Ray McKaskle, P.E.

Senior Engineer

Experience  

Senior Engineer, Trimeric Corporation, 2005 – Present 

Senior Field Process Engineer – Novellus Systems, Inc. 2001 – 2005

Chemical Systems Engineer – Novellus Systems, Inc. 1999 – 2001

Associate Engineer – Staff Engineer – Radian International 1992 – 1999

Fields of Experience

Mr. McKaskle has 18 years of engineering experience, including 12 years of engineering consulting for clients from the oil and gas, electric power utility, coal gasification, wood products, petrochemical, and semiconductor industries.  Recent key projects include compression and dehydration system design for a 21 MMSCFD CO2 sequestration project and capacity and bottleneck evaluations for a CO2 liquefaction facility.  He has hands-on expertise with design and troubleshooting for packed bed scrubbers, flares, incinerators, vapor recovery units and burners.

Mr. McKaskle has performed and managed emissions testing projects at facilities across his industry experience base using standard EPA approved and specially developed testing protocols to suit the application.  He has firsthand experience with numerous product flow rate and emissions measurement testing efforts and evaluation of measurement test results.

With more than six years of process engineering experience in the semiconductor industry, Mr. McKaskle has also developed expertise in complex troubleshooting of existing processes and process reactors.  He was a proven performer in systematic and statistically based troubleshooting and root cause analysis of process and reactor issues.  He has used mass spectrometers to perform quantitative emissions measurements from process reactors and worked on design of abatement systems for these reactors.  

Professional Registrations and Affiliations

           Registered Professional Chemical Engineer - California (No. CH5941)

           Member of the National Society of Professional Engineers

Education

           B.S., Chemical Engineering, Oklahoma State University, 1992

           Graduated in top 10% of College of Engineering

Publications

(see separate publications list)