William Lipps

William is currently the General Manager of Government and Regulatory Business Development at Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc. in Columbia Maryland. In 2018 and 2019 William was the Chief Science Officer and Technical Director for Eurofins Eaton Analytical, and from 2014 to 2018, William was the environmental and mining marketing manager at Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. Columbia, Maryland. William is the ASTM D19 committee on water Chair, the Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater AWWA Editor and Part 4000 coordinator, and an ISO TC 147 (water) SC2 (chemistry methods) delegate and expert, and has received the ASTM Award of Merit, the Max Hecht award, the William Telliard Award (awarded to members who have developed methods approved at 40 CFR Part 136), and five standard development awards. Prior to joining Shimadzu, William was at OI Analytical serving as a product specialist, marketing specialist, and product manager for automated chemistry analyzers. While at OI Analytical, William developed a new commercially available on-line cyanide analyzer for determination of cyanide in gold process solutions, its sample filtration module, redesigned existing continuous flow and discrete analyzers, designed a new Flow Injection Analyzer, and developed and validated numerous in-house methods. William’s work on sampling, preservation, and minimization of interferences in cyanide analysis led to the development of six new or modified ASTM standards, five of which are EPA approved at 40 CFR Part 136.3. William also authored, or co-authored methods for nitrate, ammonia, TOC, and TKN that are also approved at 40 CFR Part 136.3, and collaborated with EPA in defining method flexibility at 40 CFR Part 136.6. William wrote an ASTM guide to the International Cyanide Management Code, and was a contributing author to the SME “Management Technologies for Metal Mining Influenced Water, Volume 6: Sampling and Monitoring for the Mine Life Cycle”. William is working on new methods intended for EPA approval, including ASTM D8083 Total Nitrogen, pesticides and PCBs, Per-fluorinated compounds, and nitrosamines. William is also very active in numerous other ASTM committees, including AWWA, WEF, TNI and the Environmental Measurement Coalition. Prior to OI Analytical, William worked at several commercial testing laboratories as owner, manager, bench chemist, and environmental consultant.

In addition to work at consensus organizations, William Lipps has also given over 200 podium and poster presentations at national and local laboratory and mining association conferences. William has given numerous webinars and has taught several short courses including topics such as “cyanide analysis”, “wet chemistry analysis” and “how to select laboratory instruments”. William has authored numerous technical guides and application notes for OI Analytical and Shimadzu, and is a contributing author to American Laboratory.