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SUMMARY: Experienced in all aspects of process/project engineering especially those involving nonferrous metals in an environmental setting. Proficient in moving from concept to reality in technology and business. Strong investigative skills and quick study in many areas. Prefer creative, non-routine assignments such as assisting with technology startups, under-performing plants and other opportunities requiring some creativity and self-motivation. Project Engineering experience on projects up to $10 million; lead process engineering experience on projects up to $1 billion. Mission Oriented.

SPECIAL SKILLS:
* Broad Perspective in Operations, Business, R&D, and Engineering Design
* Viability Analysis of New or Existing Ventures
* Building Techno-Economic Models with VBA & Excel
* Mathcad, Excel, Access, Word, Microsoft Project
* Experienced Technical Manager
* Project Experience in Metals, Chemicals, Energy, Wastewater & Hazardous Wastes
* Investigations requiring the collection and presentation of evidence.

Skills Applied in the following Industries:
¨ Nonferrous Metal Refining (Pyro & Hydro)
¨ Inorganic Specialty & Bulk Chemicals
¨ Energy
¨ Ceramics
¨ Hazardous Waste Recycling
¨ Industrial Waste Water Treatment
¨ Electrochemical Systems
¨ Insurance Claims

Process/Project Engineering Skills include:
¨ Process Flow Diagrams
¨ Equipment Data Sheets/Specifications
¨ Basic Thermodynamics
¨ Material and Energy Balances
¨ Technical Project Management
¨ Feasibility Studies, Process Development
¨ Troubleshooting, Process Commissioning

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY SUMMARY:
¨ Metallurgical Viability, Consultant/owner, process models, contract process/project engineer.
¨ Fluor Daniel, Principal Process Engineer, International Assignments in process design.
¨ Southern Water Treatment, Technical Director, Staff Position in Operating Plant.
¨ Encycle (Asarco), Business Manager then Technical Director, operating plant.
¨ Keramont, Ceramic Process/Project Engineer, R&D, pilot plants.
¨ Anaconda Copper Research Center, Senior Process/Project Engineer, R&D, pilot plants.
¨ Amax Nickel, Senior Process/Project Engineer, operating plant.
¨ Southwire, Group Leader Process Engineering, operating plant.

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
Metallurgical Viability, Inc. (www.metallurgicalviability.com) 07/99-Present
Consultant specializing in process economics and project viability. Tools include process flow diagrams (PFD's), material and energy balances (MEB), equipment specifications (ES), and financial/material and energy balance models (MV MODEL). Clients in the hazardous waste, industrial waste water treatment and the nonferrous extractive metallurgy field. Evaluation and improvement of process economics for new and existing technology. Clients included:
2005 Confidential Client. Economic modeling of a process to make MgO from a ore deposit in the middle east.
2004-2005 Safe Hydrogen, Inc. Economic modeling of the carbothermal process and the SOM process for making magnesium.
2004 - 2005 Confidential Client. Several studies on utilizing oil sand by-products for various commercial products.
2002 Pildysh Technologies, Inc. Third-party opinion on carbo-chlorination process for power plant fly ash.
2002 to current. Corrosion Testing Labs, Inc (CTL). Failure investigations of components and systems in the manufacturing, chemical and petroleum field for clients of CTL. Preparation of reports on evidence collected in investigations for legal teams. Helped raise sales of failure analysis department from $100K per year to $400K per year. Two patents pending.
2002 Pildysh Technologies, Inc. Third-party opinion on carbo-chlorination process for power plant fly ash.
2002 Flehr Hohbach Test Albritton, Inc. supplied expertise on nickel, nickel oxide coating on solder connection for a patent litigation.
2002 Douglas G. Peterson & Associates/Liberty Mutual Insurance. Expediting the resumption of business for a tantalum reclamation process after an explosion. Facilitating third party tolling agreements, selecting engineering firms, evaluating condition of equipment, and providing general technical support to the Insurer.
2001 Webster University, instructor for course entitled "Operations Management".
2001/2 Alchemix Corp, assisting with the development of processes for making methane and hydrogen from coal. Developing techno-economic models to evaluate many alternatives. Co-inventor on five Patents. Co-authored DOE Proposal.
2001 Magnesium Technologies Limited, developed White Paper for Investors on novel carbothermal magnesium technology. Assisting client in finding investors. Representing MTL to potential investors; assisting in the development of the required R&D program.
2000/01 Lone Wolf Technologies, developing chemical and regulatory strategy for hazardous waste recycling for LWT & clients.
2000 Anaconda Nickel, gathered and reported on general information on the Kroll Process.
2000 Pittsburgh Mineral & Environmental & Alchemix, developing MV MODEL for a novel automobile recycling plant to determine economics of process concept before pilot testing.
2000 Fluor Daniel/Alcoa, developed preliminary MV MODEL for AHF recovery from spent pot linings.
2000 RF Weston, created PFD, MB, ES and a preliminary cost estimate for a facility to remove sand from a dredging operation feeding a bio-film removal plant.
1999/00 American Metal Recovery (11/99 to 6/00), AMR developed a calcium chloride process for electric arc furnace dust recycling. MV performed the following tasks (1)Developed an Engineering Scope of Work and Process Design Package for the Class 15 Feasibility Study, (2) Acted as an owner's representative for the feasibility study with Engineering Company, (3) Lead the technology team in making several key improvements in the technology.
1999 RF Weston: On an EPA site, converters, holding furnace, and baghouses examined for condition, value, and decontamination requirements. Also, recommended mothball procedures.
1999 Magnesium Technology Limited: Due diligence study on a magnesium project. Third party evaluation of probable value of new technology and probability of commercialization.

Principal Process Engineer for Fluor Daniel (FD) 3/95 - 7/99
(International Engineering and Construction Company)
* Doe Run Peru (DRP) identified $20 million/yr. savings by changing zinc plant feedstock and persuaded client to initiate studies by outside contractors to capitalize on concept.
* Developed ten year technical and business plan for the zinc circuit for DRP.
* Lead Process/Project Engineer for DRP for $6 million waste water treatment plant.
* Australian Magnesium Corp.(AMC) lead process engineer for $1.0 billion facility.
* Outside review of Murin Murin Nickel Project.
* Initiated and Lead New Business Venture for SPL Processing for aluminum industry and FD. Received MVP award for development of agreements and initiating venture.
* Process engineer for Pre-feasibility Study for a new copper refinery for Phelps Dodge.
* Technical and business lead in evaluating Toth's carbo-chlorination process to make silicon tetrachloride and aluminum chloride from siliceous clay.
* Process Engineer for $700 million Gresik copper refinery complex. Also evaluated vendors for associated $7 million waste water treatment plant. Received MVP award for computerizing refinery calculations and developing process guarantees.
* Lead FD in the number and size of MVP awards for two years while in U.S.
Technical Director for Southern Water Treatment Co. 6/91 -3/95.
* As Process/Project Manager built a plant to manufacture sodium dimethyl dithiocarbamate (DTC) utilizing highly hazardous chemicals DMA, carbon sulfide, and caustic (concept to reality).
* Started up a hazardous metal waste recycling company (concept to reality).
* Negotiated only contract in the nation from Cyprus Amax in which a hazardous waste was purchased by a smelter.
Technical Director for Encycle, Inc. 6/89-6/91.
* Part of startup team to take business from concept to reality.
* Developed pricing strategy for a wide variety of hazardous metal wastes.
* Developed product specifications and markets for products (concentrates).
* Contributed to the development of processes for recycling hazardous metal wastes.

CMS, Inc. Process Consultant/Software Business Owner. 6/84 - 4/89.
* Process consulting on treatment and disposal of cyanide wastes, pesticide formulator product registrations, lead emissions studies for OSHA.
* Evaluated technologies for a venture capital firm.
* Developed software developed included manpower allocation program for Sanger Harris Department Stores, expert system for secondary copper furnaces (NSF/SBIR grant), and a business package for child care centers. Company still in operation.

PRIOR RELEVANT EXPERIENCE
Anaconda Copper (ARCO). Senior Research Engineer and Project Manager for pilot scale testing of direct smelting of copper concentrates and re-opening the closed Anaconda Smelter. Designed and built a 50 KVA pilot scale electric furnace.
AMAX Nickel Company. Senior Process Engineer in facility for production of nickel, cobalt, and copper from matte via a complex hydrometallurgical process. Frequent Project Leader for implementation of new technology.
Keramont Company (Monte Edison). Senior Ceramic Process Engineer and Project Manager on scale-up of silicon carbide whisker production process (concept to reality).
Copper Division of Southwire Company. Plant Metallurgist and Process Engineering Supervisor for a copper recycling smelter and for a continuous rod plant (SCR).
Asarco Copper Smelter (El Paso). Engineering Assistant.

EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering, Ohio State University. Dissertation on "Some Characteristics of Electrochemical Deoxidation of Induction-Stirred Copper Melts."
BS and MS in Metallurgical Engineering, University of Texas at El Paso. Thesis on "The Effects of Periodic Current Reversals on the Electrodeposition of Copper." (Funded- by Phelps Dodge Copper Co.)
Completed 35 hours in last year of MBA curriculum, West Georgia College, Carrollton, Ga.
Courses in Assembly language programming, Pima College, 1985.

PUBLICATIONS Robert R. Odle, Ph.D.
R.R. Odle and R.A. Rapp. "Electrochemical Studies and Processes Involving Oxygen in Liquid Metals", Electrochemical Society Symposium on Metal-Slag-Gas Reactions and Processes, eds. Z.A. Foroulis and W.W. Smeltzer, Toronto, May 1973.
R.R. Odle and R.A. Rapp. "Further Studies of the Electrochemical Deoxidation of Induction-Stirred Copper Melts", Met. Trans., Vol. 8B, No. 4, Dec. 1977.
R.R. Odle, A.E. Morris and R.J. McClincy. "Investigation of the Direct Smelting of Copper Concentrates", International Sulfide Symposium, eds. H.Y. Sohn and D.B. George, A.I.M.E. (TMS), San Francisco, November 1983.
R.R. Odle and T. Marx. "Computerized Blast Furnace Charge Selection and Optimization", National Science Foundation Conference on Manufacturing Processes, Machines, and Systems, Gainesville, Florida, November 1986.
R.R. Odle and T. Marx. "Expert MRP System for a Secondary Copper Blast Furnace", AIME Annual Meeting, Denver, February 1987.
R.R. Odle and S. Narasimhan. "Keramont's SiC Whisker Process", American Ceramic Society Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, 1989.
R.R. Odle, et al. "The Recycling of Hazardous Metal Plating Wastes", JOM, Vol. 43, No. 6, June, 1991, p. 28-31.
R.R. Odle, et al. "MV Model for the Carbothermal Magnesium Process, TMS, February 2005.
PATENTS
Pyrometallurgical Process for the Continuous Refining of Secondary and Blister Copper, U.S. Patent 4,315,775.
Hydrometallurgical Process for the Refining of Crude Nickel Sulfate, U.S. Patent 4,314,976.
Method for the Treatment of Coal, U.S. Patent 20,020,124,466.
Method and Apparatus for the Production of Hydrogen Gas, U.S. Patent 20,020,127,178.
Method for the Production of Hydrogen and Applications Thereof, U.S. Patent 20,030,072,705.
Method for the Production of a Methane Containing Gas, U.S. Patent, 20,020,139,049.
Method for the Production of Ammonia, U.S. Patent 20,020,127,165.
Method for the Production of Hydrogen-Containing Gaseous Mixtures, U.S. Patent No. 6,685,754, patent being amended to add my name as an Inventor.

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