Experience

Aquaplus NV

• Belgium
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Commercial Manager

  • Apr 2018 - Present



Aquafin

• Belgium
• Environmental Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• R&D project manager

  • 1998 - Present

  • project management- pre-design 25 municipal wastewater treatment plants- project management for various industrial clients; coordination of energy modeling projects• third line operational management- process & technology advise: point of contact for about 30 wastewater treatment plants - training of operators• research and development- concept for Aquafin’s research facilities building- concept demonstration-plant of Aquafin’s hybrid MBR wastewater treatment process; co-author of Patent WO2007/065956 A1- 1993-2008 : coördination of a team of 4 R&D technicians (pilot plant research, equipping and maintenance of Aquafin’s research facilities)- technology specialization: aeration systems- introduction of technology innovations within the company (control of aeration based on on-line nutriëntanalyzers, CFD, discfilters, screw-surpressors…)- lead in Aquafin’s research domain “Energy” + member of task force “Energy management”: research coordination, tracking down energy-projects, organizing energy-audits for wastewater treatment plants• involved in internal and external PR (product-portfolio, intranetsite R&D, website)



SVW

• researcher

  • Mar 1993 - Jun 1998

  • project 3b3 "Nutrient removal from municipal wastewater"- design of industrial-scale pilot plant (tender text, drawings,...)- pilot plant research (process control, defining lab procedures, data management...) for upgrading of wastewater treatment plants towards nutrient removal- literature review; congressesresult: cost-efficient upgrading of 2 wastewater treatment plants (WWTP Merksem, WWTP Deurne) • coordination of students, trainees• project 3b4 "Upgrading of wastewater treatment plants towards nutrient removal”- coordination laboratory assistant and technicians- operational management industrial-scale pilot plantresult: cost-efficient upgrading of 3 wastewater treatment plants (WWTP Antwerpen-Noord, WWTP Sint-Niklaas, WWTP Brugge)