E. Shashi Menon

I have been working in USA since 1974 mainly in the Oil and Gas industry. I started working for Williams Brothers, in Tulsa Oklahoma first as a Project Engineer, till 1978. I then moved to California and worked with Four Corners Pipelines as a Project Engineer until I was promoted to Manager of Major Projects, and finally moved to ARCO, Alaskan Division as Engineering Manager till 1986, subsequently returned to Four Corners as a Manager of Major Projects. In 1992 I left to work for Mojave Pipeline as Chief Engineer. Later moved to Houston, Texas to work for Enron, managing a gas pipeline design and construction from Bolivia to Brazil. I managed the outside consultant Gulf Interstate Engineering on this project. I retired from corporate life in 1999 and moved to Lake Havasu City, Arizona to start my Consulting Practice as SYSTEK Engineering Consultants. During these past years I worked a Expert Witness for Companies, as a registered Professional Engineer. I worked with Conoco and ChemLink as a consultant on Drag Reduction additives. I have written 7 Technical books on Pipeline Transmission for Liquid and Gas Pipelines, as well as Pump simulation. I have developed over a dozen computer software for liquids and gases and marketed these products worldwide. I am a licensed professional engineer (PE) in California. I hold a PhD in engineering management from Madison University and Bachelors and Masters degrees in mechanical engineering from MANIT in Bhopal India and Long Beach California respectively. I am a member of ASME and have also conducted online workshops in Pipeline Hydraulics for ASME and various oil and gas companies in USA and South America