SUMMARY

Business Development Professional with extensive and diverse experience in the water and wastewater sector, with equipment product management /sales, proposal engineering and providing applications support for both municipal and industrial sectors including international clients.  Chemical engineer with advanced marketing management education.  Track record in contributing consistently to business growth. Competencies include:

·International experience in large contract proposals, bidding and negotiations
·Good business acumen
·Strong technical knowledge of separation processes including design and substantial oversight of installation and site supervision
·Known out of box thinker with proven ability to troubleshoot complex design issues, implement outsourcing programs and reduce costs.

RELEVANT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2002 to 2006 - US FILTER ENVIREX PRODUCTS, Waukesha, WI      
Revenues $160M after merger with two other group companies.
                 
Bid Manager Industrial Sales
Responsibilities include bid preparation for dissolved air floatation, clarifiers and aeration for mainly industrial and municipal customers with active involvement as project sponsors in installation oversight.

·Achieved booking of nearly $ 3 million in 2005-06 by successfully developing solutions for wastewater treatment for customers including Fujian Petrochemicals China, Dow Chemical, KK Brewery Thailand. Other clients include SCF Tissues and BASF Mexico.
·Applied advanced sludge reduction technologies (Cannibal) for the industrial sector. Instrumental in breakthrough and repeat order for cheese factory and developing two chemical customers for a pilot study.
·As Product Manager for Groundwater remediation, solved numerous problems with existing groundwater treatment installations and successfully oversaw a number of pilot studies along with two installations.  

2001 to 2002 - AQUATECH INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION, Delafield, WI      
Medium size water treatment Firm $ 28 million turnover (focus on Power industry)

Business Development Manager
Responsibilities included customer support with budget bids and managing trial projects for power plant cooling water blow down and other recycle projects, preparation of technical reports or studies, planning and directing of pilot fieldwork.

·Provided the mechanical and process design and estimation for water recycle in power plant cooling water blow-down systems. Part of the team to secure two cooling tower blow down treatment orders involving HERO systems.
·Developed cost estimates and design plans for several recycle systems for integrating evaporation with RO systems in industrial power plants.
·Coordinated the pilot field trials for evaporator equipment including lab trials, supervision, system startup, operation and maintenance for pilot plants.

1983-2000 - PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN ASIA INCLUDES

·Technology transfer and Product management for lamella, solids contact clarifiers and all types of filters including continuously circulating sand filters, media filters and micron/ultrafiltration
·Design of membrane systems and resin based de-ionization plants and sales to power, chemical, refinery and general industry
·Wastewater Recycle systems design and sales of integrated systems for textile and paper mills

EDUCATION BACKGROUND
·Post Graduation in Marketing Management
SIBM, University of Pune, Pune, India

·Bachelor of Chemical Engineering
University of Mysore, Mangalore, India

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENTS
·Regular contributor of water management and technical articles for newspapers and journals.
·Presented papers at Water Asia and IWC conferences
·Patent in process for renewable energy powered WTP
·Developed couple of devices for facilitating water treatment operations

REFERENCES
·Detailed resume on request
·References, photographs and articles shall be presented at an appropriate time.