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Senior Consultant
Pete Shirley is a senior consultant based in the AP-Networks Houston office. Pete has twenty years of experience which includes US Navy nuclear submarines, refining, petrochemical and associated service industry. This background gives him a wide technical understanding of multiple disciplines from both a owner and contractor perspective.
Pete's latest assignment prior to joining AP-Networks was at United Laboratories International as the Vice President/Division Manager providing decontamination products and services to the refining and petrochemical industries. In this role, Pete gained a "vendor side" understanding of the turnaround market as well as a comprehensive understanding of process equipment contaminants and decontamination technologies.
Prior to his position at United Laboratories, Pete worked at Celanese Chemicals in Clear Lake, TX. Pete managed the specialists and engineers responsible for the reliability and inspection of the plant's fixed equipment, rotating equipment, analyzers, instrumentation and power distribution. He also managed the turnaround team, and oversaw the preparation and execution for multiple planned and unplanned turnarounds. Pete also worked at the Sunoco Philadelphia Refinery. Pete's roles included fixed equipment engineer, turnaround manager and maintenance superintendent. While at Sunoco Pete managed several planned and unplanned turnarounds.
Pete started his career serving as a nuclear trained officer in the US Navy. Pete gained extensive hands-on experience in controls, instrumentation, power distribution, fixed equipment, rotating equipment, quality controls, operations and maintenance.
Pete holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business. His Navy professional achievements include the following qualifications: quality assurance officer, nuclear engineering department head, submarine command, and strategic weapons department head. He is affiliated with NACE, and ASME. He has also authored or presented technical topics at TINC, NPRA, Middle East PETROTECH, The International Refiner's Conference, Sulfur.com, and Coking.com.
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