Matt Prentice

Training Specialist:

Years of Experience

  • Water/Wastewater: 20 years

Certification Licenses/Tickets

  • Water Distribution & Supply: Level 4
  • Water Treatment: Level 4
  • Wastewater Collection: Level 4
  • Wastewater Treatment: Level 4

Post Secondary Degrees/Diplomas:

  • Eng Mgt Yr: 1994 McMaster University
  • Eng Yr: 2000 at University of Toronto (Chemical: Env)
  • Eng

Instructor Attributes/ Strengths: clear, straightforward, keep it simple (with a sense of humour).

Matt joins our team having already acquired about 5 years of ā€œcoachingā€ skills by serving as a Consulting Engineer in the operations division and about another 10 years from his time as a municipal water/wastewater manager.Ā  When you truly enjoy the rewards of teaching, you want to do more! Ā Ā Like most of our instructors, Matt has that extra drive to pass on his experience and knowledge to the upcoming operators.Ā Ā Ā Ā  He is a believer in keeping it simple and explaining things in a down to earth way.Ā  He is not a script reader and wants to be innovating and engaging with his students.

In the water distribution side, Mattā€™s strengths would be: Hydraulics/modelling, water quality (especially secondary disinfection and control valves/pressure zones while in Water Treatment they would be Disinfection, Pump theory, Coagulation/Filtration.Ā  In addition to his Water experience, in addition to his general comprehension, Mattā€™s specialities in Wastewater Collection would be: inflow/infiltration, inspection/rehab, Hydraulics/Modeling whereas in Wastewater treatment, they would be clarification, biosolids management, secondary theory/process.