Name: Francois Screve

Joined Deltaway: 2003

Years in industry: 29

Special skills: Ability to recruit and retain top talent where it’s needed.

Expertise: A published expert in waste-to-energy with more than a quarter century of turning theory into performance improvement.

Customers like: Francois’ results orientation and his ability to listen to owners and plant operations employees.

What he likes best about Deltaway: The ability to work with a team doing what they love to do and what they are best at doing while delivering huge results for our clients.

Proudest achievement: Being selected by large clients to manage and turn around WTE projects.

How he spends his time away from work: Francois loves sailing. In 2002, he spent a year sailing with his family. He enjoys hiking and the outdoors in California.

Francois has co-authored a textbook titled Waste to Energy, Second Edition: Technologies and Project Implementation, with fellow industry leader Marc Rogoff, PhD. The new edition, from Amsterdam-based global publisher Elsevier, explores and clarifies the wide range of developments in Waste-to-Energy (WTE) in the 24 years since the release of the first edition.

Name:
Fred Caillard

Joined Deltaway: 2003

Years in industry: 11

Special skills: Outstanding analytical, communication and problem solving skills.

Expertise: Streamlining plant operations to increase productivity and revenue. Fred is an expert in steam cycle efficiency, WTE boilers and pollution control, and he developed many of Deltaway’s performance modeling tools.

Customers like: His high standards and commitment to customers’ goals.

Francois says: “Fred has a rare ability to connect the technical and financial sides of a project.”

What he likes best about Deltaway: The freedom to focus on the client while working with talented experts on fulfilling projects.

Proudest achievement: Every time he delivers results to a client. He recently improved steam cycle efficiency at the Rozenburg plant in The Netherlands, dramatically increasing its annual revenue.

How he spends his time away from work: “I love to paint and go hiking.”

Name: Bill Crellin

Joined Deltaway: 2011

Years in industry: 22 (36 in power generation)

Special skills: A professional engineer with extensive practical experience managing large WTE facilities.

Expertise: Comprehensive knowledge of WTE facility management and maintenance, including tube welding, environmental retrofits, construction, and consulting

Customers like: Bill’s dedication and enthusiasm for his work.

Francois says: “With his foundation in WTE maintenance and consulting, Bill is the ideal person to develop a WTE maintenance program that exceeds industry standards.”

What he likes best about Deltaway: Expert colleagues, clear lines of communication, and knowing that his work offsets the use of fossil fuels.

Proudest achievement: Managing the project team that built a greenfield WTE plant in Florida.

How he spends his time away from work: “I spend a lot of time outdoors, golfing, fishing, or hiking with my wife at our place in the Smoky Mountains.”

Name: Patrick Charley

Joined Deltaway: 2012

Years in industry: 30

Expertise: Waste-to-energy plant design, operations, and maintenance management, plant director, management of utilities for industrial customers

Customers like: Patrick’s dedication to performance excellence, on projects that include Lille County, France; Brussels, Belgium; Porto, Portugal; and for the District Heating and Waste Incineration Authority project in Paris.

What he likes best about Deltaway: Deltaway has a great team of specialists, particularly in the waste-to-energy field, plus outstanding skills for all projects from design through operations and maintenance

Proudest achievement: Developing, building, operating (DBO) the 800-ton-per-day WTE facility in Porto, Portugal; and his work(DBOO) for steel giant Arcelor/Mittal in Brazil

How he spends his time away from work: Watching and playing sports, spending time with his family, and refitting antique cars and motorcycles.

Name: Ken Boatwright

Joined Deltaway: 2004

Years in industry: 24

Special skills: A great sense of organization and a talent for recruiting and developing the right technicians for special projects.

Expertise: Because Ken has proven his ability to manage the turnaround and operation of a WTE facility, he performs best when fully in charge of project.

Customers like: Ken’s ability to dive into any technical challenge in WTE technology

Francois says: “If Ken can’t fix, he knows someone who can.”

What he likes best about Deltaway: Quick access to colleagues to discuss technical challenges

Proudest achievement: His role as leader for the financial and productivity turnaround at the RenWu facility in Taiwan.

How he spends his time away from work: “I’m a private pilot with my own float plane, which I use to fly in and out of my home in a remote part of British Columbia. My wife and I enjoy flying, boating, photography, and the ‘great outdoors.’”

Name: David Lukacie

Joined Deltaway: 2011

Years in industry: 15

Special skills: A commitment to excellence and the versatility to work in all areas of plant management from operations to finance.

Expertise: David has extensive international experience in industrial utilities management including WTE, biomass, and cogeneration, and is a great resource for technical challenges.

Customers like: David’s straightforward approach to challenges and people.

Francois says: “A motivated plant manager with high standards and a clear vision. I love his common sense.”

What he likes best about Deltaway: The challenging, hands-on work and streamlined company organization.

Proudest achievement: Managing the Rozenburg facility in the Netherlands.

Name: Ephraim Taylor

Joined Deltaway: 2011

Years in industry: 17

Special skills: Power plant maintenance and management for WTE, coal, and nuclear generating facilities, with special talents for welding, stoker operations, maintenance, and inspections.

Customers like: Ephraim’s ability to take charge and follow through with assigned tasks, his commitment to quality and his willingness to listen to others’ suggestion.

What he likes best about Deltaway: "In my time with Deltaway, I’ve experienced a true sense of appreciation of each and every employee. Everyone at Deltaway is at the top of his or her field."

Proudest achievement: "To have raised my children and to now watch them raise their own."

How he spends his time away from work: Enjoying family and friends, golfing, boating, and riding his motorcycle.

As a project manager in charge of boiler outages for WTE and coal technologies at InnovativEnergy, Dan has special expertise in WTE outage management and boiler maintenance and has worked as a designer and engineer for energy companies throughout the United States, including Aquilex SMS and Covanta Energy.

At Aquilex SMS, Dan planned and engineered support for construction and outage projects valued up to $3.2 million. He has substantial experience in drafting for industry and is proficient in AutoCAD and other 3D modeling software.

Dan received his bachelor’s degree in electro-mechanical engineering technology from Pennsylvania State University in 2010.

Joe brings 25 years of experience in energy engineering and entrepreneurship to Deltaway. As the founder of Deltaway’s associate company, InnovativEnergy, Joe and his team advise clients on a variety of energy solutions, including combined heat and power, distributed energy generation, alternative fuels, predictive maintenance services and technical consultation. Joe has worked for major energy providers Consolidated Edison and American Ref-Fuel in various capacities.

Joe and his InnovativEnergy team specialize in WTE maintenance and performance optimization for customer’s power generation assets. Highlights of his career include managing the New York City Waterside Generating Station—the largest district steam system in the world, and rebuilding numerous boilers, turbines and condensers. At American Ref-Fuel, he completed construction of two new boilers at the firm’s Niagara biomass facility.

In 1992, Joe earned his Masters of Engineering from Steven’s Institute of Technology, in Mechanical Engineering specializing in Power Generation.