Ron Martin

About Ron Martin

Professional Experience: 20+ years Process Design20+ years Engineering (Environmental and Chemical Engineering)15 years Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)14 years Business13 years Agriculture11 years Research 8 years International Work (Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe)6 years Management 3 years Emergency Response/Disaster Recovery3 years TeachingWASH (water, sanitation, and hygiene) coordinator and manager working with communities, health centers, and schools with outreach and access to vulnerable and excluded populations.International work experience in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, and North America including disaster response and recovery and post conflict deployments.Environmental engineer experienced in process design for drinking water and municipal and industrial wastewater treatment.Small businessperson and farmer with agricultural experience including greenhouses, hydroponics, and sustainable and organic farming.Election observer serving on 18 short and long term international election missions.First Responder with over 120 callout responses with Hood River Crag Rats Mountain Search and Rescue.Experience in research, pilot and lab scale studies, teaching, training, and report and proposal writing.Extensive international travel throughout the world including in multi-ethnic and culturally sensitive areas and in post-conflict and insecure regions.

Experience

1. Technical Director (Water & Wastewater Treatment, Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Wash)

   Sapitwa Project House

   Oct 2017 — Present

   Reviewed and designed processes for $200M upgrade of Nkana Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Copperbelt Province of Zambia to solve problems of surface water contamination from mining and for a rapidly increasing population.• Completed Wastewater Management Feasibility Study for 66 bed hospital in South Sudan.Identified drinking water treatment processes and equipment for several South African and Tanzanian drinking water utilities.• Wrote Scoping Assessment Report for St. Vincent and the Grenadines water supply and sanitation resilience and sustainability project for recovery from volcanic eruption and future disasters.• Wrote proposal for Scoping Studies on water integrity and corruption in the water sector.• Provided Water Treatment Processes for Odor and Taste removal and control methods to reduce and eliminate odor/taste causing organisms from water supply for Lilongwe Water Board.• Provided process review and technical support on wastewater treatment and effluent recycle for golf resort in South Africa ($1M).• Identified, analyzed, and proposed most appropriate and sustainable treatment options for iron and manganese removal, sulfate reduction, limiting disinfection byproduct (DBP) formation, pH control, and pathogen and microbe destruction and removal.• Designed processes for chemical oxidation, disinfection, inline mixing, precipitation, coagulation/flocculation/settling, and lime softening.

Education

• Coursera

  Continuing Education through Online Courses, Water & Sanitation, Public Health, Water Resources

• University of Kentucky

  MS, Chemical Enginieering

• The Ohio State University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemical Engineering

• Michigan Technological University

  PhD, Environmental Engineering

• EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) and Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

  Continuing Education through Online Courses, Sanitation, Water and Solid Waste for Development