Chemical process modeling, simulation and automation expert for oxidation, amination, dehydrogenation including ethylene glycol, ethanol amine

Chemical Process Modeling, Simulation and Automation Expert (1235)

Catalytic processes for oxidation, amination and hydrogenation.
Ethylene glycol and ethanol amine manufacture, process engineering and chemical plant design.
Economic evaluation and financial analysis of chemical processes.
Computer automation of chemical processes including sensors, feedback loops and computer control.
Chemical reaction systems design and control.
Fluid dynamics.
Computer networking, modeling, process simulation and control systems.

Dow Chemical Company

Expertise in catalytic processes for oxidation, amination, hydrogenation and metathesis.
Co-invented and directed the team developing and engineering a new catalytic process to manufacture Ethlyene Glycol.
Organized and managed the Engineering Science and Technical Computing organization. Managed 30+engineers who provided expertise in reaction systems, fluid dynamics, computer networking, modeling, simulation, and numerically intense computing.
Co-designed epoxidation reactors for propylene oxide / styrene processes.
Directed a global team who envisioned and re-engineered R&D’s systems architecture. Led the introduction of super computing usage into Dow.
Managed team that developed Dow’s laboratory data acquisition and control system. Wrote the control methods and designed the user-interface for almost 1000 systems installed in Dow research laboratories.
Developed a reactive distillation process for the manufacture of sodium ethoxide for production of an agricultural intermediate.

CEO, Website Consultants

Co-founded Website Consultants, a privately held company that specializes in information technology consulting. Expertise is offered for information system architecture, networking and software development.

MIND, Inc.

Co-founded MIND, Inc. a non-profit Internet service provider and network development company. MIND provides Internet access to the Mid-Michigan Educational Community and provides Windows 2000 and UNIX servers for software development.

Doug Leng Award for Excellence in Engineering.
Patents for metathesis and oxydehydrogenation reactor designs.
Patent on design for epoxidation reactors.
Patent on a time proportioning controller.
60 technical papers with a focus on reaction technology, computer and communication systems and their use to automate processes at Dow.