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Career
Timeline: design, commission, startup, R&D, teaching and consulting
Experience
in
Audits & Risk,
Commissioning,
FEL-1/FEL-2,
HSE Design,
Info. Mgmt,
Oil and Gas,
PSM & PHA, P&IDs,
Refining - Chemical,
Mentoring & Staffing,
Storage,
Unit Operations,
Utilities & Offsites.
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Bob is a seasoned (35+ years) consultant, educator,
mentor & team leader. He's a
dedicated and professional
engineer with
published experience in doing
process engineering design, startups,
optimization, operations & safety/environmental
stewardship. He is an efficient problem-solver;
applying
information solutions;
integrating business processes with analyses, process and HSE
models, business
geospatial, web
best
practices,
collaborative
solutions.
Like many of us in refining/petrochemicals/O & G,
his career has paralleled the price of
crude oil. Born and educated as a "Kiwi",
he emigrated to the USA where he has lived since, except for eight years in the
80's in NZ teaching Process Design, working in $1.2 billion
Synfuels plant.
His career began in 70's & 80's in EPC,
teaching ChemEng, then plant operations; 90's in R&D
and Corporate HSE; federal consulting 1998-2005. Now he's back in Houston doing EPC design,
active in
Value Improving Practices and
Stage-Gated Design.
Because of the resurgence in demand for clean fuels,
refining capacity, and heavy oil projects, Bob was on the design team for the first new US refinery in
30 years, alongside the last one built. He was HSE team lead
for a Middle East gas platform, and
onshore arctic oil oil & gas
processing. He is an expert member of "Society
of Industrial Leaders" in refining and in petrochem.
Bob founded
Kiwi's Edge, LLC for his work in Consulting and as Expert Witness.
Bob enjoys his work, particularly when it involves
inter-disciplinary or intellectual challenges. One key to professional
satisfaction is involvement in technical advocacy of sound science at
API - developing Refinery MACT guidance
- and
in
PERF, shared environmental projects & forums.
His skills & intellect are sustained by professional & civic association activity,
plus University-level teaching: as full-time Senior Lecturer
from 1983-1985,
part-time as Research Adjunct in 2002-2004, Teaching Adjunct
in 2006, and Process Design Curriculum advisor for Rice. |
