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Kurt Russell
Eli Lilly and Company
Kurt is an Associate Consultant Engineer at Eli Lilly and Company in Indianapolis, IN, working in the Biotechnology & Life Sciences manufacturing area. Kurt has worked in automation and control system engineering with multiple platforms over the past seventeen years. His current work involves managing multiple DeltaV implementations from an operational, system administrative, and project delivery perspective. All of the control systems he manages are FDA regulated and have a major focus on the batch offering as well as interfaces to data historians and other higher level information systems. While remaining current in technology, Kurt has been instrumental is sharing best practices and learning across the company. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. |
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Philip Hale
AOC LLC
Philip is the Corporate Process Control Manager for AOC in Collierville, TN. His responsibilities include managing, developing and implementing automation projects for six manufacturing sites. AOC's manufacturing systems, including DeltaV and PROVOX, provide batch and continuous control to produce resins, gel coats, colorants and additives.
Philip has 13 years of industrial automation and engineering experience utilizing a wide range of PLC and DCS control systems. Prior to joining AOC, he spent several years working for VRC (Emerson’s Local Business Partner in Memphis, TN); designing and implementing automation solutions for a variety of industries, including corn milling, resins, brewing, pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals. Philip started his career as a Process Control Engineer in the Pulp & Paper industry with Westvaco in Charleston, SC and Packaging Corp. of America in Counce, TN.
Philip received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Auburn University. He lives in Collierville, TN with his wife Betsy and children Tyler, Kaitlin, Emily, Will and Ben.
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Brett Hart
Celanese
Brett is a Global Process Automation Engineer for Celanese based at the Narrows, VA production facility. Brett has 20 years automation experience, primarily with Provox and DeltaV as well as some PLC products. His responsibilities include implementing the automation systems for large capital projects, implementing automation strategies for productivity improvements, and driving automation standardization across multiple facilities.
Prior to his global responsibilities, Brett supported the Narrows, VA production facility in various roles including 6 years as the Process Automation Group Lead. Brett received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Brett lives in Pearisburg, VA, with his wife Melanie and three children.
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Sara Hough
Shell Global Solutions
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Bob Keyser
Merck
Bob is a Senior Automation Engineer at Merck & Co., Inc. based out of West Point Pennsylvania. He is responsible for the technical implementation of pharmaceutical capital projects especially in the vaccine, biotech, and sterile manufacturing areas. Bob has 16 years of pharmaceutical manufacturing experience and over 15 years of control system engineering experience including various PLC and DCS paltforms. He has a BS in Computer Science from DeSalles University.
Bob lives in Telford PA and has two daughters Jennifer and Mary.
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Jaap Lageweg
Sabic Innovative Plastics
Jaap is a Process Automation Engineer at the Sabic-IP Bergen op Zoom facility in
the Netherlands. He leads the in-house systems migration team and is currently responsible
for the site wide Provox to DeltaV migration. He has more than 20 years DCS experience
having also worked for BELLT-GCA B.V Zeist as a consultant implementing several
projects for Unilever, Shell, DSM and others, with roles that included writing URS,
FDS startup, commissioning, validation, and operator training. He also worked for
Emerson Process Management as a senior consultant serving as a systems applications
coordinator and a batch specialist.
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Timm Madden
ExxonMobil Development Co.
Timm Madden is the Sr. I&C Consultant for ExxonMobil Development Co. He has over 30 years of I&C experience in Refining and Upstream project execution. In his current position of Upstream Project Execution Advisor, Timm is responsible for the successful execution of the I&C aspects of ExxonMobil's Upstream projects. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Fieldbus Foundation. Timm received the BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from LSU. He and his wife, Karen, live in Cypress, TX. Their two daughters are away at college.
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Tracy Waller
Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
Tracy is Manager of the Tritium Projects and New Missions group at the Savannah River Site's Tritium Facilities in Aiken, SC. He is responsible for the upgrade of the facility control systems to DeltaV, utilization of the facilities already existing smart instrumentation (the old control system doesn’t do this), and managing the upgrade of the facility MES system, ARMS (Automated Reservoir Management System). Tracy has approximately 17 years of control system engineering experience having also worked at the H Canyon and the H Tank Farm Facility at the Savannah River Site. He received a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of South Carolina in 1992.
Tracy lives in Olar, SC, with his wife Dawn and children Brittany, Nicholas, Andrew, and Mattie.
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