Engineer Control

Ken Randolph

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City: Purcellville

State: VA

Zip: 20132

Country: USA

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Skill Level: Director

Salary Range: $120,000

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KENDALL B. RANDOLPH

13245 Sagle Road

Hillsboro, VA 20132-1830

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1997 TO PRESENT:

Principal

EasTech Engineering Contract Engineering and Consulting

Recent Projects:

Design and Construction of Fire Research Facility: Senior Consultant to Vanderweil Engineers, Inc. and Chief Engineer for the design, specification and construction of a new Fire Research Facility for FM Global (formerly Factory Mutual Insurance). Designed the fire suppression water system to provide for flow range of 6000 GPM to 30 GPM over a pressure range of 250 psig to 10 psig while avoiding valve cavitation and pump surging. Also devised system for fire products collection, measurement, analysis and control. Prepared functional specifications for the data acquisition system and facility controls.

Deep Submergence Submarine Rescue System: Systems Engineer with Oceaneering International for design of compressed air system (breathing air), fresh water system, environmental control system (HVAC), and electrical distribution. Control of air and water flow included valve selection and analysis to avoid cavitation or excessive noise. Performed thermal analysis and heat balances on supporting systems to achieve best balance of performance and economy within constraints of shipboard deployment and aircraft transport. Analyzed electrical distribution system and stability of controls.

Hyperbaric Chamber Design and Construction: Provide Reimers Systems, Inc. with design of fire suppression deluge systems, breathing air systems and instrumentation and controls for hyperbaric chambers used for medical purposes. Fire suppression water systems must provide 2 gpm/sq ft at pressures up to 6 atmospheres absolute. Breathing air control involves valve selection for minimal noise while providing self-regulating flow control.

Wastewater Treatment (with Jacobs Engineering Science): Controls for POTWs, pump-and-treat, etc. Includes PIDs, operating sequence, control and instrumentation specifications, electrical site plans, single-line wiring diagrams, ladder logic control diagrams and motor control schematics. Work requires close liaison with process engineers, electrical engineers and clients operators in order to achieve effluent limitations, adequate control and energy efficiency.

Altitude Physiology Training Chamber: Principal Designer/ Engineer with Reimers Systems, Inc. for design and construction of a six-man training chamber for the Bangladesh Air Force. Designed vacuum system, air in-bleed system, cooling system, lighting, and controls including valves and actuators, and control software. Wrote program in C++ to provide operator interface. During construction inspected piping, valving positioners; supervised fabrication of consoles and installation of wiring. Performed system checkout and troubleshooting.

Recovery of Precious Metals from Spent Catalyst: Designed small plant to extract platinum, palladium and rhodium from automobile catalytic converters using hot chlorine gas. Designed direct-fired fluidized bed reactor, vacuum conveying system, metal chloride recovery, excess chlorine scrubber, and plant and process controls.

Synthetic Rutile Process: Made preliminary plant design and estimated capital and operating costs in feasibility study of process to make rutile by removing iron from ilmenite ore with hot chlorine gas. Study showed an internal rate of return of 120 percent for the median case. Subsequently designed pilot plant for the process. Plant now operational in India.

Process Plant Operation Analysis (with Veritech, Inc.): Analysis of energy consumption in process plants principally oil refineries. Steam use, fuel consumption, cooling requirements and waste heat utilization are analyzed using a proprietary spreadsheet program to develop heat and material balances. Data evaluation requires solid knowledge of refinery operations and process units. PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE 1995 TO 1997

Vice President of Engineering

HRP Technologies, Inc., Columbia, MD

Managed the manufacturing and distribution of HRPs principal products the Hydrodynamic Reversing Plunger for unclogging and clearing drains and pipes. Negotiated and managed contracts, both domestic and foreign, for molds for injection molded parts, for manufacture of parts and for supply. Responsible for the design and development of products and quality control. Provided technical and applications support for distributors of HRPs products. Also functioned as MIS manager maintaining five PCs on Win 95 peer-to-peer LAN.

1991 TO 1995

Director of Engineering and Principal Engineer

Hydrosystems, Inc., Sterling, VA

Led the team of six engineers, and two technicians in the development and design of processes and process modifications to eliminate pollution, minimize wastes, recover values, and to remediate hazardous waste sites. These processes include water treatment, soil washing, in situ soil stripping, VOC control, vapor recovery,oil spill clean-up, fuel recovery, storm water control, site development, water resources development and management, and other related work in such industries as chemicals, plastics, rubber, pharmaceuticals, dyes, wood products, steel making, and fibers. Also headed the Technology Transfer Section engaged in licensing and transfer of American technology.

1990 TO 1991

Principal

Dunn Randolph, Norfolk, VA

Consulted on the application of vacuum systems in the manufacture of such products as polyethylene terephthalate, and toluene diisocyanate, and the use of cross-linked polyester, methyl methacrylate and various elastomers in making manufactured goods. Also consulted on solvent recovery and recycle, waste reduction, energy conservation, statistical process control and on computer integrated manufacturing. Clients included Hoechst-Celanese, Dow Chemical, Johnson Johnson, Air Products and Chemicals, and International Paper - Nevamar Division.

1986 TO 1990

Manager of Applications Engineering

Busch, Inc., Virginia Beach, VA

Managed a team of four engineers in the design, construction, installation and operation of vacuum systems. Among the many applications were plastics and rubber processing, solvent recovery, distillation, materials transport, VOC control, semiconductor fabrication. Among the industries served were petroleum refining, plastics and rubber, pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, flavors and fragrances, agro-chemicals, metals, food processing, and specialty chemicals. Introduced the use of PLCs for vacuum system control at Busch thus saving $2000 to $7000 per vacuum system in initial cost and subsequent customer service. Directed development of a new vacuum pump for semiconductor fab and designed and installed system for gas phase silicon doping. Worked in close support of sales and marketing in providing innovative vacuum systems and in troubleshooting plant and process problems.

1984 TO 1986

Manager of Process Control

Southland Industries, Chesapeake, VA

Responsible for operations of Cork Rubber Department manufacturing cork rubber gaskets. Supervised 42 hourly workers on three shifts. Responsible for process improvements and product quality. Installed PLC to control rubber mixing and molding line and implemented SPC procedures. Result was unscheduled down time reduced from 70 hours per month to 11 hour per month thus saving over $3,800 per month. Created a product development team through coaching six production workers in problem solving, and then developed a new composite vulcanizate for injection molding. The Team doubled pilot facility output when demand increased.

1982 TO 1984

Principal

Randolph Associates, Norfolk, VA

Among 15 engineering projects five major ones were:

Versatech Industries, Toronto, Ont., Canada. Designed, installed and started-up (including operator training) an automated line to mix and mold rubber based products. Specified and supervised installation of a distributed computer control and monitoring system, and worked closely with a systems house in the development of the computer programs for statistical process control and computer integrated manufacturing. At the same time developed seven compounds to meet customer specifications, and trained technician in statistical process control.

Chlor-Pure Corporation, Rapid City, SD. Designed pilot plant for high temperature chlorination process to recover niobium, tantalum and gold from ores, then supervised construction and start-up of unit. Designed PC (IBM-PC XT) controls including sensors, final control elements, A/D interface, and created a program to allow near real-time graphical display for the operator. Designed and built wet lime scrubber to remove HCl from emissions and designed process to recycle chlorine.

More-Mac Industries, Orrville, OH. Development of proprietary rotary incinerator for automobile shredding waste and other low-density combustible wastes to generate energy. Technology particularly was amenable to control of acid gases and particulates. This led to the formation of International Energy Conversion Corp. Served as Executive Vice President.

Genetic Research Corp., Columbia, MD. Evaluated commercial potential of seven projects aimed at utilizing industrial wastes through microbiological processes and targeted two for further development. Projects included recovery of: cellulose-pectin co-polymer from citrus processing waste, and

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