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ANURADHA DESAI Pune, Ph: 8380038232--- amdesai01@gmail.com, https://www.linkedin.com/in/anu-desai-2a28a05a/

Ph.D. (Environmental Engineering, United States) and M.S. (Civil Engineering, United States)

Work Interests/Expertise: Product marketing, Wastewater treatment, Technology Development & Deployment,

Automation, Water quality & Hydrologic Modeling, Environmental Statistics, Total Maximum Daily Loads

(TMDLs), Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Environmental Management

2.3 years experience as Assistant Marketing Manager, Industry Technical Consultant, Water Safety Expert, for

Asia Pacific region at Nalco Company (acquired now by Ecolab)

2.5 years experience as Senior Engineer at Nalco Company focused on wastewater treatment support projects,

wastewater automation technology deployment, and Water Safety plans/Risk assessment (certified risk

assessor). Published 2 research reports, 1 technical report, 8 service reports, and contributed towards a global

case study on 3DTfDAF

7 years experience as a Researcher at University of Houston and Texas A&M – Expertise in application of

statistical techniques & watershed models for analyses of complex environmental & hydrologic datasets. Active

involvement in following projects: TMDLs for Houston Metro region, BMPs, PCBs in Houston Ship Channel, NSF

funded project on hydrocarbon degradation

Professional Activities: Board Member of Studies (VIIT, Pune), Visiting faculty for post graduate courses -

Environmental Management and Industrial Waste Management (VIIT, Pune), Co-instructor for GIS and computing

at AECOM Libya Knowledge Transfer Program, Technical Reviewer for 3 Environmental Engg. Journals

Publications: 5 peer-reviewed journal papers, 1 conference proceeding, 8 professional presentations

Awards: “Nalco ABCD award, 2012”, Nominated for “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering” (2011 – 2012)

10 YEARS GLOBAL EXPERIENCE: RESEARCHER, CONSULTANT, MARKETING, WATER SAFETY EXPERT

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering (University of Houston, Houston) 2005 – 2010 GPA: 3.77/4.0

Dissertation: “Real Time Characterization and Modeling of E. coli Contamination in Urban Streams” Advisor: Dr. Hanadi S. Rifai Relevant coursework: Environmental Modeling, Environmental Chemistry, Groundwater Contaminant Transport, Geographic Information Systems, Engg. Hydrology, Environmental Microbiology, Advanced Statistics, Quantitative Environmental Decision Making, Sediment Transport, Mass Transport, Coastal Hydrodynamics

Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Texas A & M University, College Station) 2003 – 2005 GPA: 3.66/4.0

Thesis: “Biodegradability of select Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) mixtures” Advisor: Dr. Robin Autenrieth Relevant coursework: Physical, Chemical and biological processes in Environmental Engg., Risk Assessment, Environmental Engg. Mgmt., Hazardous Materials & Oil Spills, Soil Microbiology, Analytical Chemistry

Bachelor of Civil Engineering (University of Pune, Pune, India) 1999 – 2003 GPA: 3.35/4.0

Project: “Environmental Impact Assessment” Advisor: Dr. R. P. Thanedar

PROFESSIONAL

Business Development Manager MarSun Metal Industries Pvt. Ltd. Dec 2016 – Present The company manufactures roofing and cladding sheets, C & Z purlin, steel decking sheets, PEBs. Responsible for company operations, sales, and marketing.

Principal Bapusaheb Sardesai Pvt. ITI, Gavse Jan 2017 – Present Overall in-charge of BSPITI facility (5-trades) and supervision of BSPITI

Ensuring that teaching, learning, and assessment are consistently of high quality across BSPITI

To ensure the liaisons with government authorities, industry and other interested parties for collaboration, MOUs, and partnerships

Assistant Marketing Manager Ecolab June 2014 – Nov 2016 Wastewater product portfolio management: Planning, new product launch, ongoing product sustaining

Conduct strategic market analysis and situational analysis to enable decision making and potential for new technology introduction into market

Drive innovative technologies to tackle current and emerging wastewater issues

Conduct Legionella Risk Assessment as a water safety expert primarily for institutional customers

Senior Engineer Nalco Water India Ltd. Aug 2011 - 2014 Automation and Innovation Technology: Responsible for deployment of wastewater technology 3D TRASAR

Technology for DAF (Dissolved Air Flotation) in Asia-Pacific for wastewater recycle & reuse. Worked very closely with global teams involving Sales, and Innovation marketing team to successfully demonstrate the value of the technology to the customer which helped winning the account beyond marketing trial. Provided ongoing support to the regional business for 3DTfDAF installations (beginning from survey, gap analysis, proposal development and advocating, supporting installation and value demonstration)

Wastewater Advanced Technical Support: Focus towards resolving industrial wastewater treatment problems and challenges to meet regulatory compliance for COD, suspended solids, and secondary treatment optimization.

Some of the key projects include: coke oven wastewater treatment at Bhushan and Jindal steel (account value

700,000 USD), worked in supporting new business opportunity in IP (account value 10,000 USD), onsite and

technical support to gain sludge dewatering trial at MWV (account value 630,000 USD)

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Certified Risk Assessor: Provide ongoing support for Legionella Risk Assessment in the region. Conducted 4 Legionella assessments at Nestle sites (awareness training, onsite assessment and audit report, provide

recommendations for Legionella control) (account value 20,000 USD)

PAC1 Optimizer: Manage COI data from Naperville and Shanghai as per the need for the project to provide recommendations for product usage based upon influent water quality characteristics for different industries

Cooling Water: Managed the DBMAL trial in India for cooling water and planned for the trial, got the site ready as per the agreement with the sales team, and ran the control phase to generate baseline data

Prospecting and Research: Conducted extensive research (literature review and laboratory studies) for identifying

wastewater treatment technologies for selenium removal from flue gas wastewater (Estimated market potential $50 million). Shared the idea of “Predictive modeling for wastewater systems” with the management that resulted in conversion of this idea into prospecting project

Training: Conducted 3DTfDAF and PAC1 training sessions (PAC1 chemistry, technology overview, DAF configurator, PID tuning) for Thailand Sales and E&PD team, Nalco 360, and 3DT Support Asia

Publications: 2 research reports, 1 technical report, 8 service reports, contributed towards a global case study on 3DTfDAF (Thailand), newsletter article in “Everything About Water” & Ecolab’s Food Safety/Hygiene Newsletter”

Post-Doctoral Researcher University of Houston Feb 2011 – May 2011

Project: Dickinson Bayou TMDL. Responsibilities included analytical modeling, technical writing (reports & journal articles), and project planning & execution

Research Assistant University of Houston Aug 2005 – Dec 2010

PhD dissertation: “Real Time Characterization and Modeling of E.coli Contamination in Metropolitan Streams”. The project sponsored by Houston Endowment, was focused towards development of a high-resolution framework for water quality monitoring in urban streams integrated with application of a watershed model HSPF (Hydrologic Simulation Program in FORTRAN). Statistical techniques (multivariate statistics, parametric & non-parametric tests, regression analyses, time-series analysis) were used to analyze large environmental datasets

Participated in field sampling (high volume, sediment and fish sampling) of PCBs in the Houston Ship Channel (2008-2009) for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Compiled eight quarterly research reports for the TCEQ. Experienced in writing quality assurance project plans (QAPPs) for TMDL projects

Teaching assistant for graduate courses: Engineering Hydrology, Geographic Information Systems, and undergraduate courses: Computing for Engineer, Engineering Design

Trained and supervised more than 10 graduate and undergraduate students for field and laboratory work PhD Mentor for NSF Internship Program Summer 2007, 2008, and 2009

Research Assistant Texas A & M University July 2004 – Aug 2005

Masters Thesis: “Biodegradability of select Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) mixtures” sponsored by NSF

Graduate Student Mentor for a summer undergraduate as a part of the NSF-REU Internship Program Summer 2005

PUBLICATIONS Case study for Nalco Water (2016) – “3D TRASAR™ DAF Technology helps an edible oil refinery in Malaysia reduce

chemical usage by 37% and lower Total Cost of Operation by US$ 46K annually” A. M. Desai and H. S. Rifai (2010). Escherichia coli Concentrations in Urban Watersheds Exhibit Diurnal Sag:

Implications for Water-Quality Monitoring and Assessment. Journal of American Water Resources Association A. M. Desai, H. S. Rifai, T. M. Petersen, and R. Stein (2010). Mass Balance and Water Quality Modeling for Load

Allocation of E. coli in an Urban Watershed. Journal of Water Resources Planning & Management A. M. Desai and H. S. Rifai (2010). “Variability of E. coli Concentrations in an Urban Watershed in Texas”. Journal of

Environmental Engineering, 136 (12), 1347-1359 A. M. Desai, H. S. Rifai, E. Helfer, N. Moreno, and R. Stein (2010). Statistical Investigations into Indicator Bacteria

Concentrations in Houston Metropolitan Watersheds. Water Environment Research, 82(4), 302-318

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A. M. Desai, R. L. Autenrieth, P. Dimitriou-Christidis, & T. J. McDonald (2008). Biodegradation Kinetics of Select Aromatic Hydrocarbon Mixtures by Sphingomonas paucimobilis EPA505. Biodegradation 19(2), 223-233

P. Dimitriou-Christidis, R. L. Autenrieth, T. J. McDonald, and A. M. Desai (2007). Measurement of Biodegradability Parameters for Unsubstituted and Methylated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in liquid bacterial suspensions. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 97(4), 922-932

CONFERENCES AND PROCEEDINGS A. M. Desai and H. S. Rifai (2010). Variability of E. coli Concentrations: High Resolution Monitoring and Statistical

Modeling. Poster Presentation at AWWA Fresh Ideas Poster event, Chicago, June 24-26, 2010 A. M. Desai and H. S. Rifai (2010). Variability of E. coli Concentrations in an Urban Watershed in Texas. AWWA

International Symposium on Waterborne Pathogens Conference, Los Angeles, May 2-4, 2010 A. M. Desai and H. S. Rifai. (2010). Variability of E. coli Concentrations: high resolution monitoring and statistical

modeling. Water Environment Association of Texas (WEAT) Conference, Corpus Christi, Apr 14, 2010 A. M. Desai and H. S. Rifai (2010). Variability of E. coli Concentrations in an Urban Watershed in Texas. Southeast

Chapter of Texas AWWA Conference, Houston, Mar 8, 2010 A. M. Desai, H. S. Rifai, E. Helfer, N. Moreno, and R. Stein (2010). Variability of E. coli Concentrations in an Urban

Watershed in Texas. Texas Association of Environmental Professionals (TAEP), Houston, Jan 13, 2010 A. M. Desai, H. S. Rifai, T. Petersen, and R. Stein (2008). Sources of Indicator Bacteria in the Houston Metropolitan

Region, Houston, Texas. Water Environment Federation Technical Exhibition & Conference, Chicago, Oct 2010 A. M. Desai, H. S. Rifai, T. Petersen, and R. Stein (2007 & 2008). Indicator Bacteria Concentrations in Houston

Metropolitan Bayous. TAEP Conference, Houston, 2007, 2008

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION PCERF Vidyarthi Competition 2017, 2018 - Jury Panel, Civil Engg.- UG/PG

Invited speaker on “Membrane technologies for water treatment” at Vishkarma Institute of Information Technology (VIIT) Pune, 2017

Invited speaker for seminar and training workshop on wastewater management at Sime Darby and Wilmar International, Malaysia, 2015

Above and Beyond Call of Duty (ABCD) Award, Nalco Water India Ltd., March 2012

Nominated for “Who’s Who in Science and Engineering” (2011 – 2012)

“Fresh Ideas representative from Texas” at AWWA Fresh Ideas Poster event, Chicago, June 24 - 26, 2010

“2nd place for student paper competition”, Water Environment Association of Texas, Corpus Christi, April 14, 2010

“1st place for student paper competition”, Student presentation at the SETAWWA Conference, March 8, 2010

“Environmental Science Scholarship 2007 – 2008”, Air and Waste Management Association

“Graduate Leadership Scholarship 2007 – 2008”, Civil & Environmental Engineering Dept, University of Houston,

“Graduate Assistant Tuition Fellowship” (2005-2010)

“Best student presentation award”, Texas Association of Environmental Professionals Conference, 2007

SOFTWARE TOOLS HSPF GIS SPSS HEC-HMS SAS Microsoft Excel/Access Visual SmartRISK 3.0

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Board Member of Studies (Vishkarma Institute of Information Technology VIIT, Pune), January 2014 - present Visiting faculty for post graduate course - Environmental Management and Industrial Waste Management at VIIT,

Pune (Fall 2012 & 2013) Reviewer for Journal of American Water Works Association (JAWRA), Journal of Environmental Quality (JEQ),

Water Environment & Research (WER); 2009 – present Co-instructor for GIS and computing sessions at AECOM Libya Knowledge Transfer Program (2009 and 2010) Coordinator for GRADE (Girls Reaching and Demonstrating Excellence) Camps in 2008 and 2009 Session judge, Science & Engineering Fair of Houston in 2006, 2007, and 2008

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SELECT PROJECT

HIGHLIGHTS

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Project: Establishment, Operation, and Production of roll forming machinery that manufactures various pre-engineered building components such as roofing sheets, composite decking sheet, purlins and other structural accessories

Location: Gavse, India Approx. Project Investment: $ 400,000 USD

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Project: Identify waste water treatment options especially for Cyanide removal for Coke Oven Plant at Bhushan and Jindal Steel Ltd., Orissa Location: Orissa, India Approx. Project Value: $ 700,000 USD

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Project: Deployment of 3DTfDAF technology, an automation technology for wastewater treatment for efficient performance, regulatory compliance, and sustainability. Location: Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia Project Value: $ 3.0 Million USD Project Team: India R&D, Malaysia Sales, Thailand Engg. & Project group, Australia Engg team, SEA Sales and Marketing; collaborated and worked with more than 50 technicians, engineers, scientists, project leads, marketers, sales, supply chain, logistics.

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Fig, Cooling Towers at Customer site in Japan Cooling tower generated aerosols are primary sources of Legionella bacteria

Project: Legionella Risk Assessment and Water Safety Plan Location: India, Philippines, Japan, Srilanka, Philippines

Project Value: 20,000 + USD

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Featured article on Sustainable Water Management in “Everything About Water” & Ecolab’s “Food Safety/Hygiene Newsletter”

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Project: High resolution monitoring and modeling of fecal contamination in Houston Metropolitan Region Location: Houston (Texas), USA

Extent: Houston Metro Region of 687 miles, more than 1000 water samples collected and analyzed Project Sponsor: Houston Endowment

Significance: Public Health Protection, Design of Best Management Practices (BMPs) and establishing meaningful Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)

Project Team: Trained more than 10 graduate and undergraduate students

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Right: Work on water quality monitoring and assessment in Houston Bayous for Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (Environmental agency for the State of Texas) featured in University of Houston’s campus magazine titled “Parameters”

Project: Water quality monitoring in Dickinson Bayou and

Location: Houston (Texas), USA

Project Sponsor: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Outcome: Design and establishment of TMDL for Dickinson Bayou