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  Frank is a Regional Sales Manager for Trenton Corporation. He has a B.S. in Engineering from The Colorado School of Mines, worked in Sales and Marketing for 30 years (specifically within the corrosion field the past 21 years). 

He has chaired standards/coatings committees for NACE International, The American Water Works Association and the American Gas Association.  

Frank is a past General Chair of the 2019-2020 Appalachian Underground Corrosion Short Course at the University of West Virginia and chairs a coating section for the Underground Corrosion Short Course (working in conjunction with Purdue University) where he also serves as a Director/Treasurer.

He is teaching Field Applied Coatings & WHY WAX WORKS?

Don is a retired corrosion team lead for National Grid - New England (39 years), which at one time was Colonial Gas, Essex Gas, Boston Gas, Providence Gas and Energy North.  

For the last 4 years have been a corrosion consultant and trainer for National Grid, hands on OQ qualifier and corrosion consultant for the Northeast Gas Association.   

Don is teaching Atmospheric Corrosion Inspections on Services.

  Adam Day is a Senior Corrosion Engineer at National Grid. 

As program manager of the Atmospheric program, he is responsible for the inspection, maintenance, and audits of all exposed distribution and transmission pipelines in U.S. jurisdiction. With over 1300 assets distributed across New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, Adam has focused on standardizing regional differences from legacy operating companies by developing and implementing progressive standardization that promotes public safety, minimizes expenses, and extends asset life. 

Adam is teaching Pipe on Bridges: Inspection & Remediation

  Ric has a BS in Petroleum Engineering from Penn State and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland. 

He has worked for Exxon - producing gas, Energy Transfer Partners - building gas gathering systems, Dominion - replacing aging gas storage and transmission assets, Baltimore Gas and Electric - managing the Pipeline Integrity and Distribution Integrity Programs, and Corrpro as a project manager.

He has been an instructor for AUCSC since 2009 in corrosion mathematics and electricity.     

Ric is teaching Basics of Mathematics in Corrosion.

Bob has been in the corrosion control field since 1973 starting at Penn Fuel Gas, Inc.  He is currently the Senior Manager of Corrosion Control at UGI Utilities Inc.

He has been a member of NACE (AMPP) since 1979 and also chaired the American Gas Associations Corrosion Control Committee in 2014.

He has taught the basics of corrosion for years at the Liberty Bell Corrosion Course hosted by the Philadelphia NACE Chapter.

Bob is teaching Basics of Corrosion.

  Kevin Groll is a Corrosion Engineer with more than 15 years’ experience in cathodic protection, AC mitigation, material testing, and failure analysis. Mr. Groll started his career performing failure investigations for the energy, manufacturing, construction, and marine industries. Much of his work focused on corrosion-related failures and corrosion control solutions. Mr. Groll joined MATCOR in 2013 and has since focused on cathodic protection and AC mitigation design, installation, testing and troubleshooting. Mr. Groll leads MATCOR’s Engineering team and Integrity Services team.  

Mr. Groll graduated from West Virginia University with a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering. He is a NACE International Certified Cathodic Protection Specialist (CP4) and a Pennsylvania-registered Professional Engineer. 

Kevin is teaching AC Interference Testing, Modeling, and Mitigation Design.

 Chris is currently the chief operating officer for Southern Cathodic Protection Company in Atlanta, Georgia.  

He is a licensed professional engineer and has successfully completed the NACE International cathodic protection specialist course.  He received both his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering and his masters degree in business from Georgia Tech in Atlanta.  

Chris has worked in the corrosion consulting field for almost 20 years solving corrosion problems in the pipeline, concrete, water and transportation industries. 

He is teaching Applications and Science of Soil-Side Corrosion Coupons.  

Chad has been in the Natural Gas & Corrosion industry since 1998.  He spent the first 10 years of his career at Liberty Coating as a laborer and manager.  

In the second half he moved into the sales department and has been with UPSCO for the last 7 years.

Chad is also NACE CIP & CP certified.

He is teaching Basics of Pipeline Coatings & Basics of Coating Failures.

Tommy is teaching Basics of Rectifiers.