- 30+ years of experience in the energy industry, focusing primarily upon engineering development, project management, and operation of cogeneration and stand-alone power stations
- Senior Consultant for energy projects:
- Provided consulting, technical advice and strategic planning for clients in higher education, hospitals, hotels, industrial/commercial, and oil and gas companies
- Projects included cogeneration plant upgrades, owner’s representative during startup and commissioning, indoor air quality, and renewable energy
- Development and Commercial positions at ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66:
- Managed 440 MW cogeneration project at Sweeny Refinery
- Operations engineering technical support for on-going performance and reliability of 1,100 MW Immingham CHP Project in UK
- Managed global power development of engineering teams in Houston and London: Oversaw staffing, work assignments, due diligence reviews, and quality of work products for gas turbine combined cycle, combined heat and power, coal and petroleum coke IGCC utilizing carbon capture and storage development opportunities.
- Manager, senior engineering development roles at Calpine Energy, Entergy and Enron:
- Provided project management at greenfield development sites for combined cycle and coal power plants in US
- Developed cost-effective, energy-efficient concepts for combined cycles, LNG import terminals, and coal IGCC plants
- Coordinated engineering, estimating, financial model development, reliability, mass and energy balances, environmental permitting and transmission requirements. Presented project concepts to clients. Marketed, negotiated and sold surplus gas turbines
- Authored Case Studies in Mechanical Engineering: Decision Making, Thermodynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, a monograph for university and post graduate education published by John Wiley and Sons, July 2016
- USA citizen with BS, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, graduate coursework in Mechanical Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, and Systems Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, Professional Engineer