Water Quality & Public Health Expert, Trainer

NAME PROFESSOR. AMIN, NUH (NOAH) ARRE

Contacts USA, +1-612-***-****

Email: ****.****@*****.*** Or *********************@*****.*** Nationality US Citizen (Somali)

Education 2024 Teaching License Certificate (State of Minnesota) 2021 Certificate on Climate Change (ICPAC) IGAD, African Development Fund/GEF 2018 Free Lance Consultancy Certificate: MoWR., Somaliland (Northwest Somalia) 2015 Certificate in Water Management …Kenya Institute of Management (TOT) IOM Project 2004 Advisory Committee to Somaliland President…on Water & Environment Expert 1984 Master of Science, (Water Pollution Control) Arkansas, USA 1975 Bachelor of Science in Chemistry, College of Education, Somalia 1968 Diploma in Teaching Somali Schools, National Teacher Education MSU at Lansing MI Expertise

WASH/Pub

Health/

Environment

Septic tank

waste treat

• Over 35 yrs. work experience/trainer of Water Quality; wastewater/ Environment remediation, & Treatment for Pollution Control for water reuse purposes

• Use of Environment Friendly Microbes to Treat Hotel, Restaurant (FOG) & Factory/Abattoir Wastes….and Odor Causing products)…destruction of Hydrogen Sulfide and Mercaptans etc.

• WASH/Cluster Trainer (Water, sanitation/hygiene/Public Health) work with UN, IOM,

• Participations/contributions to seminars, conferences, symposiums, East Africa/UAE Work Exp. Saudi Arabia, USA, United Arab Emirates, East Africa: Somalia, Ethiopia Languages Languages Speak Reading Writing Comprehension Somali Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent

English Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent

Arabic Excellent Excellent Excellent Excellent

EMPLOYMENT/WORK RECORDS

Project Name Freelance Consultant /Contractor/Trainer: WASH; Water Quality, Water/Wastewater, etc. Public Health, Community Hygiene/Sanitation, Environment, Trainer/Awareness Programs July 2020 To present

Location

Activities

• UACS…Minneapolis, MN… Teaching Assistant

• Somalia/SRS of Ethiopia (AQUAMIN-- V-President and Technical Manager

• Freelance Consulting, Somalia, Ethiopia, Somali Region on water, environment, ToT Training

• Identify, assess and control risks that could impact air, land, water and groundwater, resources and or harm public health of the people including noise

• Prevent harm to human health and the environment including soil, water and food

• Meet community expectations: Including air and water pollution control…scoping and screening,

• Support fight against environmental degradation from wastes including industrial wastes

• Advise in waste treatment using contemporary environment safe microbes/enzymes

• Community training in public health/Environment awareness issues, Project Name Freelance Consultant, Researcher: Public Health (Air, Water, Wastes, Environment, etc.) Position Consultant Trainer of Somalia staff on water quality, air quality & environmental issues Year March 2020…….to June 2020

Location Somalia (Northwest Somalia), East Africa/Somali Regional State of Ethiopia Client Ministry of Water Resources Development; WASH Groups trainer Project Water Quality Monitoring & laboratory Expert/Trainer, Ministry of Water Resources Activities • Train communities in: water quality (surface/groundwater, engineers and other staff

• Train Ministries staff on Water Quality and laboratory staff to international standard Develop guidelines (SOP's, QA/QC, Lab Safety and Sampling Manuals) Help partners to implement during planning, implementation WASH activities

• Develop, coordinate, support communities in provision of water resources; Plan, facilitate and coordinate/carry out conferences, seminars, training/tours; Prepare and conduct seminars to staff and other water workers

• Help identify suitable water sources surface/groundwater/institutional capacity, O & M Project Name Mogadishu Solid Waste Management Feasibility Study Contractor Mogadishu, Somalia

Year 2019- February 2020

Location Mogadishu, Somalia

Client NIS Foundation

Project Locat Mogadishu Solid Waste Management Feasibility Study Project

Activities

• Get an overview of the current solid waste management practices including mapping of the existing facilities and actors in both private and public sectors.

• Develop solid waste management plans for improvement of collection, transfer, recycling/ disposal of municipal refuse in Local Government Units (LGU's), in Mogadishu

• Environmental screening, environmental assessment and monitoring Identify training and/or capacity building needs of local govt staff responsible for oversight, technical assistance,

• Carry out EIA, Environmental Auditing, ESIA …. Al Jazeera Beach and Hamar Weyn Waste Outfall

• Carry out solid waste feasibility study of different Mogadishu Districts

• Carry out survey of current solid waste management practices and situation

• policy support, and regulatory guidance in solid waste management, so that they may fully

• understand solid waste management planning processes and implement them. Report on the legal, regulatory and organization framework for solid waste management Project Name KAP Survey & Feasibility Study Water Schemes /Community Health/ MCHs/Nutrition Company Global Water Consulting, Somalia (Northwest Somalia) Year: March 2016

Location: Borama, Northwest Somalia

Client: German Agro Action Group….of Germany

Project

Description

KAP WASH & Nutrition Survey Promotion of Sustainable Rural Development Awdal, Somaliland,

(Dilla, Baki & Ruqi Districts) ..health/ nutrition, community water &sanitation Activities

Performed

• To develop clear and justified key indicators regarding Rural Community Access to safe Water Supply, Hygiene, Sanitation and Nutrition; MCH services

• Gather, compile and present reliable and existing data on Water, nutrition/Sanitation coverage in intervention areas;

• To determine beneficiaries Knowledge, Attitude and Practices (KABP) regarding WASH;

• To prepare and present Nutritional status of the intervention areas, know feeding habits;

• To identify waste management practices at household, village and institutional levels;

• To determine prevalence of the malnutrition state among children under five, pregnant and lactating mothers in intervention areas/Assess Area Natural Resources Management practices

Project Nam Water Quality Monitoring Program …….IOM Position Water Quality Monitoring & Laboratory Expert (IOM Somalia) Year: October 2013 – December 2015

Location: Hargeisa, Somaliland

Client: Ministry of Water resources/MoH Public Health: (Trainer of sanitation staff) Project

Description

Train Somaliland Ministries of Water Resource/MoH staff on water Quality Monitoring and participate/contribute to WASH activities in Somaliland; advise Ministry on alleviating water scarcity/waterborne diseases.

Activities

Performed

• SIDA, trainer of engineers/related staff of the MoWD and MoH Sanitation Dept staff

• Employees Capacity Building, basic skills and knowledge through formal and informal trainings

• Develop laboratory training manuals & water collection sources for lab analysis, data validation

• Train employees on routine physicochemical, bacteriological tests.

• Maintain accurate/up-to-date records of sampling, testing, findings, procedures and corrective actions taken in accordance to WASH/WHO/UNICEF guidelines; Coordinate/participate water quality monitoring system, operational framework in collaboration with management/ relevant stakeholders.

• Track/record lab chemical, regent/media needs in accordance to WASH guidelines.

• Establish and maintain strong partnership with and liaise with senior management of concerned Ministries, IOM, UNICEF, WHO and other WASH cluster members

• Participate/contribute to WASH and related sectoral coordination meetings Project World Vision

Position Contractor & Trainer of WASH Communities and tour public health centers as advisor Year 2011 March 15th 2012

Location: Somaliland (Northwest Somalia)

Project des WASH Activities, train community in WASH & Public Health Issues Activities • Train Communities in rain water harvesting and disinfection techniques

• Develop basic training manuals (WASH) for rural communities

• Help in information gathering, data collection and report writing.

• Develop/participate contribute to conferences, seminars,

• Carry out tours of community health centers and sanitation sites & institutions

• Show community leaders (Municipal staff ) how to carry out basic sanitation activities, etc.

• Train community and municipal personnel how to protect source water and POU water sources from contamination

Project

Name:

Solid Waste Management… Project Manager

Year: • 2016-2018, (Part Time)

Location: • Hargeisa Municipality, Somaliland, (Northwest Somalia) Client: • Developmental Action Committee, NGO

Project

Descript

Implementing and supporting basic education to (new arrives) refugee adults and their children Position Held: • Program Manager for a WB project

Activities

Performed:

• Prepare and dispense basic educational classes to school age kids…supplement tutoring

• Prepare, develop, monitor and deliver education classes to Somali refugees

• Make daily lesson plans and preparations…. Booklets, texts, maths, ...evening school

• Check daily student activities including extra-curriculum activities

• As trained teacher, I taught different subjects English and/or Somali as media of

• instruction

• Primary, and Vocational Schools, teacher (media in English, Arab

• Somali student supplement teaching background

• Uplifting new arrivees (refugees) both adults and school age kids Project (Environment) Waste (Solid/Liquid) Treatment for Environment Pollution Control Manager Year: • 1997-2008

Location: • UAE

Client: • Abu Dhabi Sewerage Services Company (ADESSCOI)/PPP/Gov’t …Privatized Institution Project

Descript:

• Supervise collection/treatment of wastewater to international standard for reuse purposes and monitor contractor work performance.

Position Held

Project Team Member & Laboratory Manager

Oversee Technical Operations & Treatment Quality Monitoring 400,000M3/Day for Environment Greening and Climate Control to Alleviate Public Health Negative Impacts Activities

Performed

• Use Pre-treatment/using Thioguard Mg(OH)2, GAC, Oxygen, Nutrix = Ca(NO3)2

• Small Package Plants; use Waste Stabilization Ponds, Facultative Ponds, SBR, etc. towns/ remote villages

• Implement/enforce Municipal Liquid Waste Treatment applicable laws as described Prepare technical personnel toward local and international accreditation;

• Ensure availability of adequate resources and adjust employee workloads;

• Provide training requirements of staff to facilitate completion of assigned tasks in a safe work environment & Lead and monitor Industrial Waste Water Pre-Treatment before discharge to sewer lines

• Provide leadership by planning and directing the day-to-day management/establishing performance requirements and coaching performance;

• When necessary, identify, develop, implement measurement capability to meet requirements;

• Prepare and attesting to validity of technical reports

• Monitor/advise management on (Sewage & Trade Effluent Treatment Quality);

• Expertise in preparing specification and procurement Laboratory equipment/training

• Coordinate changing Plant sludge & compost to fertilizer for desert greening Project Name • Surface Water Purification for Public Drinking Water Supply Year: • 1990-1997

Location: • USA

Client: • City of Dallas, Water Purification Directorate Project

Description:

• Provide purified water to public treating surface water to world standards in accordance to Safe Drinking Water Act promulgated by US Congress Position • Drinking Water Quality Control & Source Water Quality Survey Officer Activities

Performed

• Worked in Department of Health Certified laboratory and fully certified by the Department

• Responsible for ensuring that Source of drinking water quality is within EPA standard in compliance to source of Safe Drinking Water Act promulgated by US Congress;

• Familiar with NELAC programs and ability to lead Water Quality Labs to comply with these standards

• Carry raw water quality surveillance, sample and test chemical, physical, and biological characteristics o f w a t e r in accordance to standard methods

• Carry out all lab works including monitoring, sampling, evaluating test results and reports writing; Carry out calibration of equipment, preparation/standardization of solutions with ability to generate daily, monthly and yearly reports

• Bacteriological testing (Total/E. Coli) using Membrane Filtration, (MF), the Multiple Tubes, (MPN), Colilert Technique and the Presence/Absence methods;

• Fully certified to run all sterilization processes following the required protocols

• Ability to develop and comply with QA/QC of drinking water: sampling, testing protocols using dupes, blanks, splits and other related QA/QC programs and related methods

• Responsible for Solid Waste Quality Control Program: Included but not limited to proficiency tests, data and the use of control samples, spikes/charts as well as the validation of data generated by lab to ensure data conformance to national standards. Project Name • Water Pollution Control…. (RESEARCH) Funded by Federal Gov’t of USA, 1981 • 1984

Location • Arkansas, USA

Activities • Conducted research, a State financed project … Water Pollution Control ..Non-Point pollution

• The Study of the Fate of Pesticides heavily used in the spring in the rural areas of the Indian Creek watershed of the White County of Arkansas, to suppress wild garlic.

• Sampling/collection rainstorm events and riverbed soil.

• Treat / test for selected pesticides; soil nutrient levels etc. using instrumentation/ wet chemistry techniques.

Project

Name

Somali Literacy Program …Teacher's Education

Project Year 1968 1977

Location: Somalia

Client: Ministry of Education, Somalia

Position Teacher (Primary, Secondary & Teacher’s Institutes) Project

Description

Educational and Literacy Program: Curriculum Development (in Somali language) Language committee member …develop School Texts in Somali Activities

Performed

• Prepare and dispense educational classes to primary schools…in Somali language

• Prepare, develop, monitor and deliver education classes to secondary schools in Somalia

• Make daily lesson plans and preparations…. Booklets, texts

• Check daily student activities including extra-curriculum activities

• As trained teacher, I taught different subjects English and/or Somali as media of instruction

• Primary, Secondary and Vocational Schools, teacher (media in English, Arabic and Somali (written)

Hargeisa School of Nursing teaching background

REFERENCES:

ENG. MOHAMED BASHIR MAALIM TEL: +254-*********, Email: ********@*****.*** Harmon Alamene City of Dallas, Lab Supervisor TEL 972-***-**** Email: *******@*******.*** Eng. Yassin Osman Engineer Yassin Osman TEL 612-***-**** Email ******.*****@****.*****.**.** Metropolitan Council Environmental Services, St. Paul MN 55106, MN

PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

1 The great role clean water plays in human health 2 Water scarcity in the horn of Africa, causes, consequences & solutions 3 Water Scarcity & The Challenges of the MDGs; Meeting basic needs, for Safe and sufficient water 4 Water quality monitoring can play a vital role in combating water scarcity 5 Raising the awareness of clean water, good sanitation & environmental health 6 For Somalis, despite its wonderful contribution to public health, sanitation still a taboo 7 Combating the spread of diseases through controlling killer disease vectors 8 The great role of water, hygiene and sanitation (wash) play in public health 9 Failure to safely dispose off municipal wastes can cause a huge public health disaster 10 Waste reuse (both solid & liquid), can significantly, help combat deforestation 11 Biotech innovative technology: to combat sanitation problems in septic tanks/community toilets pit latrines 12 Water quality monitoring is vital in alleviating water scarcity

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