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• March 31, 2016
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• New CAPs and CCSTs!
• In memoriam - Borden
• In memoriam- Covey

New CAPs and CCSTs!

Qualifying for and passing one of ISA’s certification exams is a noteworthy accomplishment. The exams are rigorous and require a solid command of various disciplines in automation and control. Below is a list of individuals who have recently passed either our Certified Automation Professional (CAP) or one of the three levels of our Certified Control System Technician (CCST) exam. Congratulations to our new certification holders! For more information about the ISA CAP and CCST certification programs, please visit www.isa.org/training-and-certifications/isa-certification.

Certified Control System Technicians

Name	Company	Location
Alberto C. Domingos	None	U.S.
Charles D. Neel	None	U.S.
Rajkumar Parthasarathy	Sycon International	U.S.
Jerry Randy Boozer	GEO Specialty Chemicals	U.S.
Philip H. Steiner	KS Industries	U.S.
Michael Lapham	Sappi Fine Paper	U.S.
Daniel Alber Moreno Parra	Panthers Machinery Colombia	Colombia
Thomas Russell Roberts	Ramsgate Engineering Inc.	U.S.
Toshinori Takemura Benitez	Ecopetrol S A	Colombia
Scott T. Algrim	None	U.S.
James S. Wildman	Columbia Pipeline Group	U.S.
Micheal R. Beeth	None	U.S.
Rocky L. Conway	None	U.S.
Gary Matthew Trapp	Southern Co.	U.S.
William P. Mendenhall	None	U.S.
Anthony Jared Keene	Mississippi Power Co./Southern Co.	U.S.
James M. Heslin	PUD Hillsborough County	U.S.
Cedric D. Johnson	City of Aurora	U.S.
Stephen W. Jankovich	None	U.S.
Louis E. Ocampo	Hillsborough County	U.S.
Steven R. Kirby	BASF	U.S.
Robin C. Horton, Jr.	None	U.S.
Toby W. Finley	Baker Hughes	U.S.
Victor C. Timar Jr.	None	U.S.
Jason A. Weber	Xcel Energy	U.S.
Travis D. Dierkes	None	U.S.
Scott Knight	None	U.S.
Patricia Coughlin	None	U.S.
Timothy L. Rao	Caltech	U.S.
Shirlane C. Dudash	None	U.S.
Michael P. Markiewicz	None	U.S.
Timothy A. Garrett	None	U.S.
David V. Hudson	None	U.S.
Lawrence R. Gregory	Valero	U.S.
Michael G. Muse	None	U.S.
Domingo Ramo Rodriguez Hernandez	None	Colombia
Seth Goertz	Suez	U.S.

Certified Automation Professionals

Name	Company	Location
Edgar T. Zapanta	None	Saudi Arabia
Roy M. Weidner	Loman Control Systems Inc.	U.S.
Ryan Duke	Hampton Roads Sanitation District	U.S.
Emilio Armando Davila, Sr.	None	Colombia
Nicolas Garcia Garcia	Cynar Plc	U.K.
Sridharan Mahadevan	None	India
David F. Gunnoe	CDI Corp.	U.S.
Ananth Santhanakrishn	CH2M Hill	Singapore
Manuel A. Caro Ospino	Ecopetrol S A	Colombia
Shaffqat Iqbal	Descon Engineering	Abu Dhabi
Anil Gosine	None	Canada
Qaiser Tariq Mohmand	Intech Process Automation	Pakistan
Anoushtakin Arman	None	U.S.
Juan Ernesto Rogriguez	None	U.S.
Yesid AlbertoYermanos Aldan	Oleoducto De Los Llanos Orientales	Colombia
Julian Camil Restrepo Cifuentes	Smurfit Kappa Colombia	Colombia
Robert Craig Bransfield, Jr.	Automated Control and Technical Services	U.S.
Revin George Ajith	None	India
Amjed Babiker Abdelrahman	None	Saudi Arabia
Efren Hernandez	Emerson Process Management	U.S.
Justin F. Coward	Tetra Tech	U.S.
Reza Rasoolinezhad	None	Canada
Srinivas Nimmala	MSD International Gmbh	Singapore
Mao Obanyi	Maverick Technologies	U.S.
Forrest D. Kimbriel	Chevron	U.S.
Joshua P. Nichols	The Dennis Group	U.S.
Safaa Ayad Alhajjaj	SNC Lavalin	U.S.
Mario Ernesto Zavaleta	General Electric	U.S.
Arvin Shiva Ramnanan	None	Trinidad and Tobago
Hemant H. Sharma	Husky Energy	Canada
Imad T. El Rassas	Honeywell	Saudi Arabia
Vijay Kumar	Hyundai Engineering Co.	Republic of Korea
Joseph A. Pierce	Koch Fertilizer	U.S.
Robert B. Bergoine	None	U.S.
Nagy Magdy Mahran	Saudi Aramco	Saudi Arabia
Mahdi R. Issa	None	Saudi Arabia
Hassan Ali Ajami	None	U.S.
Israel Olawa Akande	None	Nigeria
Ricky C. Knight	Orbital ATK	U.S.
Luis A. Cardenas Rodriguez	None	U.S.

In memorium

Guy Borden, active ISA member and former Houston chapter president, died 3 July 2015 at the age of 94. Borden earned a chemical engineering degree from the University of Texas, Austin, and served as a naval officer during World War II. After the war, he earned a master’s degree in chemical engineering from Michigan and joined the faculty at Louisiana State University. Later Borden left academia and worked for BS&B and Bechtel. Over his career, he was an active member of ISA. Even after retirement, he edited a 700-page monograph for ISA.

In memorium

Charles W. Covey, a pioneer member of ISA, died 6 March 2016 at the age of 97. He was the first full-time editor of the ISA Journal and publications manager of the Society for eight years. His entire career involved instrumentation, first with the application of equipment for industrial processes, and later with oceanographic research instrumentation. He had 55 years of accomplishment in administration, business publication management, editing, and technical writing in the field of instrumentation.

Covey worked for Union Carbide Nuclear Corporation to organize and manage a training program for instrument technicians for the K-25 plant for the Manhattan Project. Following four years at Taylor Instrument Company editing a new house magazine and conducting customer training classes, Covey returned to the Manhattan Project as head of the instrument engineering department at the gaseous diffusion plant. Later Covey joined with Charles Bussmann to found Compass Publications, Inc., where he worked for 37 years in various capacities. At the end of his career, Covey worked for the National Ocean Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Covey was president of the Oak Ridge and Paducah ISA local sections. He was also a member of the national executive board and chairman of the national publications committee, and was selected a senior member and an ISA Fellow. In 1954, he became a full-time employee in Pittsburgh, Pa., to organize staff for the new ISA Journal—editorial, production, circulation, advertising sales, and marketing. Covey received the Jessie H. Neil Editorial Achievement Award for editorial excellence.

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