GROVER THOMAS

Grover Thomas, P. E., a Chemical Engineer by education, has over 40 years experience in execution, project and executive management of technical and commercial project work worldwide. After several years of technical engineering work, Grover managed in-house and field projects in the Engineering/Construction industry, liaising with equipment and technology vendors as well as other material and service providers.   Further experience involved responsibility for internal and external sales efforts for services type projects in extremely competitive markets.

Grover conducted successful safety, operation and maintenance training for customer personnel prior to start-up and commissioning of refinery, petrochemical and other energy processing plants many times approaching $1 billion in capital investment.   Safety was the key factor for protecting the investment, the operating staff and the community, and requiring failsafe procedures and training to execute them flawlessly. Other duties included development and implementation of training plans for all internal customer service personnel.   Sales coordinators were selected and trained as assistants to the line salespeople for ultimate growth into a sales position. Grover also conducted teambuilding and quality improvement training sessions. 

Grover led several teams to transfer technology and expertise to customers, usually from third world countries through interpreters. One such group from China numbered 70 engineers who were trained for 10 months sufficiently to function as a partner for execution of major petrochemical projects in the Far East.