Summary: Extensive experience in the identification and strategic deployment of advanced technology for the enhancement of plant operations. Included are tools and resources to permit sites to obtain added benefit from technology already in place but not utilized or not quite ready for utilization. Application areas are new commercial ventures, strategic development of process instrumentation and controls focusing on technology and training directed toward the identification, development, and integration of advanced manufacturing solutions for industry. Patented in the field.

Capabilities: Highly innovative, new, and robust solutions; Identify state-of-the-art technology and cooperative development for enhanced fit-for-purpose products and applications; develop and manage engineering teams; develop and deliver technical training courses and seminars.

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Summary: Former Senior Engineer with major chemicals manufacturer (DuPont) with over thirty years of industrial experience in design, start-up, and operation of complex control schemes in process industries including high hazard processes.

Former Principal Consultant of Alarm Management with major controls company (Invensys Process Systems) with expertise in alarm management, advanced process control, safety systems, and process optimization

Achievements: Certified Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt - Designed and implemented a control scheme that reduced downtime caused by lack of feed by 54%, resulting in an annual $5.3 million increase in income.

Instigated, designed, and implemented an automated reactor start-up strategy that reduced start-up times from 380 to 34 minutes with an annual increase in income of $1.46 million.

DuPont Sustainable Growth Excellence Award - Designed and implemented a control strategy that increased capacity and significantly reduced emissions.

DuPont Engineering Excellence Award - Worked as a member of a multidiscipline team to implement new control and start-up strategies of a continuous polymerization reactor that increased first pass quality yield from 80 to 92%, reduced start-up time by two thirds, and resulted in an annual $3 million increase in income.

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Capabilities: Specialist in the design and development of electro-mechanical equipment. Managed design task groups working on office copiers, designed automatic systems, supervised the design of automatic controls for machines, coordinated the development of new products from initial concept through production. Able to address poorly defined problems in a systematic and organized fashion which leads to an engineered solution.

Accomplishments: Worked on various projects ranging from photovoltaic power generation to instrumentation for the molten aluminum industry. Conceived and designed automated systems for inspecting small ceramic parts and for measuring physical and electrical properties of ceramic substrates. With an outside company, designed and built a computer controlled PLC driven control system for a vacuum deposition furnace which enabled the operating scientist to repeat a batch process exactly without having to touch any control element. The instructions to the system were in plain English and were fed to the computer via a standard keyboard. Since many of the “raw materials” were highly toxic very elaborate precautions were taken to render the system safe. Holds 25 United States patents.

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Summary: An outstanding record of innovation and invention to meet specific market needs. A particular focus on the identification, assessment and mitigation of business risks and uncertainties. Areas include due diligence for investment and acquisition, product design and enhancement for market advantage, market analysis and planning, and presentation of complex concepts in a clear and understandable way.

Capabilities: Recognized as an organizer and leader of advanced technology teams. Has developed and managed large teams using innovative structured management methods.

Achievements: Patents in sensor technology and toxic gas mitigation. Inventor's preliminary disclosures filed in a wide variety of computer, process, and medical areas.

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