Petrochemical Rotating Equipment & Machinery Mechanical Expert

Expertise

• Over 30 years of experience in the machinery engineering, specializing in rotating equipment for the oil production, refining, and petrochemical industries.
• Pumps specialist; small metering pumps to ANSI, UMD, API pumps.
• Vessel mixers and CT fans, reciprocating compressors, integral gas engines.
• Pump reliability improvements beyond 100 months and compressor care programs.
• 500-20,000 HP range Centrifugal Compressor and Gas Turbines in both mechanical drive and Cogen applications.
• Waste heat boilers and utility steam generation.
• Hands on machinery, analysis and troubleshooting of approximately 3,000 failure events and incident investigations, to participation on TAMU (Texas A&M University) Pump Symposia panels.
• Incident investigations and failure events analysis and troubleshooting
• Project engineering and energy conservation.

Experience

Undisclosed Company, Senior Engineering Advisor, Present

• Machinery commissioning for a 100kbbls Ultra Low Sulfur Unit.

ExxonMobil Refinery and Chemical Complex, Baton Rouge, LA

• A 30 year career with Exxon in various engineering positions.
• Subject Matter Expert in machinery refinery and chemicals. Facility included cogeneration and boiler feed water facilities.
• Machinery Engineer ranging from Olefins Cracking Units, Utilities, Cat and Hydro Cracking Units to Synthetic Rubber Units.
• Machinery Advisor in rotating equipment for chemical plants producing 500kbbls.
• Hands on machinery, analysis and troubleshooting of approximately 3,000 failure events and incident investigations.
• Participated on Texas A&M University (TAMU) Pump Symposia panels.

Honors & Publications

Academic and Professional Affiliations

• Member of the engineering honor societies
• Serves on the TAMU pump advisory committee
• Guest lectures at Louisiana State University (LSU) senior design class levels

Education

• B.S. Mechanical Engineering, (Highest Honors), Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ