Robert Ballantyne served the United States as a United States Marine. He is an electrical engineer with his follow-on education concentrating on Molecular and Atomic spectroscopy. His body of science research work focuses on environmental monitoring, mitigation, and remediation systems design. With an emphasis on waste stream reduction. His current role as Director of Research and Development for RWI Evaporation has allowed him to pursue the raw scientific research into ways to fundamentally change environmental mitigation markets and methods.