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AcuTech was founded by David A. Moore, P.E., CSP, to provide high quality consulting and training services to the process industry.  Our management team has decades of experience working with industrial and government facilities.  Key management team members include
 

David Moore, PE, CSP
President & CEO

David Moore is a subject matter expert on petroleum and chemical security, process safety management, risk assessment and inherent safety. He is actively involved in leading-edge consulting and training assignments to industrial facilities worldwide. Mr. Moore has taught process safety and security courses for over 20 years to many of the world’s largest corporations. He has been an instructor on process safety and security for such organizations as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), AIChE, API, OSHA, USEPA, ACC, and the NPRA.

He has served in various capacities to advise the DHS on chemical security management and vulnerability assessment, including Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards 6 CFR Part 27. He served as the Sector Coordinator for petroleum, chemical, and LNG for the) initiative to develop a common vulnerability analysis standard ‘Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP).

Mr. Moore was the lead author of the AIChE CCPS® “Guidelines for Managing and Analyzing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites”, the security guidelines for the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the API/National Petrochemical and Refiners Association Security Vulnerability Assessment Methodology.

Mr. Moore was formerly a Senior Engineer with Mobil Corporation in Princeton, NJ; and a Fire Protection Engineer with the National Fire Protection Association in Boston, MA. Mr. Moore is a Registered Professional Engineer.  He is a board member for the Energy Security Council. He serves on the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety Technical Steering Committee, the CCPS Plant Security Committee, and the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the National Fire Protection Association, and the American Society of Industrial Security. He has an MBA, (NYU-1987), and a B.Sc., Fire Protection Engineering (University of Md.-1979).
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Kathleen Clodfelter
Business Operations Manager

Ms. Clodfelter has over 18 years of integrated management experience in security and environmental industries within the government and commercial marketplaces.  Specific areas of expertise include general organization and staff management, program planning and direction, scheduling and tracking of resources and milestones, standards and process development and implementation, field operations oversight, and analysis of organizational operations and integrated business systems.  As the Business Operations Manager, she oversees all business and administrative functions for the company, including finance, contracting, human resources, safety, and security. She joined AcuTech in 2007 after stints with Johnson Controls, TRW, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. General Accounting Office.  Ms. Clodfelter holds a M.P.P. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. in Economics from Eastern Illinois University.
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Michael J. Hazzan
Eastern Business Unit Manager

Mr. Hazzan has over thirty-three total years experience in process safety and risk analysis, process security, engineering, and plant operations.  He has served as a Project Manager/Lead Engineer for a number of safety and risk studies, security analyses, and audits.  This work has comprised extensive experience in PSM/RMP auditing (over 100 such audits in the past 12 years), security vulnerability analyses (SVA), process hazard analyses (PHA), release (source term) calculations for severe reactor accidents, facility siting studies, and dispersion/consequence calculations, development of mechanical integrity management systems, and probabilistic risk analyses.  He has also performed approximately 85 SVAs for MTSA-covered and non-MTSA-covered chemical/process sites, and prepared 27 facility security plans for such facilities, and has performed the marine vessel collision frequency analysis for the Independent Risk Analyses for four proposed LNG deep water ports.  He is one of the developers of DHS’s Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP) sector screening and SVA methodology for the chemical, petroleum, and LNG sectors.  He has also served as a design engineer for nuclear power plant fluid/mechanical systems.

Mr. Hazzan has authored and extensively taught training courses in process safety and risk analysis, as well as security/SVA for the chemical/process and power industries.  He has developed and conducted SVA and Facility Security Officer training to hundreds of chemical and petroleum industry representatives, including the SVA training provided for DHS’s Protective Security Advisors (PSA) and Federal Protective Service, as well as many training courses in various areas of process safety and risk management.  He has published 25 technical papers in the areas of process safety and risk and security, has served as an expert witness on process safety during the permit hearing process for a new chemical recycling facility, and is the co-author of the CCPS book, Guidelines For Analyzing And Managing The Security Vulnerabilities Of Fixed Chemical Sites, the upcoming CCPS book, Inherently Safer Chemical Processes, 2nd, edition, the upcoming CCPS book, Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems, as well as serving as a contributor to the new CCPS book on Mechanical Integrity.

Mr. Hazzan also served over 26 years in the U.S. Navy, including 7 years on active duty in the nuclear submarine force, and retiring as a Naval Reserve Engineering Duty Officer with the rank of Captain.  He holds a Secret clearance.
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Christie Arseneau
Southern Business Unit Manager

Ms. Arseneau has over eight years experience in process safety and risk management, environmental, and occupational safety and health. She has served as a leader for a number of process safety and risk studies, and audits. This work has comprised extensive experience in process safety auditing and specialized technical evaluations for resin manufacturing processes (over 20 such audits in the past 3 years), process hazard analyses, development of management of change programs, and strategic implementation plans for process safety.  Ms. Arseneau has worked closely with global manufacturing operations and their businesses to develop and implement strategies for executing process safety management systems. She has experience in establishing internal polices for process safety and implementing these policies globally through development of tools. She has experience in working with acquisition facilities to implement effective, risk based process safety management systems.  Ms. Arseneau has developed and delivered training courses in process safety and risk management for a variety of manufacturing facilities including chlor-alkali and derivatives, specialty chemicals and optical products, coatings and resins, and glass.   She has delivered training to hundreds of personnel at varying levels of corporate organizations.

Ms. Arseneau is the Chair of the 2009 CCPS Global Congress on Process Safety – Process Safety Auditing Session. She was a member of the CCPS team that developed leading and lagging process safety metrics for use industry, and is a member of the committee authoring the CCPS Guidelines for Process Safety Metrics. In addition, she is also on the book committee for the CCPS Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems. She is an active participant in the Executive Process Safety Seminar group. She is a previous member of the CCPS Technical Steering Committee, the American Chemistry Council Process Safety Committee, the Reactivity Management Roundtable, and the Design Institute for Emergency Relief Devices. She is also the former Chair of the CCPS On-line Content Subcommittee. 
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