Manager Engineering

MAHENDRA L. JOSHI, Ph.D.

*** ** *** ******, *** # 203 405-***-****

Oklahoma City, OK 73104 **********@*******.***

OBJECTIVE:

Engineering Manager, where my demonstrated strengths in the areas of process engineering, technology development, innovation, project management and communicating will significantly contribute to an organization's increased profitability through enhanced communication and the effective coordination of engineering skills and resources.

WORK EXPERIENCE: ENERGY RELATED

GENERAL ELECTRIC CORPORATION Technical Manager Energy Systems, Oil & Gas Technology Center, Aug 2014 – Present

• Managing Energy Systems projects in Gas Compression, liquefaction, Processing, Distributed Power, CO2 Capture, Energy Efficiency and Emissions Reduction

• Developing novel low energy solutions for UCR produced water treatment, recycle and reuse

• Leading a team to develop novel oil/water/solids separation technology – at surface and down-hole

• Assisting a team in SAGD Production Optimization efforts through Fast Models

• Member of Patent Evaluation Board for Oil & Gas related IP

• Coaching and Mentoring of new engineers in Petro Skills and Project Management Tools MARATHON OIL CORPORATION Research Manager, Director–Oil Sands/HO Upgrading Facility, Dec 2009 – Apr 2013

• Team Lead on Joint MRO-CVX-Shell Oil Sands Solvent Extraction technology development

• Principal Inventor and Team lead of MRO’s Heavy Oil Upgrading Demo Plant operations at MPC Refinery

• Process scale-up, EPC management, and commercialization support on new technologies

• Managed leadership reviews, toll gates, operations support, budget, compensation and IP management SHELL INTERNATIONAL EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION Staff Research Engineer, STC Americas, May 2006 – Dec 2009

• Lead Design and Construction of 1 bbl/d Heavy Oil upgrading prototype reactor

• Determined technical feasibility of Membrane Integrated Steam Methane Reforming technology

• Lead a project using solvent assisted CO2 separation from contaminated natural gas field

• Conducted Hazop/PHA and test site coordination on laboratory and pilot plant operations AIR PRODUCTS & CHEMICALS INC. Combustion Lab Supervisor, Applied R&D Center, Aug 2000 – Apr 2006

• Project Leader on development of new low-NOx burners (LSV®) for applications in SMRs, ethylene crackers, drum boilers and refinery process heaters

• Principal Inventor of Oxy-fuel Cleanfire® series burners for glass, metals and cement industry

• Managing lab operations, safety, IP development and marketing support on new combustion products AIR LIQUIDE Chicago Research Center, Sr. Combustion Scientist, Aug 1997 – June 2000

• Team leader and developer of combustion technologies - Oscillating Combustion, Inventor ALGLASS® oxy- fuel burners; waste heat recovery equipment, sensor development and emissions control technologies

• Combustion technology applications and commercial support to the Industrial Gases business group COMBUSTION TEC INC. Manager, Research and Development, Dec 1989 – June 1996

• Responsible for initiating internal and external R&D projects and new product development

• Design, development, program management and field demonstration of new oxy-fuel burners and NOx/SOx/Particulate emission control technologies

• Principal inventor of Cleanfire® and Primefire® Series Oxy-fuel burners used in glass, metals and cement industry

MAHENDRA L. JOSHI, Ph.D.

WORK EXPERIENCE: Academic

UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering June 2013 – Aug 2014

• Research/Teaching Mechanical/Petroleum Engineering courses and laboratory classes UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA

• Board of Visitors, College of Engineering, Research and Technology Sub-committee, Jan 2015 – Present EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI HONORS / AWARDS

Air Products Innovation Award (2004 and 2006) – LSV® Burners for hydrogen reformers GAD Innovation Award (2002) – Global Applications Development, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. R&D 100 Awards for Oxygen-Enriched Air Staging (1996) and Cleanfire® Oxy-fuel Burner (1992) Challenger Astronaut Memorial Scholarship. The State of Florida grants a $10,000 academic scholarship to five outstanding graduate students every year out of nine state universities. Phi Kappa Phi, General Scholastic Honorary

Tau Beta Pi, Engineering Honorary; GPA 3.92/4.00 in the Ph.D. program PATENTS and PUBLICATIONS

100+ U.S. and worldwide patents in oil sands solvent extraction, heavy oil upgrading, SAGD oil recovery, CO2 contaminated gas processing, NG hydrates, Pd membranes, SOFC, CO2 separation, SMRs, oxy-fuel combustion, low NOx burners, Desalination, heat exchangers, heaters and boilers. Forty-five (45) scientific journal, business magazine and conference publications PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

Society of Petroleum Engineers August 2014 – Present American Society of Mechanical Engineers January 2010 – Present STRENGTHS

Leadership: Establish trust, align & inspire team, collaborate, coach/develop engineers for innovation success Field Equipment: Facility equipment, reactors, piping, vessels, rotating machinery – design and specification EPC Management: Have managed EPC contractors for various facility design/construction projects: Jacobs, Worley Parsons, Technip, Aker Solutions, Shaw, John Zink, W S Nelson, Stress Engineering Software: Aspen Hysys, Ansys Fluent, AutoCAD, SketchUp Pro and familiarity with SolidWorks PROFESSIONAL COURSES

PROJECT MANAGEMENT IN UPSTREAM FIELD DEVELOPMENT – PetroSkills, December 2006 CAPILLARITY IN ROCKS– PetroSkills, July 2008

UPSTREAM ECONOMICS – PetroSkills, November 2012

Six Sigma Light – March 2014

PERSONAL

US Citizen and settled in Houston, Texas

Contact this candidate