Expert Details
Chemical Process Engineering and Project Management
ID: 736669
Oregon, USA
Areas of prior work include:
Fossil Power Generation: simple cycle, combined cycle, steam generation, cogeneration, CHP, air and water pollution control.
Petroleum: LNG, natural gas compression and processing, methane reforming, and fractionation, upstream surface facilities, dewatering, gas processing, produced water treatment, and gathering systems, midstream gas & oil handling and transport, refining, heavy oil recovery, asphalt binder, refining, propane rail delivery
Industrial Water: evaporation, zero liquid discharge, de-oiling and brine softening for EOR, wastewater treatment
Gasification: Multiple technologies for gasification of coal, heavy oil, biomass and synthol, methanol DME, MTG syngas gas to liquids (GTL) production.
Renewable Energy: Biomethane, landfill gas to power, biosolids digestion, biosolids processing, MSW processing and pyrolysis, wood pyrolysis, and gasification.
Skills:
Project management, process design, conceptual design, project development, process integration, detailed engineering design, project initiation, multi-discipline technical leadership, manufacturing, water treatment, energy, commissioning, and startup.
Leadership, Project Management, Multi-discipline Technical Leadership, Mentoring, Project Development, Strategic Planning, Manufacturing, Conceptual Design, System Design, Process Integration, Business Plan, Profit and Loss, Consultant, Technical Support, Owner’s Engineer. Project Initiation, Scope Definition, Budget, Scheduling, Simulation, Specification, Procurement, Natural Gas, Supervision, Process Design, Chemical Engineer, commissioning, Startup, Performance Testing, Upstream, Proposals, Upgrades, Proposal, Balance, Documentation, Sales Support, Client, Profit, Weapons, Utilities, Processes, Materials, API, Downstream (refinery), Upstream, Midstream, Oil & Gas, Utility Power Generation, Cogeneration, Combined Heat and Power (CHP), Water Treatment.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1979 | Degree: Bachelor of Science | Subject: Chemical Engineering | Institution: The University of Southern California |
| Year: 1978 | Degree: Bachelor of Science | Subject: Chemistry | Institution: The University of Southern California |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2018 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Project Manager 2 | Department: Project Management |
Responsibilities:Seller-Doer, Manage projects from $5k to $150k, develop projects, sales support, client relationship building, engineering, consulting, scoping, execution, construction management, supervision of multi-discipline technical design teams. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2016 | Employer: Stantec | Title: Project Manager 2 | Department: Pasadena Office |
Responsibilities:Seller-Doer, Manage Projects, develop projects, sales support, client relationship building, scoping, execution, engineering, technical feasibility, supervise multi-discipline technical design teams, oil field operations support, troubleshooting, consulting, owner’s engineer. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2010 to 2010 | Employer: Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. | Title: Group Manager | Department: Consultancy |
Responsibilities:Managed the US consultancy branch of a UK-based technology group specializing in gasification technologies. Work included supervision, technology review, project management, sales, marketing, business plan, and administrative duties. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2008 to 2010 | Employer: Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. | Title: Engineering Project Management | Department: Long Beach Office |
Responsibilities:Executed complex industrial refinery and small renewable power generation project up to $50 million. Client relationship-building manages multiple projects simultaneously, scoping, scheduling, performance tracking, execution, supervise multi-discipline technical design teams, and purchasing. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2008 | Employer: Technip USA | Title: Senior Project Manager | Department: Project |
Responsibilities:Manage complex industrial projects up to $60 million from development and feasibility through technology selection, detailed design engineering, procurement, and construction support. Project scoping, risk analysis, setup, scheduling, resource loading, budgeting, gated execution, HAZOP, multi-discipline technical design team supervision, procurement, project closeout. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2005 to 2006 | Employer: Wahlco, Inc. | Title: Senior Project Manager | Department: Manufacturing |
Responsibilities:Manage projects, sell pollution control equipment, oversee the in-house fabrication of urea to ammonia equipment, customer interface, and relationship building, commission, and startup equipment. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2005 to 2005 | Employer: Think Resources contracted to Mid-American Holdings for CalEnergy | Title: Senior Project Manager | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:Contract position to take over and manage the completion of a 17-acre landfill cell designed to Class I standards for the Desert Valley Company Monofill wholly owned by CalEnergy for disposal of hazardous precipitated geothermal solids. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2003 to 2005 | Employer: Frankie Friend and Associates contracted to Bechtel/SAIC | Title: Senior Engineer Specialist | Department: DOE Yucca Mountain Project |
Responsibilities:Conceptual design development and documentation for high-level waste handling and decontamination in support of NRC license application preparation on the DOE Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository. Demonstrated expertise in the design of hot cell facilities, low-level waste handling, application of remote robotic handling for high-level waste, shipment of radioactive waste, and decontamination. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2002 to 2003 | Employer: CCI (Control Components Inc.) | Title: Senior Valve Specialist | Department: Sales / Engineering |
Responsibilities:Severe service valve applications engineering and severe service valve seminar presenter for power plant applications. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1996 to 2001 | Employer: Duke/Fluor Daniel | Title: Senior Process Engineer | Department: Process / Power |
Responsibilities:Conceptual design, project development, preliminary and detailed engineering design for merchant power generation. Lead a process engineering team of 10 for the detailed design of the Moss Landing Power Plant repowering (1030 MW combined cycle plant integrated into the existing brownfield site). Lead a team of up to 7 process and mechanical engineers supporting as many as 10 proposals simultaneously for a wide variety of CHP (cogeneration) applications while functioning as technical lead and primary technical contact between NIPSCO (Primary Energy) and Fluor. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1995 to 1996 | Employer: Fluor Daniel, Inc. | Title: Senior Process Engineer | Department: Process |
Responsibilities:Reviewed and prepared conceptual and developmental designs for combined heat and power (CHP) and multiple combined cycle configurations for merchant power plants. Performed technical verifications of cogeneration and merchant power designs. Developed a heat recovery design, integrated into the steel mill steam system for a first-of-a-kind non-recovery coke oven. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1990 to 1995 | Employer: Fluor Daniel, Inc. | Title: Process Engineer II | Department: Process |
Responsibilities:Perform process evaluation, engineering calculations, heat and material balance calculations, and heat integrations, process flow diagrams, and write reports for gas processing, gasification, and energy utilization. Calculated safety relief sizing for refinery units and refinery flare systems, refinery sour water processing, and utility systems. Co-wrote the Design Guidance Manual for the DOE Weapons Complex Reconfiguration Project. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1989 to 1990 | Employer: Fluor Daniel, Inc. | Title: Process Engineer I | Department: Process |
Responsibilities:Perform engineering calculations, heat and material balance and energy integration calculations, process flow diagrams, and design reports for carbon dioxide removal from integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants and design of zero liquid discharge systems for gasification and power generation facilities. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1987 to 1989 | Employer: Aqua Chem Inc. | Title: Process Engineer | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:Applications engineering, preliminary design, detailed design, and start-up of evaporation systems. Applications for numerous industrial wastewater treatments (including organic and/or inorganic contaminants), zero liquid discharge designs, calcium sulfate seeded slurry evaporators (power plant wastewater), ethylene glycol recovery and purification, glycerin (sweet water) evaporators, pharmaceutical ethanol solvent recovery, desalination, and food products including mannose sugar, coffee, licorice, stick water, and tobacco juice extract. Design configurations included multiple effects and vapor recompression using forced circulation, falling film, and/or Spray Film® evaporators. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1983 to 1986 | Employer: Stock's Insurance Services (family business) | Title: V.P. of Sales | Department: Sales |
Responsibilities:Market and sell commercial insurance (grain elevators, fertilizer distributors, auto dealers, implement dealers, bulk oil dealers), oversee business operations. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1979 to 1983 | Employer: Fluor Corporation | Title: Process Engineer | Department: Process |
Responsibilities:Calculations, heat and material balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrument diagrams, failure mode and criticality analysis for the Gas Centrifugation Enrichment Project, field experience (South Africa), troubleshooting, report writing. |
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Government Experience
| Years | Agency | Role | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: to Present | Agency: DOE | Role: | Description: Multiple projects including Gas Centrifugation Enrichment Project (GCEP), Weapons complex Reconfiguration Project (WCRP), and Yucca Mountain High Level Waste Repository. |
International Experience
| Years | Country / Region | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| Years: 1982 to 1982 | Country / Region: Republic of South Africa | Summary: Sasol II gasification capacity debottlenecking |
| Years: 2002 to 2002 | Country / Region: Mexico | Summary: Technical Review of the Mexico City Office Combined Cycle Power Generation Projects |
Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Lifetime Member |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| Registered Professional Engineer, Wisconsin Registered Professional Engineer, Oregon Registered Professional Engineer, Washington TWIC Cardholder |
Additional Experience
| Training / Seminars |
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| Severe Service Valve Seminars Combined Cycle Power Generation Design |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Primary Energy - Fluor Daniel Technical Project Development point of contact - resulted in multiple cogeneration and power generation projects. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Excellent |
Fields of Expertise
aboveground storage tank, acceptance test, acid, activated carbon water filtration, agricultural-residue gasification, air compressor, air pollution control, chemical engineering, chemical project engineering, construction engineering, Design and Engineering, detailed engineering and design, design engineering, electrical utility plant process engineering, energy engineering, engineering, engineering change control, engineering change order, engineering design, engineering management, engineering project management, Front End Engineering Design, industrial systems engineering, Oil and Gas Engineering, petroleum pipeline engineering, petroleum production engineering, Petroleum Refinery Engineering, Pipeline Engineering, power engineering, Power Plant Engineering, process engineering, project engineering, Project Engineering and Management, Refinery Engineering, systems engineering, wastewater treatment engineering, water engineering, power generation project management, project design, project development, project feasibility, project management, Project Management and Execution, project optimization, project planning, project review, project risk management, project scheduling, project start-up, troubled project, utility projects, capital projects management, change management, process management, liquefied natural gas, natural gas liquefaction, natural gas pipeline, natural gas processing, natural gas transmission, biomethane, landfill gas, landfill gas recovery, renewables, anaerobic digestion, anaerobic municipal wastewater digestion, chemical industrial wastewater treatment, coal gasification, wood gasification, energy-efficient gasification, gas combined cycle, Rankine cycle, energy-efficient steam cogeneration, energy-efficient steam turbine, fossil-fueled steam generation, heat recovery steam generator, industrial steam generation, steam, steam chemistry, steam condenser, steam electric energy generation, steam cracking, steam generation, steam reforming, steam system, steam pipe, steam turbine, steam turbine efficiency, utility steam generation, waste-to-steam, steamflooding, heavy oil process, crude oil, asphalt-base crude oil, crude oil recovery, condensate water treatment, boiler feedwater treatment, cooling water treatment, boiler water treatment, drinking water treatment, feedwater treatment, industrial wastewater treatment, industrial water treatment, energy storage, pumped-hydro energy storage, energy, energy generation, energy industry, geothermal energy, pyrolysis, water pumping, energy storage system, compressed natural gas, technical analysis, technical evaluation, technical leadership, technical management