SKILLS AND EDUCATION:

• Software design, development, and project management
• Advanced process engineering, computer-based modelling and optimisation methods, industrial R&D, product/process design automation
• Data mining, multivariate analysis, predictive modelling, simulation, advanced control, signal processing, non-linear/chaotic systems, computational geometry, outlier identification
• AI, expert systems, OOP/computer languages, machine learning (clustering, artificial neural networks, case-based reasoning)
• Broad industry experience – Environmental, Metals, Aerospace, Automotive, Polymers, Chemicals, Oil & Gas, Pulp & Paper, Electronics
• Financial analysis, process economics
• Utility competitiveness, business and financial models
• BS, MS Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; energy track; thesis in hydraulics and multi-phase flow

 EXPERIENCE:

• 6 years R&D experience with Gulf and ARCO – software development for mechanistic wellbore hydraulics; and cementing and drilling fluids expert systems
• 9 years industrial R&D with Alcoa – AI-based engineering decision support systems and advanced process controls; artificial neural network modelling; project and personnel management
• 10 years of consulting – data mining for industrial process optimisation, and for surface- and ground- water hydrodynamics and water quality