Engineer Project Manager
Resume:
Steven A. Davis, PE, CSQE
*** ******* ******, *** *****, TN 37830
acd95m@r.postjobfree.com
Summary Statements:
• Licensed Professional Chemical Engineer in Washington with extensive engineering process and
design experience in multiple industries.
• Certified Software Quality Engineer
Career Highlights
• Contributed to numerous technology development projects including Petrochemicals, Synthetic
Rubber, nuclear waste treatment, coal gasification, petroleum coke gasification, and oil shale
processing.
• As Lead ASPEN modeler for Hanford Waste Treatment Plant Project developed very large and
detailed process models. Used OLI modeling techniques and built a hybrid model using
simultaneous models executing on up to 14 linked computers. Responsible for Total Plant Steady
State Models.
• 30+ years experience with computer process modeling including three years as AIChE’s
President/Vice President of the Public ASPEN User’s Group
• Created and managed an engineering team to optimize Goodyear Chemical’s plants, including
distillation, stripping and synthetic rubber production.
• Optimized Oil Refinery distillation process operations.
• Evaluated Tar Sands Oil Process Plant drawings for accuracy to support safety planning.
• Project manager for the development and construction of a waste treatment 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
• Nuclear Safety Engineer specializing in flammable gas hazards in Hanford Tank Farms.
• Wrote and defended flammable gas prediction model to Department of energy which was
instrumental for removing all Hanford waste tanks from the “Flammable Gas Watchlist”
Process Engineering Associates, Oak Ridge, TN
Senior Consulting Engineer, January 2013 to March 2014
Process Engineering
• Flowsheet Modeling and Process Engineering Plant Design for a batch chemical processing
facility.
• Development of thermodynamic data for support of overall plant design.
URS / Washington Group, Richland, WA
Senior Consulting Engineer, November 2007 to November 2012
Process Engineering
• Used ASPEN models to verify plant operations. Provided plant emissions data for Washington
State Department of Ecology Permitting of Facility, reported on inadequate offgas system which
would result in inadequate plant performance, and reported inappropriate placement of offgas
equipment in closed plant cell which would result in plant shutown and forced relocation of
offgas equipment train.
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Steven A. Davis, PE, CSQE
103 Potomac Circle, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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• Designed and developed Level "NQA-1" simulation program for the estimation of stream
properties within Nuclear Waste Vitrification facility to support plant design.
• Flowsheet Modeling and Process Engineering
• Lead Engineer for Steady-State modeling of complete Nuclear Waste Vitrification facility.
Ambitech Engineering Corp., Downers Grove, IL
Senior Process Engineer, September 2007 to November 2007
Process Engineering
• Optimized petroleum refinery flare 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.
• Designed pipeline for extreme North Alberta Canada conditions.
• Designed Rupture Disks
CH2M HILL Hanford Group, Lockheed Martin Hanford Co., & Westinghouse Hanford Co .,
Richland, WA (These company changes reflect a change in site management), May 1989 to September
2006
- 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.
• 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.
Steven A. Davis, PE, CSQE
103 Potomac Circle, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
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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.
• Successfully 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 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.
• 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 and managed a section of engineers to provide process optimization of Goodyear
Chemical's chemical plant including solvent extraction columns.
• 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
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Steven A. Davis, PE, CSQE
103 Potomac Circle, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
acd95m@r.postjobfree.com
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.
Other Experience
Battelle Memorial Institute
• Support engineer for projects including Coal Gasification, Military Nerve Gas Destruction, and
Fluidized-Bed Combustion Process.
Exxon Chemicals
• Technical support engineer at Baytown Petrochemical facility
Software Experience
• ASPEN, ASPEN-PLUS, ASPEN-SP, BATCH-Pro, PRO II
• MathCad, Extensive EXCEL spreadsheet, Crystal Ball Monte Carlo simulations
• FORTRAN, C, 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
• ASQ Certified Software Quality Engineer
Affiliations and Professional Activities:
• American Society for Quality (ASQ), former 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
Steven A. Davis, PE, CSQE
103 Potomac Circle, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
acd95m@r.postjobfree.com
(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
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Steven A. Davis, PE, CSQE
103 Potomac Circle, Oak Ridge, TN 37830
acd95m@r.postjobfree.com
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