CAREER HIGHLIGHTS and INTERESTING PROJECTS
1987 - B.S. Ceramic Engineering
University of Missouri - Rolla
1989 - Received U.S and foreign patents for rendering refractory
products resistant to molten aluminum.
1990 - Presentation to American Ceramic Society on
"Thermomechanical Refractory Failures"
1991 - Presentation at Conference of Circulating Fluidized Bed
Boilers on "Thermomechanical Considerations of Refractory Brick vs.
Castable in Cyclones"
1992 - Project Engineer on $5 million refractory outage at the
ARCO - Carson Fluidized Catalytic Cracker Unit (FCCU)
Outage. Expert witness in a refractory material case.
1993 - Wrote and implemented an intensive Safety Program designed
to serve the most stringent needs of the Petrochemical
Industry. Technical consultant on Circulating Fluidized Bed Boiler
refractory failures. Designed and built internal air-cooled
refractory walls for a large municipal trash incinerator.
1993 - Presentation to ARCO CQC - Wilmington, CA regarding
thermomechanical brick failures in a Coke Calcining rotary kiln with design and
operating guidelines. Pioneered Tommy Gun applications of
fireproofing.
1994 - Project Manager on $2 million refractory redesign and
revamp of a Preheating System of a Petroleum Coke Calcining facility.
1995 - Presentation to USPCI - Clive,
UT regarding thermomechanical brick failures in a hazardous waste
rotary kiln with design and operating guidelines.
1996 - Project Engineer/Manager on the refractory portion of a
Zurn-Nepco design/build $1 million Wood Waste Gasification project
in Burlington, VT.
1997- Project Engineer/Manager on a SAIC - Pocatello, ID
design/build the refractory portion of a Plasma Arc Hazardous Waste
Incinerator.
1998 - Refractory Laborer at BOC/Petrox Refinery in
Conception, Chile. Refractory Management Team for Kvaerner/Thai
Copper in Rayong, Thailand.
1999 - Managed 3 successful concurrent major refractory outages
at Colmac Energy, Calaveras Cement and Tosco Refining.
2000 - Managed an emergency "schedule recovery project"
at the Cemex - Louisville new construction project.
2001 - Presentation to Chevron - El Segundo Safety Board on
"Health Aspects of Asbestos vs. Ceramic Fiber". Formulated
(Re-form-ation) concept to save customers 25% of refractory installation costs.
2002 - Started Stewart Services, Inc. Awarded Cemex - Louisville extensive rebuild
of new construction failures and Cemex - Charlevoix major
outage. Built web site www.stewart-services.com. Authored
and Implemented MSHA Part 46 Training.
2003 - Stewart Services grows by 11%. Received
multi-plant agreement with Cemex. Illinois Cement major
outage. Lehigh - Union Bridge extensive rebuild
of new construction failures.
2004 - Stewart Services grows by 46%. Provided
opinions and cost ramifications of new plant refractory failures
at Lehigh-Union Bridge for an insurance
claim. Established plant cleaning services for Essroc.
2005 - Stewart Services grows by 25%. Received national agreement
with Lehigh.
2006 - Stewart Services grows by 21%. Stewart Services
is in top 3 largest cement installation contractors.
2007 - Stewart Services grows by 12%. Started
mechanical division of Stewart Services. Chaired refractory seminar
for St. Mary's Cement. Managed
critical copper installation project at Kennecott Copper.
2008 - Stewart Services grows by 24%. Authored article
on "Effects of Petroleum Coke on Cement Plant
Refractories". Orchestrated buyout plan for employees to take
over Stewart Services.
2009 - Retired from Stewart Services. Started
"Inferno" as a refractory consulting company. Expert
Witness for premature failures in a Cement Plant. "Refractory Terminator"
published.
2010 - 2011 Provided technical
support and engineering for Stewart Services.
2012 - Provided technical support
and engineering services for ISI in the Copper Industry
2013 - Consultant for FMI (Arizona) in the Copper Industry.
2014 - Consultant for Umicore (Belgium) in the Copper
Industry
2015 - Joined the Mt. Savage and Krosaki AMR sales team