Chris Davis is a certified API 510, 570, 577, 653, 1169 and AWS CWI inspector. He got started in 1991 when he began learning to weld. After becoming a certified welder in 1992, he started a 12-year welding career that started in the shipyards and took him to various structural and tank fabrication facilities in Oregon, Idaho, and Texas. Later, he went to dive school and worked for nearly eight years, mainly in the Gulf of Mexico, as a commercial diver in the pipeline construction and inspection industry before moving on to welding inspection and Mechanical Integrity programs. He has 25 years of experience in the field and currently works as an inspector.

Randy Clark has over 40 years of experience in a number of different roles in the oil and gas industry, including executive management, project management, offshore and onshore production facilities design and construction, business process design, business architecture, data & information management and new product development. For six years, Randy was President & CEO of Energistics, the global oil and gas information technology consortium. He was also Senior Vice President of the Trade- Ranger e-procurement marketplace and spent ten years with Baker Hughes. Randy has a Bachelor of Science degree from Abilene Christian University, a Master of Business Administration degree from LeTourneau University.

Basu Paudel is a Professional Engineer (P.E.) with a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. He has ten years of experience in the Oil and gas industry (both upstream and downstream) primarily in pressure vessels, piping, FEA, mechanical integrity, inspection, research, and development. Before that, he was an instructor for an engineering college for five years with the passion still alive for teaching and has authored various of our courses.

Roy Dowty currently teaches welding at the college level and has been in this profession for seven years. He has been in the welding industry for more than 20 years with a degree in Welding Technology he has worked on manufacturing, oil field components, and fabrication. He has extensive knowledge about metallurgy and has worked with carbon steel, stainless steel, cast steel, cast iron, aluminum, and monel.

Dusten Gambrell received his Masters in Mechanical Engineering from the University of North Texas. He has four years of experience as a process engineer, designing and commissioning thermal drying equipment. His proudest accomplishment is the design of a successful thermal oil piping system.

Charles is a Mechanical Engineer with a Master of Science in Mechanical & Energy. He has eight years of experience in the Oil & Gas industry with a background in EPC firms and Oil Refineries: Fixed Equipment Design, Integrity Assessments, Fitness-for-service (FFS) to API 579, Asset Life Extension Studies and Project Management.

Ratna Niraula is a Professional Engineer (P.E.) with a Master in Mechanical Engineering. After his graduation in December 2007, he started working as a Design Engineer in the field of pipe supports. Currently, he is working as an engineer in the design of pressure vessels. He has a lot of knowledge and experience in various mechanical components used in Oil and Refinery field. He also worked as an instructor in an engineering college for a year.

John Garcia received his Bachelors in Mechanical and Energy Engineering. He has since worked as an Applications Engineer in the gasket industry, an Instrumentation and Controls Engineer in the oil and gas industry, and as a Sales Engineer in the nuclear industry. Professional highlights include: educating consumers from around the country about bolted flanged connections and leading a team of electrical/instrumentation and controls engineers/designers on several multi-discipline projects.