2019 Speakers

Bill is the Principal Consultant at PAS Global, LLC in the areas of Alarm Management, High Performance HMI, and Operations Risk Management. He is a member of the ISA-18.2 Alarm Management committee, and the ISA SP101 HMI committee. In 2014, Bill was named an ISA Fellow for industry contributions in these areas. Bill has multi-company, international experience in all aspects of Alarm Management and HMI development. He has 28 years of experience in the petrochemical industry in engineering and operations, and an additional 16 years in alarm management and HMI software and services for the petrochemical, power generation, pipeline, mining, and other industries. Bill is co-author of: The Alarm Management Handbook, First and Second Editions, © PAS 2010 The High Performance HMI Handbook, © PAS 2008 The ISA book: Alarm Management: A Comprehensive Guide, Second Edition, © ISA 2011 The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) guidelines on Alarm Management for Power Generation (2008) and Transmission (2016). Bill has authored multiple papers on Alarm Management, High Performance HMI, and Operations Risk Management. He is a regular presenter on such topics in such venues as ISA, API, and Electric Power symposiums. Bill has a BSME from Louisiana Tech University, an MBA from the University of Houston, and has built his own plane (an RV- 12, with a High Performance HMI).