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Joe Frey, staff consultant at Stress Engineering Services, Inc. (SES), Dyke Hicks joined Kiefner in 2015 after over six years with Koch
is a licensed engineer who previously spent 24 years at Houston Pipeline LLC and 13 years with Baker Hughes. His career began
Lighting & Power and Reliant Energy where he was responsible for working in the energy sector recording and interpreting information
providing engineering support for the FFS program for all boilers, from oil and gas wells on land and offshore. He then moved into
pressure vessels and high energy piping. Since joining SES in 2004 the field of pipeline integrity helping to develop a new inspection
he has worked several emergency repairs, including eight fire system for difficult pipelines. Hicks was involved in tool design, data
assessments in the last four years. He is currently chair of the ASME interpretation and the managing the U.S. operations of this division.
B31.1 Power Piping Code Committee. He then moved to Koch Pipeline LLC, and worked within the integrity
group. There, he managed the daily integrity operations and focused
Marcus Goncalves has over 15 years’ management consulting on some of the more challenging problems pipeline operators
experience in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East face. He also took a field assignment to help develop project
and Asia. Goncalves specializes in knowledge, project change and managers. Hicks is a member of ASME. He earned his BS in electrical
risk management practices, and has published more than 30 books engineering from Iowa State University and his BS in mathematics/
in the United States, and is often invited to speak on these subjects economics from the University of Iowa. He has authored several
worldwide. He is a member of the Project Management Institute papers regarding pipeline integrity.
and a certified project management professional (PMP), and was
simultaneously awarded Who’s Who in the “US Executives” and in Jack Hipple is a principal of Innovation-TRIZ based in Tampa,
the “Computer Industry” by the Rockefeller and Carnegie Florida. He leads innovation problem solving sessions with clients
Foundations. He holds a MS in computer information systems and and trains in the TRIZ Inventive Problem Solving Process and other
a BA in business administration. state-of-the-art innovation and creativity methods. Hipple has 35
years’ experience in the chemical and materials industries and in
Dyer Harris, Ph.D., P.E., is the president of Equipment Engineering the use of innovation and creativity tools, including 26 years with
Services in Wilmington, DE. Until recently, he was also a senior Dow Chemical, where he was responsible for global chemical
consulting engineer with the Warren Group. He has over 30 years’ engineering research as well as for the Discovery Research program
experience in industrial thermal systems analysis, heat exchangers, at its largest technology location in Michigan. Subsequently, he was
process equipment, two-phase flow and HVAC. As a research responsible for major new technology programs at Ansell Edmont and
engineer for DuPont at the Savannah River Site (SRS), Harris Cabot Corporation. Prior to forming his own company, Hipple was a
specialized in heat transfer at high thermal flux in reactors and heat senior consultant with Idea Connections and business development
transfer related to nuclear waste processing. As a consulting engineer, manager for Ideation International, a leading developer of TRIZ
he analyzes, designs and troubleshoots heat treatment processes for methodologies.
various industries. Harris has been an instructor in thermodynamics
and heat transfer for the University of South Carolina - Aiken, Greg L. Hollinger has over 35 years’ experience in power related
Villanova University and currently at the University of Delaware. industries, including commercial nuclear power and other nuclear
power technologies. Thirty years of that experience was with The
Ronald W. Haupt, P.E., has more than 40 years’ experience in Babcock & Wilcox Nuclear Power Generation Group in areas of INSTRUCTOR PROFILES
the design and analysis of industrial process and energy-related design, code certification, completed component shipping, quality
structures, equipment, piping, pipelines and supports. Currently assurance and technical training on nuclear and non-nuclear codes
a consulting piping engineer for Pressure Piping Engineering and standards. Hollinger currently is senior advisory engineer at
Associates, he is an active member of several ASME and other Becht Engineering’s Nuclear Services Division. He is a member of
national codes and standards committees. ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Nuclear Code committees and the
ASME Board on Nuclear Codes & Standards. He is an ASME Section
Jeff Henry has worked in the power industry for more than 35 years, III Appendix XXIII Certified Registered Professional Engineer. In 2004,
where his activities have focused on the elevated temperature he was honored with the ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Division
behavior of materials, failure analysis, condition assessment, Medal.
and welding metallurgy. Mr. Henry is active on several technical
committees of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code and is Ronald H. Howell, Ph.D., P.E., has more than 40 years’ experience
current chairman of BPV II as well as the chair of the Task Group on teaching refrigeration, heating and air conditioning, thermal analysis
Creep Strength Enhanced Ferretic Steels. and related areas. He has also helped develop educational and
experimental laboratory equipment. Howell’s industrial and consulting
Philip Henry, P.E., is a technical advisor for the Equity Engineering work includes solving ventilation and condensation problems and
Group, Inc., and has over 25 years of experience in the refining creating and implementing a complete air curtain test program.
and petrochemical industries. He is responsible for engineering A fellow of ASHRAE and a member of ASME, he was also chair of
consulting services in pressure relief, heat transfer and fluid flow. mechanical engineering at the University of South Florida.
He is a specialist in the design, installation, sizing and selection of
pressure relief devices and relieving systems and is currently chair Gene Imbro has worked in the commercial nuclear power industry
of the API Pressure Relieving System Subcommittee’s Task Force on since 1969 and has broad knowledge of light water reactor (LWR)
STD 520 related to the design and installation of pressure relieving designs and operation. He worked at a nuclear steam supply system
systems. He conducts audits of pressure relieving systems to ensure vendor and an architect/engineering firm before joining the United
compliance with OSHA PSM legislation and ASME, API and DIERs States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (US NRC) where he worked
standards, codes and publications. Additionally, he teaches the official for 33 years. At the US NRC Imbro served as deputy director in
API Pressure Relieving Systems course. Henry is actively involved both the Division of Engineering and the Division of Construction
in the development of technology for the API Risk-Based Inspection Inspection and Operational Programs. For over 30 years he has
(RBI) methodology. He is co-author of the re-write of API 581, Risked- actively participated in many ASME standards committees, including
Based Inspection Technology and is responsible for the development Sections III and XI, the ASME Operations and Maintenance Code and
and implementation of risk-based inspection programs for fixed NQA-1. Imbro currently chairs the Section III Special Working Group
equipment, pressure relief valves and heat exchanger bundles on Regulatory Interface and is a member of the Section III Subgroup
at several refining and petrochemical plants. He has developed General Requirements. Since his retirement from the NRC, he has
consequence models for use within RBI programs. performed consulting work for foreign regulators as well as ASME
and industry groups related to small modular reactors.

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