Water Desalination Consultant Specializing in Seawater, Industrial Wastewater and Brackish Water: Purification using Membrane Technology

Consultant #452

Water desalination systems for sea water, brackish water and industrial wastewater.
Water desalination treatment and purification using membrane technology processes of reverse osmosis (RO), nano filtration (NF), ultra filtration (UF) and micro filtration (MF).
Membrane Technologies: Membrane system design, startups and commissioning, plant operation and performance monitoring, evaluation, optimization, trouble-shooting, and innovating customized plant performance software solutions.
Establishing and conducting business in the Middle East/Arabian Gulf markets with a wide and extensive network of key government and private sector decision makers contacts.
Technical expertise and field experience in membrane technology and water desalination, treatment and purification industry.
Trainer and teacher with practical technology workshops and short courses, and comprehensive and long-term training programs, for engineering and high-school graduates in the water and power industry.

Undisclosed Company, Founder, President - Chief Consultant and Trainer, 1996 - Present

Technical consulting and business development in the area of membrane technology applications for drinking/potable and industrial water desalination and purification.
World wide project and proposal development, process design and performance evaluation, start-up, optimization and troubleshooting of membrane system operations.
Designing and conducting advanced membrane desalination technology workshops for standard operations, fouling situations and plant maintenance.

Projects: Middle East

Trained over 400 professionals on desalination and water re-use for: European Desalination Society's (EDS), EuroMed and desalination and the Environment Conferences, International Research-Middle East (IIRME) Water and Wastewater Conference and Saudi Water and Power Forum.
Specialized organization training courses for Dubai Electricity and Water Authority-DEWA, Water and Power Company of Jubail and Yanbu-MARAFIQ, Middle East Desalination Research Center,(MEDRC), Oman (2007) and the Ministry of Electricity and Water, Bahrain.
Project Director and Training Consultant for a major Independent Water and Power Projects (IWPP), establishing the first water desalination and power generation polytechnic training institute in the Middle East.

Projects: Arabian Gulf

Optimization and trouble shooting of 160,000 m3/day Al-Buraidah Brackish RO Desalination Plant for the Ministry of Water and Electricity, Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia.
Al Jubail Seawater RO Desalination Plant for the Saline Water Conversion Corp. (SWCC), Saudi Arabia.
Evaluating, optimizing and upgrading the six 206,000 m3/day Riyadh RO Brackish Plants in Saudi Arabia for the Riyadh Water and Sewage Authority.
Developed and tested custom desalination software in over 20 desalination plants in the Middle East, USA, Malta and Australia for RO plants.

Biosphere 2® - Project-Decision Investments, Oracle, AZ, Director of Technical Marketing, 1993 - 1996

Market development and optimization of environmental technologies and products; air and water purification and management of commercial testing and healthcare laboratory information.
Monitoring, upgrading, optimizing and trouble-shooting of Biosphere 's water treatment and CO2 chemical system.
Designed and implemented environmental waste management compliance programs.

Aqua-Chem, Inc. Milwaukee, WI, Development Manager, Membranes, 1991 - 1993

Development and marketing of RO membrane process technology in a new strategic business direction for the company.
Integrated established technologies to maximize the company's technical and commercial competitive position in the RO membrane industry.

DuPont Co, Permasep® Products, Senior Technical Marketing Specialist, 1983 - 1990

Provided technical and marketing leadership utilizing DuPont's hollow fine-fiber membrane technology in water desalination and industrial treatment systems on sites in the U.S., Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates.
Provided detailed process design reviews, plant startup assistance and performance monitoring, evaluating RO systems, employing polyamide HFF membranes in the Middle East which represented 70% of DuPont's RO membrane business worldwide.
Spearheaded the technology marketing effort to establish new markets in highly competitive and challenging environments utilizing strategic business partnerships with international licensees, consultants and end users.
Established and supported marketing strategies to maintain DuPont's leading market presence and continually increase market share through a diverse network of international licensees, especially in the Middle East, Indian Sub-continent, Mediterranean and Europe.

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) - Forum on Water Desalination and Purification for the Arab World.
International Desalination Association (IDA).
European Desalination Society (EDS).
Middle East Desalination Research Center (MDRC) - Project Advisory Committee.
Arab Water World Magazine (AWW) - Editorial Consultants Board.

Certifications

Arabic speaker with fluency in 7 regional dialects and near native speaker of American English.
7 years of Arabic/English translations, interpretations and technical training.

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