Juan Sanmartín, Msc.

2018-2020 SPED Spain Chapter Treasurer

He has over 20 years’ education experience

He is Vice-Dean and Responsible for Education at Official College of Chemistry in Galicia and Flipped Classroom Specialist.
He holds a Master of Science in Chemistry and a Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Risk Prevention 

Sergio Matas, Msc.

2018-2020 SPED Spain Chapter Secretary 

He has over 10 years’ experience in Oil & Gas Sector.

Currently, he works as Senior Pipe Stress Engineer at Wood plc, previously at Técnicas Reunidas and Gas Natural Fenosa.
He holds a Master of Science in Materials Engineering

Javier Rubio, MSc.

2018-2020 SPED Spain Chapter Vice-President

He has 16 years’ experience in Engineering and Construction 

He is CEO of the Atlantic Water Authority and Vice President at Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Iberia Group 

He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering

Miguel Sanmartín, Msc, MEng

2018-2020 SPED Spain Chapter President

He has 14 years’ experience in Engineering and Construction (Power, Pharmaceutical, Mining, Oil & Gas Sectors)

Currently, he works as Senior Pipe Stress Engineer at Wood plc.
He has been Honorary Treasurer, Academic & Industrial Liaison at Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Iberia Group

He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering, a Master´s Degree in Piping Engineering and Postgraduate Diploma in Geotechnical & Foundations.

Aurelio Azaña, MSc.

2018-2020 SPED Spain Chapter Industrial Chairman

He has over 38 years’ experience within Chemical, Process and other industrial sectors.

He is Dean of the Professional Association of Industrial Engineers (West Andalucía) since 2005, Vice-president of Asian (Higher Association of the Andalusian Engineering), Vice-president of the Andalusian Council of Industrial Engineers.

He is also Founder and current CEO & Founder of the AZCATEC TECNOLOGIA E INGENIERÍA, S.L. (company focus on Chemical, Process, Power and Mining).

Furthermore, he works as Professor of the School of Engineers at University of Sevilla since 1996 and General Manager and Coordinator of the Master in Industrial Engineering at Loyola University since 2016.

He holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering

Ignacio M. Gargallo Sanz de Vicuña, MSc, MBA

2018-2020 SPED Spain Chapter Civil Chairman

He has 15 years of experience in Power & Construction Sectors.

He is Technical Manager at Técnicas Gades - Engineering Consultant Company.

He holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering and Master of Business Administration

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2020-2022 SPED Calgary Chapter President 
Bruce Fraser, PPD IV

Bruce has over 38 years experience as an industrial designer, piping squad leader, trainer and department manager, including 30 years of piping drafting and design.  Bruce spent 3 years as an advisor for the SAIT PPD program and has delivered various presentations to technical students in Calgary. A supporter of SPED since 2011, Bruce was responsible for instituting the SPED training program at a major Calgary EPC which saw over 150 designers and engineers achieve their certification.  He aims to continue supporting his fellow pipers by promoting SPED certification and training throughout the Calgary and Edmonton markets, broadening its reach in the Global market.

2020-2022 SPED Calgary Chapter Treasurer 
Kevin Noakes, B.A.Sc., PPD IV

Kevin is a process piping designer and piping squad & project discipline team leader, with over thirty years of experience in industrial and commercial resource production and transportation.

2020-2022 SPED Calgary Chapter Secretary
Susan Yu

Susan Yu has 13 years mechanical engineering experience in China and 14 years piping design experience in Canada. Since 2006, Susan Yu has been involved in Saudi Aramco Shaybah project, Saudi Aramco Zuluf project, Husky Sunrise Oil Sand, Husky Pikes Peak Oil sand, Kearl expansion, Encana Resthaven gas plant, Encana Pipestone Gas plant, Pembina Pump Stations etc. In these projects, Susan Yu has been doing her roles as Senior piping designer and Checker, Area lead and Design lead. Susan has a wide range of software skills such as SP3D, PDS, PDMS, AVEVA E3D, CADWorx, Microstation, AutoCAD, SmartPlant Review, Naviswork. Susan Yu achieved SPED Level VI certification in 2012 and has been active since then. 

2020-2022 SPED Corporate Member Director At Large
Jacques de Fortier, PPD IV

Jacques de Fortier is a Piping Manager and Piping Designer with more than 30 years of experience and a background in the engineering design sector including the petrochemical, chemical, oil and gas industries, working alongside project management, drilling, offshore and onshore construction, operations, logistic departments as well as design office discipline groups.

2020-2022 SPED Calgary Chapter Vice President, Education and Training
Bill Bailey

Bill has over 38 years experience as a designer including mining, pulp and paper, refinery, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and oil sands experience.

2020-2022 SPED Calgary Chapter Vice President, Sponsorships
Chris Bowman

Chris has over 32 years Western Canada experience with Oil Sands Upstream and Upgrading, Petrochemical, Mining, Pulp and Paper and Steam Plants, Principal Piping Design Lead, Checker and Construction support.

2020-2022 SPED Calgary Chapter Vice President, Events
Tony Miletic

Tony Miletic came to Canada in 1996 from Serbia, where he gained a Diploma for Mechanical Engineer and State Examination License.

In 1997 he established MPD - Miletic Petro Design Ltd (MPD Ltd.) company specializing in heat tracing systems, EPCM. Over the last 22 years MPD Ltd provided both steam and glycol heat tracing to numerous major projects and clients in Alberta. During the past 22 Years Tony worked on several mega projects in the capacity of Piping Design Lead, Piping Engineering Specialist and Field Engineer.

2020-2022 SPED Calgary Chapter Vice President, Promotion
Clarence Wynter, LSCM, PPD IV

Clarence has over 25 years’ experience in piping design with Oil & Gas Pipelines, Oil & Gas surface processing, Upstream Minable Oil Sands, Power Plants, Natural Gas, Pulp & Paper, Water Treatment Facilities and Injection Systems.

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2020-2022 SPED Louisville Chapter Treasurer 
DONALD R. MILLION, PPD IV

Don has over 36 years’ experience with refinery, upstream arctic oil & gas, petrochemical, special chemical, manufacturing and primary metals industries as Piping Department Manager, Senior & Principal Piping Designer and Discipline Client Lead.  

He holds an Associate Degree in Engineering Technology.

2020-2022 SPED Louisville Chapter Secretary 
KEITH HOLTON, PPD IV
Keith has over 38 years’ experience with refinery, chemical, power and steel industries as a Senior Piping Design Lead, 3D Modeling Coordinator. 

2020-2022 SPED Louisville Chapter Vice President 
MIKE RIGSBY

Mike has over 32 years’ of experience with refinery, upstream arctic oil & gas, petrochemical, chemical, steel mill, specialty metals, and manufacturing as Piping Coordinator, Principal Checker, Principal Piping Lead, Design Firm owner/operator and Discipline Client Lead. He holds his TWIC certification, FEMA IS-100 & IS-70 certification and NSTC training certification. 

2020-2022 SPED Louisville Chapter President 
JIMMY GARCIA, PPD IV
Jimmy has over 42 years of experience with nuclear power plant, chemical and refinery industries as a Senior & Principal Piping Lead, Project Coordinator and Construction Support Lead. Design Firm owner, operated, manage, recruited staff, established and develop/implemented a document imaging system. He holds FAA license for single engine aircraft.

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By Timothy M. Ivory, PPD I

Six Ways Brownfield Piping Design is Key to Your Plant Upgrade’s Success

“Brownfield” work refers to work performed within or in addition to an existing facility. This type of work can be challenging, as the designers must contend with, work around and connect to existing equipment and piping systems. Some of the equipment and piping systems may not have been built and installed according to the original engineering documentation and as-built drawings may not have been made due to budget or time constraints.

By Sean Moran, C.Eng, P.Eng, Expertise Limited

Recently the issue of who or what an engineer is has come up in discussions I have been having within the IChemE, the University, and in a legal case where I am an expert witness.

The discussion within the IChemE is to do with legally reserving the title "Engineer" for Chartered Engineers, as is done in other countries. If you hear me describe someone as an engineer, that it what I personally mean by the term. A fellow professional engineer, with a UK-accredited degree in Engineering, at least four years of experience working as an engineer in the design or technical supervision of full scale-engineering projects, and the letters CEng after their name.

By Sean Moran, C.Eng, P.Eng, Expertise Limited

Chemical Engineers are often known as process engineers in professional life, but we do not design processes - we design process plants. Engineers design physical artefacts, and a process is not a physical object. Process plants are – they are made of concrete and steel, wires and pipes, tanks and pumps. Processes happen in them. 

The process designer specifies the physical subcomponents., and how they are to be connected and controlled in order to safely, reliably and economically carry out the process.  The process is an emergent property of the specified collection and interconnection of parts.

The process of selecting and specifying the parts and their interconnections involves a great deal of professional judgement, as well as the judicious application of engineering science and mathematics. 

The documentation of these choices is done largely by means of drawings. Drawings allow the communication with other engineering disciplines which is necessary to optimise the plant design. Drawings are the things which the people who will build the physical plant need to do their jobs.

This is process plant design, a rather messy, intuitive, collaborative, multi-disciplinary, multifactorial business. It involves negotiation and discussion with electrical, software and civil engineers, equipment suppliers, those who will procure, commission and operate the plant.

The precise process conditions to be used are actually not that important a part of the whole activity, and if we are honest with ourselves, we cannot as designers predict the conditions within the plant as constructed to a high degree of precision.  A good process plant designer makes sure that the plant design envelope encompasses the range of conditions that the plant is likely to see, and that it is robust enough to maintain adequate performance across that envelope.