R. Siever, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, fall, 1992)

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