Alternative & Renewable Energy, (Bio-Ethanol, Batteries, Oil & Gas) Consulting within the Agriculture, Building & Consumer Products Industry & Expert

Expertise

• Alternative and renewable energy: Bio-ethanol from vegetable starch or sugars (corn, sugarcane, high dry-matter tubers, sugar beets), bio-Diesel fuel from triglycerides (virgin and used vegetable oils) and algae, bio-fuel and animal feed co-production, renewable diesel fuel, solar thermal and renewable electricity from wind, photo-voltaic, bio-gas, biomass/municipal solid waste.
• Energy storage: Batteries, pumped hydro, hot/cold water storage, compressed or liquefied gas storage with turbo-expander energy recovery.
• Optimized energy use: Heat transfer, thermodynamics, building HVAC, electricity demand peak shaving, optimized time-of-use, on-site CHP, heat pump, automatic controls, lighting, evaporation cooling, air-to-air heat exchange, air quality monitoring.
• Potable, industrial and agricultural water: Purification, desalination and recycle, multi-media filters, ultrafiltration, nano-filtration, ion exchange, reverse and forward osmosis, multiple effect evaporation, adsorption, as well as UV, chlorine, and ozone sanitizing.
• Crude oil and natural gas production/refining: Well drilling and completion, enhanced oil and gas recovery, gas gathering and purification, gas compression and transportation, natural gas chemical conversion to ethylene, refining, bio-fuel/fossil fuel nano-emulsion blending, oil upgrading, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis of renewable fuels.
• Oil and gas process improvements: Optimization, catalyst upgrades, turbo-machinery, combustion and post-combustion air emission reductions.
• Building systems: Optimized energy and water use/recovery/reuse, integrated renewable and conventional energy systems, waste heat recovery.
• High productivity agriculture: Combustion exhaust CO2 and water use, solar power, land use optimization.

Focused Areas

• Acoustics
• Agriculture
• Alternative energy
• Binders and agglomeration
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) bio-sequestration
• Catalysis
• Chemical Engineering (ChE)
• Chemicals
• Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
• Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
• Chief Engineer (CE)
• Coatings
• Combined heat and power (CHP)
• Combustion
• Consumer products
• Creativity
• Emulsions
• Entrepreneur
• Environmental engineering
• Enology and viticulture
• Filtration
• Flocculants
• Food processing
• Fuels
• Greenhouses
• Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC)
• Heat pump
• High productivity agriculture
• Hydroponics
• Imaging
• Innovation
• Intellectual property (IP) licensing
• International marketing
• Lubricants
• Manufacturing
• Machinery
• Materials
• Membranes
• Mineral processing/beneficiation
• Nano materials and fluids
• Natural gas processing
• Oil and natural gas well drilling, instrumentation and production
• Oil refining
• Process engineering
• Process instrumentation
• Process simulation
• Profit achieving business, engineering, R&D, and operations leader
• Renewable energy
• Research (R&D)
• Sales and Marketing on Industrial and Consumer Products
• Semiconductor processing & materials
• Silicates
• Surfactants
• Sustainability
• Teacher
• Thermodynamics
• Trainer
• Utility use and cost reduction
• Vehicle components and systems
• Venture Capital (VC)
• Video displays
• Water purification

Experience

Undisclosed Engineering Firm, Cheif Engineer,  2010 - Present

• As Chief Engineer, serving clients and executing services in the following areas:
• Patents and intellectual property licensing.
• Semiconductor electronics.
• Digital imaging.
• Green technology.
• Li-ion batteries.
•  Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
• Video devices and image processing.
•  In-home water purification and disinfection.
• Paint adhesion.
•  Dissolving packages (pill casings) made of ingredients generally regarded as safe (GRAS) by the US FDA for dietary supplements/ nutrients.

Applied Knowledge and Experience

• Entrepreneurial Chief Executive Officer, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Engineer at publicly-traded stock companies and start-ups.
• Technical and engineering-based business profit improvement based on economic and profitability forecasts.
• Leader of profitable business-focused professional teams of up to 500 engineers and scientists.
• Leader of process engineering for oil, biofuels, chemicals, foods, and minerals.
• Developed enterprise-wide profit improving optimized utility uses and costs.
• Creator, licensor, and seller of profitable engineered product intellectual property -- HVAC, power generation, combined heat and power (CHP), electronics, combustion, fuels, nanotechnology, materials, information technology, agriculture, and fluid purification.
• Industrial and consumer product marketing/sales leader: advertising, market research, consumer focus groups, label design, point-of-purchase displays, manufacturer rep networks, returned goods authorizations, distribution (domestic and international), pricing, sales incentives; video and audio commercial scripting, acting, and production & on-line media hosted interviews.
• Product liability and environmental impact expert witness.
• Invented, tested, developed and authored two U.S. patents on breakthrough renewable ion rejecting membrane products.
• Lead research and development engineering, and manufacturing teams to demineralize, desalt, purify, as well as recycle industrial water.
• Authored two patents on flocculants to separate liquid and solids.
• Authored two patents on clean combustion and fuels.
• Patented microelectronic acoustic consumer products.
• Led intellectual property valuation assessments and out-licensing to produce revenues over $25 million.
• The team leader of oil and natural gas production projects wherein he solved leadership and engineering challenges.

Nexsun, 2009

• Acting CEO

Nu-Profit Marketing,  2005 – 2008

• President

Rockwell International, 2000 - 2004               

• Director Intellectual Property Licensing

Honors & Publications

Credentials

• · Licensed Professional Engineer, California
• International Marketing in an Executive MBA program at the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business

 Patents

• · U.S. patents on fluid purification/separation, polymeric flocculants, electronics, acoustics, membranes, combustion equipment and processes, chemicals (including Nano-emulsions and fuels), and catalysis.

Education

• Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, Berkely University of California, Berkely, CA
• B.S. Chemical Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO