Mechanical Engineer Specializing in Patents, Product and Machine Design, Safety, Operation and Failure Analysis, Ionization Systems, and UV Curing SystemsPatents and intellectual property: Analysis of patents and claims for mechanical products, machines and systems.Failure analysis and forensics: Evaluation of failure root causes for electromechanical products and machines.Safety and risk analysis: Analysis of machine guarding and interlock designs for operator protection.Automated assembly machines: Specification, design, development, construction and operation of automated assembly machines.Vacuum metalizers and metalizing machines...

Building Code and Disabled Access Consultant Specializing in Code Design Requirements, Disabled Access and Plan CheckInternational Building Code and California Building Code.Disabled access design requirements.Building department administration.Plan check processing.Building code compliance design analysis.Expert Witness ExperienceExpert witness and depositions on behalf of the City of Newport Beach Building Department.Law suits include: ADA lawsuit, slope failure due to adjacent neighbor's alterations, property damage by tenant.

Chemical Engineer with Expertise in Petroleum, Petrochemical, Chemical, and Hydrocarbon and Energy ConversionTechnical support for chemical process development and design.Developing, designing and improving hydrocarbon process technologies.Catalyst and process development, scale-up, demonstration plant, design, operating and safety procedures.Petroleum, petrochemical, chemical, and hydrocarbon and energy conversion processes.Marketing technical support, publications, presentations and client communications.Analysis and interpretation of lab and plant data.Fluidized-bed (and other) reactor systems.Cold flow models.Exothermic and endothermic...

Refinery reliability, maintenance and turnarounds.Piping design, and subsea tooling and equipmentEquipment strategies development for multi-billion dollar capital projects in upstream and downstream facilities including Greenfield and revamp process and production units.Refinery turnaround support and refractory equipment repair.FCCU maintenance and turnarounds.Pressure vessel design.ExxonMobil Refinery, Torrance, CA and Chalmette, LA, Mechanical EngineerTurnaround engineering support and unit coverage - FCC, HF Alkylation, Crude, Coker, Sulfur, hydrotreating, hydrocracking and utilities units.Profitability project engineering to capture m...

Petroleum Refining Light Ends, Sulfur Recovery, and Tail Gas Clean-Up Industry ExpertSulfur processing in the petroleum refining industry.Manufacturing reliability, safety, and environmental standardsSubject Matter Expert for ExxonMobil's Global Manufacturing Training Initiative.Independent Consultant, PresentExxonMobil Refinery, Baton Rouge, LA, First Line SupervisorControl and monitor Light Ends, Sulfur Recovery, and Tail Gas Clean-up units, including:One nine-reactor polymerization unit;Three tower fractionation section including stabilizer, depentanize...

Published Petochemical and Refinery Plant PE Specializing in Heavy Lift Project Management, Safe Crane Operations, Accident Investigations30 years of experience in refinery plant engineering and heavy lift project management.Heavy lift planning and execution, project development and management services, preparation of construction specifications, management consulting, and development of innovative solutions to solve complex construction problems.Published author and frequent presenter at crane safety conferences.

Mechanical Engineer Specializing in Refinery Construction, the Design and Implementation of Refinery Work Processes and Management of Capital ProjectsOver 30 years of experience in management of construction, turnarounds, and maintenance in the petroleum refining industry.Design and implementation of refinery work processes.Capital projects, strategy development and execution, reliability process implementation and work process design and implementation.Independent Contractor, PresentMotiva R...

Mechanical Engineer Specializing in Refinery Turnaround Best Practices, Capital Project Management, Cost Reductions, and Safety ProgramsThirty years of experience in all phases of turnarounds, maintenance, and construction in the petroleum industry.Managing refinery turnaround project teams to complete capital projects safely and under budget.Undisclosed Company, PresentTurnaround and Construction Manager: Projects-Suncor Energy and Sarnia RefineryManaged all construction activities for a $960 million rev...

Chemical Engineer and Technical Start-up Leader, Specializing in Process Design and Personnel Safety, Fire Protection, and Risk managementProject development including process design, detailed engineering follow-up, and plant troubleshooting and startup.Hazard and Operability Studies (HAZOP), risk assessments and risk management surveys.Undisclosed Company, PresentSenior Technical AdvisorLed process design effort for numerous multi-million dollar refinery capital projects.Technical startup leader on four...

Petrochemical Thermal-Fluid Systems Analysis and Design Expert for the Oil and Gas, Defense, Nuclear, and Aerospace Industries Domestic and Abroad.Risk analysis, the assessment of facilities to withstand explosions and fires, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), combustion analysis, and explosives engineering.Development and application of numerical modeling tools to characterize problems.Developed an analysis tool titled RisqCAD to determine release rates from process failures and the associated gas dispersion and fires.Developed a CFD based analysis tool to analyze the vulnerability of facilities to accidental explosions, it is now licens...