Steve Howes

About Steve Howes

Designed and implemented DMC controller in over 25 plants worldwide.Used DMC in numerous chemical plants and refineries worldwide and significantly improved plant automation.Applied RMPCT in oil refineries with numerous process operational improvements.Invented and applied new method for improving MPC/DMC models using plant data.Practical Control Room Experience in Numerous Plants.Inside control room of many chemical plants and refineries tuned PID and cascade controllers in several DCS and PLC systems.Designed and implemented feedforward and override selector constraint control schemes in several DCSs.Conducted troubleshooting of process and process control problems followed by improvements inside DCS or PLC with optimized PID/APC tuning and improvements in DCS or PLC configuration.Primary Process Control, Advanced Process Control and Model Predictive Control design, commissioning and startup experience. Skilled in Fortran, C++ and CL code programming. Skilled in process control algorithm development and numerical methods of analysis. Experienced trainer in process control for training operators, engineers, managers and also students in academic colleges. Developer of various software modules.Education:MS, BS – Chemical Engineering with specialization in Process ControlCourse towards MS in Computer ScienceVarious training courses on DCS, PLC and other control systemsVarious courses on Executive ManagementVarious courses on public speaking, training and communicationsVarious courses of primary control and process instrumentationVarious courses on economics and financial calculations

Experience

1. Senior Executive Manager

   Picontrol Solutions Llc

   Mar 1997 — Present · Katy, TX, US

   Financial and Marketing Senior Manager.Software Designer using various software applications using Fortran and C++.Process Control Trainer for primary and advanced (APC) process control, PID tuning, DCS and PLC functionality, safety and reliability, startup and commissioning.Adjunct Professor for process control and chemical engineering at various academic colleges.

Education

• Sierra College

  Master’s Degree, Chemical Engineering

  1985 — 1987

• NICT

  Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering

  1981 — 1985

• Ramapo College of New Jersey

  Business Management

  1987 — 1989

• New Jersey Institute of Technology

  Master of Science - MS

Skills

• System Identification
• Automation
• Pid Tuning Optimizer
• Tws
• Pid Control Quality Monitoring
• Apc
• Distributed Control System (Dcs)
• Instrumentation
• Dcs
• Oil & Gas
• Polymer Plant Apc
• Project Engineering
• Process Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Process Control Training
• Programmable Logic Controller (Plc)
• Pid Tuning Simulator
• Gas
• Engineering
• Polymers
• Scada
• Factory
• Opc
• Multivariable Closed-Loop Transfer Function Identification
• Process Control
• Commissioning
• Ibm Tivoli Workload Scheduler (Tws)
• Petroleum
• Electric Power Plant Controls
• Microsoft Office
• Advanced Process Control
• Plc
• Pid Tuning
• Control Systems Design