Wastech Process Solution News

Wastech Corporate Update

Kevin Holm, VP Engineering	Kevin Holm with Paul Nicolas, President

In January, we welcomed our new Vice President of Engineering, Kevin Holm, who will handle our engineering and project management departments. Kevin comes from Jacobs Engineering after a two-year assignment in the Philippines as the project manager for a new semiconductor facility. He brings 25 years of experience handling complex engineering assignments as a project engineer, design engineer, and project manager. He has worked for different industries, including Chevron, Kodak, Kimberly Clark and Cypress Semiconductor. He is experienced in manufacturing, chemical processing, waste treatment, cogeneration, and construction.

We also welcomed three new engineers: Hessam Vakil, a process engineer: Kent Smedley, a chemical engineer; and Dan Necsulescu, a mechanical engineer.

We passed our CSIA Certification audit, becoming the only CSIA certified automation integrator in Southern California. The Control System Integrator Association (CSIA) has 140 member companies, but of these only 75 are certified to demanding standards for project execution and technical management in the control and software industry. By passing this audit, similar to an ISO audit, Wastech now joins this limited group of companies. Check out www.controlsys.org for more information. Also look for our listing in the Automation Integrator Guide 2006 from Control Engineering Magazine.