Ben Peno

Responsible for developing and managing the product roadmap in alignment with evolving market, industry, and regulations. Support of Customers, Sales Team, Customer Service, Operations. Communicate directly with vendor leadership on a regular basis. Visit customers to develop relationships and develop sales opportunities through direct communication. -Develop customer proximity and establish lasting relationships with sales channels and customers. -Translate customer needs into an innovative product portfolio. -Coordinate solutions, solution messaging, and value propositions. -Understand business trends and market requirements. -Oversee project quote and submittal delivery. Monitor & report on accuracy. -Monitor and report on product line sales and budgets -Oversee large scale projects as the primary contact for Sales. Delegate to staff as required. -Translate sales forecast into operational needs; pre-buys, and ramp-up of inventory and staff. -Communicate receipt of new RFQs and provide estimate of time to complete the request. -Communicate directly with customers and distributors when necessary while informing territory stakeholders. -Communicate directly with vendor leadership and technical support staff on a regular basis. -Oversee team communication. Monitor & report on effectiveness. -Ensure the OEM Fab team has the resources and training necessary. -Expertise in market, product, and customers. -Provide instructions, guidance, and support to direct reports. -Develop skills of technical staff and ensure the customer receives excellent technical support. -Manage key division objectives and implement processes to achieve. -Maintain, monitor, and report on 5-year plan for division.

-Designed reverse osmosis disinfection systems, pH neutralization systems, reverse osmosis reject reclaim systems, and rain water filtration systems based on customer specifications. -Sized pumps, piping, instrumentation (full bill of materials), and worked with controls engineer to design process controls for each system. -Generated detailed process and instrumentation diagrams using AutoCAD for all projects, as well as updating existing P&IDs for currently installed projects based on system updates. -Generated shop drawings and submittal packages for customer approval. -Performed Project Management tasks including: Project coordination, scheduling, logistics. Coordinated with customer on all aspects of the project. Maintained project budget from start to finish. Coordinated system installation between internal service group and customer. Coordinated Underwriters Laboratories inspections for systems when required.

-Perform initial testing on waste water samples using lab-scale and pilot-scale testing systems. All data accumulated used for project scale-up, proposals, and future projects treating similar water streams. -Design and fabricate lab-scale testing units as well as modifying current lab-scale/pilot-scale testing units for optimization in treating varying waste water streams for preliminary data used to scale up for full-scale design specs. -Processed water for the Office of Naval Research / Future Naval Capability Advanced Shipboard Desalination project. Traveled to California Navy base to commission full-scale membrane piloting system and lab-scale testing system to treat sea water for shipboard desalination. -Responsible for overseeing start-up and commissioning of new filtration systems sold to customers. -Travel to pilot sites to process waste water streams for reinjection, reuse, steam generation, or safe disposal. -Duties include running, operating, and maintaining ceramic membrane filtration system. -Monitor influent to initial treatment process, successfully make process changes as necessary to enhance or maintain ceramic membrane filtration / post membrane treatment. -Perform both mechanical and electrical repairs/modifications to pilot systems for optimized operation. -Perform lab analysis on influent and effluent of ceramic membrane system to ensure water quality meets client design specifications. -Assist Project Manager in setting up contractors for on-site modifications to filtration systems. -Major contributor to multidisciplinary project team in new designs, data analysis, system operation, system capabilities, safety hazards/precautions.

-Researched + Developed new coating slips for phase inversion membranes in drinking water applications from slipcast prototyping, testing, engineering designs, to final product. -Assisted in overseeing manufacturing of full-scale ceramic membranes as well as procuring all necessary supplies. -Assisted in facilities management; made equipment modifications for optimization, repair, procurement, and replacement. -Designed new coating method and fabricated full-scale coating equipment for larger-celled membrane filters. -Designed and fabricated two-module quality control testing system for both full-scale and pilot-scale membrane filters.

-Recruited to aid in the design and fabrication of a two-membrane filtration system to process Fischer-Tropsch wax. -Constructed Fischer-Tropsch system from start to finish, including all piping, tubing, electrical wiring, and tested/tuned all equipment/hardware. -Ran initial testing on system while making process design modifications to enhance filtration, and processed all data acquired.