Envrionmental Engineer

Career Objective: Environmental Project Engineer

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Experienced environmental engineer specializes in environmental impact assessment (EIA), environmental management, environmental site assessment (ESA), and project management. The following developed skills and attributes will be essentially beneficial for a progressive enterprise:

• Sound understanding and extensive working knowledge of applicable federal and provincial environmental legislation, acts, regulations, polices, standards and guidelines.

• Preparation of various applications for regulatory approvals and permits.

• Strong communication and organizational skills with intensive attention to details and results.

• Writing high-quality technical reports/proposals and taking presentations on conferences and public meetings.

• Excellent interpersonal skills by building professional relationship with trust and collaboration in a cross-functional team.

• Proactively interacting with peers, supervisors, regulators, clients, the public and stakeholders.

• Proficiency with CorelDraw Graphics Suite, MS office suite, ArcGIS, MODELFLOW, WindPro etc.

• Willing to travel and conduct field work in remote locations.

WORKING EXPERIENCE

Environmental Engineer November 2010 to September 2011

Technical Standards & Safety Authority (TSSA) Toronto, ON

• Reviewed phased environmental site assessment reports including soil and groundwater monitoring/sampling reports, underground/aboveground storage tank removal/site decommissioning reports and remediation action plans.

• Regularly reviewed contaminant management reports and evaluated the regulatory compliance of environmental remediation regarding the liquid fuel handling sites, and industrial facilities and residential properties equipped with heating fuel system onsite.

• Provided official recommendation, debriefing and comments and correspondence according to the regulations, codes and guidelines of the Ministry of the Environment (MOE) and TSSA.

• Liaised with environmental officers in MOE, and clients including owners of fuel handling facilities and properties and their consultants and provided efficient services to the TSSA’s clients.

• Documented and tracked the environmental assessment records of petroleum handling sites and properties with contamination.

Environmental Engineer March to October 2010

EnviroFix Corporation St. Catharines, ON

• Reviewed and prepared technical reports on hydrogeological studies and surface water, groundwater monitoring records of industrial wastewater treatment plants and discharge facilities.

• Carried out analysis, evaluation and interpretation of data collected on stream waters, gasoline underground storage tank (UST) sites and industrial disposal sites, and developed remedial plan, provided recommendation for further monitoring/sampling plan as well.

• Completed receiving water quality assimilation capacity analysis report regarding industrial waste water discharge into watershed stream over certain period of operational time for Certificates of Approval applications and amendment.

• Maintained regulatory compliance of industrial wastewater and sewer treatment facilities.

• Designed sediment quality survey method and contaminated sediment in-situ treatment and following up monitoring plan.

• Prepared R&D and biding proposals for in-situ natural surface water body, leachate of landfill sites and contaminated ground water treatment system.

• Carried out air emission modeling for composting industrial facilities.

Environmental Engineer, Head of Engineering Department August 2008 to March 2010

Southpoint Wind Leamington, ON

• Successfully managed overall environmental impact assessment project of total 1400MW offshore wind farm development. Clearly defined the scope to meet regulatory objectives and anticipated forward supporting work for regulatory review process.

• Conducted researches and literature reviews focusing on the environmental baseline inventories on the relevant geophysical environment characteristics.

• Developed mitigation measures on the potential impacts and designed survey method of contaminated sediment, monitoring plan and environmental management plan.

• Coordinated biological and archaeological consultants and negotiated contracts.

• Conducted sufficient consultation with government agencies, the public, municipality, local conservation authorities, stakeholders and aboriginal people.

• Developed conceptual designs of wind farm layouts and site plan for assessments and conducted noise modeling, shadow flicker simulation and visual impact analysis.

• Prepared various deliverables of documentation application process and independently completed a series of environmental impact screening reports for regulatory approvals and permits from provincial and federal governments.

Research Assistant January 2002 to October 2007

University of Guelph, School of Engineering Guelph, ON

Research and teaching work focused on water quality, soil and groundwater contaminated site investigation, characterization and remediation.

• Investigated the gasoline underground storage tank (UST) sites and collected, analyzed and managed data from phased environmental site assessments and remediation processes of petroleum contaminated sites.

• Established a reasonable conceptual model and site plan, and developed physical model for three-dimensional visualization for the contaminated UST sites.

• Developed a complex mathematical model, which couples air, water and LNAPL three-phase flow and multi-component transport plus time-dependent mass transfer modification, conducted the calibration and verification of the model against the field monitoring and sampling results.

Drilling Fluid Engineer July 1989 to July 2001

Daqing Petroleum Drilling Engineering Institute P. R. China

• Completed experiment design drilling fluid and cement slurry system and tracking applications on field.

• Responsible for drilling fluid development, implementation to effectively control mud chemistry, corrosion, wellbore stability, shale inhibition, erosion, fracture pressures, solids control.

• Maintained environmental regulatory compliance of oilfield waste disposal facilities and the environmental management during upstream oil and gas production activities and oilfield infrastructure.

• Conducted R&D and downstream commercialization of waste drilling cuttings and fluids sludge solidification as well as Drilling wastes environmental impact minimization.

Process Engineer August 1985 to June 1989

Harbin Electric Power Generation Plant P. R. China

• Conducted water treatment process control for water quality of boiler supply water and high-pressure steam, waste management, air emission inventory and monitoring.

AFFILIATION

• Association of Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO) since August 2007 and

• Project Management Institute (PMI) since May 2011(Member ID: 2095504)

EDUCATION

• PhD in Environmental Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON 2007

• Project Management Training course, Kennedy College, Toronto, ON 2008

• OSHA Hazpower 40 hour course, 360training Online, California, USA 2008

• MSc in Applied Chemistry, Northeast Electric Engineering Institute, Jinlin, P. R. China 1987

• BSc in Applied Chemistry, Northeast Electric Engineering Institute, Jinlin, P. R. China 1985

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