CURRICULUM VITAE

KEVIN A. GILES, P.E.

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Plano, Texas 75023

Email: addt40@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 1-214-***-****

EDUCATION:

B.S. Chemical Engineering, magna cum laude (3.64/4.0 GPA)

Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana May 1981

AWARDS:

General Motors Scholar—Chemical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute

of Technology 1979-1980

Valedictorian (1 of 292 graduating, 4.33/4.0 GPA)

Tabb High School, Tabb, Virginia 1977

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:

My career has focused in petroleum refining, gas processing, pipeline operations, and biofuels. I have extensive experience in refinery, gas processing and biofuels operations analysis, asset valuation in support of acquisition activities, and project development. I have consulted for operating companies, government agencies, financial institutions, and law firms.

I began my career with Exxon Company, USA, where I spent 10 years in a variety of roles at Exxon Corporation’s then largest refinery. As a consultant, I have worked on a broad range of assignments in North, Central, and South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY HIGHLIGHTS:

Owner, Bottom Line Solutions, Plano, Texas (November 1996 to Present)

•Directed business operations of an international consulting/marketing company.

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•Pursued emerging marketing opportunities in the areas of providing comprehensive asset protection and tax-free retirement financial solutions to individuals and employees, electric-powered vehicles, healthcare, and e-commerce business sectors.

•Provided ongoing pre-trial litigation support, including deposition testimony, as the key facts witness for the plaintiff, in a dispute regarding failure to achieve performance guarantees for a nitrogen rejection/ethane recovery cryogenic gas processing plant.

•Acted as an expert witness, including deposition and jury trial testimony, for the defendant in a case argued in Federal Court in Los Angeles in a civil dispute between a petroleum refinery and a utility provider. The prosecution was awarded $0 in damages.

Consultant, Muse, Stancil & Co., Dallas, Texas (October 2005 - November 2012)

•Developed market analyses for feedstocks and co-products of numerous proposed and existing biofuels facilities.

•As part of Muse’s Biofuels Team have developed competitive analyses for 90 biofuels facilities, representing various technologies and feedstocks, with an aggregate capacity of nearly 8 billion gallons per year across the U.S. and Canada.

•Assisted clients in the due diligence process with regard to acquisitions of several U.S. and international petroleum refineries.

•Provided crude oil and products market analysis for a U.S. refiner to assess the implications of changing crude slates and the addition of various conversion units.

•Assessed the market feasibility of a new crude oil upgrading process technology.

•Developed a petroleum markets analysis of Australia, by state, for a proposed new production facility.

Consultant, Stancil & Co., Dallas, TX, (February 1998 - October 2000)

•Completed consulting assignments in North, Central, and South America, Europe, and Asia.

•Conducted due diligence and assets valuations for the buyer of a petroleum refinery and nationwide products terminals in Switzerland.

•Conducted asset valuation and efficiency improvement evaluation for the potential seller of a major U.S. petroleum refinery.

•Developed projected earnings and capital requirements for a potential buyer of a U.S. lube oil and fuels refinery to produce fuels products only, without lube oil production.

•Developed numerous economic feasibility evaluations for major capital upgrade projects for a U.S. petroleum refinery.

•Developed an economic feasibility evaluation for the expansion of a U.S. asphalt refinery.

•Developed the valuation model for a $250 million cement production facility in the Philippines.

•Provided periodic construction management oversight for the financier of a $35 million polystyrene plant built in India.

•Completed due diligence and an efficiency improvement evaluation for the privatization of nationwide government-owned petroleum retail assets in Nicaragua.

•Audited the quality and quantity controls, as well as the operating costs, of a major crude oil pipeline and export terminal in Peru for a reasonableness assessment of the cost-of-service based tariff.

•Developed a replacement cost valuation for a products terminal in Paraguay.

Consultant, Barnes and Click, Inc., Dallas, TX (March 1991 – January 1998)

•Developed the gasoline baseline fuel parameters for CAAA compliance for two U.S. petroleum refineries. Subsequently, performed a compliance audit for one of these refineries.

•Conducted performance tests on numerous natural gas processing plants (cryogenic, as well as lean oil processes). Developed calibrated plant performance models from the performance test data with Hyprotech’s HYSIM process simulation package. The calibrated performance models were used to assess plant performance, guarantee compliance, troubleshoot operating problems, or develop the process requirements for capital project capacity expansions.

•Completed an assessment of the process design inadequacy of a U.S. Diesel HDS unit. Results presented as a rebuttal witness in an arbitration proceeding which was instrumental in the award on behalf of the plaintiff.

•Developed process design basis for a proprietary, developing technology for an in-situ coal gasification plant.

•Developed a highly innovative program to optimize comprehensive scheduling of instrument and electrical maintenance tasks for a regional production gathering system.

•Developed some, or all, elements of Process Safety Management Compliance Programs for a petroleum refinery and several natural gas processing plants.

•Served as the lead facilitator in completing Process Hazard Analyses using Hazard and Operability Study (HAZOP) and What-If methodologies.

•Served as a panel member for a GPA Risk Management Program compliance workshop.

•Developed the replacement cost valuation for an acetic acid chemicals plant.

Exxon Company USA, Baytown Texas Refinery, Baytown, Texas (June 1981 - February 1991)

•Maintenance Section Supervisor (1989 - February 1991):

–Managed the work efforts of 5 company supervisors, 50 crafts people, and up to 100 contract personnel for all routine maintenance of the Fuels North complex and refinery pipestills (incorporating 11 major process units, including the Flexicoker).

–This responsibility included ensuring that all systems for these process units (process equipment, instrumentation, rotating equipment, and electrical systems) were maintained and operating properly as per direction from Process.

–Successfully managed major unit maintenance downtimes of $2 - 5 million each, with up to 500 company and contract personnel, for Pipestill 3, Pipestill 8 (with associated heat-integrated product side stream hydroteaters), and the Gofiner (heavy gas oil HDS).

–Responsible for budget stewardship for up to $25 million annual total maintenance budget.

•Process Section Supervisor (1987 - 1989)

–Responsible for achieving operating program compliance (production, operating costs, and safety) for the fractionation/hydrotreating complex; comprised of 11 process units producing fuels, solvents, and lube oil products.

–This responsibility included ensuring that all systems for these process units (process equipment, instrumentation, rotating equipment, and electrical systems) were maintained and operating properly.

–Supervised the 14 supervisors and 26 technicians who operated the process units.

–Process units managed included the heart of refinery solvents production (Solvents Hydrogenation Unit, Solvents Fractionation Unit, Sulfur Dioxide Aromatics Extraction Unit, and Hydrofining Unit 5B).

oLargely through the efforts of this section, the refinery set an annual solvents (high-value specialty products) volume production record in 1988.

–Implemented significant improvements in the process quality control systems, with assistance from technical support, resulting in improved consistencies in product qualities and reduced time to complete batch processing product switches.

•Light Clean Products Coordinator (1984 - 1987)

–Coordinated achieving operations program compliance through the timely development and communication of economically based material balance directives to Refinery Technical and Process Operations for all 430- F feedstocks, intermediate process streams, and finished products; on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.

–Developed a highly innovative, rigorous, and very aggressive operations plan to optimize summer gasoline production by maximizing naphtha reformer production to a fuel gas containment (i.e., no flaring) limitation. Achieved program buy-in from Refinery Operations/Technical and Corporate Supply and successfully executed the plan while achieving monthly records for total reformer rates (125 kb/d) and naphtha imports (50 kb/d) and established a sound baseline for future fuel gas balances.

–Developed a forward-looking basis plan for capital projects for fuel gas containment to accommodate the massive production of Low Btu fuel gas following start-up of the Flexicoker and other impacts.

–Significantly improved refinery hydrogen system operations through the standardization and simplification of system optimization instructions to process operations.

•Process Engineer (1983 - 1984)

–Provided daily technical support to optimize process operations for an 1,800 psig two-stage hydrocracking unit and an 800 psig Gas Oil HDS unit.

–Implemented a rigorous optimization program enabling operations to easily monitor multivariable unit constraints thus enabling the establishment of a quarterly hydrocracking unit production volume record at 150 percent of the original process design, without any significant capital investment. Facilitated achievement through optimization recommendations for the refinery hydrogen system.

•Process Design Engineer (June 1981 - 1983)

–Completed the process design specifications for a $15 million hydrogen system upgrade project which was implemented as a part of the $420 million Baytown Refinery Upgrade Project (BRUP). Developed a refinery-wide hydrogen system process simulation for arguably the most complex refinery hydrogen system in the world at that time.

–Completed the process design specification for a $150,000 FCC bottoms coking project which was implemented.

–Completed an economic feasibility assessment for a lube oil dewaxing capacity expansion project.

MEMBERSHIPS:

Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Texas (#73181)

PUBLICATIONS:

Authored the course “Fundamentals of Petroleum Refining” for professional engineers to achieve continuing education credits.

Authored the paper “Changes in the Pipeline Infrastructure – Refiner Challenges and Opportunities” presented at the Management Session of the 1997 National Petroleum Refiners Association (NPRA) Annual Meeting

(later published by Hart Publications).

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