Description
I possess extensive experience in wastewater treatment system commissioning, operation, maintenance, optimisation, monitoring, troubleshooting and automation. I also have experience in managing teams of differing educational backgrounds, developing risk assessments, standard operating procedures and health-and-safety protocols. My experience as a water and sanitation prototype engineer has endowed me with a holistic understanding of systems from a chemical to electrical, electronic and automation perspective. In my experience, this “bird’s eye view” perspective has been of paramount importance to system design, optimisation and troubleshooting.
Additionally, I have strong project and people management skills and I’m further developing these through a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) qualification that I’m currently enrolled in. I am also well versed in report writing for different levels of management, presentation at conferences, data analysis, planning, liaising with laboratories, sampling and conducting wet chemistry analysis. The wastewater treatment system that I’ve been testing and improving over the last 3 years has caught the attention of local and international organizations as a candidate for commercialization. This has led to me winning multiple awards for my work on the system. I’m most proud of the Sherlock Holmes award for my heroics in investigating and successfully troubleshooting multiple mystery problems at the same time.