PROFILE: Mentoring, Teaching, Internships, Sharing Knowledge

2010      TurkmenGaz South Yoloten Gas Field
Mentored surveyors on integration of field survey, GPS data and satellite imagery. Involved graduate project engineers in client technical issues meetings.

2008 – 2009     KBR Houston Operations Center, TX
Participated in IMPACT mentoring program and training. Updated layout, links and expanded content for Project Definition Portal site. Volunteered for CARE committee to advise on better employee communication & retention.

2002–2008       University Adjunct, DC, WA, TX
At American University advised on development of a Professional Sciences Master degree. At Western Washington University taught “Introduction to Planning” and “GIS”. At Rice U advised on ChE Design Curriculum re-accreditation.

1988–2005       DynCorp (later CSC), Washington DC
As one of few professional engineers supporting the EPA Oil Program, I was a technical advisor to 30+ DynCorp Work Assignment Managers.  Supplemented one-on-one meetings with development of collaborative tools and brown bags.

1995 –1998      Mobil Global EH&S, Fairfax, VA
As Project Manager for “GENIE” (Global EHS Network Information Enabler) I supervised developing an IT system to support best-practices, just-in-time decision making for EHS throughout all Mobil divisions. Then traveled to train staff at Mobil regional HQs on multiple continents. “GENIE”was then generalized to “BestNet” for all best practice sharing.

As a Lotus "Premier Business Partner", tested an organizational skills profile/query/experience timeline Notes system, a sophisticated tool differentiating length of assignment, work-group vs. solo contributor, customer interaction skills

1991–1995       Mobil Research & Development, Princeton NJ
Appointed as Process liaison to Drexel University “Co-Op” students who spent a semester at MRDC. Paired them up with a supervising engineer who assigned their work. Held monthly breakfast meetings to provide them advice about resource people and/or prior project documents that could inform them on specific issues on their current work.

1982 –1984      New Zealand Synthetic Fuels, Waitara, NZ
Recruited by Mobil into this $1.2 billion Gas-to-Liquids joint venture. My initial role for six months prior to startup was training nine new graduates from all engineering disciplines. They were each assigned an area of the complex to work in for a month before rotating to another area. Every Friday I would have them for a day teaching them about all the technical details of one unit, then took their questions arising from their individual assignments.  In later years I ran the summer intern program – gave them real short-term projects. At the end of ten weeks they submitted a written report, also presented in five minutes to senior management team. Most of our graduate hires came from this group.

1982–1984       Auckland University Dept. of Chemical & Materials Engineering
Brought back to strengthen their design capability for N.Z industries. Changed the approach to the senior year Design Project. Each team of four was assigned a different process industry plant, with the same set of project deliverables.  Each team chose a leader whom I met with weekly on their group’s issues. During their six-hour design studio session I would give short lectures on the milestone phase they were in & spend the rest of the time going to each group table.

1974 -1980      PetroMAS Engineering, Friendswood, TX
Developed process engineering software, tested it with staff experts and trained all process staff in their proper use. Also standardized CAD templates through participation in IGES 1.0 working collaboratively with Brown& Root, DOD and CAD vendors. Brought the developed interface standards back to PetroMAS, and trained our Piping Designers.