Engineer Project Manager

Steven A. Davis, PE, CSQE

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Summary Statements:

• Licensed Professional Chemical Engineer in Washington and Alberta, Canada (inactive) with

extensive engineering process and design experience in multiple industries.

• Certified Software Quality Engineer

Career Highlights

• Lead ASPEN modeler for Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Project. Responsible for Total Plant

Steady State Models.

• Project manager for the development and construction of a waste pretreatment project for

Westinghouse Hanford involving coordination and directing the capabilities of the national

laboratories to scale up research information for the construction of a modular plant at Hanford.

• Project design engineer for CoSyn Technology, serving Syncrude Canada Ltd. Tar Sand facility.

• Created and managed an engineering team to optimize Goodyear Chemicals’ plants using the

ASPEN program.

• 30+ years experience with computer process modeling including three years as AIChE’s

President/Vice President of the Public ASPEN User’s Group

• Worked on numerous technology development projects including nuclear waste treatment, coal

gasification, petroleum coke gasification, and oil shale processing.

URS / Washington Group, Richland, WA

Senior Consulting Engineer

November 2007 to November 2012

Flowsheet Modeling and Process Engineering

• Lead Engineer for Steady-State modeling of complete Nuclear Waste Vitrification facility.

• Designed and developed Level “NQA-1” flowsheet for the estimation of stream properties within

Nuclear Waste Vitrification facility to support plant design.

Ambitech Engineering Corp., Downers Grove, IL

Senior Process Engineer

September 2007 to November 2007

Process Engineering

• Optimization of a petroleum refinery flare system

• Evaluation of electronics plant refrigeration system.

CoSyn Technology, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Process Technical Specialist

December 2006 to September 2007

Process Development and Optimization

• Process Discipline Lead for the Process Safety Information Project for the updating of plant and

drawing information for Syncrude Ltd., Fort McMurray Plant Water Treatment Auxiliaries

• Define equipment requirements and prepared drawings and specifications for the design and

construction of a series of tar sand mine tailings slurry pipelines.

CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Lockheed Martin Hanford Co., & Westinghouse Hanford Co.,

Richland, WA (These company changes reflect a change in site management)

- Senior Chemical Engineer - Waste Transfer Process Engineering

April 2004 to October 2006

- Senior Engineer - Nuclear Safety & Licensing

March 2000 to April 2004

- Senior Engineer - Process Engineering

November 1997 to March 2000

- Principal Engineer - Process Engineering

August 1995 to November 1997

- Project Manager - Design and Construction of an Initial Pretreatment Module

March 1994 to August 1995

- Program Manager - Waste Pretreatment Program

March 1993 to March 1994

- Principal Engineer -Waste Pretreatment Process Development

May 1989 to March 1993

Process Development, Optimization, and Safety

• Developed processes for the pretreatment of nuclear tank wastes. Managed activities of the Pacific

Northwest National Laboratories' engineers and chemists in the direction of laboratory testing.

• Worked to develop a process to remove Transuranic elements from PUREX Neutralized Cladding

Removal Waste using the TRUEX Process.

• Resolved process corrosion chemistry and process materials of construction requirement

incompatibilities to find an economically viable operating range for the revised TRUEX process.

• Evaluated Hanford's legacy plants for housing pilot plants.

• Developed remote sampler for obtaining large volumes of nuclear wastes to support pilot plant

operations.

• Performed long-term planning of pretreatment process development program activities.

• Co-authored the Hanford Tank Farms Safety Authorization Basis Document.

• Performed safety analyses relating to flammable gas hazards in Hanford tanks and associated

equipment.

Computer Modeling and Process Control

• Created and applied Monte Carlo simulations within EXCEL for the determination of safety risk

assessments for several Hanford contractors.

• Developed EXCEL programs for sorting, reducing and analyzing large amounts of data.

• Defended Hanford’s Flammable Gas Models to USDOE external experts and to the DNFSB

• Developed an over-all safety risk assessment program for Hanford nuclear waste tanks. This

software program won quality awards for Lockheed Martin Corporate and Lockheed Martin

Hanford.

• Developed a Process Information Database for Lockheed Martin for 177 nuclear waste tanks.

• Created a method for estimating properties for nuclear wastes where missing data was identified.

• Developed and applied a computer model for the evaluation of flammable gas hazards in Hanford's

177 nuclear waste tanks.

• Developed and applied a computer model to determine the volume of retrievable liquids from

Hanford's Single-Shell Tank Farms for Lockheed Martin Co.

• Developed and applied a computer model for the evaluation of flammable gas hazards in Double-

Contained Receiver Tanks for Lockheed Martin Co.

• Developed a transport model using fluid-flow modeling to verify pipeline transport of suspended

solid materials.

Management

• Planned and managed technology development and program integration (including systems

engineering evaluations) for the "Initial Pretreatment Module", a facility construction project to

separate high level nuclear wastes from incidental waste prior to final immobilization and disposal

for Westinghouse Hanford Co.

• Managed R&D development of actinide separation processes. Prepared Technology Development

Plan, 5-year budget plan and annual cost accounts.

• Represented the Hanford's Tank Waste Remediation System (TWRS) in the Department of

Energy's Underground Storage Tank integrated Demonstration (USTID) program.

The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, Inc., Akron, OH

- Section Manager - Systems Engineering

December 1984 to April 1989

- Senior Engineer - Systems Engineering

May 1983 to December 1984

Process Development and Optimization

• Created a section of engineers to provide process optimization of Goodyear Chemical's chemical

plant including solvent extraction columns using the ASPEN software.

• Designed and installed a computer system to scan synthetic rubber bales and send rubber batch

quality assurance data to the customer prior to shipment.

• Evaluated and made improvements to Goodyear's process control system.

• Automated Goodyear's efforts to provide accurate quality assurance data to customers before

product was shipped.

• Optimized stream stripping columns at Goodyear using the ASPEN program to improve product

throughput and energy efficiency - a project that ended up with a 9-day return-on-investment

saving Goodyear $15 million per year in operating costs.

Computer Modeling and Process Control

• Developed batch reactor dynamic models incorporating reaction kinetics and thermodynamic

equilibrium models for Goodyear Chemical Co.

• Developed many ASPEN models using thermodynamic equilibrium to describe interactions

between phases for Goodyear Chemical Co.

• Developed an ASPEN computer model to optimize a solvent-extraction super-fractionation column

for Goodyear Chemical Co.

• Worked on a joint project with IBM to link Goodyear's process control data, R&D data, marketing

information and sales information to create a unified database.

Management

• Created and managed an engineering group responsible for Petrochemical plant optimization using

ASPEN computer design and modeling techniques for Goodyear's Chemical Division.

• Managed an engineering group responsible for Process Control Improvements for Goodyear's

Chemical Division.

• Managed all computerization activities within Goodyear's General Products Division.

TOSCO Inc., Golden, CO

- Senior Research Engineer

November 1979 to April 1983

Process Development and Optimization

• Process engineering support of gasification pilot plant & shale oil production research activities.

Computer Modeling and Process Control

• Specified, designed, purchased, and oversaw installation of Research Center computer center.

• Selected, installed, and operated engineering programs to support corporate refining operations

including distillation for TOSCO Corp.

• Represented TOSCO Corporation as an industrial sponsor to the ASPEN project.

• Automated Pilot Plant Data Analysis

Management

• Lead the design, procurement, construction, and startup of TOSCO's Research and Development

Division computer center.

Software Experience

• ASPEN, ASPEN-PLUS, ASPEN-SP, BATCH-Pro, PRO II

• MathCad, Extensive EXCEL spreadsheet, Crystal Ball Monte Carlo simulations

• FORTRAN, C++, Visual BASIC

• Microsoft Office, Project, Visio, WordPerfect Office

• Primavera

• Autocad

Education:

• 1976 Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Master of Science, Chemical & Petroleum Refining Engineering

• 1975 Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO

Bachelor of Science, Chemical & Petroleum Refining Engineering

License and Certification:

• Registered Professional Engineer - State of Washington, License Number: 35740

• Registered Professional Engineer – Provence of Alberta, Canada, APEGGA Number: M90853

• ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer

Affiliations and Professional Activities:

• American Society for Quality (ASQ), current recertification chair for Columbia Basin Chapter

• Served as President and Vice-president of AIChE's Public ASPEN Users' Group for three years.

• Corporate representative on the DOE/MIT ASPEN project.

• Represented Goodyear as corporate advisor to AIChE's Design Institute for Physical Properties

(DIPPR).

• Member Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society

Publications and Presentations:

Presentation list to AIChE, ACS, ANS, Spectrum, and Actinide Separations Conferences available

upon request

References upon request

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