Instrumentation Process Control Engineer Expert Witness

Expert Witness No.777

New York

Summary

Versatile and results oriented instrumentation and process control engineer with extensive design and plant experience in projects ranging from $400 to $400,000,000.  Developed original upgrades and energy-saving projects yielding over $1,000,000 annual savings.  Awarded BSEE with Honors (University of Connecticut) and MSEE in Optimal Control (University of Illinois).  Fluent in Foxboro I/A, The FIX, MSOffice, Word, Excel, and  Portuguese.  Semi-fluent in C, Spanish and German.

Professional Experience

Instrumentation, process control and market research consulting firm, NY
2002-present
Principal
Provides instrumentation, process control, and market research consulting services to industry and manufacturers.  Developed Competitive Intelligence Reports for Coriolis, magnetic and vortex shedding flowmeters.  Wrote various market studies and analysis.  Taught flowmeter seminars.  Performed expert witness work.  Provided consulting services to various companies. 

Instrumentation and process control company, NY
1998-Present
Principal
Provides instrumentation and process control consulting services to industry and manufacturers.  Added specialization in advanced regulatory control, flow measurement, and the application of variable speed drives.  Performed flow laboratory uncertainty analysis that resulted in over 20 recommendations for improvement.  Taught numerous instrumentation seminars.  Performed expert witness work including testimony in Federal court.  Developed protocol for testing competitive instruments, and performed analysis to identify problems with an important instrument in a nuclear power plant.

Nepera, Harriman, NY
1983-1998
Lead Utility and Instrumentation Engineer
Managed the instrumentation, electrical, and utility areas on a plant wide basis, including long range capital planning, utility process engineering, boiler and incinerator controls, energy conservation and the development and implementation of capital projects addressing system efficiency, system simplification, operating flexibility, reliability and maintainability.  Familiar with RCRA, cGMP and NFPA/NEC.  Increased profitability by $1.1M per year by installing novel control valves that increased main reactor and byproduct processing capacities by 15% and 33%, respectively.  Reduced annual energy costs by $250K by substituting a waste fume for combustion air and by atomizing with plant air instead of steam.Eliminated the need for an expenditure of $75K plus ongoing maintenance expenses and environmental problems by championing a hazard review that eliminated the need for explosion doors.

Mobay Chemical, Pittsburgh, PA
1980-1983
Senior Process Control Systems Engineer – Corporate Staff
Executed the instrumentation portion of capital projects throughout the corporation.  Non-project assignments included the development of an instrumentation estimating procedure and a flowmeter technology study.

United States Steel, Pittsburgh, PA
1975-1980
Instrumentation Engineer – Corporate Staff
Performed the scoping, estimating, specification, and preparation of installation drawings, and startup assistance for process instrumentation systems on various steel-making processes.  Effectively coordinated the activities of outside engineering contractors and vendors.  Spent 12 months in Brazil directing calibration, checkout, dry run and startup.

Awards

The Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society  2002 UOP Technology Award  “in recognition of contributions to the development and education of flow measurement technology in the chemical process industries”.

Chemical Industry Engineer of the Year recognizing “exemplary individuals who typify excellence in the field of instrumentation and control who have performed above and beyond the call of duty”, 1993

Instrument Society of America 1992 Douglas H. Annin Award recognizing
“Creative and novel approaches to the application of flowmeters”.

Instrument Society of America Process Measurement and Control Division Best Paper Award at ISA/84

Professional Affiliations

Instrument Society of America, Research Triangle Park, NC
Industrial Computing Society, Research Triangle Park, NC

Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Measurement of Fluid Flow in Closed Conduits Main Committee and various subcommittees (1985 - Present)
Member of ISO TC30 SC9 WG4 – Selection of Flowmeters (1998 - Present)

Flow Control Editorial Advisory Board Member (1996 – Present)
INTECH Editorial Advisory Board Member (1995 – Present)
INTECH Brazil Editorial Advisory Board Member (2002 – Present)

Instructor teaching variable speed drive technology seminars for the Association of Energy Engineers (1988-1996)
Adjunct Instructor teaching flow measurement and variable speed drive seminars at the ISA Training Center, ISA International Conferences, and at other various locations. (1983 – Present)
Adjunct Instructor teaching flow measurement for the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (2002 – Present)

Publications, Reviews, Books, Papers, And Recognition Will Available Upon Request