GREGORY N. SMALLWOOD PE, PMP
SUMMARY: Twenty three years of experience consulting, managing and
engineering large oil and gas, control and instrument systems projects. Experience is with all phases of EPC implementation
and project management including project definition, project justification, estimating,
systems design, equipment selection, instrument design, electrical design,
systems engineering, programming, procurement, testing, installation,
construction, training and commissioning.
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Management
and Sales experience includes P&L management, engineering management, business
plan development, estimating and business start-ups and recoveries.
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Industries
include upstream offshore and onshore oil and gas (including LNG), refining,
chemical, power, forest products, pharmaceutical and manufacturing.
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EXPERIENCE:
June 07 - Doris
Inc. (Contract)
Owner’s representative, Instrument &
Control Systems Lead and Commissioning Lead for this
January 07 - Emerson
Process Management (Contract)
Provided Project Management for
petroleum offshore containerized equipment rooms (CER) for Brunei Shell
Petroleum and provided Cause and Effect consulting services for the Tanker
Pacific/Coogee Montara FPSO Project.
Cause and Effect consulting services included the Well Head Platform,
Turret (APL), Subsea, Process and Marine Systems including PSD, ESD, and Fire &
Gas Systems.
May 06 - Alpha
Petroleum Services (Contract)
May 05 - The
Automation Group
Responsible for the FEL definition
and implementation of Safety Instrumented (IEC 61511 compliant) Systems and
Distributed Control Systems for Lyondell Equistar. Primary systems included Emerson DeltaV,
Honeywell Experion and Invensys Triconex.
Managed estimating, engineering, design and implementation of multiple
projects for Lyondell and approximately 20 engineers, designers and support
personnel. Projects included estimating,
project planning,
system definition, field survey,
instrument and electrical specification, P&ID and cause and effect
development and functional definition, instrument and electrical design, and
implementation.
Dec 02 - Contech
Control Services
Responsible for scoping, defining
and management of turn-key EPC I&E projects for refining, petrochemical and
oil and gas production. Projects
involved all elements of control system retrofits from instrument
specification, electrical design, control system selection, control system
configuration, construction, checkout and start-up. Systems included Honeywell Experion, Emerson
Delta V, Yokogowa CS 3000 and Siemens PCS 7.
Management of 27 engineering and 31 craft personnel for projects $100k
to $5 million. Clients included ExxonMobil,
BP and Lyondell.
Jan 01 - Maverick
Technologies, Inc.
Scoping and defining automation and electrical projects for
a various industries including onshore/offshore oil and gas production,
pipelines, refining, chemical, food, pharmaceutical and power. Projects include green field, retrofits,
upgrades and higher level connectivity; and Honeywell, Emerson, Invensys,
Yokogawa and Siemens DCS systems and PLC’s.
July 00 - Aspen
Technology, Inc.
Responsible for the implementation of a $20 million
Integrated Demand and Supply Planning (supply chain) project for 10 chemical
business units within BP. Lead a team of
40+ business consultants in
Nov 97- TAVA
Technologies, Inc.
Responsible for P&L management
of the Atlantic Division of this instrument, electrical and control systems
integrator. Industries included
refining, pharmaceutical, chemical and discrete manufacturing. Position required management of 4 regional
operations with a staff of approximately 200.
Management of Control System retrofit projects included scope
definition, project management, instrumentation selection, electrical design,
control system configuration and check-out and start-up.
Director
of Operations, Western Region,
Responsible for P&L
management of the Western Region. Region
included two branch offices (
April 93- Instrument Control Service, Inc.
Oct 97 Engineering Manager,
Responsible for the start-up and management of the
Charleston Regional Engineering Group which oversaw EPC Instrumentation and
Control System Retrofit projects. The
most financially successful engineering office start-up at ICS. Projects included the Pulp and Paper and
Chemical industries. Significant accomplishments included:
·Hired and managed over 25 permanent
employees and 15 contract employees
·Provided management on projects,
including scope definition, estimating, instrument selection, design
engineering, control configuration, construction, check-out and start-up. Construction projects included a paper
machine retrofit, an electrical revamp of a batch chemical unit and the I&E
construction of a new chemical and film production unit.
Instrument Control
Service, Inc.,
Project
Manager and Technical Lead, April 93 – July 94
Responsibilities included
serving as project manager including construction management, primary customer
interface and technical lead for systems engineering projects. Primary responsibility was overall EPC
project management on a series of control system retrofits totaling $10
million.
June 89- John
Brown E & C Inc.,
April 93 Process Control Engineer –
Primary responsibilities involved
control systems integration and engineering, production optimization,
instrumentation selection, field verification and plant start-up. Major projects included the project lead and
start-up of a batch polymer plant; construction management for a grass roots
polypropylene facility with two series reactors; start-up and check-out of a
grass roots MTBE facility; engineering, construction management and start-up
engineering for an oil production facility; and project definition and instrument
and control systems definition for an offshore platform retrofit.
April 87- Rosemount, Inc.,
June 89 Project Manager- Control Systems Division
Served as the primary customer interface and
project manager on over 40 distributed control system projects. Responsibilities included project scope
definition; schedule development; tracking; sizing; hardware layout;
instrumentation specification; coordination of engineering, manufacturing and
quality groups; configuration of control strategies and site checkout and
startup.
Jan 86 - The
Core Team,
March 87 Process
Control Engineer
Preparation of proposals, design and
installation of control systems for vegetable oil processes.
Feb 85- Mid
Continent Resources, Carbondale, CO
Jan 86 Coal Miner
Coal mining activities in 2
underground coal mines including room and pillar, advancing and retreating long
wall sections.
EDUCATION:
August 1980 - Bachelor
of Science
December 1984 Mining
Engineering
September 2003 - Institute
for Managerial Leadership
May 2004
REGISTRATION
and CERTIFICATION:
Project
Management Institute
INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY:
Telephone Equipment Compatible, 12 Button Alphanumeric Keypad