Ed began his professional career as a Process Control Engineer at the Dow Chemical Company in Freeport Texas. At Freeport, he held various production related roles at Polyethylene IV including Run Plant Engineer, Quality Supervisor, and Operations Leader before transferring to Polyglycol Amines where he assumed the role of Production Leader. Ed relocated to West Virginia Operations as part of the Union Carbide merger as Production Leader for the Triton and Chemical Mixing units. Ed became a Certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt for Engineering Solutions before moving to the Philadelphia area with the Rohm and Haas merger as Responsible Care Leader (RCL) for the Delaware Valley Hub. Ed relocated back to Texas as RCL for Seadrift Operations, and as of 2019, serves as a Global EH&S Expertise Principal where he oversees the effective implementation of Dow’s Life Critical EH&S standards.

Ed is a passionate conservationist and windsurfer who serves as a board member of the San Antonio Bay Partnership (SABP) managing projects that protect, restore, and enhance the natural resources of the San Antonio Bay System for the benefit of the ecosystem and its human uses. Ed, his wife Lisa (BSChE 1987) and Australian Shepard Ruby, live in Rockport Texas where they enjoy boating, fishing, hiking, and bike riding. They have a daughter who works for Dow in Philadelphia as a Chemical Engineer and a son who is an Electrical Engineer in Madison Wisconsin. Ed lived 5 years in Montevideo, Uruguay, South America as a small child and is fluent in Spanish. He maintains close ties to Fayetteville visiting family and attending university sporting events.

Arkansas Academy of Chemical Engineers, 2021.