Water/Wastewater Professional

Two years, WV Institute of Technology, Chemistry/Biology Education Major.

James D. McDaniel
113 Sassafras Road, Aiken, SC 29803 (803)-641-7150 : [email protected]

Passionate and Competent Operations Professional with extensive leadership & team building skills, organized and productive work ethic, no-nonsense negotiating approach, and unique powers of persuasion seeking to obtain a position with a team oriented organization focused on continual improvement, employee development, and safe/effective operations.

Experience

JD Technical Service, LLC
Water & Wastewater Consulting/Contract Operations
Business Owner 2016 to Present

• Provided comprehensive operational consulting services to public and private water and wastewater clients in SC & GA.
• Specialized in wastewater system optimization and trouble shooting.
• Provided licensed system operators for long and short term demand.
• Consulting services to Industries in SC & GA currently regulated by Federally Mandated Pretreatment Programs.
• Experience includes multi train water and wastewater process equipment, MF/UF/RO advanced membrane systems, clarifier state point analysis, balance of plant analysis, SCADA, Biomass driers, screening and grit removal, flow measuring, basin and facultative lagoon operations, RBC and MBR, and sample collections/analysis/ and reporting.
• Provided pre SCDHEC inspection services and operational recommendations.

Aiken County, Horse Creek Waste Water Treatment Plant (26 MGD),
Capacity Management Operations Maintenance (CMOM) Supervisor 2005 to 2016

• Twice the WEASC State of South Carolina Pretreatment Program of Excellence Winner.
• Managed all aspects of SCDHEC Certified Environmental Laboratory, Pretreatment, and CMOM missions.
• Facility Representative – Savannah River TMDL/5R Self Allocation Group.
• Aggressively managed the budget two division.
• Implemented cross training to enhance mission capability.
• Supervised collection system video inspection projects.
• Provided supervision of the operations of two Ultra Filter / Reverse Osmosis reclaim water systems.
• Implemented regional sanitary sewer Hydrogen Sulfide mitigation project on force main. Resulted in a reoccurring annual cost savings of $250,000 for a three-county regional sewer authority alliance.
• Developed enterprise computer databases for Lab-PT-Ops-Mains divisions.
• Evaluation/selection of technologies, vendors, engineering support services, alternate project delivery services.
• Managed the installation of numerous process components.
• Implemented Lean Practices, Root Cause Analysis, and drove continual improvement via Performance Indicators.
• Created Balance of Plant and Plant System Diagnostic computer based tools.
• Conducted comprehensive video inspections of gravity sanitary sewer system.
• Created in house tier one sewer inspection platform allowing for rapid and cost effective sewer video inspections.
• Managed “monitoring and reporting” of landfill closure plan.
• Managed facility Storm-water Plan, SWPPP
• Authored Plant O&M manual, odor abatement, sewer expansion, emergency response plans.
• Created Plant Layout and P&ID as built drawings.
• Utilized Effective Utility Management tools to drive enterprise wide continual improvement initiatives.
• Point of Contact for Facility, Lab, PT, Storm-water, landfill closure Inspections.
• Managed GPS & ARC GIS activities and database – created collection system GIS attribute overlays.
• Provide technical support for County wide initiatives – Water Plant Development, Emergency Distributive Power.
• Prepared RFQ, RFP, RFB for all divisions within the Aiken County Public Service Authority.
• Provided technical and operational support for small system owners in a three-county area.
• Authored ACPSA Organizational Improvement and Staff Development Plan.
• Presented at WEASC Conferences and Pretreatment Workshops on multiple wastewater topics.
• Training develop and instructor for LSD WEASC district workshops and annual training sessions.
• Implemented Scenario & Criteria Based protocol for process equipment & technology selection.
• Conducted weekly safety tool box meeting.
• Implemented the use of mentoring and coaching cards to sustain operational excellence.
• Authored sewer use ordinances and created enterprise policies pursuant to EPA 40CFR and SCDHEC regulations.

Entergy Nuclear, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (BWR)
Nuclear Liquid Rad Waste Operations Supervisor 2000 – 2005

• Championed Liquid Radwaste Systems optimizations initiatives that resulted in $750,000 cost savings.
• Managed the daily operations of three reverse osmosis systems and two ultra- filter systems.
• Operations Oversite for Condensate Demineralizers, Ultra Sonic Resin Cleaners, Liquid Radwaste Dewatering Casks, Condensate / Reactor Make up Water Systems, Advanced Liquid Processing Systems (ALPS), Full Train Thermex™ Liquid Radwaste Processing System (GAC-RO-DI).
• Managed water quality testing laboratory in support of Liquid Radwaste Operations, and plant make up water operations. (TSS, TS, TDS, pH, Turbidity, Fluoride, Chlorides, Metals, Conductivity, SDI)
• Achieved Boiler Water Reactor Plant zero discharge (outage to outage) with systems modification and operation improvements for primary liquid-radwaste processing trains.
• Chaired the Entergy rad-waste improvement committee to optimize fleet wide water quality issues.
• Managed unionized work force (17 operators / laboratory technicians).
• Conducted Operations Design reviews for major system upgrades to identify best technical approaches.

Westinghouse, Savannah River Site, Defense Waste Processing Facility
Senior Nuclear Facility Laboratory Technician 1992 – 2000

• Two Westinghouse bronze star awards for nuclear analytical testing methods development (Fluoride and Chloride determination by ISE).
• Operations of GAC – Micro/UF/RO water purification systems
• Significant remote cell operations experience as well as in-cell equipment prototyping and testing.
• GCMS, HPLC, IC, TIC/TOC, TIMS, AA, ICP, DCP, radiochemistry, reagent and standard prep experience.
• F-Area characterization repack lab, reagent & standards lab, instruments lab group experience.

US Army, Intelligence Sergeant 19th Special Forces Group Abn. (SOTA) 1987 to 1992 / TOP SECRET / SBI / SCI Clearance

US, Army, Nuclear-Biological-Chemical (98C) Lab Technician 1981-1984 / Secret Clearance
Operated multi train ROWPU units as well as conducted all analytical water testing.

Education

West Virginia University Institute of Technology Montgomery, WV, USA Two years Chemistry & Biology

Affiliations

• Chair – (2013 – 2015) – Water Environment Association Low Savannah District, South Carolina (WEASC).
• Leadership Aiken County 2012-2013
• Chair (1998-2000) – Technician Affiliate Group of the American Chemical Society (ACS) CSRA Chapter.

• MS Office Suite (20 years)
• File Maker Pro (15 years)
• “A” Licensed Biological Wastewater Operator (12) years
• Biosolids Operations (12) years
• Sewer Collection System Capacity Management Operations Maintenance (CMOM) (5 years)
• LOGCAP III (2 years)

Environmental Regualations, Industrial Pretreatment, KPIs, Management, Reverse Osmosis, ROWPU, SUPERVISION, Traning, Water and Wastewater

WEASC, WEF

English