Refinery Maintenance and Reliability Engineering Expert

Technical Consultant #2148

Over thirty-five years of engineering and management experience in the petroleum, petrochemical, and synthetic fuels industries.
Gap analysis, reliability management, plant design, construction, startup, and maintenance.
Maintenance and mechanical integrity requirements.
Establishment of plant standards and requirements.

Undisclosed Company, Senior Engineering and Advisor Division Manager

Provide consultation in the field of gap analysis, reliability management, plant performance evaluation, turnaround management and due diligence studies.
Manage the Texas division for this company including, the heavy lift organization.

Lyondell Chemical Company, Houston, TX, Director, Specialty Engineering

Set the strategic direction for maintenance and mechanical engineering on a worldwide basis for over 60 chemical manufacturing sites and refineries.
Established maintenance and mechanical integrity requirements.
Established and managed budgets.
Provided plant and capital project technical support.
Established standards and requirements for all plants.
Implemented maintenance work processes and reliability programs that reduced maintenance cost $70 million and contract manpower 34%, while improving reliability to record levels.
Integrated company acquisitions into the mechanical integrity and reliability programs.
Led due diligence efforts for acquisitions and synergy execution.

Manager, Regional Reliability

Managed the corporate non-process engineering organization providing worldwide technical and project support for ten manufacturing facilities.
Managed plant mechanical and I&E, (Instrumentation and Electrical) reliability engineering, inspection, machinery programs and warehousing for all Gulf Coast facilities.
Department had 140 employees, $20 million operating budget and executed $30 to $40 million of capital project work annually.
Developed a worldwide mechanical integrity and reliability program.
Upgraded safety interlock systems and DCS for all facilities.
Performed a mechanical integrity, reliability and operating cost assessment for the purchase of a $560 million chemical plant.
Led domestic and international due diligence teams for other plant evaluations and acquisitions.
Established a worldwide standards, supplier qualification and quality assurance program.
Revised over 100 corporate engineering standards to reduce cost and enhance reliability.

Manager, Engineering Services

Managed the corporate mechanical engineering department including rotating equipment, fixed equipment, utilities, fired equipment and quality assurance.
Provided technical support for the completion, startup and maintenance of propylene oxide and derivative facilities.
Identified and corrected safety issues in the major manufacturing facilities.

Oil Shale Operations, Parachute, CO, Supervisor, Reliability Engineering

Implemented and managed an engineering department to improve the reliability of the mine, retort and refining facilities for the world's first commercial oil shale plant.
Solved over 90% of the mechanical, electrical and instrument problems that caused plant shutdown between 1983 and 1990.
Implemented a plant wide reliability program including vibration analysis, laser alignment, and failure analysis and repair procedures.

Senior Project Engineer

Served as resident Mechanical Engineer in Lurgi offices, Frankfurt, West Germany.
Developed design to adapt fluid bed combustor technology to oil shale retorting.
Completed a mechanical engineering package for the U.S. Treasury Department.

Team Leader, Retort Technical Services

Supervised an engineering department, E&C companies and consultants responsible for start- up support.
Completely redesigned a piece of major rotating equipment including model testing, patent application, design, installation and field testing.
Designed a wear resistant shale disposal system that improved life from two days to over one year.

Texaco, Inc., Basingstoke, England, Project Engineer

Served a three year assignment as the resident Mechanical Design Coordinator for a $700 million expansion of the Pembroke, Wales refinery.

Credentials

Publications

Author of technical articles and made domestic and international presentations on implementation of reliability programs.