December 2015

Jim has been with Siemens Energy for almost four years. He has over forty years of technical experience in the operation, design, construction and start-up of facilities in the chemical, petrochemical and refining industries. He is currently serving as the technical lead for a team of two to four engineers responsible for the ongoing overpressure protection system maintenance and flare analysis efforts at two U.S. refineries. His responsibilities also include development of internal guidelines, training materials, and quality assurance auditing for overpressure protection analysis and/or...Read more

Ms. Prats is a Partner at ioMosaic where she is responsible for leading and supporting the firm’s Process Safety Management consulting group. As the group leader, she has helped many companies with PSM implementation for PSM and non-PSM covered processes. Her extensive experience includes leading and facilitating audits, process hazard analyses (PHA), facility siting studies, and quantitative risk analyses (QRA) for reactive and non-reactive chemical, petroleum and pharmaceutical facilities. She is also experienced with pressure relief and flare system design and evaluation for reactive...Read more

Mr. Prophet is a Senior Vice President and Partner at ioMosaic and brings over 20 years of experience in the field of process safety to his role as a leader of the Relief Systems group. He manages ioMosaic's Houston office and oversees major Pressure Relief and Flare Systems Design and Quantitative Risk Assessment studies. 

Mr. Prophet's roles in the process safety field have included consulting, project management, technical support, technical sales, training course development and presentation, and operations management. He has assisted operating companies and...Read more

Brian received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 2000, and earned his PhD in Chemical Engineering in 2005 from the University of California-Berkeley. Brian’s thesis research focused on developing methods of controlling gene expression in bacteria that could be applied to enhancing the biosynthesis of pharmaceuticals. 

After graduating, he accepted a NIH-postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he studied how six Bacillus anthracis enzymes assemble a natural product essential for iron acquisition and...Read more