Solomon Associates - Driving Performance Improvement in Energy-Intensive Assets » refining team

Andy Wishart

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:55:11 +0000

Andy has been serving the Refining and Chemicals Industries since 1960 when he began his career with BP. Today, he serves Solomon as a refinery management and performance benchmarking expert. Andy holds a special interest and expertise in refinery management, operations, maintenance, site appraisal, and performance development issues.

In addition to general refinery management, he has held head office and site posts covering most manufacturing and associated activities, and has participated in projects around the world involving all aspects of refining and LNG. He has a wide knowledge of Solomon benchmarking processes and his work is focused on client appraisal and improvement programs. He also currently serves a one of the main presenters of the company’s performance analysis presentations throughout Europe.

Bob Baechle

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:45:07 +0000

As a Senior Consultant, Bob has been helping Solomon’s refining clients improve their performance since 1990. Drawing on more than 35 years’ experience in the refining industry—including assignments to work in the London Office, Capetown Office, and Dallas office—Bob now focuses on conveying that knowledge and experience to clients around the world.

Bob specializes in developing the Crude, Product, and Chemical Price Assessments used in the Worldwide Fuels, Lube, and Olefin Studies. With this background, he helps develop the Financial Performance Analysis for the Studies.

Bob holds Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Magna Cum Laude from the University of Illinois.

Celia He, Ph.D.

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:40:16 +0000

Celia has been helping Solomon’s refining and petrochemical clients improve their operating performance since 2007, focusing on energy efficiency and organizational effectiveness. She is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt proficient in both MAIC and DFSS methodologies, which she applies to client projects along with her industry knowledge, business & risk analysis skills, Solomon’s extensive worldwide database, and NCM³ methodology.

Celia has more than a decade of industrial experience spanning research, product/business development, technical service, and project management. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering/Polymer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Don Jones

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:30:53 +0000

As the Refining Studies Project Manager, Don is in charge of the execution of the Fuels Refinery Performance Analyses. Over the last 38 years, Don has acquired an in-depth knowledge of the refining industry through a combination of studying, analyzing, and hands-on management experience, which he applies to helping clients identify their performance gaps.

Before joining Solomon in 1990, Don worked for Chevron USA and Champlin Petroleum Company. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M and a Masters of Business Administration from Phillips University.

Don Miller, P.E.

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:25:11 +0000

As a Project Manager, Don Miller has been helping Solomon’s refining clients to improve their performance since 1996. With more than 35 years in the refining industry, Don draws on his experience in refinery operations to manage the database research and analysis for correlating factor and energy standard improvements in Solomon’s Worldwide Fuels Refinery studies.

As a licensed chemical engineer, Don leverages his background with companies including Total and ARCO Chemical in tandem with his expertise in technology, economics, benchmarking, and database manipulation to provide insight to clients around the world. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Texas Tech University.

Doug Williams

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:20:28 +0000

Doug joined Solomon with more than 30 years experience working for petrochemical organizations and an additional 5 years experience with heavy equipment design and engineering. He brings to Solomon considerable expertise with business process re-engineering, multiple SAP and other CMMS implementations, mechanical design, rotating equipment design and maintenance, construction and startup of chemical process plants, personnel performance management, and general management techniques.

During his time with Solomon, Doug has gained extensive experience in reliability information and management systems, maintenance information systems, custom application development, configuration, training, and functional analysis, and excels at business process engineering. He has led cost-reduction petrochemical projects with the goal of improving maintenance effectiveness to world-class standards. Doug is a Registered Professional Engineer in the state of Texas (#77255) and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

Jamie Brunk

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 16:10:57 +0000

As a senior consultant, Jamie Brunk is responsible for Solomon’s Worldwide Paraffinic Lube Refinery Performance Analysis. He uses his experience in base oil and wax refining, planning and optimization, strategy development, base oil sales and acquisitions, supply and distribution, and asset sales and acquisitions to help Solomon’s clients improve their performance.

Prior to joining Solomon, Jamie spent more than 30 years with Pennzoil and its successor companies (Pennzoil-Quaker State and Shell) managing all aspects of the base oil business. He holds two degrees in chemical engineering – a Master of Science degree from Marshall University and a B.S. from Grove City College in Pennsylvania.

Joe Waters

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:55:08 +0000

Joe Waters has been helping Solomon’s Fuels clients improve their performance since 2004. He applies his years of hands on experience in Refining to developing the advanced SQL and VBA programming tools necessary to efficiently manage and analyze the wealth of data gathered in the benchmarking process.

Prior to joining Solomon, Joe has held roles, most recently at ExxonMobil’s Baton Rouge refinery, in areas of process engineering, business development, financial analysis, and management including the role of Operations Supervisor and overall equipment owner for the largest FCC complex in the world. He is a chemical engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Virginia Tech.

John Havener

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:50:01 +0000

As Senior Consultant and NCM³ Project Manager, John has been instrumental in delivering more than US $700 million per year in sustainable net cash margin improvements for Solomon’s chemicals, refining, pipeline, and terminals clients. His innovation, people skills, consulting expertise, and team leadership abilities keep him in high demand by Solomon clients.

Drawing on 32 years experience in chemical, power generation, refining, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage industries, John now manages teams of consultants in delivering profit improvements across all of Solomon’s client base industries. In addition to holding a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from New Mexico State University, he has amassed 18 issued and 2 pending U.S. patents in process modeling, optimization and control, air emissions monitoring, and process control benchmarking.

John Popielarczyk

mnorris — Sat, 01 May 2010 15:40:46 +0000

John is Director of Projects in Solomon’s refining consulting practice. He also serves as Team Leader for the Hydrocarbon Quality Management and Hydrocarbon Loss teams, as well as a subject-matter expert in Solomon’s Planning and Optimization practice. John also developed and managed Solomon’s Worldwide Refinery Quality Control Performance Analysis (QC Study).

Prior to joining Solomon, John had a wide ranging international management and consulting career in the downstream petroleum industry spanning 35 years. His petroleum industry experience includes economics and planning, petroleum supply and trading, energy risk management, quality management, energy marketing, and process operations.

John has a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Dallas. He is a registered Professional Engineer (Texas).