Satish Almaula
Vice President

Mr. Almaula has over 35 years industry and consulting experience in the US, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Central America and Canada. He specializes in technical and management consulting services to industrial processing, manufacturing and allied sectors. He assists clients in problem assessments, analysis and problem-solving in diverse technical and functional areas. Mr. Almaula is experienced in and provides litigation support including testimony for deposition, mediation, arbitration and trial.

Previously, Mr. Almaula held line management and senior staff positions with manufacturing, engineering, and consulting companies including Exponent, Woodward Clyde Consultants (now URS), UK-based Imperial Chemical Industries, Stauffer Chemical Company, Bechtel Corporation, and Union Carbide Corporation. As an independent consultant he served clients in product cycle and safety, process plant improvement, technology development, process safety management, and technical marketing.

SPECIALIZED PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE

SYSTEMS AND EQUIPMENT

INDUSTRIES AND ORGANIZATIONS SERVED

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

• M.S., Fuel Technology (Chemical Engineering emphasis) Pennsylvania State
  University, 1966
• M.Sc., Chemistry, University of Poona, India, 1962
• B.Sc. Hon., Chemistry, University of Poona, India, 1961
• B.Sc. Gen., Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, University of Poona, India, 1960
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Air and Waste Management Association
  

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES

Driving Capital Projects to Success”, Almaula S. Presented at the Spring National Meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Houston, Texas, April 2007

“Project Management and Design of Bio-Production Plants—Practical Lessons Learned”, Almaula S., Poster Session Presentation, 1st International Conference on Biomolecular Engineering, Coronado, California, January 2007

“Process Safety Management in Incident and Project Delay Disputes---Case Studies for Business” Almaula S., presented at 55th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Toronto, Canada, October 16-19, 2005

“Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Steelmaking” Satish Almaula, Environmental Forensics, June 2005, Volume 6, Number 2, ISSN 1527-5922.

“The Tentacles of Fear/Terrorism as They Relate to Insurance Coverage, Part II Assessing and Managing Security Risks” (With Tracy Xu, AIG and Nancy Wood A. J. Gallagher & Company) REBEX 2004 Conference Chicago, October 2004

“Safety and Reliability Considerations in Compressed Natural Gas Fueling and Vehicle Systems”, Winter Meeting of the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning Engineering, Anaheim, California, January 2004

“Managing Security and Vulnerability in the Chemical Industry----Pick The Right Strategy,” Site Security and Crisis Management Seminar, Chemical Industry Council of Illinois, September 2002.

“Waste Site Reliability Management and Forensics,” Second International Forensic Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, San Juan, Puerto Rico, May, 2000 (with J. Barrich and M. Ankeny).

“Failure Avoidance and Loss Prevention in Environmental Systems,” The Eleventh Technology Information Exchange Workshop of The US Department of Energy and the US EPA, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 1999

“The Need for Risk-Based Engineering Reliability in the Restructured Electric Utility Industry,” Workshop on Disaster Management for Electric Utilities, Sponsored by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Phoenix, Arizona, October 1998

“Entering an Asian Market by Leveraging Our Relationships with U. S. Partners,” Seminar and Workshop on Financing Your Projects and Export Sales in Southeast Asia, Sponsored by California-Southeast Asia Business Council and U.S. Department of Commerce, San Francisco, CA, December 1996.

“Managing Risks and Hazards in Industrial Operations,” Pacific Basin Hazardous Waste Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, November 1996.

“Hazardous Materials Management,” Two day Seminar, University of California, Berkeley Extension, Jakarta, Indonesia, January 1996 (with C. Vais).

“Hazardous Waste Treatment: Overview and Cost Considerations,” Fifteenth Annual Convention of the Pollution Control Assoc. of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, April 1995.

“Process Safety Management–Dealing with Hazards and Risks of Industrial Operations,” Responsible Care Seminar, Chemical Industry Council of Illinois, Chicago, IL, October 1994.

“Traditional and State-of-the-Art Methods in Groundwater and Soil Clean-Up Treatment Systems,” Continuing Ed. Seminar, Amer. Soc. of Civil Engineers, Oakland, CA, March 1994.

“Waste Management in Electronics Industry,” First International Technology Fair and Seminar on Electronics, Communication and Environment Protection, Sponsored by Indian Industries, United Nations’ Asian & Pacific Centre for Transfer of Technology and Asia-Pacific Telecom, Thailand, Bangalore, India, August 1991.

“Design and Operation of Thermal Treatment Units with Waste Stream Modification,” Eighty-Fourth Annual Meeting of Air and Waste Management Association, Vancouver, BC, June 1991.

“Waste Management and Remediation in the Semiconductor and Electronics Industry,” HAZPAC ‘91, Hazardous Waste Management in the Pacific Basin Conference, Randol Gold Forum, Cairns, Australia, April 1991.

“Cost-Effective Hazardous Waste Treatment, Case Studies in Practical Waste Reduction,” Pacific Basin Conference on Hazardous Waste, Honolulu, HI, November 1990.

“Remediation Technologies in Use for Groundwater and Soil Contamination in the Silicon Valley,” American Society of Civil Engineers Conference, San Francisco, CA, November 1990.

“Practical Approach and Steps in Site Investigation and Remediation,” University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, November 1990 (with M. Sartor).

“Alternative Technologies for Treatment and Disposal of Hazardous Waste,” Certificate in Hazardous Materials Management Course, UCSC Extension, Winter 1990.

“What’s Working at CERCLA and RCRA and What’s Not Working,” Oil and Gas Industry Environmental Conference, Executive Enterprises Inc., Houston, TX, May 1989.