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The
Strength of the team is the power
behind every successful project.
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Dale Smith President/Senior Control Engineer |
Profile:
At
APCO Inc., Dale has the pleasure
of directing some of the brightest minds and finest people ever
assembled in the field of process control. He has been working within
the industry since 1985 in the area of regulatory, advanced control and
optimization. In 1995 he founded APCO and targeted
regulatory and advanced controls in the heavy industries.
Dale has over twenty years of experience in control
technology. He has implemented advanced control systems in many places
around the world including Japan, Germany, Norway, and India. He now
oversees various projects based primarily within the United States.
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Profile:
Scott holds a Ph.D. in Chemical
Engineering from Brigham Young University.
His graduate research focused on Multivariable Model Predictive Control
of a Pulsed-Plate Liquid-Liquid Extraction Column. The multi-variable
control software developed for the extraction column was implemented
entirely inside a commercial DCS controller, which was a novel approach
at the time.
Scott has a broad range of experience with
myriad control hardware and software systems, refining and
petrochemical processing units, and process modeling packages. He has
been involved in designing and implementing control systems for more
than 20 years . . .
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Scott
White, Ph.D - Vice President/Senior Control Engineer
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Carl Wadsworth -
Control
Systems Engineer |
Profile:
Carl received a BS degree in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Utah.
Working as a Control Systems Engineer since then
has given Carl experience with a wide range of control hardware and
software. His software development expertise has allowed him to develop
tools for advanced control, remote communications, control strategy
optimization, and other control tasks. He has project experience
implementing process control and HMI/SCADA for many industrial clients.
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Profile:
Phil has over 29 years of experience with
electrical, instrumentation, and design in Mining, Cogeneration,
Petrochemical, Aerospace, Waste Incineration, and Materials Handling.
He worked industrial construction throughout the 80's with TIC, The
Industrial Company of Steamboat Springs . . .
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Phil
Black -
Automation Integrator |
Matt Jensen -
Control
Engineer |
Profile:
Matt received a BS degree in Chemical
Engineering from the University of Utah.
While a student he took advantage of several intern and student co-op
programs to gain experience. Included in these are: Jordan Valley Water
Conservancy District, Condea Vista Chemical, Dow Corning, and Hemlock
Semiconductor.
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Profile:
John received a BS degree in Technology
Management from Utah Valley State College.
He also has AS degrees in Business Management and
Environmental Management.
For the last 8 years he has maintained and helped implement different
types of SCADA systems in the water reclamation field. These included
first, an Automation Direct based system to manage the water
reclamation facility of Provo City. He later oversaw the implementation
of a new upgraded SCADA system to replace the antiquated equipment.
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John Jewell -
Control
Engineer |
Jerry Wiser
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Control
Engineer
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Profile:
Jerry received his BS degree in Fuels Engineering
from the University of Utah and has an
interesting mix of research and industrial experience.
His 12 years in research began at the University of
Utah working in heavy oil characterization and upgrading, and
continued while working for a research company.
He worked developing tar sand upgrading, oil shale
extraction, synthetic fuels . . .
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Profile:
Eric has a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young
University. He enjoys tackling
difficult projects and learning new software.
In addition to his work at APCO, as a student he worked for
Celanese Chemical’s marketing department and developed an application in
Visual Basic to
automate and standardize their sales contracts.
He also worked . . .
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Eric Smith - Control Engineer
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Brett Israelsen -
Control Engineer
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Profile:
Brett
received a BS in Mechanical Engineering
at the University of Utah.
He is now pursuing a MS in Chemical
Engineering at the University
of Utah. His focus is on Process Control. Before
coming to APCO Brett was an Engineering
Technician at ProMold, a custom injection molding facility in North Salt Lake,
Utah
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Profile:
Michele is a Certified Public
Accountant who received both a BS in
Accounting and
an MS in Tax Accounting from the University of Utah. With
over 25 years of accounting, legal, and management experience,
she has returned to APCO after working in public accounting as
a small business tax consultant and Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor.
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Michele Garrigues, CPA -
Controller
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Consistent Integrity:
APCO Inc. is a solution
driven company dedicated to providing high quality control and optimization
solutions for industrial processes. In doing so, APCO strives for excellence and
will display integrity, honesty and a positive work ethic towards clients,
employees and the community. Our goal is to implement solutions that produce
maximum value and maximum profits through use of state-of-the-art expertise and
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Unbeatable Team Effort:
Many of the major challenges
encountered within control systems result from a lack of understanding between
engineering and control teams. At APCO we believe that we are on the same team
-- it is not us versus them.
We have successfully built team after team that complements the existing
infrastructure of people and operations. We recognize the talent already in
place at each project and develop a team environment to ensure successful
results.
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