Syed Zulifiqar Ahmad Andrabi
Pulwama
Summary
A professional Environmental expert with more than 18 years of experience in construction as well as teaching and research.
A professional Environmental expert with more than 18 years of experience in construction as well as teaching and research. Currently working as an lecturer in environmental sciences with more than 12 years of experience of teaching in state colleges/ universities and nearly 6 years of experience in construction and building field in many government and semi-government funded projects. The main area of working has been construction projects with multiple scopes including roads and highways construction including the building and facility construction to consider the developing and monitoring environmental management programs, policies and procedures to ensure continuous and proper working conditions. I possess good technical and project management skills with the ability to successfully manage multiple projects and daily responsibilities. I am self-motivated with the skill to develop and foster creative and innovative solutions. Besides, a committed Environmental professional and expert, passionate about caring for the environment and ensuring the company work fully compliant with current environmental legislation concerning emissions, pollution, carbon footprint and waste management. I possess considerable experience of formulating environmental policies, procedures, practices, impact assessment and implementing these followed by monitoring and reviewing. I also have auditing capabilities and can relate to people on all levels including senior managers, other staff, external contractors and external environment professionals. I am having considerable experience of carrying out staff training and presenting reports to senior management at meetings.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Lecturer
Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir
Anantnag
03.2017 - Current
- Teaching Environmental Science at under graduate level.
- Preparation and management of environmental programmes for awareness among students about important environmental aspects and their role in rectification of degraded environment.
- Motivating students to prepare assignments on different topics of environment science and evaluating their skills after the assignment submission.
- Preparation and evaluation of mid-term examinations papers.
- Member of university evaluation committee for final examinations.
Environmental Manager
SPECTRO Analytical Labs Ltd.
03.2013 - 02.2017
- Taking all the Departmental Responsibilities as Manager Environment, creating construction and building plan and method statement as per the project and site activities based, timely issuance, update, and renewal of permit for specific works and site-related issues and approach to the consultant and correspondence authority to proceed the hassle-free works.
- Implementing the daily site inspection and internal audit, meeting with supervising consultant to solve the site issues and taking prior action to make sure the site is free from all environmental issues, approaching the laboratory to arrange for sampling, dealing with sub-contractors for the site work, and activities with following responsibilities.
- Assist management in implementing environmental improvement programs to promote increased environmental performance.
- Assist with agency inspections and work with sites to ensure follow-through with improvements.
- Provides technical and permitting assistance to external customers. Encourages pre-application meetings to assist with timely permit processing.
- Assists Landfill and Site Managers with development of fill sequencing plans.
- Support site project managers to for technical and regulatory environmental issues, including contractor management and change management.
- Represent and promote the environment team in meetings, workshops, management reviews and forums both internally and externally.
- Directs or assists in the planning, development and administration of the environmental program.
- Review and preparation of CEMP for site based works as per state law.
- Environmental Aspect Impact Assessment study and implementation at site.
- Developed standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the environment Division.
- Preparing all plans and method statement including environmental management facilities.
- Air, water & noise monitoring and mitigation planning.
- Dewatering management and sampling & reporting.
- Micro-tunneling and slurry/soil/waste water management.
- Erection of slurry lagoon and inspection.
- Environmental incident investigation & reporting.
- Evaluating primary and secondary environmental and sustainability related information.
- Monthly environmental and sustainability statistic report for consultant and MME/PWA.
- Plan and coordinate various sub-contractors for generated hazardous as well as non-hazardous waste.
- Handling EMS/QSD/IMS/HSE audit and preparation of plans related to environment and sustainability.
- Providing technical guidance to project teams to achieve sustainability objectives and requirements during the planning, design and construction stages.
- Facilitating preparation of sustainability proposals.
- Asbestos survey mitigation & measure.
- Weekly environmental tool box talk/training and emergency mock drill.
- Daily environmental observations at the site and environmental spill control.
- Identify and quantify & segregation of wastes.
- Evaluate waste management options and apply a waste hierarchy model in order to reduce, reuse, recycle, recover, and dispose of waste material.
- Work with company personnel in developing an appropriate and user-friendly waste management system.
- Stay informed with respect to waste management regulations and ensures regulations are being adhered to.
- Provide waste management training to clients and staff.
- Participate in auditing processes, including approvals, water monitoring reports, permit compliances and contingency planning.
Project Coordinator
WEMTEP (Ministry of Drinking water and Sanitation)
01.2012 - 08.2013
- Serve in a project management and technical leader role.
- Maintain strong client relations.
- Help secure new business.
- Work to identify and target opportunities and build internal and external teams that can effectively compete, win, and perform work.
- Develops project scopes, budgets, project plans and schedules, creates bid packages and cost estimates, and is responsible for meeting established budgets and delivery schedules for each assignment.
- Maintains project controls for various projects worked on.
- Coordinate field activities and communication programmes.
- Assists in the execution of business, technical, fiscal, and administrative functions of the assigned, project, or sub-task.
- Carrying out the survey at grass root level in all districts of J&K State, India.
- Managing base line data generation and compliance monitoring of drinking water resources.
- Providing training regarding Drinking water analysis and sanitation to concerned departments, i.e., Public Health Engineering, Health etc.
- Report Preparation, formulation & Documentation.
- Presentation of project work status and progress to higher authorities of the concerned State Govt. Departments of J&K, India.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) - Environmental Science
Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaMaster of Science (M.Sc) - Environmental Sciences
Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University
Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, IndiaBachelor of Science (B.Sc) - G. English, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry
University of Kashmir
Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, IndiaSkills
- Knowledge of the environment and sustainability agenda
- Knowledge of sustainability issues
- Ability to learn new business situations and technology quickly
- Time management skills
- Team player
- Knowledge of applicable legislation and regulations
- Ability to make quick decisions
- Ability to prioritize competing tasks
- Problem-solving skills
- Knowledge of air quality and water standards
- Colorimetric techniques
- Air/Water/Soil pollution analysis
- Spectrophotometric techniques
- Single beam spectrophotometry
- Double beam spectrophotometry
- Flame Photometer
- Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
- SDS-PAGE Electrophoresis
- GC-MS Chromatography
- HPLC chromatography
- Determination of Phosphate in Detergents
- Micro-Filter assembly
- Exploration, collection and preservation of bacterial consortium
- Isolation, Screening and Culture techniques of sediment bacterial strains
- Physic-chemical analysis of effluent
- Extraction, identification and molecular analysis of bacterial enzymes
- Stack Emission Monitoring
- Fugitive Emission Monitoring
- Environment Health & Safety
- Quality Assurance & Documentation
Accomplishments
- Editorial member of International Journal of Advanced Research and Technology.
- Report reviewer, Data Analyst and Resource Speaker for NGO “Centre for Environment Protection Public Health and Educational Development Society (CEPHEDS)”, U.P.
- Designed and laboratory scale use of Chemostat for enrichment of bacterial consortium.
- Designed and laboratory scale use of vertical Bioreactor for application of bacterial consortium for Pentachlorophenol removal in tannery effluent.
Websites
Research
- Five years, Research experience on analysis of effluent Quality of Kanpur tannery industries and identification of biomolecules (Enzymes) involved in bioremediation of Pentachlorophenol as part of PhD at Department of Environmental Science, Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University Faizabad, U.P. (India)
- One year, Research experience on isolation, Screening, Identification and Pentachlorophenol degradation capacity of bacterial consortium isolated from tannery and Paper mill effluents as M.Sc Dissertation at Department of Environmental Science, Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University Faizabad, U.P. (India)
Industrial Exposure
- Refineries
- Petrochemical
- Fertilizer Industries
- Steel Plants
- Glass Industries
- Mines Industries
- Oil Industries
- Chemical Industries
- Construction of high rise buildings and Infrastructure projects in India.
Projects Handled
- HCC (Highway construction), Baseline data, construction plan and monitoring of highway and micro-tunneling construction in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
- L&T (Road and building construction), Environmental mitigation, monitoring and site survey.
- WAPCOS, Environmental Monitoring and Micro-meteorological survey, with baseline data generation at many site of India, Like- Dam Construction, Highways stretching enlargement, port extension.
- SMEC, National Highway Baseline data generation and flora Fauna Survey, Biodiversity loss during road construction.
- DMRC (Delhi Metro Ltd), Taking all responsibilities like site survey and sampling of Air, water, Noise, Solid waste and Vibration monitoring, reporting at ground level.
- IGI Airport New Delhi (Airport Authority of India), Management of on-site Environmental sampling and report compilation.
- GMR, Performing all types of Environmental sampling, reporting and compliances.
- Mining Industries, Planning & Arrangement for sampling and testing of Air, Noise, Soil and Water during the mining activity.
- Refineries Industries, Flue Gas Emission and Stack Sampling with water, soil and water, leachate and hazardous chemical. Worked in Gas and Oil Sector of Many plants in India including –IOCL, HPCl, BPL, Indrapastha Gas Limited, Mathura refineries.
Seminars Delivered
- Application of Remote Sensing in agricultural resource management (M.Sc. Previous, 2004)
- Energy Crisis: Hydrogen energy a future fuel for India. (M.Sc. Final, 2005)
Research Publications
- Biotreatability of Pentachlorophenol by aerobic bacterial consortium in Tannery effluent., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Tewari, P.C., Chaudhary, C.B. and Shukla, S., Asian Journal of Chemical and Environmental Research, 3, 46-51, 2010
- Comparative pentachlorophenol degrading potential of two bacterial consortia isolated from tannery and pulp and paper mill effluent sludge., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Tewari, P.C., Chaudhary, C.B. and Shukla, S., Journal of Ecophysiology and Occupational Health, 10, 186-191, 2010
- Screening of pentachlorophenol degrading bacterial strains isolated from the tannery effluent sludge of Kanpur (U.P.)., Tewari, P.C., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Chaudhary, C.B. and Shukla, S., Environment and we: International Journal of Science and Technology, 26, 77-84, 2011
- Effect of idol immersion on water quality of Saryu River., Shahensha, Bhat, M.M., Andrabi, S.Z.A. and Shukla, S., European Journal of Experimental Biology, 1(3), 97-100, 2011
- Assessment of heavy metal pollution in urban pond ecosystems., Bhat, M.M., Narain, K., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Shukla, R. N. and Younus, M., Universal Journal of Environmental Research and Technology, 2(4), 225-232, 2012
- Ecological Study of Three Medicinal Plants (Malva Neglecta, Rumex Patientia and Taraxacum Officinale) Of Kashmir Valley., Shah, A.B., Shameem, S.A., Andrabi, S.Z.A and Bhat, M.M., International Journal of Advance Research and Technology, 1(2), 1-4, 2013
Book Chapters
Enumeration of Pentachlorophenol degrading potential of bacterial strains isolated from the tannery effluent sludge of Jajmau, Kanpur., Tewari, P.C., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Chaudhary, C.B. and Shukla, S., Global warming and climate change, APH Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, 295-304, 2012
Papers Presented
- Enumeration of Pentachlorophenol degrading bacterial strains from tannery and Pulp & Paper mill effluents., National symposium on issues and challenges for environmental management: vision 2025, Deptt. of environmental science, Babasaheb Bimrao Ambedkar (Central) University, Lucknow, 02/17/06 - 02/19/06
- Removal of Pentachlorophenol by aerobic bacterial strains enriched in a chemostat., 2nd J&K Science Congress –2006, Deptt. of Science & Technology, University of Kashmir, 07/25/06 - 07/27/06
- Effect of pH and temperature on the degradation of Pentachlorophenol by bacterial consortium isolated from tannery effluent sludge., National seminar on Climate Change and its Impact on Biological Communities, Department of Environmental Sciences, Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University, Faizabad, 02/12/11 - 02/13/11
Abstracts Published
- Removal of Pentachlorophenol by aerobic bacterial strains enriched in a chemostat., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Chaudhary, C.B., Tewari, P.C. and Shukla, S., 2nd J & K Science Congress, 07/25/06 - 07/27/06, University of Kashmir
- Enumeration of Pentachlorophenol degrading bacterial strains from tannery and Pulp & Paper mill effluents., Shukla, S., Andrabi, S.Z.A., and Tewari, P.C., National Symposium on Issues & Challenges for Environmental Management: Vision 2025, 02/17/06 - 02/19/06, Deptt. of Env. Sciences, BBA Univ. Lucknow
- Effect of pH and temperature on the degradation of Pentachlorophenol by bacterial consortium isolated from tannery effluent sludge., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Tewari, P.C., Chaudhary, C.B. and Shukla, S., Climate Change and its Impact on Biological Communities, 02/12/11 - 02/13/11, Deptt. of Env. Sciences, Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University, Faizabad
- Clean Development Mechanism: An approach to reduce green house gas emission., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Ansari, M.N.A., Iqbal, S.A. and Bano, Z., Climate Change and its Impact on Biological Communities, 02/12/11 - 02/13/11, Deptt. of Env. Sciences, Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University, Faizabad
- Enumeration of pentachlorophenol degrading potential of bacterial strains isolated from the tannery effluent sludge of Jajmau, Kanpur (U.P.)., Tewari, P.C., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Chaudhary, C.B. and Shukla, S., Climate Change and its Impact on Biological Communities, 02/12/11 - 02/13/11, Deptt. of Env. Sciences, Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University, Faizabad
- Removal of Pentachlorophenol by bacterial consortium from tannery effluent in Rotatory Drum Bioreactor., Shukla, S., Andrabi, S.Z.A., Tewari, P.C. and Chaudhary, C.B., Climate Change and its Impact on Biological Communities, 02/12/11 - 02/13/11, Deptt. of Env. Sciences, Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University, Faizabad
- Biotreatability of Pentachlorophenol by immobilized Pseudomonas species in tannery effluent., Shukla, S., Tewari, P.C., Andrabi, S.Z.A. and Chaudhary, C.B., Climate Change and its Impact on Biological Communities, 02/12/11 - 02/13/11, Deptt. of Env. Sciences, Dr. R. M. L. Avadh University, Faizabad
Academic Accomplishments
- Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D), Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Environmental Science
- Master of Science (M.Sc), Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, India, Environmental Sciences
- Bachelor of Science (B.Sc), University of Kashmir, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India, G. English, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry
Languages
- English
- Urdu
- Hindi
- Kashmiri
Areas Of Interest
- Committed to work in Green Building design, construction or operation to reduces or eliminates negative impacts, which will helps to create positive impacts, on our climate and natural environment.
- E.I.A (Environmental Impacts Assessment) Studies.
- Urban Planning and Sustainability Management.
- Environmental Impacts Modelling and Air & Noise Modelling.
- Air Quality Monitoring and Controlling & Air Modelling.
- Environmental Project Management & Risk Assessment Studies & Environmental Laws.
- Clean Development Mechanism projects and Energy Management.
- Energy Trading & Management.
- Environment Health & Safety.
- Quality Assurance & Documentation.
Personal Information
- Passport Number: Z4097591
- Father's Name: Mr. Syed Nazir Ahmad Andrabi
- Mother's Name: Mrs. Haneefa
- Date of Birth: 01/15/80
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Lecturer
Govt. of Jammu and Kashmir
03.2017 - Current
Environmental Manager
SPECTRO Analytical Labs Ltd.
03.2013 - 02.2017
Project Coordinator
WEMTEP (Ministry of Drinking water and Sanitation)
01.2012 - 08.2013
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) - Environmental Science
Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University
Master of Science (M.Sc) - Environmental Sciences
Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) - G. English, Zoology, Botany, Chemistry
University of Kashmir