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Bob celebrating 40th reunion
of Chemical & Materials engineering class.
Photos of our condo at
Al Badia Hillside Village of
Festival City, in Dubai.
He's Technical Issues coordinator on sour
gas field project in
Turkmenistan.
Transition:Bob moved
to Sharjahin Sep 2009 to work for
Petrofac, an EPC firm, as "HSE Design Technical Specialist". Diane and
our Shih Tzu "Chai" arrived in UAE a month later.
Career Timeline: Design,
Commission, Startup, R&D, Teaching, Consulting: see
Projects index.
Experienced
in
Audits and Risk,
Commissioning,
FEL Phases,
HSE Design,
Info. Mgmt,
Oil and Gas,
PSM & PHA,
P&IDs,
Refining-Chemical,
Mentoring & Staffing,
Pipelines,
Storage,
Unit Operations,
Utilities & Offsites.
Bob is a seasoned (35+ years) consultant,
educator, mentor and team leader. He's a
dedicated & professional
engineer with published experience in doing
process & HSE engineering design, startups,
optimization, operations & safety/environmental
stewardship. He's also an efficient problem-solver;
applying information solutions;
integrating business processes with analyses, process and HSE
models, business geospatial, web
best
practices,
collaborative solutions.
Like so 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, then 8 years in the
80's in NZ teaching Process Design, working in $1.2 billion
Synfuels plant, then returned to US
His career began in 70's & 80's in EPC, teaching Chem. Eng, then plant operations;
90's in R&D and in Corporate HSE; federal consulting 1998-2005, then 2005-2009
Houston for EPC design, active in
Value Improving Practices &
Stage-Gated Design, now UAE as HSE Specialist.
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 was involvement in technical advocacy of sound science at
API - developing
Refinery MACT guidance - and in
PERF, shared environmental projects & forums.
His skills and intellect are sustained by professional,
church & civic association
activity,
plus University-level teaching: full-time Senior Lecturer
1983-1985, part-time as Research Adjunct 2002-2004, Teaching Adjunct 2006,
Process Design Curriculum advisor for Rice. |
