| Executive Team |
Karl A. Schoene, Ph.D. David A. Lamar Vice President of Engineering Mr. Lamar oversees all activities at the Richland Technology Center. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Montana State University in chemical engineering. He was an engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute from 1986 to 1998, and has worked on and managed several key glass melter projects over the past ten years. He was also previously in charge of a program for demonstrating arc plasma applications in a radioactive environment for the treatment of low level and mixed waste at Department of Energy sites. Major projects on which Mr. Lamar worked include designing and overseeing construction of an Advanced Vitrification Technology melter which expanded the number and types of waste that could be processed, the Hot-Cell Restoration Program, which involved developing methods to evaluate, categorize, catalog and remove special case radioactive wastes at the DOE Hanford site, and characterization of the West Valley Demonstration Plant in which Mr. Lamar oversaw a team of scientists and engineers in characterizing and assessing the waste at the site and performing an analysis of appropriate remedial efforts. Mr. Lamar has also been involved in various assessment, surveillance and permitting projects at Hanford and other Department of Energy sites as well as commercial sites such as Three Mile Island. Mr. Lamar was the recipient of three R&D 100 Awards in 1997 and 1998. Back to Top David B. Allworth Chief Financial Officer Mr. Allworth has over 28 years experience in corporate financial management and accounting. Prior to joining InEnTec in 2002, Mr. Allworth was the Vice President, Finance for Integrated Measurement Systems, Inc., a global manufacturer of advanced semiconductor test equipment and software. From 1988 through 1995, Mr. Allworth held a variety of management positions with Mentor Graphics Corporation, a multi-national software company. Mr. Allworth's responsibilities have included strategic planning, financial analysis, international tax & finance, treasury management and investor relations. In addition, Mr. Allworth played key roles in two public stock offerings and was an influential leader in successful implementations of both Oracle and SAP software applications. He practiced as a CPA with KMG Main Hurdman prior to that firm merging into KPMG Peat Marwick. He holds a BS in Business Administration from Oregon State University. Back to Top J. Michael Rockett Vice President and General Counsel Mr. Rockett works on InEnTec's strategic and day-to-day project and business development initiatives and manages the legal affairs of InEnTec and its subsidiaries. Mr. Rockett has spent over 20 years working at the intersection of energy and the environment. After graduating from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in Economics, Mr. Rockett was an Economist at Economic Insight, Inc., specializing in economic analysis of energy markets, including crude oil, natural gas, and electricity. He received his J.D. from Lewis and Clark Law School, magna cum laude, in 1995, where he also served as Editor-in-Chief of the legal journal "Environmental Law." Following law school, Mr. Rockett served as a Trial Attorney in the Environmental Enforcement Section of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. and San Francisco, where he prosecuted civil cases to enforce U.S. laws regulating hazardous waste, clean air, clean water, toxics, and environmental contamination. He received a Special Achievement Award for his work on seminal Clean Air Act cases. Mr. Rockett then became a Senior Associate with the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, where he focused on obtaining permits and approvals for energy projects (including electrical generation, hydrogen, and a number of large refinery projects needed to produce ultra-low sulfur diesel), the use and generation of emission credits, and developing and applying statutes and regulations on behalf of clients producing clean burning fuels and low emission vehicles. Back to Top Matthew B. Glass Vice President of Manufacturing Mr. Glass oversees all equipment procurement, production and installation operations for InEnTec, including vendor and subcontract management. His experience spans the operations spectrum, including strategic planning, process reengineering, manufacturing and production management, systems implementation and relationship management. Mr. Glass' background includes positions with Amerlux Lighting Solutions, where he managed a complete overhaul of operations, including implementation of lean manufacturing initiatives and a company-wide Oracle ERP system; Marie Callendar's Retail Foods, where he developed a manufacturing and distribution planning and control system for a network of 3rd party contract production facilities and warehouses; and Coca Cola Bottling Company of New York, where he managed production and distribution. In addition, he served as Vice President of Client Care for Core Services, an Applications Service Provider managing outsourced Oracle ERP environments. Mr. Glass was a founding employee of InEnTec, holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has undertaken post-graduate work in Operations Research at St. Johns University. Back to Top James A. Batdorf, Ph.D. Director of Engineering and Technology Development Dr. Batdorf manages the engineering and technology development of the PEM™ gasification process including equipment and operations improvement, energy recovery, and use of the synthesis gas product. He holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from the University of Idaho. From 1983 to 1989, Dr. Batdorf conducted experimental and theoretical research of plasma technology at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL). Dr. Batdorf was responsible for developing a state-of-the-art plasma experimental laboratory at the INEL Research Center, including installing and operating transferred and non-transferred plasma torches with power capabilities up to 180 kW; a 60 kW inductively coupled plasma (ICP) system; a 100 kW cyclone plasma reactor; and a low pressure 13.56 MHz ICP reactor. Work at this laboratory included development of new plasma reactor concepts for performing "plasma phase" reactions, emission spectroscopy to evaluate plasma temperature and departure from equilibrium, laser-Doppler velocimetry to measure particle velocities, and laser induced florescence to measure plasma species concentrations. During the 1990s, Dr. Batdorf worked for Science Applications International Corporation in a variety of roles including process development, process control, process modeling and simulation, process design, environmental permitting, and project management in the fields of thermal waste treatment, air pollution control, and radioactive waste processing. Dr. Batdorf is one of the key inventors of the Plasma Hearth Process (PHP) technology for treatment of radioactive waste contaminated with hazardous metals and organic compounds and was responsible for the research and development of this technology. The PHP program consisted of three experimental systems: a non-radioactive bench scale system, a radioactive bench-scale system, and a non-radioactive pilot plant system that processed whole 55-gallon drums of waste at a rate of up to three drums per hour over a continuous 100 hour period. Back to Top |