Barry Pollock

About

Civil / Environmental Engineer (Registered Professional Engineer) ,

Independent Consultant

Summary

US Registered Civil Engineer and Certified Water Treatment Operator, with extensive Pacific Island (Hawaii, Guam, CNMI, Palau, RMI, FSM) Drinking Water (DW) and Water Resource Management (WRM) experience. 24 years with the US Environmental Protection Agency in a wide range of DW and WRM activities, in California, Hawaii and Micronesia. 2 years as the sole Engineer for the Palau Environmental Quality Protection Board, on all environmental programs. Experienced in all aspects of DW and WRM activities–project and program planning, management; monitoring and evaluation; water system/utility treatment, distribution, O&M assessment, engineering design, construction, operations; operator and management training, maintenance, financing; grant writing and grant oversight. Planning for and providing emergency response actions, for typhoons and other disasters, including Hurricane Katrina (USA); Typhoon Chata’an; (Guam); and Typhoon Haiyan (Palau).

Qualifications and credentials

Master of Science in Civil Engineering, 1986-1988, Completed, University of California, Berkeley

Master of Public Health, 1984-1986, Completed, University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Science/ Biochemistry, 1975-1978, Completed, University of Maryland

Numerous Trainings in Water Systems Treatment, Operations, Backflow Prevention, Distribution Systems, Water Quality, Risk Assessment, Program Planning, 1988 - Present, Completed, American Water Works Association, US EPA Special Trainings, University and Community Colleges, others

Registered Professional Engineer - State of California, P.E., 1997- Present

American Waterworks Association (AWWA), Member, 1988 - Present

English, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent, Excellent

French, Good, Good, Average, Good

Spanish, Average, Average, Average, Average

Work experience

Civil engineering (hard and soft engineering solutions)

Proposal writing/Report writing

Community trainer specialist

Disaster Relief/Management specialist

United States Environmental Protection Agency (US Federal Government), Environmental Engineer - Project Officer, Compliance Officer, Program Manager, San Francisco, CA USA (extensive travel to Hawaii, Guam, CNMI, Palau, FSM, and RMI), Hawaii, Guam and CNMI (based out of USEPA office in San Francisco, CA), Project Officer, State and Territorial Safe Drinking Water Program Oversight, Responsible for oversight of US State and Territorial implementation of the Federal Public Water System Supervision (PWSS) Programs for the State of H, Guam and CNMI (based out of USEPA in San Francisco, CA), Civil Enforcement / Compliance Officer (concurrent with other duties at USEPA), Guam and CNMI Water Utility Enforcement (concurrent w. other US EPA duties), • Provided technical support on the development and implementation of the drinking water/public water supply components of two major US EPA/Department, Pacific Islands - Palau, RMI, FSM (Pohnpei and Chuuk) (based out of USEPA in San Francisco, CA), Water Utility Systems Assessment Team Leader (concurrent with other duties at USEPA), Special Assignments - PI Nation water utility assessments (concurrent w. other US EPA duties), • Represented USEPA and organized teams of EPA experts to implement 10 special, short term, technical assistance assignments to Pacific Island Nation

Sanitary Surveys of U.S. Navy Water Systems in the Pacific - Japan, Singapore, and Diego Garcia, Subcontractor to Engineering Concepts, Inc (ECI; A/E firm in Hawaii); ECI was contractor to US Navy, Independent Engineering Consultant - Technical Expert, Inspector, and Lead Report Writer, Home-based - Work in Japan, Singapore, and Diego Garcia, As the lead technical expert, team member, and report writer for 6 seperate contracts, I helped organize teams, planned, performed and documented (l