George has 39 years of petroleum refining experience. His background is in operations and operations training. George's interest in operator decision support technologies led to the development of numerous regulatory and advanced process control applications.

In three decades with Amoco and BP, I occupied virtually every position in a typical process unit. My interest in operator performance improvement lead me to become the BP Console Operator Training Advisor and Process Simulator Project Manager. At the corporate level I took a leadership role in BP's Global Learning and Development Community, creating competency framesowrks and comprehensive curricula for console opertors across five BP North American Refineries.

I have spoken on the need for console operator certification at conferences in the U.S., Europe and Middle East. I hold a U.S. patent on a distillation column optimization control strategy, research funded with two grants from the U.S. Department of Energy

George was a three-time recipient of former Amoco Whiting Business Unit's Torch Award for the successful implementation of advanced process control innovations, which together earned the company over $6.8 million per year.

From 2009 to 2017 George was the Director of Training Services at RSI Simcon (now CORYS Dynamic Simulation) where he commercialized his simulator training methodology, the Companion Training Manual. The unit-specific training exercises in the Companion Training Manual are sequenced to build important optimization practices and abnormal situation management skills over an approximate 80-hour simulator training course. As the trainee demonstrates increased competency through the successful management of relatively simple tasks, more advanced simulator training scenarios introduce the trainee to more complex activities that when mastered, ultimately build confidence and improve console operator competency