Engineer Quality Control
Resume:
RONALD M. DENNIS
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SUMMARY Skilled chemical/environmental professional with strong interest in improving chemical materials and processes to develop new products that are environmentally sound. Educational background in chemical and environmental engineering. Professional experience in working with chemical processes and products as an environmental consultant, governmental regulator, process engineer, and research engineer.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
Registered Engineer, Tennessee – Certificate No. 15,149 (Inactive)
Professional Engineer: Florida – License No. 000*******; North Carolina – License No. 034668; South Carolina – License No. 26913
Certified Quality Engineer, American Society for Quality – Certification No. 18400
CONSULTING WORK EXPERIENCE
Rogers and Callcott Engineers, Inc. Greenville, SC
Air Quality Section Manager 01/07 to 01/12
Provided environmental consulting services for various industrial and municipal clients with respect to air and water permitting and compliance issues and risk assessment issues and reviewed work of junior environmental engineer.
Previous consulting experience with Roy F. Weston, Inc: Senior Project Engineer-West Chester, PA
Provided environmental consulting services such as environmental site assessments and remedial investigation/feasibility studies to both industrial and governmental clients and conducted process safety analyses using both Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) and fault tree analyses for an industrial client.
GOVERNMENT WORK EXPERIENCE
Hillsborough County Environmental Protection Commission
Tampa, FL
Professional Engineer I, Air Management Division 06/02 to 03/06
Permitted various industries in Hillsborough County for Title V and Non-Title V air permits and conducted walk through compliance inspections for these industries as part of a permit application completeness review.
Previous government experience with Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Protection Division:
Environmental Engineer II Air Protection Branch - Atlanta, GA
Prepared an emergency air pollution episode plan for the State of Georgia and permitted various industries in Georgia for permits to construct and permits to operate, and inspected these industries for compliance.
INDUSTRY WORK EXPERIENCE
Titanium Hearth Technologies, Inc. (Formerly Axel Johnson Metals, Inc.)
Morgantown, PA
Process Engineer 11/94 to 8/96
Maintained environmental compliance with federal, state, and local regulations for two secondary metal products manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania and audited quality control of raw materials supplied from outside vendors and their preparation for electron beam hearth melting.
Previous industry experience with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc.:
Research Engineer -Brevard, NC
Developed a new x-ray base color for improved image aesthetics, supervised its timely scale-up, developed a new 3 mil clear polyester base for a customer who makes instant photographic film, served on the R&D Data Quality Steering Committee, and chaired the R&D Emergency Planning Committee.
Engineer- Memphis, TN
Managed several projects, which total about $1.5 million to reduce employee exposure to acrylonitrile, scoped and managed the installation of a $425,000 fixed point monitoring system to measure the ambient air concentrations of acrylonitrile, scoped and presented a $2.3 million project to improve the plant’s alkaline chlorination facilities for cyanide destruction, chaired the R&D New Employee Orientation Committee for one year, and chaired a process hazards survey which investigated tank car and tank truck loading of acrylonitrile.
**Held collegiate and secondary teaching/tutoring positions, 1991-1994 and 1997-2002**
EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University: Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology: Master of Science (Air Quality Control), Bachelor of Chemical Engineering (Cooperative)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Chemical Society, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Society for Quality, National Society of Professional Engineers
COMMUNITY SERVICE Chairman of the Greenville Chamber of Commerce Environmental Issues Committee – 2011; Member of the ASCOT Home Owners Association Board – 2007 – 2010 and 2011 – present
PUBLICATIONS
Dennis, R.M., "Job-Search Resources," Chemical Engineering, 1984, 91, 6, 179
Dennis, R.M., Lowe, W.L., and Wujcik, W.J., "Two Granular-Activated Carbons for Adsorbing Army Explosives," Remediation:The Journal of Environmental Cleanup Costs, Technologies & Techniques, vol. 2, no. 2(Spring 1992):133
Dennis, R.M., Dworkin, D., and Lowe, W.L., "Evaluation of Commercially Available Soil-Washing Processes for Site Remediation," Hazardous Materials Control, vol. 5, no. 3(May/June 1992):47
Dennis, R.M., "Using Public Records to Examine Real Estate," Pollution Engineering, vol. 24, no. 19(November 1, 1992):72
Dennis, R.M., Dworkin, D., and Zupko, A.J., "Soil-Washing Processes for Site Remediation." In Remediation of Hazardous Waste Contaminated Soils, Wise, D.L., and Trantolo, D.J., Ed., Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, March 1994
Snyder, B.M., Dennis, R.M., Roth, M.J.S., Krishnan, R., and Parker, H.W., "Evaluation of Soil-Washing Process for 'Unwashable' Clays and Silts from the Palmerton Zinc Site," Remediation, Winter (1995/96): 69
Tunnell, D.M., Dennis, R.M., and Roth, M.J.S., "Soil-Washing Evaluation Program for Palmerton Zinc Site," Journal of Environmental Science and Health, A31 (6)(1996): 1459
Aldershof, B.K., Dennis, R.M., and Kunitsky, C.J., “Study of the decomposition of four commercially available hydrogen peroxide solutions by Fenton’s reagent,” Water Environment Research, vol. 69, no. 5(July/August 1997): 1052
Dennis, R.M., Editor, Special Issue on Soil Washing of The Journal of Hazardous Materials 66(1999) ix-x
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