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Ceramic Industrial Designer

Location:
Niagara Falls, NY, 14305
Salary:
54000
Posted:
April 04, 2022

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Anthony Reid Harvey

**** ********** *****, ******* *****, NY 14305 USA ~ Cell: 1-347-***-**** Career Summary

Twenty-six years as a ceramic industrial designer, training for production and implementation of the sustainable interventions of WASH, indoor air quality and micro-industry. I have managed projects across sub-Saharan Africa, and southern Asia in partnerships with governments and INGOs. These projects have been nature-based for capacity building and sustainability and have addressed sixteen of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals - SDGs. Emphasis is on using the widely available human and natural resources. Competencies

Water Governance Consultation

Design & development have been for localizing human-centered, nature- based interventions, using available resources to implement community point-of-use systems as well as household candle filter systems.

Global Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction I have implemented programs to reduce indoor air pollution in the developing world by training locals how to convert from charcoal and wood burning cook stoves to creating biomass briquettes to uses in highly energy efficient rocket stoves. Water filter media of granulated ceramics has been developed with disaster risk reduction in mind. Uniquely, large scale water filters of the granulated media will make point-of-use sustainable water treatment possible to the highest standard. See the article following, Filtering Safe Drinking Water through Granulated Ceramics. NB. the U. S. Army has green lighted the rapid deployment, fabrication of these large-scale water filters, suited as well to disaster preparedness.

Policy and Governance Consultation

Development of ceramic filters, both monolithic and granulated, has been with implementation in mind, for

‘stakeholder participation and inter-sectoral coordination.’ On these bases it is presumed that standardization of water filters and sanitary toilets will enable policy development, with a view to the unmet and serious need for shared technologies that are widely applicable. In this way, prospective implementers will be able to make informed technology decisions.

Program Development and Implementation

Developments implemented have focused on sustainability. In addition to effectiveness, these have included affordability, user-friendliness and easy maintenance. Affordability is stipulated in the SDGs. Reliance has been on abundant resources that have been available, ceramic resources starting with clay, sand and others. The human resources start with the ubiquitous, highly skilled potters who hand form, e.g., water containers and cook pots. Capacity building has been in quick forming techniques of duplicates, starting with models and molds.

Familiarity with Water Related Policies

I have followed closely the proceedings of the WHO Household Water Network from its inception in 2003. Policy development experiences have interfaced with senior staff of the WHO, INGOs and like-minded organizations, several governments, academia, and the private sector. E.g., USAID, the Kenya Ministry of Health, and several universities in Western New York.

Capacity Development

Building capacity has been the foundation of my work in the trainings to produce water filters of ceramic candles. This has been in both Nepal and Kenya, in both, the filter systems going into 5,000 homes of informal settle- ments. Training in energy efficient stove production has been in Burundi, Tanzania, Guinea and numerous other countries of sub-Saharan Africa. In all cases there is a view to fostering livelihoods and community resilience. Recent Work History

Training in Rwanda with the Anglican Church, of a 2-piece insulating rocket stove of interchangeable upper liners: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FabajMuMJWLdK45xiL7a5YMKFGtZGmWF/view?usp=sharing

Senior Scientist, TAM Ceramics Group of NY, LLC. Developed production methodology of water filter media of granulated ceramics, coated with silver. Undertook requisite research and lab procedures in optimizing reduction of pathogens and leaching of silver. Compiled and distributed information. Aug. 2017 to Feb. 2020

Consultant Ceramist, Alfred University, New York State College of Ceramics. Optimization of water filter media of granulated ceramics, coated with silver, identifying parameters of research and empirical needs, in collaboration with senior faculty of ceramic engineering. July 2015 to Aug. 2017

Consultant Ceramist. The Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute. Identified ceramic products

&processes. Familiarized colleagues with ceramic water filters and optimized cookstoves. July 2014 to July 2015

Consultant Ceramist. The Presbyterian Eastleigh Community Centre, Nairobi. Identified ceramic products and processes. Familiarized potters with ceramic water filters and optimized cook stoves. Jan. 2013 to July 2014 Education

Awarded B.F.A., Ceramic Industrial Design, Alfred University, New York State Collage of Ceramics May 1988 B.F.A. exhibition, Geometric Interaction, mold cast porcelain and mold blown glass. May 1988 Publications and Presentations

Presentation, Breakthroughs in Burundi, to encourage ceramists to pursue WASH and development: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1F3Q2w3jWlOo_S- XBhqIDp1_SX4kT7tDR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106638994381284127859&rtpof=true&sd=true

Presentation, the annual conference of the WEDC, Sanitary Stoneware Toilets, Production Closer to the Need, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_T5ejTp8JmyBp2tzpPtwXYe4J5xKW7Oa/view?usp=sharing Sept. 14, 2021

The Geneva Forum presentation, For the Poor, By the Poor, Water Treatment and Clean Cookstoves, https://drive.google.com/file/d/19u97nLudpcL2UR58ubuiBc-d0RVNKDmX/view?usp=sharing Dec. 2020

The webinar, Where is Safe Drinking Water in Your Priorities? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WNn0ty_Ug6wZ7yMReBqF2x9V6rnF5ScE/view?usp=sharing Nov. 2020

Three books for developing world capacity building, at, www.morebooks.shop. The first expands on the pres- entation of, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337089137_HarveyAnthonyTEXT 1) Environmental Health and Development for All, 2) Plaster of Paris Techniques, and, 3) Pressing Ceramics with Air-Release.

The article, Filtering safe drinking water through granulated ceramics, the American Ceramic Society Bulletin, January 2019: http://tamceramics.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/TAM-feature_01-02-2019.pdf

Ceramics in Developing Countries. Featured in the American Ceramic Society Bulletin. December 1991

A Studio Grows in West Africa, featured in the magazine, Stained Glass, www.stainedglass.org Spring 1980 Distinctions

Exhibition of the IDE Nepal, pottery purifier system, the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian, New York City. May to Sept. 2007

Vice Chair and Secretary, American Ceramic Society, Design Division. 1994 and 1995

Voice of America interview, featuring the manuals, Pressing Ceramics with Air-Release, and, Plaster of Paris: Techniques from Scratch. May 1993



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