Help facilitate funding, management and completion of MTI projects.

Providing materials and corrosion expertise to oil, gas, and refining companies.

Provide subject matter expert support on reliability and materials for the Tengiz field and processing plants in alignment with TCO business plan. Mentor and enhance technical competency of national engineering work force. Frequently engaged in resolution of difficult technical issues for business and periodically major capital projects. Provide expertise on fitness for service issues, RBI, QA/QC, cathodic protection, and regulatory issues. Provide technical support in turnaround planning and execution – resolve critical path discovery issues with practical solutions. Make presentations and written updates to leadership team on multiple reliability issues. Write technical reports that impact business. Consult on failure investigations including providing guidance back to ETC on report content and messaging. Stay involved with industry technology developments, trends, failures, and solutions.Led the initiation of the Pipeline Integrity Management Leadership Team; organize and facilitate monthly meetings. Managed mitigation of external stress corrosion cracking on 104 pipelines including developing mitigation plans with facility & ETC, and providing monthly management updates. Provided technical expertise and leadership for TCO’s implementation of piping assest strategies. Led efforts to use data analytics to evaluate volumes of pipeline corrosion data to make inspection program more efficient and reduce pipeline maintenance costs. Member of Chevron Fixed Equipment Integrity Network with regular contributions and leadership on resolving issues. Member of Chevron Materials Community of Practice. At Chevron’s request, continued to teach multi-day corrosion and materials classes on different refinery processes.

Provided materials, metallurgy, and corrosion engineering expertise for US & international refineries. Fully funded Metallurgy Expert for wholly owned refineries. Managed the Mechanical Metallurgy development funding and steered areas of focus. Duties included: materials selection, reliability/metallurgy reviews, fitness for service, failure analysis, field support, furnace tube life studies, development of training materials, teaching materials/corrosion training classes (~3X/year), managing Technical Development projects, and managing participation in joint industry projects. Mentored and influenced less experienced materials engineers in ETC and refineries.Instrumental in developing Inspection Strategies and Inspection Requirements content and logic as part of the Piping Asset Strategy program. Used leadership and influencing skills to obtain consensus on new approaches that were developed. Audited the execution of program at refineries and provided guidance on improving work product and efficiency. Program has been implemented at all Chevron facilities and the methodology has proven to find degraded areas and decrease incidents.Brought to Chevron coke drum life extension techniques and sold the new approach of coke drum end-of-life management to refinery leadership. Maintained the life management program of all the refinery hydroprocessing reactors. Activities in coke drums and hydroprocessing reactors had an ongoing savings of $10+MM/year. Spent 10+ years supporting the development of ISOAlky technology and associated corrosion mitigation this new technology required. Worked through many technical hurdles to bring a new and highly corrosive process to commercial reality.Other specialties include naphthenic acid corrosion, sulfuric acid alky corrosion, catalytic reformer corrosion, & hydrogen reformer tube metallurgy. Provided expert support & training on sealing technologies (gaskets, flanges & packing) to both downstream and upstream customers.

Managed design engineering organization consisting of four mechanical design/project engineering groups, electrical engineering group, facilities group, and two technical specialists for a total of ~120 company and contract personnel. Accomplishments and responsibilities include: reduced dependence on technical contract labor by half; implemented work process improvements to reduce low value engineering work; created and filled two new senior engineering positions to improve technical competency and improve retention of technical specialists; instituted cost estimating and cost tracking process to improve project management and capital stewardship; jointly led multi-refinery team to improve technical competency and retention; administered recruiting program; responsible for implementing Inherently Safer Systems; and managed manpower and budgeting for organization.

Fixed equipment reliability expertise for 250MBPD refinery with the following duties: investigate, test and implement RBI; manage risk through inspection planning; develop Chevron’s 1st Integrity Operating Windows (IOW) program; train and implement exchanger flange reliability program; provide subject matter expert review of reliability plans; interpret ASME code and state regulations; reclassify boilers to five year, unfired permits; resolve worst actors; participate on API inspection committee; lead seven refinery fixed equipment reliability natural team; participate on national heat exchanger alliance team.

Materials and fixed equipment reliability consulting to seven U.S. refineries. Consulting areas include failure analysis, reliability plan development, shutdown planning, T/A support, fitness for service, specialized welding applications, refractory applications, materials training, heat exchanger flange reliability training, and ASME/ANSI interpretation. Primarily consult with refinery inspectors, and design/process engineers. Larger projects include: development of Sulfuric Acid Alkylation Inspection Guidelines, naphthenic acid corrosion research, heat exchanger flange reliability program, and Corporate high pressure reactor flange redesign.

Supervised five engineers and three technicians who performed design work for a refinery division (250MBPD crude unit, 2 hydrotreaters, & 2 catalyst reformers).

Served as the only materials engineer for complex 250MBPD refinery. Supported turnaounds in Hydroprocessing, FCC, hydrogen reformer and others.

Refinery designs, turnaround and project engineering.

Designed modifications to the National Full-Scale Aerodynamic Complex (wind tunnel).