BS, 1967, University of California, Santa Barbara
MS, 1968, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Air Products and Chemicals Corporation Research Fellowship)
Ph. D., 1971, Drexel University, Philadelphia (NIH Special Air Pollution Research Fellowship)

January 1986 to Present — Technical Consultant specializing in problems in chemical recovery and combustion in the pulp and paper industry. Experience includes work with recovery boilers, lime reburning kilns, recausticizing equipment, black liquor evaporators, power boilers, co-generation, gasifiers, burners.
February 2003 through 2006 —Senior Scientist (part time), Changing World Technologies, West Hempstead NY.
September 1988 to November 1995 — Professor of Engineering (part time), Chemical and Biological Sciences Division, The Institute of Paper Science and Technology, Atlanta, GA.
January 1984 to January 1986 — Technical Advisor to the Director of Energy Science and Technology, Weyerhaeuser R & D, Tacoma, WA. Primary responsibility was to seek out and evaluate technology in North America and Europe suitable for improving operating unit capacity, energy efficiency, and pollution abatement; and to communicate this information to the technical organization in the corporate region and the Weyerhaeuser mills.
June 1980 to January 1984 — Combustion Scientist, Weyerhaeuser R&D, Energy and Environmental Division, Recovery Technology Advancement Section, Tacoma, WA. Primary responsibility was to gather and apply the necessary data, commercial experience, and available models in order to develop usable tools for the design, operation, and control of combustion systems for boilers and lime kilns.
July 1971 to May 1980 — Assistant/Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Appointment-without-term, June 1976.

• Teaching – Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Power Generation, and Combustion
• Research – Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow, and Combustion in rotary kilns and boilers
July 1976 to June 1977 — Sabbatical Leave taken at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, doing research on ethanol combustion, supported by the National Science Foundation.
May 1974 to August 1974 — Leave of Absence to work for Alberni Pulp and Paper Division of MacMillan–Bloedel.

• Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry (TAPPI) — Member, reviewer for TAPPI Journal, technical editor for TAPPI video “The Kraft Recovery Process,” TAPPI’s Finest Faculty
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers —Reviewer
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers — Reviewer
• Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering — Reviewer

• Undergraduate — UCSB, Dean’s List, Cabrillo College–swimming team, waterpolo team, yell leader, Rally Club, Student Council
• Graduate — Air Products Corporation Fellowship, NIH Special Research Fellowship, honorable mention NSF Fellowship open competition
• Honors — Ralph R. Teetor Award for 1973; Honorary President for 1974–75 Engineering Undergraduate Society of UBC; Engineering Foundation Travel Award, “Research Priorities in Energy Recovery from Wastes,” Hueston Woods, OH, 1977; Best Paper Award Western Branch CPPA, Kamloops, 1983; Best Presentation, DOE Cooperative Program in Kraft Recovery, Gaithersburg, MD, July, 1987, TAPPI’s Finest Faculty-Kraft Recovery Operations Shortcourse for 1995 - 2005

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