User Group of the Carolinas 2008 Speakers

Ed Butler currently serves as a valve automation technical resource with direct support for account managers, inside sales, and project support. Ed has a Business Administration degree from Wingate College and joined REM in 1986. In the past, he has served on the Distributor Advisory Boards of WEY Valve USA and Kinetrol USA and currently serves on the Emerson Valve Automation FieldQ Advisory Board.

Valve Automation

Brad Emry is an Account Manager for R.E. Mason Company of the Carolinas and is based in the Charleston, SC office. He is a Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Nebraska and worked in Applications Engineering and Marketing roles for Fisher Controls in Marshalltown, Iowa, for eight years prior to joining R.E. Mason Company of the Carolinas in 1992. In addition to account responsibilities, Brad supports the REM Services Act-Smart® products and is one of REM's FIELDVUE Champions.

AMS Valvelink - The Power of Diagnostics (with Jeff Klatt)

Bruce Greenwald is currently the manager of the Project Execution Services group for REM Services. Bruce started his career with Dow Chemical in Freeport, TX, after graduating from the University of Kansas with a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1979. Bruce joined Fisher Controls in 1983 and has been affiliated with Emerson and REM Services for the last 24 years. Bruce's major focus has been on batch process control, primarily in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Bruce is a member of ISA, ISPE, and the World Batch Forum.

Data to Information - Information to Knowledge

Jeff Klatt serves as both a Senior Asset Manager and Senior Field Service Engineer has been employed with REM Services since 1995. His responsibilities include diagnosing control valve performance issues, providing solutions for process and/or product related problems, specialized training, commissioning services, consulting services to plant reliability groups, and a full scale asset management program. Prior to employment with REM Services Jeff Klatt was the Manufacturing and Field Service Manger for the Fisher Service Company in Columbia, SC. During his five years with the Fisher Service Company he earned an ASNT Level III certification in LPT and established a N.D.E program for safety related products.

Jeff Klatt also worked from 1976-1990 for Fisher Controls, International in Marshalltown, Iowa. He began his career in the Nuclear Division as an Order Specialist managing large nuclear projects from order entry to shipment. He also served as a NDE specialist and Liaison Engineer providing troubleshooting services to the control valve, instrument, and regulator assembly lines. Jeff worked with design engineering to improve product designs. Jeff was also promoted to Manager of Supplier Quality and worked with 700+ worldwide suppliers to maintain quality standards of all purchased products.

AMS Valvelink - The Power of Diagnostics (with Brad Emry)

Mark joined REM Services, Inc. in August, 2005, as a Lead Installed Base Services Engineer, and is currently the Manager of Installed Base Services. He focuses on resolving customer issues, commissioning, backing up, and upgrading DeltaV systems. Mark has a BS and MS in Computer Engineering from Clemson University.

Mark began his career at Westinghouse Savannah River Company in November 1988. His initial assignment was in real-time physical security (access control, intrusion detection, and closed-circuit television) systems on VAX/VMS and VAXELN computers. After brief assignments in digital signal processing and reactor instrumentation, Mark became a manager of PLC/HMI development and maintenance. In the late 90's, Mark worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory developing control systems for a linear accelerator. His last assignment at the Savannah River Site was replacing the DWPF DCS, with a focus on specification requirements, vendor selection, and technical review and approval, and then maintaining the subsequent DeltaV system.

Planning Your DeltaV Upgrade

Risk Management - Critical Data Backup and Recovery

John Tennant is a Senior Vice President with R.E. Mason Company of the Carolinas. John began his career with REM Services, Inc. after graduating from Virginia Tech University with a BS in Electrical Engineering. John has spent the past 17 years as the Team Leader for REM Services, Inc. focusing on Control Systems and Solution Selling.

REM Forward Direction

Larry Wolfe has been with the R.E. Mason Company of the Carolinas family of companies for 23+ years and currently serves as the Director, Technology Deployment for REM Services, Inc. He has a MS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS is Aerospace Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. He has worked with instrumentation and process control systems for more than 26 years and has worked with process industries in the Carolinas since 1974.

Larry is the AMS Intelligent Device Manager Champion and a Plant Web Champion for Bus Technologies and has been involved with many AMS IDM and Foundation Fieldbus system installations. He also supports the Proof of Concept System at REM Services, Inc.'s offices in Charlotte, NC.

AMS Device Manager Forum

AMS and Fieldbus - What's Next?

Leo Bello is a Principal Marketing Engineer and works for the Process Systems and Solutions division of Emerson Process Management. He joined Emerson in 1989 and has held positions in the areas of sales, business development and marketing with most of the focus in Latin America and the oil and gas industry. He is a native of Colombia and holds a BSEE from the National University of Colombia, and a MSEE in Automatic Control Systems from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

DeltaV Forward Direction

DeltaV SIS - How Safe Is Your Plant?

Amy Davidson is the Product Manager for the AMS Asset Portal which is part of the Asset Optimization group in Eden Prairie, MN. A chemical engineering graduate from South Dakota State University she has been with Emerson for 4 years and has spent almost 20 years in the industrial automation and process industries working with suppliers and integrators holding positions in marketing and project management.

Asset Portal and the Connection to EAM/CMMS Systems

AMS Device Manager Update (with Arturo Medina)

Butch Dupuis is the PS&S Territory Manager for the Southeast. Butch joined Emerson Process Management in July 1996 to help start the Industry Solutions Oil & Gas team. In 1999, Butch transitioned to the Installed Base Services group as IBS Service Manager and later as a Services Marketing Program Manager. Butch has been responsible for developing and launching a number of SureService programs. He also spearheaded the DeltaV Total Cost of Ownership research that resulted in the creation of tools to help determine expected costs for any DeltaV system over its lifecycle.

Prior to joining Emerson, Butch worked for Gas Services, Inc. for 11 years as the Director of the Systems & Controls group that was engaged in turn-key systems integration for metering and control applications for the oil and gas industries. Butch also work for 6 years at UGC Industries, an instrumentation company (now part of EG&G Chandler) as the global service manager and is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force.

Emerson Forward Direction

Scott Flynn is currently the District Sales Manager for North Carolina where he assists customers in designing Asset Optimization solutions using CSI brand products and services. He has more than fifteen years experience in the machinery health field with a diverse range of responsibilities ranging from Online Applications to hardware support to using test equipment and schematics to troubleshoot instrumentation to the component level.

His positions as a Machinery Health Analyst, Hardware Support Manager, Services Coordinator, and Online Support Engineer for Emerson Process Management have given him a broad range of knowledge for multiple product lines. He is experienced in Nuclear, Pulp & Paper, Manufacturing, Chemical and Food Process technologies. While managing the Hardware Support Department, Mr. Flynn excelled at quality and customer satisfaction.

Alignment and Balancing Implementation

Jeff Hackney is the Global Sales Manager for the DeltaV Operator Training Solutions team. Jeff joined the Emerson team in January of 1997 as the Technical Lead for the Customer Service Repair department. Jeff has also served in other roles including Plantweb / Fieldbus Simulations Coordinator and Systems Administrator for Educational Services.

Prior to joining Emerson Jeff served 10 years in the United States Navy working as a missile fire control technician and test engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Center. Jeff holds a B.S. in Information Technology and is pursuing a MBA from the University of Texas.

Operator Training Solutions

Brad Illing is the Business Development Manager for the Southeastern Region for Emerson Process Management's Machinery Health Company. Brad has been in vibration and machinery health since 1995, and is registered as an EIT in South Carolina. Brad holds a BS in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and an MBA from Clemson University.

Vibration Overview

6000 & 4500 Protection and Monitoring Systems

Mark Kennedy is Director of Global Wireless Sales for Emerson Process Management and is headquartered in Saint Louis, MO. He has almost 3 decades of experience with a variety of international industrial market segments and has served in roles representing global operators, engineering and construction, and supplier firms. Mark earned a degree in electrical engineering from George Washington University and an MBA from Wake Forest University.

Wireless Products (All Divisions)

Wireless Overview

Gordon Lawther is currently a program manager responsible for the Foxboro and Moore APACS migration programs. Gordon has been with Emerson for 5 years and was previously with Invensys for 3 years and ABB for 15 years. He has been an application engineer, project manager and product manager and has a background in the pulp and paper industry. Gordon graduated with a BS in Chemical Engineering in 1983.

Managing Your Legacy DCS

Jonathan Lustri has a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Texas and has 25 years of experience in the petrochemical and Life Sciences Industries in the areas of pilot plant research, product management, and business development. He currently is working in Emerson's Life Sciences Industry Center as a Business development Specialist and has experience in system solution architecture development and business case justification.

Increase Efficiency with Electronic Records

Dawn Marruchella is the DeltaV Batch Product Marketing Manager at Emerson Process Management in Austin, TX. With over ten years of combined experience, Dawn was a former customer of the R.E. Mason Company of the Carolinas and an end user in a batch manufacturing facility. Dawn has led large batch automation projects for the Life Sciences industry and has been in her current role since September, 2006.

DeltaV Batch Update

In 2005, Arturo assumed his current Latin American role leading sales efforts for AMS Device Manager, AMS Asset Portal, and 375 Field Communicator throughout the region. He holds a Chemical Engineer degree from the "Universidad Iberoamericana" of Mexico and he is currently pursuing a MS in Chemical Engineering.

Arturo started his Emerson Process Management career in April 1994 with Fisher Rosemount Mexico as a PROVOX Technical Project Leader. From 1995-1997 he worked in Austin as Technical Leader for multinational automation projects. Arturo moved back to Mexico in 1997 to take on the role of Engineering Exports and Projects Coordinator. In 1999, Arturo worked for the Emerson LBP, R.S. Stover, as an Asset Manager at the Cargill corn milling facility located in Eddyville, IA. As the Cargill's Asset Manager, Arturo developed and implemented AMS Device Manager best practices for the execution of on-line diagnostics and troubleshooting, being able to quantify several million dollars in savings for the plant operation derived from the use of predictive diagnostic technologies.

AMS Device Manager - Install-Implement-Incorporate

AMS Device Manager Update (with Amy Davidson)

Michael Miller is responsible for assisting customers in overcoming machinery health issues concerning rotating equipment. He has worked for the Machinery Health Management (MHM) of Emerson Process Management since early 2000. Before coming on board with MHM, he worked for over 17 years for Duke Energy.

While at Duke Energy, Michael held various positions in the testing and diagnostic groups. Michael is a graduate of the University of Georgia with a BS in Education. Michael also holds an AS in Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology from Aiken Technical College.

Wireless Vibration Monitoring

Frank Navarro is part of the Austin Customer Support Engineering staff, primarily focusing on delivering advanced services to End Users. Frank has extensive knowledge and skills with the various technologies deployed within Emerson Process Management's product line, and currently focuses on Networking and Information Security for Process Control Equipment. He works closely with the Technology development groups as well as Marketing for current and future product developments and enhancements.

Frank was a key member in developing the framework for Emerson Process Management's Cyber Security Assessment service, and has delivered this service to various sectors in the Process Control Industry. Frank has nearly 20 years experience with Emerson Process Management and most of his experience has been working directly with End Users and the Local Business Partner community - providing high level product support, as well as various project application services.

Cyber Security - Are You at Risk?

Aaron Shaw is a SureService Product Manager for Emerson Process Management. He provides leadership to define and introduce global SureService growth programs and new services. Aaron joined Emerson Process Management in 1995 and has held senior assignments in Marketing, Business Development, and Technical Sales Support. He holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla and MBA from St. Edward's University.

Guardian Support - Maximize Your Investment (with Bob Wiggins)

Scott Sumner has worked for Emerson's Asset Optimization (AO) Division since January 2003 as an AO Sales Manager. His primary responsibilities consist of working with PlantWeb customers to develop and execute Plant Asset Management solutions that leverage economic investments made in PlantWeb architectures. Past professional experiences include business (ERP) software sales with JD Edwards Company and various process control sales positions with Foxboro, Fischer & Porter and Micro Motion. Scott is a 1984 graduate of the University of Missouri Rolla where he obtained a BS in Geological Engineering and is an Associate of Kennesaw State University's Executive MBA Program.

PAM and AO Forward Direction

Bob Wiggins is the Process Systems and Solutions SureService Marketing Program Manager. He joined Emerson Process Management in 1996 and has held senior assignments in Technology with extensive experience in software design and development in both the Provox and DeltaV product lines. Bob holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Houston in addition to an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Phoenix.

Guardian Support - Maximize Your Investment (with Aaron Shaw)

Martin Berutti is the Director, Business Development at MYNAH Technologies. Areas of expertise include process simulation, control system and network design, and information integration. Martin has been with MYNAH and Experitec (parent company of MYNAH) for over 16 years and has held positions of Systems Engineer, Performance Consultant, Project Manager, and Director, Performance Technology. Previous employers included Fisher Controls, Rosemount, and Applied Automation. He is a Chemical Engineering graduate from University of Missouri-Rolla.

PLC Integration

MiMiC Version 3 - Next Generation Simulation Software