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Meet our talented Leaders
Engineering and Construction Management
Elliott Broughton, PE, MBA - CEO
Laura Velez - Executive Administration
Elliott Broughton, PE, MBA - CEO
- Mr. Broughton has deep expertise in engineering and design of Industrial and Commercial applications. He has over 20 years of experience in Energy specifically in the Mid-Stream, Refining, and Petrol-chemical sectors.
- He has managed multi-discipline projects for various Major Oil and Gas companies that have ranged in size from small capital / expense of < $250k to large capital / expense > $50MM in Total Installed Cost (TIC).
- He has also managed both project and construction teams in excess of 75 people combined.
- He has also served as an Engineering Superintendent for the 3rd largest refinery in the U.S. In that position he supervised a team of Engineers for both Reliability and Small to Medium sized Project initiatives in the Hydro-processing Division.
- He also has experience in Production Planning for a $900MM/year revenue generating Petrol-Chemical business. In that position he was responsible for supporting the operations team in setting production targets, managing both marine and rail shipping logistics and storage facilities.
Xi Lin - CFO
Laura Velez - Executive Administration
Elliott Broughton, PE, MBA - CEO
- Mr. Lin has extensive experience in financing and supporting the controlling of small to medium sized businesses. He has successfully sourced capital funding for several founding companies that range from automotive to technology based businesses.
- He is a talented technical engineering and design professional for industrial distributed control systems. He is a certified functional safety engineer. He has over 20 years of experience in Honeywell Experion, Emerson DeltaV and Schneider Electric Triconex applications in refining and petrochemical sectors.
- He has managed multi-discipline DCS migration projects with TIC over $500MM for 2nd largest refinery in the U.S for the past 10 years. Recent accomplishment involved corporate turbine control migration project with TIC over $50MM.
Laura Velez - Executive Administration
Laura Velez - Executive Administration
Laura Velez - Executive Administration
- Ms. Velez has over 12 years of senior executive administration and document control experience supporting engineering and design services.
- She is a talented organizer and problem solver when it comes to Human Resource Management. Her experience includes management of ensuring the workforce is safety compliant in terms of individual training for Client pre-access
- Her document control experience includes internal handling of client transmittals for various design plan types of industrial plant drawings and specifications i.e. P&IDs, Piping Isometric Drawings, I&E Drawings, Vendor Drawings, Plot Plans etc.
- She also has extensive experience with general office administration and multi-tasking various job tasks for senior management.
Meet part of our talented Team
Engineering and Construction Management
Aaron Hoot - Project Manager
Frank Fatora - Process and Safety Engineer
James Cullison, PE, PMP - Project Manager
- Mr. Hoot has more than 15 years of experience in industrial and commercial engineering and design
- His experience in project management, project engineering include a strong depth in both mechanical / piping and I&E engineering and design.
- He has led project teams in executing complex multi-discipline engineering and construction projects.
- He is strong at collaborating with clients and sub-contractors to meet or exceed design, quality, schedule and budget expectations.
James Cullison, PE, PMP - Project Manager
Frank Fatora - Process and Safety Engineer
James Cullison, PE, PMP - Project Manager
- Mr. Cullison brings over 30 years of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering experience to Project Management
- He is a certified Project Management Professional
- He has extensive experience is project cost reduction methods, work package planning, scheduling, risk assessments, operations, and maintenance
- Most of his project management experience is in the chemical & utility industries. He has led projects that are multi-discipline and also focused on single disciplines.
Frank Fatora - Process and Safety Engineer
Frank Fatora - Process and Safety Engineer
Frank Fatora - Process and Safety Engineer
- Mr. Fatora is a practical engineer with over 40 years of experience in Process Improvement, Process Design, Process Control Supervision, and Process Control Project engineering/ commissioning in the refining and Petro-Chemical industries.
- Mr. Fatora also has over 10 years of significant PSM experience in analyzing process risks and implementing projects to close process safety gaps. Operator owner company lead representative on various OSHA special emphasis inspections and incident inspections. He has been the lead technical representative for a number of regulatory compliance programs to mitigate Relief Valve and SIS gaps. He also has 15 years of experience with plant-wide instrumentation upgrade projects and control systems, including DCS, SIS, Advanced Controls implementation, and plant-wide information systems for safety and reliability improvement and sustaining profitability.
Reese Brown - Construction Manager
Richard Carmona - Mechanical Engineer
Richard Carmona - Mechanical Engineer
- Mr. Brown has comprehensive experience in civil engineering of both large commercial vertical structures and foundations. He also has extensive expertise in underground pipe and storm drainage systems.
- Mr. Brown has led construction teams in excess of 150 people of multiple trades. His passion for quality control during construction is second to none. Mr. Brown prides himself on honesty, integrity and the ability to provide an opportunity for businesses and corporations to grow in today’s economy. He has worked on land development projects in most of the municipalities and counties surrounding Houston. He understands that each regulatory authority has different rules, ordinances and permitting processes.
Richard Carmona - Mechanical Engineer
Richard Carmona - Mechanical Engineer
Richard Carmona - Mechanical Engineer
- Mr. Carmona has approximately 10 years of mechanical engineering experience.
- He is highly adaptable in influencing and leading mechanical projects,
- He is also trained in identifying root cause failure to optimizing design and improve reliability.
- He is knowledgeable in ASME code for vessel and piping systems and can apply Client mechanical system specifications during project design
- He has knowledge overseeing civil structural design projects preform by structural engineers
Donald Warnell - I&E Engineer
Richard Carmona - Mechanical Engineer
Donald Warnell - I&E Engineer
- Mr. Warnell has over 29 years of Instrument and Electrical engineering, along with industrial plant / field engineering support experience.
- He as served in a variety of roles for maintenance, reliability and project support.
- He has proven experience and skills to support project scopes that are for process control systems, preventive maintenance for electrical and instrument systems.
- Majority of his professional experience is in refinery, chemical plants and nuclear power generation plants
Mike Zuber - Process Control Engineer / Specialist
Mike Zuber - Process Control Engineer / Specialist
Mike Zuber - Process Control Engineer / Specialist
- Mr. Zuber has over 36 years of combined experience in the petrochemical industry which includes refinery and chemical plant operations, process Control, and PSM roles. His process control experience is approximately 19 years.
- He holds the following certifications: Honeywell – 5722 TPS System Implementation, Honeywell – 5756 APP Node AM/CL Implementation, Honeywell – 5716 HPM Points and CL Implementation, Honeywell – 4700 Loop Tuning and Troubleshooting, Honeywell – 4750 TPS System HPM Maintenance & Troubleshooting, Honeywell – 5747 Uniformance PHD System Administration R200, SIS-TECH Solutions, LP – PRISM Certified, Invensys Triconex – TRICON/TriStation 1131 V4 Comprehensive, Honeywell – EXP02R300 Experion PKS Server Engineering & Configuration ABS, Consulting – Hazard Recognition and Control
Wendy Yafuso - Process Safety Engineer
Mike Zuber - Process Control Engineer / Specialist
Mike Zuber - Process Control Engineer / Specialist
- Ms. Yafuso started working in Process Safety Management 27 years ago. Her first HAZOP was in 1994. Since that time, she has received the following certifications: HAZOP/What-If leader, Incident investigation leader(TOP, TapRoot, and various BP in-house programs), and PSM auditor
- She has participated in each of the above programs as either a leader, a mentor, or a team member. She also has delivered modifications to MOC programs to meet different corporate requirements. She has had the opportunity to train site personnel on PSM programs, as well as work with personnel on Operating Procedures, along with Mechanical Integrity issues.
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