Summary of Qualifications

As an Instrumentation Technician, Mr. Ranes has been responsible for the design and fabrication of control panels, programming of controls systems, installation of instrumentation, troubleshooting, and repair of instrumentation. His experience includes the design and fabrication of control panels for the Sewage Treatment Plant in Golden, Colorado, DePue Interim Site Water Treatment Plant, and DePue Site Lift Station in DePue, Illinois; and MMI graphics programming for materials handling system at a mine, troubleshooting and repair of instrumentation at the Rocky Flats Sewage Treatment Plant, and start-up technician for Weldon Spring Site Remedial Action Project Train I Water Treatment Facility.

As a designer, Mr. Ranes has been responsible for the design and production of drawings for several water treatment facilities. He has also been responsible for specification and procurement of equipment systems and has provided start-up assistance and troubleshooting for a variety of water treatment facilities designed and constructed and/or operated by RTG.

Designer for the preparation of process flow drawings, plumbing isometrics, and equipment layout for Interceptor Trench Project, Piketon, Ohio.

Design and fabrication of mine tailings leachability columns.

Design and installation of wetlands dewatering system for Colorado Department of Highways, Interstate 25 construction. System included an air stripper system and activated carbon adsorption

Preparation of process flow, general arrangement, section drawings, and details for Decontamination Laundry Facility at Hanford Site. Final drawing package submitted included 25 drawings. Responsibilities included vendor interface for procurement of equipment details and power requirements. Preparation of process flow, general arrangement, and detailed drawings for a system to treat contaminated groundwater with an air stripper and activated carbon system.

Engineering Assistant in design, purchase, install and maintain pollution abatement and solvent recovery systems. Design and install production process related systems, implementation of programmable controllers. Circuit design, programming, and control panel fabrication. Perform drafting, electrical control (ladder diagrams), plumbing isometric layouts, process and instrumentation drawings. Using AUTOCAD™, prepare drawings for building permit acquisition. Involved in underground tank farm secondary containment project, electrical controls and leak sensor deployment. Design, fabrication, installation and operation of soil remediation systems for organic contaminates (ground water stripping). Fabricate test apparatus for conducting experiments evaluating waste treatment methods performed on air and water

As a Senior Chemical Technician, assisted chemical engineer and manufacturing manager in process design changes. Specified and ordered equipment and material to improve process operation. Conducted experiments evaluating design changes. Evaluated, neutralized and packaged waste material for disposal. Conducted R&D projects to evaluate cathode performance. Schedule production runs. Perform mechanical and electrical modifications to manufacturing systems to improve process. Drew plans for fabrication of modified equipment, wrote operations and maintenance manuals, and performed installation utilizing glass, polypropylene and stainless materials.

As a Biologist, conducted stormwater and pilot plant analysis for the southwest treatment plant facilities in San Francisco. Conducted soil analysis involving extraction, digestion and exchange procedures for US EPA, Hollister, California. Conducted groundwater and effluent quality analysis for Anheuser-Busch Brewery in Fairfield, California and Houston, Texas. Conducted sampling, set-up and maintenance of automatic samplers and flow recorders. Constructed and operated oxidation pond effluent treatment pilot plant for the San Francisco International Airport. Conducted dye dilution flow measurements for Upland, California. Performed analytical analysis using pH meters, fluorometers, total carbon and organic carbon analyzers, turbidity meters, and atomic adsorption spectrophotometers.

As Laboratory Technician performed routine chemical and bacteriological tests on municipal and industrial waste samples. Operated the bioassay laboratory for the industrial waste section of the treatment plant.