Lana Pillsbury

I’m a water/wastewater engineer with a master's degree and 3 years of experience in municipal and private infrastructure design and permitting. I’ve worked on projects involving treatment processes, pump stations, asset management, and stormwater protection through design and construction support. I'm looking for a position in Canada with a technical focus in water and wastewater and to help communities adapt to long-term water challenges. I’m excited about the chance to contribute to a team that’s growing and investing in new solutions.

Early in my career, I supported the commissioning of new WTP in Twentynine Palms, CA during 30-day start-up through CDM Smith. I was an inspector for construction works on-site for a berm road raising/asset protection and dust mitigation project in southern California. I supported a utilities inventory & condition assessment in North Carolina and Okinawa, Japan and have served as QA/QC and production support for project managers on serval capital improvement projects.

More recently, at Hazen & Sawyer, I manage engineering services during construction for 2 well-equipping projects, prepare meeting minutes, engineering reports, and weekly project updates for several clients. I serve as the editor of technical memos, including one for improved compliance of an MS4 permit and lead the completion of an asset management package with equipment O&M of new wellsite design. I have recently received Professional Engineer licensure in Civil Engineering.

During my time in graduate school at New Mexico State University, I researched the social, economic, and environmental effects of produced water reuse and desalination in southern New Mexico as a graduate research assistant. I was a guest lecturer for undergraduate classes CE 355V and CE 477 and published a thesis and an additional publication. I graduated with a master's degree in Environmental Engineering with a graduate minor in Anthropology in the spring of 2022.

During undergraduate time at University of New Hampshire, I was an REU intern through Stanford University's Reinventing the Nation's Urban Water Infrastructure (ReNUWIt) Engineering Research Center. I aided in researching the effects of disinfection on antibiotic resistance in urban wastewater and presented my research at an All-REU meeting at Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA in 2019. This was a position funded by NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates ReNUWIt Center ($5,250). I graduated from University of New Hampshire in the spring of 2020.