Project Managers

LYLE N. GARRETTE, JR.

Lyle has Twenty-one years experience in erecting structural and steel buildings up to 175’ in height and over 2000 tons in weight. He has held roles as a Field Engineer in GM&C, Machine Supervisor, Construction Engineer and Process Engineer. Lyle is a graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute with a BS in Civil Engineering.

RODNEY A. GIVENS

Rodney is an Electrical Engineer with technical training in Allen-Bradley, Modicon, Ormec, Eurotherm, WonderWare and Koepner Tregoe. He has held roles as Maintenance Engineer, Process Improvement Engineer and Electrical Engineer. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from West Virginia University Institute of Technology.

RAYMOND S. RODGERS

Ray has held positions as a Senior project Enginee, Paper Machine Supervisor, amd Production Engineer responsible for machine maintenance and improvement projects. He is a graduate of Virginia Tech with a BS ME degree and a MSME degree.

FASIH U. TOOR

Fasih has thirty plus years experience in Energy Conservation and related cost reduction activities. He holds a MS in Advanced Chemical Engineering from Strathelyde University of Glasgow UK, and an MS (honors) in Chemical Engineering from Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan.   

CARSON W. WHITE

Carson os a Construction Engineer with over forty years experience.  His expertise is in performing, inspecting, supervising, trouble shooting and mechanical projects.  He has been involved in a number of installations, rebuild and major maintenance projects. 

JOE G. RUGGIERO JR.

Joe has over 28 years of experience as a Machine Engineer and Line Supervisor in bleached board operations. He has broad expertise in machine systems including dryer systems, drives, coater operations, and calendering. He was a project engineer in a number of expansions and new machine installations. Joe has BS in Chemistry from Villanova and an MS in Chemical Engineering, John Hopkins University.

MIKE MARZIALE

Mike has over 28 years of industry experience including a number of machine installations and rebuilds. He has served as Mill Manager of fine papers and specialty mills and has supported a wide variety of rebuilds and mill expansion projects in most sectors of the industry. He has held a variety of VP and SVP roles for a major cpated paper producer. His process expertise is in wet end system, headbox operations, coater systems, and profile controls. Mike has a PhD from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute.

 

 

 

W. ROGER WOOD

Roger has over 30 years’ experience in engineering, maintenance, and utilities management in the pulp and paper industry. He has broad experience in corrective, preventative and predictive maintenance techniques and expertise in lubricates, lubrication methods, and oil sampling and testing. Roger is knowledgeable in environmental, health and safety issues in a manufacturing and process industries.  Roger provides consulting for maintenance audits, maintenance procedures, training, maintenance department structure and organization, maintenance planning, and support for major mill outages and rebuilds. He has served as Chairman of the Maintenance Committee of Northeast PIMA (Paper Industry Management Association) for several years. Roger holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maine.

DAVE NEWKIRK

Dave has broad expertise in the design and operation of folding carton board machines and in process innovations. Dave has served as a plant expansion manager for a $1B expansion, Mill Manager, and Paper Mill Superintendent. He has over 35 years of industry experience and his process expertise is in coating and finishing systems.

BENJAMIN L. HICKS (Ben)

Ben has forty years experience in maintenance, construction and engineering management.  His expertise in the inspection, construction and maintenance of power and recovery boilers, steam driven turbine generators and related equipment.  Ben pcan provide management of contract personnel, equipment installations and maintenance shutdown projects.  He is experienced in the implementation and maintenance of computerized maintenance management systems.

JAMES L. HOWARD

Jim has served as a Power house project engineer Power House and on the major capital expansion projects. He spent two years as project engineer building a new folding carton plant in the Czech Republi. Jim is a graduate of University of Tennessee, Knoxville; with a BS Electrical Engineering. 

JESSE H. SCOTT

Jesse has over 47 years of experience in the pulp and paper industry, including 14 years in mill operations and 33 years as a staff engineer for engineering firms.  His operating experience includes fine papers, kraft specialty grades, newsprint, bag, and other specialty grades.  His experience as a staff engineer includes studies, detailed engineering, and checkout / startups of eight new machines (including one grassroots mill), eleven machine rebuilds, and over 25 studies and cost estimates for new mills, machine rebuilds, winder rebuilds, stock preparation rebuilds, recycle fiber systems, broke systems, whitewater systems, vacuum systems, and other machine auxiliary support systems.

DALE R. RAYMOND

Dale worked for many yearsin the development and leadership of process and energy research projects. He also has production experience and led division-wide efforts in the area of process engineering, environmental engineering, product development, quality systems improvement (lean six sigma) and customer service. He holds a BS, MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering.

WALLACE F. WINEBRINER (Wally)

Wally has over forty five years experience in the paper industry, associated with maintenance, engineering and safety. He served as facilitator for behavioral safety process, instructing, coaching and monitoring line and supervisory personnel.  He has extensive experience in writing safe work procedures for Process Safety Management as well as scheduling and conducting mechanical integrity inspections of PSM processes.  Wally was a member of an engineering team that expanded a paper mill facility over a twelve year period.  That experience included conducting inspections of equipment (one half billion dollars) as it was being manufactured (ten countries and twenty three states) and during installation in the mill.