• Industrial and Retail Wood pellets, torrefied wood pellets current experiences. • Expert witness reports and testimony.• Construction project due diligence, site selection, 3rd party review, feasibility studies. Process improvement assistance. • Industrial Biotechnology, surfactin, microbial biosurfactants, bioprocessing, bio-based products, fermentation reactors, bacterial cyclic lipopeptides experiences. • Carbon Capture for Biomass with Utilization experience.• RNG (Renewable Natural Gas) current project experience• Due Diligence services for investors of wood products plants, RNG, Biobased fermentation, general manufacturing. • Review of production plans, commissioning plans, capital expansion plans, employee training and effectiveness.• Industrial Engineering process improvement. People, equipment, process. Operational assessments,

Executing the construction of six anaerobic digestion biogas plants in Iowa and Wisconsin with a focus on producing renewable natural gas (RNG).

Supplies recruiting, staffing and consulting services for the wood products industries for full or part time assignments. As a Search Firm, Top Wood Jobs can provide experienced industrial plant staffing, engineering, construction and equipment supplier personnel. Industries served: Biomass Energy, Flooring, OSB, OSL, MDF, CLT, Particleboard, Hardboard, Laminating, Plywood, Lumber, LVL, I-Joist, WPC, and Wood Pellets and other wood related Building Materials.

Company manufactures green cleaning chemicals targeted for the Quick Serve Restaurant industry. The company harvests surfactin and spore forming bacteria in a fermentation reaction process. Cell cultures of bacillus subtilis incubated and transferred to production scale fermentation reactors. Plant output 10,000 gallons per day.• Managed R&D, Plant, Maintenance, Safety, Quality and Production Lab departments. • Manage Engineering and Capital Projects. • Oversaw contract manufacturing for hand sanitizer products at FDA approved facilities.• Capital projects review of plant and lab equipment. • Deep experience in budgeting, scheduling, execution, and optimization of manufacturing processes.• Improved throughput of plant 5X by identifying improvement opportunities in the process. 50- 100 ppm surfactant concentration to 5-600 ppm concentrations. Cost to manufacture went down accordingly as a result.

The company works with a variety of financial and technical partners, including institutional investors, family offices, engineers, hydrologists, and biologists to deliver mission-driven objectives and targeted investment goals. I worked in the Bioeconomy Capital and the Mitigation Capital divisions of the business. • Process and Project Manager for capital project engineering, budgeting, scheduling, execution, and optimization for the wood product facilities and technologies (torrefaction, pellet production, and wood chips) implemented to monetize the Conservation Biomass™ accumulated under long-term contract. • Served as resident expert on wood product facilities and technologies with competence in field management of contractor performance, identification of operational bottlenecks and maintenance opportunities, quality assessment of EPC contract counterparties, and identifying, quantifying, and matching risk exposures within approved tolerances. Company owned a wood pellet manufacturing facility in South Dakota and a management interest in Equustock a wood pellet and shavings company with owned and contract facilities throughout the U.S.• Managed construction activities of Texas based mitigation banks coastal wetlands and inland stream projects.

Enviva is a leading global energy company specializing in sustainable wood bioenergy. They are the world’s largest producer of sustainable wood pellets, a renewable alternative to coal and part of an all-in renewables strategy to reduce carbon emissions, limit dependence on fossil fuels, and mitigate climate change.• Port of Chesapeake - Oversee on-site installation, erection, fabrication inspection, commissioning, testing and troubleshooting of 45,000 metric ton storage dome and ancillary systems. Project arrived on schedule and $700k under $19.0m budget.• Port of Wilmington - 50+ Million-dollar project with two 45K metric ton storage domes, rail/truck unload, associated conveyors, and shiploader – brownfield/active port site. Responsible for permitting, engineering, capital budgets, and contracting.

The company is a globally operating group of companies which provides customers in the power and energy industry with key components, systems, and services. Its products are used in thermal power plants, industrial boilers, and similar installations in the energy-producing industry, where they significantly contribute to the optimization of processes, ensuring efficient and low-emission operations as well as effective energy conversion.• Oversee on-site installations, erection, fabrication inspections, commissioning, testing, and troubleshooting of diversified custom fabricated equipment including SCR Bypass systems, Gas Turbine Exhaust systems, damper systems, expansion joints, FGD systems. Heat Recovery Steam Generator, bypass systems, and gas turbine experience.