Henry (HAIYANG) GUO, Ph.D.
**** ******* ***** **, ******* GA 30024
Email Address: **********@*****.***, (ph) 678-***-****
SKILLS AND CORE COMPETENCIES
• Designed industrial and municipal water & wastewater treatment, sludge disposal systems to meet local, state and federal environmental requirements.
• Performed Phase I & II environmental site assessments, environmental noise assessments, environmental impact assessments, SPCC, human health and ecological risk assessments, preparation of environmental compliance and permitting (Title V) documents.
• Developed scope of work, process flow diagrams, selection of process equipment, technical specifications, cost estimates, layouts for treatment systems, and hazardous wastes management.
• Performed business development by preparing proposals, bidding documents, and health and safety plans.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Landwasher Science & Technology Co. and Enst Science & Technology Co., Beijing, China
1/2012 – present
Technical Consulting Contractor
• Developing new standards for bio-solid land applications; evaluating treatment technologies
• Evaluation of water treatment technologies (UF/RO applications) for boiler feed water at power plants; Providing recommendations on selection of water treatment technologies for power industry
KHAFRA Engineering Consultants, Inc., Atlanta, GA 5/2001 – 11/2011
Project Manager and Senior Environmental Engineer
• Feasibility Study and Environmental Impact Assessments for Bolgatanga, Techiman, and Konongo potable water project to supply safe drinking water for Ghana, Africa, work included sizing water treatment plants capacity, equipment selection/specification, water distribution systems
• Leachate Discharge Assessment at Morgan Falls Landfill, Fulton County, GA; conducted a surface water study by collecting water samples and prepared an investigation report
• Water Loss Audit for DeKalb County, to improve the County’s water resource management by limiting unnecessary or wasteful source water withdrawals
• Auditing of feasibility study of waste oil/sludge removal from lagoons at Ostramo sites, Ostrava, the Czech Republic for the USTDA; Auditing of feasibility study and preliminary engineering design of the Sogakope-Lome Water Supply Project, Africa for the USTDA
• Preliminary engineering design for installation of bio-solid (sewage sludge) heat dryers at the South River & Utoy Creek Water Reclamation Centers to increase the sludge disposal capacity, air permitting and compliance documents preparation and review
• Annual contract stand-by engineering services for Fulton County, GA. The contract services included land survey, geo-tech, water and wastewater, storm water pollution prevention plans; Management of technical support to USEPA Region IV under Remedial Oversight Contract at the RCRA/CERCLA sites
• Spill Prevention Control & Counter-measure (SPCC) plan, air permitting and compliance documents preparation and review for Kentucky State Horse Park at Lexington, KY
• Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESA), due diligence, at numerals sites in Atlanta, Gwinnett County, GA, Birmingham, Mobile and Selma, AL, Louisville, KY, and Indianapolis, IN; Phase II ESA and Treatability Study at Brewer Gold Mine, NC for EPA; Phase II ESA at Africa-American Heritage Center site in Louisville, KY
• Environmental Noise Assessments at sites in Atlanta, GA, Birmingham, Selma, and Mobile, AL
• Technical assistance to the Chief of Staff of the Project Management Team, Clean Water Atlanta (PMT) in the task of Maintenance and Operation Management for the City’s sewer collection and transmission system. Coordinated maintenance work with GIS, Capacity and Sewer System Evaluation Studies groups in the PMT, developed Standard Operating Procedures for routine inspection and maintenance equipment at Combined Sewer Overflow facilities, conducted sewage spill investigations to determine causes of spills and to recommend solutions
• Established KHAFRA Beijing Representative Office in Beijing, China. Served as a Chief Representative to conduct business development and water treatment and air pollution control technologies seminars
Williams-Russell & Johnson, Inc. Atlanta, GA
9/2000 – 5/2001
Project Manager and Senior Environmental Engineer
• Sewer collection systems design at Indian Creek Drainage Basin for the City of Atlanta to increase raw sewage treatment capacity to 14 MGD at year 2050
• Raw water pump station and reservoir inlet/outlet structures design for the Atlanta-Fulton County Water Resources Commission at the North Area Treatment Plant to increase a capacity to 165 MGD
KHAFRA Engineering Consultants, Inc., Atlanta, GA 3/1994 - 9/2000
Senior Environmental Engineer
• Bio-solid heat drying process for Massachusetts Water Resource Authority (MWRA) Sludge Processing and Disposal Facility in Quincy, MA. Lead a pilot plant study to up-grade the heat drying equipment capacity, emission calculations, air permitting (Title V) and compliance documents preparation
• Business development to prepare work plans, QA/QC plans, and health and safety plans
• Contracted by USEPA Region IV under Remedial Oversight Contract (ROC) for the Superfund cleanup process at Federal Facilities (DOD and DOE) RCRA/CERCLA sites, as contracted EPA risk assessor to work during scoping, remedial investigation/feasibility study (RI/FS). Oversight preliminary assessment and site investigation (PA/SI) and RCRA facility assessments (RFA), RCRA facility investigation and corrective measures study (RFI/CMS), remedial design/remedial action (RD/RA), record of decision (ROD), air permitting and compliance documents preparation during remedial actions. Performed a key role in human health and ecological risk assessments focused on fate/transport of organic and inorganic contaminants in medium. The major federal facility sites:
• US Army, Anniston, AL, Ft Jackson, SC, Ft Campbell, KY
• Department of Energy, Savannah River Site; NASA, Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, FL
• Marine Corps, Cherry Point, Camp Lejeune, NC, Parris Island, SC
• US Air Force, Arnold, TN, Myrtle Beach, SC, Tyndall, FL; US Navy, Pensacola, FL
Rust International Corporation, Birmingham, AL 11/1989 - 2/1994
Environmental Process Engineer
• Process design of wastewater treatment systems including oil/grease removal, physical/chemical treatments, sludge dewatering, and sewage treatment, treatability studies and prepared bid specifications and operation manuals for Reynolds Metals Co. Alloys Plant, Listerhill, AL
• Process design and modification of pulp and paper mill water treatment and conservation, mass balance, emission calculations for Gulf States Paper Co. Demopolis, AL
• Feasibility study to increase pulp production, performed material balance, developed flow diagram of water/wastewater treatment system, emission calculations for Celulosa De Chihuahua, Mexico
• Process design of water and Wastewater treatment systems, mass balance, equipment specification for Advanced Solid Rocket Motor, NASA, Yellow Creak, MS
• Engineering study to increase capacity of a chemical plant water treatment and waste sludge disposal systems, emission calculations for Monsanto Chemicals, Nitro, WV
• Performed emission calculations, prepared Title V permitting and compliance documents
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 12/1987 - 11/1989
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Dept. of Pulp & Paper Science
Conducted a research program funded by USEPA and USDA in application of biotechnology in treatments of pulp and paper mill waste water
Beijing Environmental Protection Agency, Air Division, Beijing, China 7/1980 - 6/1981
Research Engineer
Conducted a research on air quality monitoring program in Beijing, China
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Chemistry
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Master’s Degree in Environmental Science
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Bachelor of Science in Chemistry
Peking University, Beijing, China
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS USEPA Standard Operating Procedures/Quality Assurance; Ecological Risk Assessments & Management Decisions; OSHA 40 hr training; Hazardous Material Management (CHMM); Construction Safety Training
PUBLICATIONS
• TAPPI Journal, 1988, “Chemical Characterization of a Paper Mill Wastewater Foam”
• Journal of Pulp & Paper Science (Canada), 1992, “A Study on the Reduction of Chlorinated Organics in Bleach Plant Effluent by Oxidation with Oxygen”
• Biotechnology in Pulp and Paper Manufacture, 1990, “Degradation of chlorinated Phenols and Guaicols by the White-rot Fungus P. Chrysosporium”
• Over thirty articles regarding the environmental protection practices and policies in the USA, published on China Environmental Journal during 2001 to 2011. An article published on May 5, 2001 (Profiting from Municipal Wastewater Treatments) received a Third Prize of the Year from the journal.