Process Understanding and Review
- Technical lead in multiple Joint Venture, Joint Development and Due Diligence projects.
- Lead teams integrating acquired technology and assessing competitive threats.
- Created a process review and data analysis business to enhance Cargill customers’ performance.
- Experienced in presenting scientific and business information at technical conferences, management board meetings, development partner reviews and at customer sites.
- Developed tools to allow disparate technical detail and “big data” to be reduced to easily understood summaries and Key Performance Indicators.
- Degrees in UK and Australia, and professional employment in UK and US.
- Have provided consulting services across Europe, North and South America.
- Conversational French, German and Spanish.
- Worked in agricultural processing, biofuel / biochemical, and food businesses. Executed projects in specialty and commodity chemicals, mining and Oil and Gas.
- Multiple projects in fermentation, biotech and reaction engineering, with a PhD focused on Pharma.
- Experience with liquid-liquid and solvent extraction, adsorption and chromatography, solids handling and separation refrigeration and utilities, as well as more conventional unit operations like distillation, heat exchange, evaporation and fluid handling.
- Projects have covered conceptual design, pre-feasibility, piloting, engineering design, startup and optimization of mature processes.
- Experience writing, reviewing and prosecuting patents; setting up and reviewing ideation efforts; and leading software development and protection.
- Developed methodology to allow rapid generation of integrated process simulations. Over a dozen new processes developed to success or terminated early based on economic potential.
- Expert user of steady state and dynamic simulation, optimization and statistical tools.
- Developed and led technology teams of up to 20 technical specialists including indirect management and overseas team.
- US 6,759,076; 7,069,844; 7,682,645 (with Cargill) "Continuous process for production of scrambled eggs"
- US 9,751,114 (with Renmatix) "Method and apparatus for removing a fouling substance from a pressured vessel"
- WO 16144287A1 (with Renmatix) "Method of directed fouling of a substance onto a selected surface"
- US 2017 275384A (with Renmatix) "Adhesive compositions comprising type II cellulose"
- US 2017 327523A (with Renmatix) "Method of coalescing a substance"
- 2007 Cargill Achiever's Circle Award
- 2015 Presidential Green Chemistry Award (with Renmatix)
- Fellow of the (UK) Institution of Chemical Engineers, and Chartered Engineer in the Engineering Council
- Senior Member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
