Expert Details
Pulp & Paper Industry Expert
ID: 736236
South Carolina, USA
Expert’s core specialty is front-end studies that integrate capital cost estimation, manufacturing cost analysis, operations optimization, facility assessments, and due diligence. In consulting leadership roles, Expert directed multidisciplinary teams, developed process modeling and computer-based tools, oversaw personnel development, and served as a technical spokesperson through industry publications and presentations. Consulting engagements have ranged from narrowly focused technical investigations to comprehensive, mill-wide optimization studies and large-scale international capacity evaluations.
Earlier in the career, Expert held senior mill management roles, including Paper Mill Superintendent and Machine Supervisor, with direct responsibility for high-volume paper machine operations. These roles included supervising multiple machines producing thousands of tons per day, leading crew training, implementing process improvements, managing budgets, and executing cost-reduction initiatives during challenging market cycles. Expert’s operational achievements include setting production records, resolving chronic process issues, successfully commissioning and converting machines, and improving production efficiency and reliability.
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1967 | Degree: BS | Subject: Pulp & Paper | Institution: State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse, NY |
| Year: 1974 | Degree: MS | Subject: Industrial Management | Institution: Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 2019 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Pulp & Paper Consultant | Department: |
Responsibilities:Independent pulp and paper consultant with 60 years of consulting, operating and technical experience in the manufacturing of pulp and paper. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1997 to 2019 | Employer: Jacobs | Title: Director of Process Technology | Department: Pulp and Paper Consultancy |
Responsibilities:Managing business activities (optimization, due diligence, conceptual studies, etc.). He has led the process effort on many Due Diligence / Fatal Flaw evaluations and strategic rebuild evaluations that include newsprint, linerboard, coated recycle cartonboard, coated freesheet, dissolving pulp, fluff pulp and tissue.He has been an expert witness and the Bank’s engineer on several projects. As a working manager, Expert has supervised the detail design effort for rebuilding Donohue’s Lufkin, Texas, Kraft Mill to comply with Cluster Rules. He was the Project Manager for a detail scope and estimate for a Paper Machine DCS and Drive replacement, conversion of a printing and writing machine to fluff pulp including bleach plant modifications, and an international optimization and expansion study. He has supported the detail design for several shoe press and dilution profiling headboxes installations. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1988 to 1993 | Employer: Raytheon Engineers and Constructors (Rust) | Title: Director of Technology | Department: Pulp and Paper Division |
Responsibilities:Responsible for the management of all activities of the OPTEC Group, Raytheon’s pulp & paper consulting group. Also managed Pulp, Paper and Material Handling Process Engineering Groups for two years. Responsibilities included: conceptual design, economic studies, process design, equipment installation and start-up.Activities included: assigning personnel, budgets, recruiting, salary administration, development of computer tools, etc. As a working manager, he also conducted studies, prepared proposals and made sales presentations. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1977 to 1988 | Employer: Union Camp Corporation | Title: Technical Director | Department: |
Responsibilities:Savannah, Georgia. Directed shift control and process engineering functions of the mill. Shift control, approximately 120 persons, was responsible for final product testing, chemical additive systems and boiler water quality. Process engineering included approximately 60 persons divided into five group: paper, pulp, power, analytical lab, and environmental.Accomplishments included: revamping the shift control lines of progression which resulted in the savings of 5,000 hours of overtime the first year; 1.3 million man-hour safety record; evaluation of alternate lime kiln fuels; evaluation of EPD’s reclassification of the Savannah River; Kamyr re-instrumentation and optimization; modeling of the mill water systems and modeling of the mill’s modernization programs. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1967 to 1977 | Employer: Nekoosa Papers Inc. | Title: Assistant Pulp Mill Superintendent, Technical, Process Engineer | Department: |
Responsibilities:Paper Mill Superintendent, Potsdam Mill. Managed the production of two machines that produced 160 tons per day of bleached MG, Watermark Bonds and Register Bond. Increased production by more than 10% without spending any capital money. Involved in all phases of mill operation, including Union negotiations. Relieved Mill Manager.Technical Supervisor, Potsdam Mill. Supervised Quality Control and performed processing engineering duties. Started up mill’s waste treatment facility and closed up the mill’s white water system. Process Engineer, Nekoosa & Potsdam Mills. Activities included: conducting process trials, creating process flow diagrams and water balances. Nekoosa Papers, Nekoosa, Wisconsin and Potsdam, New York. Supervised the installation and start-up of a TRS system (gas collection, incineration, molecular black liquor oxidation and condensate stripping). Upon completion of the TRS project, assumed production responsibilities, including: woodyard, pulping, washing, bleaching, causticizing, recovery boiler, evaporators, ClO2 Plant and Tall Oil Plant. Industria Panamia De Papel, Republic of Panama. Succeeded in solving problems while relieving vacationing mill manager. Assistant Paper Mill Superintendent, Nekoosa Mill. After closing of the Potsdam Mill, was transferred back to the Nekoosa Mill. Performed an evaluation of Paper Machine No. 2 and made recommendations for operating improvements. This Printing and Writing Machine produced bonds, offset and register grades. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1967 to 1969 | Employer: United States Army | Title: Captain | Department: |
Responsibilities:United States Army, Chemical Corps, Technical Escort Unit (Chemical / Biological EOD), Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1965 to 1966 | Employer: Great Northern Paper | Title: Project Manager / Paper Mill Production Specialist | Department: |
Responsibilities:Great Northern Papers, Millinocket, Maine. Helped with studies and mill trials.Directed the $27 million rebuild of Paper Machine No. 5. Implemented a new paper mill line of progression that resulted in improved production rates due to crew stabilization. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| • TAPPI Foundation: Member since 1966; Director, Past Member of the Board of Directors, Past Chairman Southeastern Section, Past Member of Paper 360° & Tappi Journal Editorial Boards, Member of Student Summit Conference Committee • PIMA: Member since 1981; Past Member of the Executive Committee Dixie Section • Syracuse Pulp & Paper Foundation: Emeritus Member of the Board of Directors, Past President, Past Trustee Joachim Fund • National Corvette Restoration Society (NCRS); Chairman Carolinas Chapter, Vietnam Veterans of America, American Legion, Charter Member |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| • BSA: Eagle Scout; Order of the Arrow – Vigil Honor • TAPPI Fellow (1996), • Couch Pit University, Class of 2008; Office: Past Secretary, emeritus member • CPBIS / PIMA Management Excellence Award, 2008 • TAPPI Herman L. Joachim Distinguish Service Award, 2013 • SUNY ESF – 2013 Graduate of Distinction Award – Lifetime Achievement • Who’s Who – Albert Nelson Marquis 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award, Engineering • NCRS - 2024 President's Award |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Expert has over 73 publications and has worked on over 240 projects since 1971. |