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INSTRUCTOR PROFILES oil and gas pipeline integrity since joining Kiefner & Associates, Inc. than 30 years, and served as an NQA-1 Subcommittee Chair for many
(KAI) as senior structural engineer in 1991. He served as president
from 2001 to 2011. While at KAI, he performed numerous pipeline
failure investigations, stress analyses of buried pipelines subjected
to geotechnical and live loadings, fitness for service evaluations
for pipelines affected by various degraded conditions, developed
technical procedures for integrity management planning, and carried
out industry-funded research on pipeline damage mechanisms.
Rosenfeld is a current member of the ASME B31.8 Gas Transmission
& Distribution Piping Section Committee, the ASME B31 Mechanical
Design Technical Committee, the ASME B31 Standards Committee,
and the ASME Board of Pressure Technology Codes & Standards. He
was the primary author of the 2009 major revision to ASME B31G, is
an ASME fellow. He has authored numerous papers and articles on
pipeline-related subjects.
C. Wesley Rowley, P.E., has over 40 years’ experience in the nuclear,
fossil and hydro power industries. He has provided technical and
management support services to nuclear utilities, the US Department
of Energy, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Electric
Power Research Institute. Rowley’s technical experience includes
pre-operational startup testing, equipment testing and qualification,
inservice testing (including RI-IST), containment testing, codes and
standards compliance as well as maintenance plans development
and implementation. Rowley is an ASME codes and standards expert.
He was chair of the ASME Board on Nuclear Codes & Standards
(VP-NC&S), and has held several positions in ASME Operations and
Maintenance Committee, Post Construction Committee and Boiler
Pressure Vessel Committee.
Ranjit Roy, Ph.D., is an internationally known consultant and trainer
of quality engineering techniques. He is the president of engineering
quality and training company Nutek, Inc., which he established
in 1987. Prior to starting consulting firm, Roy was employed with
General Motors (1976-1987) at their Technical Center in Warren,
Michigan where he served in various engineering responsibilities.
He is the author of two textbooks on the Taguchi Method of quality
improvement and of Qulitek-4 software for design and analysis of
Taguchi experiments. Roy is a fellow of the American Society for
Quality and an adjunct professor at Oakland University in Rochester,
Michigan. He is listed in the Marquis Who’s Who in the World.
Michael W. Salmon is the team leader for the Probabilistic Structural
Mechanics Team, part of the Nuclear Design and Risk Analysis Group
in the Decision Applications Division of the Los Alamos National
Laboratory. Prior to joining LANL, Salmon served as a principal
engineer at EQE Incorporated in Costa Mesa, California, for seven
years. Before that, he was employed as a staff engineer at ABB/
Impell Incorporated and SMA/NTS in Southern California where
he participated in a number of probabilistic risk assessments of
commercial nuclear power plants for external events. Salmon has
extensive experience in seismic risk assessment, dynamic analysis
of structures and components and structural and component fragility
analysis. He is currently serving as the chair of ASCE’s Dynamic
Analysis of Nuclear Structures Technical Committee. He holds a BS
in civil/structural engineering from Purdue University, a MS in civil/
structural engineering from the University of Illinois, and an MBA from for over 20 years. Swayne has experience in design, fabrication,
Long Beach State University. Salmon is the author of several research
and conference papers.
Ron C. Schrotke, Jr., Principal and Owner of Ron Schrotke, LLC.,
is a retired Senior Quality Assurance Project Professional and
Engineer from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated
by Battelle. Schrotke has been involved in Quality Assurance
program development (e.g., company Quality Assurance Manuals and
Procedures) and in the development of Quality Assurance Standards
and requirements (for hardware and software activities) since 1986,
both in the research and manufacturing sectors. In addition, he has
been involved in software and the application of software quality
assurance Standards and practices for more than 30 years. Schrotke
has supported the efforts and development of ASME NQA-1 for more
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years, and as a Vice-Chair of the Main Committee for three years,
and served as the Chair of the NQA-1 Main Committee for six years.
Currently, he is a member of the NQA-1 Main Committee and serves
on the ASME Board of Nuclear Codes and Standards (BNCS).
Adrian L. Sepeda, P.E., has spent 33 years in the chemical industry
gaining experience in a variety of areas. He retired from Occidental
Chemical Corporation (OxyChem) in 2002 as its director of health,
environment, and safety risk management. In that position, he was
responsible for process safety, risk management, and accident
investigations for OxyChem’s worldwide operations. After retiring,
Sepeda established his own consulting firm, A.L. Sepeda Consulting
Inc., which specializes in process safety and risk management
— teaching, leading, and doing. His client base includes large
corporations and small, single operations. He has taught classes and
rendered services in several countries in addition to the US. Sepeda
earned his BS in mechanical rngineering from Lamar University in
Beaumont, Texas and has held a PE license in Texas for over 38 years.
He is also a life member of ASME and a CCPS Emeritus member.
William K. (Ken) Sowder, Ph.D., is a senior consultant to the nuclear
industry. He works with manufacturers and suppliers to develop
management systems which meet the requirements of codes and
standards such as ASME NQA-1-2008, ISO 9001: 2008 and IAEA
GS-R-3. Sowder worked for the ITER Project on-site in France from
2004–2007 as responsible officer and division head for ITER Quality
Assurance, and from 2008–2009 as expert contractor reporting to
the ITER’s director general and deputy director general of safety and
security. He helped develop the ITER interfaces with international
organizations such as IAEA, JSME and ISO. In addition, he works with
code and standard writing organizations such as ASME, JSME and
IAEA. He is a member of Section III Committees, NQA-1 Committees,
the ISO 9001 TC 176 US TAG and is an ASME BNCS member.
Walter J. Sperko, P.E., is president of Sperko Engineering Services,
Inc., a consulting firm specializing in metal fabrication technology. He
is chair of ASME Standards Committee IX and a member of several
of its subgroups; a member of ASME Standards Committee III and its
Subgroup on Materials, Fabrication and Examination; a member of the
ASME B31 Standards Committee; and past chair of AWS International
Standards Activities Committee, which represents the US at meetings
of ISO/TC44, Welding and Allied Processes and a member of AWS
Technical Activities Committee. He is a professional engineer
registered in several states and holds five US patents.
C. (Raj) Sundararajan has spent more than 25 years analyzing and
designing mechanical components, equipment, piping, and structures
subjected to dynamic forces. Currently president of EDA Consultants,
he has held senior technical positions at an architect-engineering
company, an equipment vendor and a consulting firm. The author of
more than 50 technical papers and reports, Sundararajan received
the ASME Best Paper Award in 1986.
Rick Swayne is a senior consultant with Reedy Engineering. He
has worked in many different areas of the nuclear power industry
quality assurance, inservice inspection, and repair, replacement and
modification activities.
Jay Vattappilly, P.Eng., provides training, technical support/code
consulting on ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code Sections I, IV,
VIII & IX for HSB Global Standards. He has taught courses that cover
ASME Sections I, VIII, and IX, as well as ASME B31.1 and NBIC for many
years. Vattappilly’s previous work experience has principally been
in the area of pressure equipment construction, working in the role
of a QA/QC Engineer, an Inspection Engineer for a large engineering
consulting firm servicing refineries and petrochemical plants, a
welding engineer responsible for both structural and pressure vessel
welding activity, as well as a design engineer of pressure equipment
constructed to ASME Sections I, IV, B31.1 and VIII. He holds a PE