Project Engineer

Professional Summary

I am an engineering and management professional who is motivated, flexible,

enthusiastic, and proactive. My technical and leadership skills have

allowed me to be effective in a broad range of assignments spanning my

working career. These include engineering management, business development,

technology and plant operation improvement, project and business risk

assessment and mitigation, business financial investment assessment,

project management, design, product development, and marketing assignments.

The key focal points of my philosophy encompass professionalism, personnel

development, technical competency coupled with risk mitigation, client

satisfaction, and profitable endeavors. My demonstrated skills will enhance

your firm's competitiveness, responsiveness, growth, and profitability with

respect to both client and organizational demands. I am a licensed

professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Selected Accomplishments

Project, Engineering, Technical, Business Review/ Evaluation/Recommendation

Provided analysis and recommendations to lender, Board of Directors,

and Company management for a grain-to-ethanol facility in Australia

during a 1-month engagement on-site in Australia. Analysis,

recommendations, and suggested plans covered improved plant efficiency

for ethanol yields, reduced utility consumption, strengthening

operations staff capability, and effectiveness, and alternatives for

co-product off-take for plant debottlenecking.

In conjunction with client, independent bank engineer, and lender,

conduct a risk assessment of offered biofuel plant technology and

design to demonstrate suitability of plant design to handle non-

specified operating conditions while maintain required production

capacity and efficiency.

At the request of Australian client, explored, evaluated, and

recommend variations in plant equipment and process configuration for

using wheat as a feedstock to produce ethanol and other value-added co-

products to meet necessary business model requirements as well as

address and satisfy lenders risk concerns for his proposed plant.

o Provided evaluation and recommendation to client of select design

engineering and EPC firms for his project. Input included assessment

of engineering and project methods and controls, risk assessment and

mitigation methods, and engineering/drafting/design tools, and staff

capability & expertise.

Operations and Business Management

o Director Projects, International Operations with Delta-T responsible

for project and development activities for ethanol plants

opportunities in Canada, Australia, Mexico, Europe, and Central

America valued over $150 million. Responsibilities include project

sponsorship, client relations, plant conceptualization and

configuration, business plan development, contract development and

negotiations including commercial terms, project performance, client

representative in evaluation, selection, and management of EPC

contractors, contract development including terms, schedule, and

performance guarantees, project budget preparation, and cash flow

projections.

o Developed and managed five person design/application, two person PM

group, and two person business development group for all company

international project activity

o Leveraged in house core team with outside design and technical

services

o Responsible for project profitability

o Program Manager for Delta-T with Indian licensee for fuel grade

molecular sieve dehydration technology and application for multiple

(in excess of twenty-five units) design/license ethanol dehydration

and distillation units for South Africa, India, Europe, Central and

South America, and Australia.

o Program Manager and responsible executive for Delta-T's first neutral

grain spirits turnkey project with Canadian client valued at $15

million.

o Successfully managed DOE Clean Coal Demonstration and EPA

demonstration programs with Babcock & Wilcox for reducing power plant

flue gas emissions. Combined value for the two projects was

approximately $21 million. Created and directed program technical

contact with respect to technology commercialization requirements,

risk assessments associated with products and projects.

o Organized and managed research, development, and project execution

team for 5 MWe SNRB and 5 MWe E-SOx technology development and turnkey

demonstration project..Total team of ten to fifteen people for each

project spanning research and development, engineering, project

management, and start-up and operation.

o Selected and implemented combined schedule, cost, and earned value

software for project tracking

Business and Product Development

o Vice President of International Business Development and Project

Sponsorship with Delta-T responsible for the developing and

implementing biofuels product line and technology outside of North

America including Europe, Eurasia, South America, Mexico, Australia,

Australasia, SE Asia, Caribbean basin, South Africa, Specific

responsibilities and accomplishment include:.

o Management of business and technical relationship with European

division

o Development, implementation, and management of cooperation agreement

with Arkel Sugar for sugar cane/sweet sorghum bio-ethanol worldwide

o Managed assessment and integration of licensor technology into

integrated cane/sweet sorghum processing plant

o Development of cooperation agreement and its implementation for

cooperation with Alfa Laval India

o Development of cooperation agreement and its implementation for bio-

ethanol plants in Australia

. Directly developed and negotiated two EPT (engineer, critical

equipment supply, technology license ) contracts for two Australian

clients for multiple projects...internal team of eight people used to

accomplish this covering legal, technical, procurement

. Responsible executive for feasibility work with four separate

Australian clients

o With Delta-T, developed and prepared feasibility studies, business

plans, and combines technical/cost assessments in support of client

decisions to embark on investment in ethanol and co-product producing

facilities.

o Preparation of business plans for two domestic fifty million gallon

per year fuel ethanol facilities including incorporation of business

sector supply/demand considerations for feed and off-takes; financial

models and "what-if" scenarios: plant configurations and capital and

operating requirements with related costs; air & water permitting;

and support for debt and equity providers and governmental activities

o Project/Program manager for business & technical assessment for thirty

million gallon per year bioethanol feasibility in Mexico including

leading four-person team with client, local Mexican authorities, and

management of business plan preparation.

o Prepared and worked with client in development and implementation of

business plans and Support client legislative and financing efforts by

participation in meetings with communities, governmental organizations

(up to Prime minister office), and environmental/permitting groups

o Lead manager for technical and cost assessment of NREL non-enzymatic

cellulosic-to-ethanol plant.

o With ABB Flakt and Noell, established and managed pre-contract and

product development activities including process definition, physical

design, risk assessment, target clients, proposal preparation, risk

assessment, and guarantee formulation, and cost estimating for various

wet and spray dryer flue gas desulfurization, NOx, incineration,

energy conservation, foundry sand reclamation, and gasification

projects.

o With Noell, "Americanized" selected Flue Gas Desulfurization designs

and structure of presentations and to acceptance by prospective

clients.

o With Babcock and Wilcox, developed concept, planning, scope

definition, scheduling, budgeting of equipment and personnel, project

execution, sub-contract management, commercial technical and cost

assessments, performed technical work, reporting, and interface with

operating groups for industrial product lines.

o Responsible manager for the technical development and implementation

of wet, spray dryer, and semi-dry flue gas desulfurization systems for

industrial and utility applications including product development &

testing, client presentations, technical marketing support, proposal

preparation, project execution, pilot plant design and testing, and

technical risk assessment while with Flakt ABB..

o Lead engineer for comprehensive studies at Babcock and Wilcox for

advanced technologies including Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle

(IGCC), coal gasification to chemicals and/or power, fluid bed

combustion, energy storage systems, and magnetohydrodynamics (MHD).

Engineering Management

o With Delta-T, Managed design-engineering group for turnkey ethanol

plant and dehydration systems for US and foreign supplied systems

valued at over $200 million. Completed projects performed on time and

budget.

o Managed Noell's US based design engineering group for product lines of

wet FGD, SCR, SNCR, municipal waste and hazardous waste incineration,

gasification, small power plants, hydro and dam projects, foundry sand

reclamation and other corporate products. Responsibilities included

contract and pre-contract functions including design & cost

estimating.

o Forty person engineering department, six direct reports..Overall

responsibility for personnel, project budgets, schedules, and

personnel development and staffing. Department was responsible for

engineering execution and pre-contract proposal support.

o Successfully organized, developed, and managed all engineering design

for ABB Flakt $85 million dry FGD project in Oklahoma

o Development and management of eight person in-house team plus $2.5

million engineering subcontract Included development of design and

management procedures, risk assessment, progress tracking systems,

engineering design documentation control system including subcontract

and vendor document tracking for Oklahoma FGD Project

o Successfully organized, developed, and managed all engineering design

for ABB Flakt $30 million gypsum wallboard manufacturing facility in

Port Newark, NJ.

o Direct management of four person team plus $1.5 million design

subcontract

o Direct interface with construction company for quantity optimization

o Assembled four person in-house team plus process group from Sweden,

prepared sub-contract engineering contract package specifications and

scope of work, managed all process and detailed design, and

responsible for "quantity" optimization for minimizing project costs.

o Responsible for all budget and schedule performance on engineering as

well as quantity optimization for steel, piping, concrete, roadways,

railway, lighting, and balance-of-plant design for the project.

o Developed and implemented engineering progress, documentation control

systems, and personnel forecast and requirements, including

implementation of design completion analysis methods in support of

projects at ABB Flakt.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ENERGY CONSULTING - INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR March 2009-Current

DELTA-T CORPORATION February 1997 - March 2009

Vice President International Business

Development & Project Sponsorship

Director International Projects

Director, Engineering

NOELL, INC./RESEARCH COTTRELL February 1991 - February 1997

Manager of Engineering

Director of Technology

Product Director Wet Flue Gas

Desulfurization

BABCOCK & WILCOX December 1986 - February 1991

Supervisor Clean Coal Technologies

ABB FLAKT June 1979 - December 1986

Manager of Engineering

Project Engineering Management

Principal Engineer

BABCOCK & WILCOX June 1971 - June 1979

Senior Process Engineer

EDUCATION

Registered Engineer in Commonwealth of Virginia

Member of National Society of Professional Engineers

Bachelor of Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Received from

Youngstown State University, Youngstown, Ohio 1971

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