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Robert J. Pillmore

Process Engineer

Experience

  • September 2014–PresentPrincipal Engineer, Trimeric Corporation, Buda, Texas
  • December 2012–September 2014Contract Engineer, Trimeric Corporation, Buda, Texas
  • Nov 1984–May 2008Engineering Manager / Sr. Project Manager, Emerson, Inc., Austin, Texas
  • 1981–1984Sr. Engineer, The Morgan Company, Houston, Texas
  • 1979–1981Consulting Engineer, Desalination Engineering and Service Co., Houston, Texas
  • 1978–1979Product Development Engineer, Culligan, Inc., Northbrook, Illinois
  • 1976–1978Process/Project Engineer, Stewart & Stevenson Oil Tools, Houston, Texas
  • 1975–1976Process Engineer, Calgon Corporation, Houston, Texas
  • 1971–1974Lieutenant, US Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit, Michigan
  • 1969–1970Environmental Engineer, US Pipe & Foundry, Birmingham, Alabama

Fields of Experience

Mr. Pillmore has extensive experience in control system applications in a variety of industries including: oil & gas, pharmaceuticals, chemical, paper, and power generation. Oil and gas projects that Mr. Pillmore has been involved with included large rotating machinery (emergency shutdowns, vibration management, etc.), and oil and gas plant expansions. He also has process engineering experience in the areas of water and wastewater treatment, skidded equipment, and process systems specification. Mr. Pillmore has extensive review experience of process and control systems work, P&IDs, specification sheets, and project management approaches. Mr. Pillmore is a versatile senior engineering resource who also has hands-on skills with equipment, controls, and control programming and willingness to use those skills if needed for a project.

His core competencies include:

  • Process control system planning, design, instrumentation selection, control system architecture
  • Selection of control instrumentation
  • Preparation of specification sheets for process equipment and instrumentation
  • Wastewater treatment process design, including clarification, activated carbon adsorption, filtration, biological waste treatment
  • Water treatment employing filtration, ion exchange, and reverse osmosis desalination
  • Process piping and pressure vessel design
  • Project management

Education

  • May 1975M.S., Civil – Water Resources Engineering, University of Michigan
  • 1969B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Florida

Continuing Education

Updated education throughout career via training in areas such as: control system design and configuration, Foundation Fieldbus principles, network design, management principles, project management and personal productivity.