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Lyons, Co

A local Lyons Colorado business that is so much more than a gallery; it is a truly a creative space, that offers local art, local music, and local gift shopping.

Lyons, Colorado

Providing wide-ranging chemical engineering expertise in process research, development and scaleup in many chemical process industries. Consultation, especially for startups. Specializing in fermentation, extraction, distillation. Design and fabrication of process equipment control systems.

Longmont, Co

Commissioned 1-barrel brewing system to supply 14-tap tasting room with craft ales, teaching "how to brew" classes, running 5-gallon R&D test batches and supplying customers with homebrewing equipment and supplies.

Fort Lupton, Colorado

Developed breakthrough biorefining technology for deconstruction of cellulosic biomass into pulp, sugars & lignin. Optimized the continuous countercurrent reactor technology to outperform industry leader Andritz’s biomass pretreatment process. Demonstrated platform versatility with numerous cellulosic biomass feedstocks, primarily agricultural crop residues. Commercialized unique profitable process for extraction of cannabinoids from industrial hemp.

Lafayette, Co

Metals recovery, recycling and sequestration.Treatment of environmental and industrial waste.Interim consultant

Boulder, Colorado

Innovated and scaled up downstream processes for recovery of renewable biochemicals from microbial fermentations & conversion of organic chemical intermediates to pure final products. Led joint development project with The Dow Chemical Company to produce bioacrylic acid. Achieved performance metrics to hit cost targets for first commercial plant.

Designed, scaled-up, optimized & industrialized proprietary processes for production of high temperature polyimides to become second largest supplier world-wide with more than $5M annual sales in 2007. Initial chemical engineer hired by polymer processing company to expand into polymer synthesis field. Functioned as research, development, project, process & production engineers for entrepreneurial venture. Reduced VOC solvent use & emissions by 90% per pound of product. Promoted to research & development manager.

Initiated an innovative organic chemical process research program for an entrepreneurial start-up company. Successfully crafted a catalytic process that eliminated the largest industrial source of NOx air pollution at lower capital & operational costs than existing commercial process.

Adsorbent Structure Division spun off as Paragon Trade BrandsDeveloped novel polyacrylate superabsorbent polymerizations (primarily UV-based) and structures

Specialty Resins Division spun off as Hi-Tek PolymersCommercialized state-of-the-art waterborne dispersions of epoxies & other resins via development of proprietary processes to replace organic solvent based systems. Industrialized production of patented surfactant that is key to dispersion technology. Procured new pilot & production equipment for revamped process technology & productivity improvements for coatings.

Specialized in simulated moving bed separations processes for sugars and petrochemicals &catalyst / adsorbent research

M.S., Chemical Engineering

B. A., General Science (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics)

Diploma