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Process Design
Expert is founder and president of a Houston based process engineering and project management firm focusing on petroleum refining, chemical, and gas processing industries. Expert has 25 years of experience involving process design, process troubleshooting equipment specification, equipment design, process…
Process & Control Engineering, Operational Excellence, Reliability & Expert Witness
Multi-talented and versatile leadership & management skills with geographically and culturally diverse teams & projects. Broad and diverse experience in the refining, petrochemical, chemical, and biofuels industries. Project management skills include project definition, budget, scope & proposal development, and cost…
Chemical Process and Catalyst Technologies, Licensing, R&D, Engineering, General Management
Expert spent his industrial career first as a process and catalyst development engineer, and ending up as the president of two organizations, each involved in developing and licensing chemical processes and developing and selling heterogeneous catalysts to the global chemical…
Change and Performance Management, Business Process Reengineering
Expert has applied her expertise in change and performance management in different environments. The majority of which is in the Refining industry. She was theme lead for the develop of competency profiles and performance management coaching training manual for management…
Chemical Patents, Air Bags, Product Contamination, Fires and Explosions, Chemical Exposure
Expert has been retained by plaintiff, defense and state Attorney General attorneys to investigate and provide expert opinions, expert reports, depositions, Daubert, Grand Jury & trial testimony for 91 air bag cases filed in Federal and State courts in 19…
Process Safety, Risk Assessment/Management Major Accident Risks, Hazards and Land Use Planning
Process Safety has been the main focus of Expert's work as he seeks to assist companies avoid accidents completely (by eliminating hazardous materials or processes) or prevent them through providing protection (containment or control). In some circumstances the only available…
Decontamination, Precision Cleaning, Ferrofluids, Nanoparticles, Process Design and Development
The behavior of colloidal particles (now nano particles) has been the focus of Expert's professional career, starting with his doctoral studies on the spontaneous agglomeration of fine powders in graduate school. While at AVCO Corporation, he did pioneering work in…
Engineering Cokeless Furnaces, Slurry Pipelines, Slurry Hydrocracking, Oilsand Engineering, and Tailings
Expert is a specialist in the design of gas-fired furnaces for melting of metals. He received in 2017 a grant from the National Science Foundation for the design of a cokeless melting system for ferrous castings. Expert is the author…
Quality Management of Petroleum, Water and Waste Water for Petroleum Oil Refineries
Expert has more than 30 years, in quality management of the fuel quality of petroleum products using state of the art instruments for oil refineries, crude oil quality and quality related plant problems, remedial actions to improve the same. He…
Internal & External Corrosion Control and Mitgation on Inshore & Offshore Structures & Pipelines
Expert has over the past 35 years applied his Industrial Arts and Petroleum Engineering Technology degrees to good use in the oil and gas industry working in all phases of internal and external corrosion migitation on structures and pipelines both…