Product development - water treatment

Brian Johnson, Ph.D.

* *. *** ****** **. Warrenville, IL 60555

Phone: 630-***-**** e-mail: ********.*****.****@*****.***

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A chemist with a record of accomplishments in: product development, product line maintenance and lab & field support. Strengths include idea generation, a passion for problem solving and leadership with excellent communication skills and a competent, team player with attention to detail. Extensive knowledge of coagulant/filter-aid production, starch modification and application practices, Expert in raw & waste water industrial application treatment experience ranging from: municipal drinking water & waste treatment, Pulp & Paper, oil refinery, semiconductor, Food & Beverage, metal plating and filtration. I am fully computer and internet literate with experience in standard MS Office products, Statistical Design of Experiments as well as computer programming and industrial automation experience.

Professional Experience

Director of Research - Industrial Specialty Chemicals (2013 to present)

Supervise the technical staff. Set departmental goals and provide routine evaluations of progress toward these goals. Ensure adherence to professional standards and ethics of research.

Develop and oversee policies and procedures for the Technical Department

Evaluate/Develop research methodology and technology for laboratory upgrades

Implemented product development standards & methods:

oProduct development design standards

oWater testing protocol standardization

oRealized a product sample request program

oInitiation of Laboratory Quality Program Development

Equipment calibration checks

Enhanced Laboratory Functionality/Capability:

oDesigned laboratory layout

oSurface Tension, Colloid Titration & Fiber optic spectroscopy method development

oWastewater treatability request program

New product Development

Starch based wastewater & emulsion breaker products

Novel New Market starch coagulants

oLow chloride materials

Multiple TSCA PMN filings

Raw material sourcing/costing

Researched production synthesis routes & development

Industrial specialty cleaners for varied industry segments

Researched higher charge density starch

oExplored alternative reaction methodology

Directed product development & enhancements

New Market Anionic & Amphoteric coagulants

Closed loop corrosion control products

Fluorescent tracers for control of cooling water treatment

Tracers for remote quaternary concentration testing

oQuaternary complexation experimental formulations developed

Accomplishments

Quality program initiation

New product introduction process & naming standards

New market segment research & product development

Products for new market segments

Sr. Manager of Environmental Solutions – Industrial Specialty Chemicals (2011 to 2013)

Researched, programmed and implemented Wastewater Automation for Coagulation

Complete system design:

oHardware selection - touchscreen interface, PLC, sensors

oSource code & algorithm development with internet functionality

oDeveloped a provisional patented stream selection system to minimize sensor fouling

Initiated chemical level monitoring

Leveraged automation hardware for level sensor monitoring:

Developed several antifoam products to resolve various customer issues

Accomplishments

Implemented wastewater automation (submitted provisional patent #61,558,797)

Initiated level control monitoring

Developed new antifoam products

Staff Scientist – Nalco Company (2004 to 2011)

Reduced safety hazards and lowered cost by 20% for Polyaluminum Chloride manufacturing

Performed cost-benefit analysis and presented results to Marketing and Management.

Explored polyaluminum nitrate chemistry

Trained new researchers in chemical reactions, bench & field-testing methods and how to conduct trials.

Instructed new Sales Representatives product selection and application technology.

Initiated a cross-functional team to explored techniques for wastewater clarification & sludge dewatering

Designed, constructed & operated pilot-scale systems and adapted these to full-scale explosion proof systems for wastewater monitoring. Collected and analyzed data to meet project goals.

Developed models for predicting pollutant loading and consequent coagulant requirements.

Extensive interaction with Marketing, Sales and Customers in implementing field evaluations.

Designed/Evaluated instrumentation for wastewater and RO pre-treatment automation

Identified maintenance requirements & reliability in wastewater and designed a system for dosage automation.

Implemented full-scale chemical dosage control of secondary clarification at a 1 MM gpd waste plant.

Redesign equipment, for the price sensitive wastewater the market, reducing costs by 80%.

Complete system design: equipment, touch screen interface, PLC, source code and developed new products.

Developed a patented residuals monitoring system which reduces downstream RO fouling.

Researched alternative optical methods for automation and scale-up for WaterSavr™ production

Accomplishments

Reinvigorated a polyaluminum chloride coagulant product line with >$50 MM in sales.

Effected automation with over $1MM in sales.

Conceptualized a low cost, self-cleaning SCD for wastewater automation.

Successfully implemented Nalco WaterSavr™ scale-up

Patents for a self-cleaning filter and monitoring product residuals.

Nalco Innovation Award – A New Polyaluminum Chloride Manufacture.

Senior Research Chemist – Ondeo-Nalco (1996 to 2004)

Developed Polyaluminum Chloride coagulants to control seasonal variation in source water composition

Completed formulation of Aluminum-Iron hybrid coagulant

Worked extensively with Nalco Environmental Department and the EPA.

Field tested promising formulations on bench and full-scale trials.

Worked on tolling production, QA development and ensuring acceptable manufacturing standards.

Explored particle counting for coagulant evaluation with business partners

Developed methods for product evaluation to augment jar testing and applied to full scale plant issues.

Aided in business partnerships for coagulant products and performed technical sales support.

Researched heavy metal removal from wastewaters

Developed alternative products to enhance sulfide precipitation with dry products and micro-bead technology.

Assisted Marketing with rolling out new products & procedures.

Explored tagging of coagulants for clarification automation and binary coagulant programs

Designed and built pilot scale clarifiers and wrote code for automation.

Reduced treatment costs and effluent turbidity with clarifier automation.

Accomplishments

A complete line of coagulants.

Augmented the heavy metal removal product line.

Researcher of the Year and patents for fluorescent tagging of polymeric coagulants.

Senior Chemist – Nalco Chemical Co. (1991 to 1996)

Developed new antifoam products for waste treatment

Re-designed laboratory experiments for testing efficacy of formulations on various foam types.

Evaluated promising formulations for cost-effectiveness on bench and in full-scale trials.

Coordinated with Marketing, Sales for product introduction and performed various sales support roles.

Accomplishments

Oil and water based antifoam products commercialized.

Continuing annual sales of >$5MM from the new products.

Patents/Publications

1.Method of Heavy Metal Removal from Industrial Wastewater using submerged ultrafiltration or microfiltration membranes, European Patent #2 059 332 B1

2.Wastewater Automation using Periodic Sensor Measurement for Extended System Runtime, provisional US patent #61,558,797

3.Method of monitoring treating agent residuals in water treatment processes, US #7,910,371

4.Method of reducing fouling in filters for industrial water system analytical devices, US #6,662,636

5.Derivatized Rhodamine dye and its copolymers, US #5,998,632

6.Luminol tagged polymers for treatment of industrial systems, US #5,958,788

7.Derivatized rhodamine dye and its copolymers, US #5,808,103

8.Derivatized rhodamine dye and its copolymers, US #5,772,894

9.ICOM 2008 “Submerged Microfiltration Assisted Removal of Heavy Metal from Industrial Wastewater” Authors: Deepak Musale, Brian Johnson, Nalco Company

10.International Desalination Conference 2007 “New Developments in Membrane Systems Automation and Optimization.” Authors: G. Anders Hallsby, Brian Johnson et al, Nalco Company

11.Electric Utility Chemistry Workshop 2006, - “Improved Operation of RO Systems through Optimized Addition of Safe Amounts of Filter Aid in Advance of the Multimedia Filter.”

12.Coagulants and Flocculants 2005, Intertech – “RO Pretreatment Filter-Aid Automation.”

13.Coagulants and Flocculants 2002, Intertech – “A New Aluminum-Iron Coagulant.”

Education

Ph.D. Physical Chemistry, University of Wisconsin – Madison, WI

BA. Chemistry, University of Chicago – Chicago, IL

Activities & Organizations

American Water Works Association member and member of the AWWA Polyelectrolytes Subcommittee

American Filtration & Separations Society

Association of Water Technologies

Previously active in Toastmasters whereby I obtained Advanced Communicator status-bronze with leadership experience as Club President and Area Governor. Also we successfully guided struggling clubs to acceptable district standards.

References provided upon request.

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