Donald Dunn, P.E.

Donald G. Dunn is a Principal Consultant within the Refining, Chemical and various other industries and a recognized Industry Leader. He has spent the majority of his career at end-user organizations in various roles with an impressive track record of more than 28 years of experience in delivering technological innovation to improve processes and procedures and to enhance revenue, efficiency, and market share.

He is currently a senior member of the IEEE and the ISA. He has authored or co-authored in excess of forty technical papers of which twenty-five were for the IEEE peer reviewed conference, journals, transactions and magazines. In addition, Mr. Dunn has been an invited author and presenter at over fifty various IEEE and ISA International, National and Regional conferences.

He has held numerous leadership positions within the IEEE and the ISA since 1996. He is a member of the IEEE, ISA, NFPA, API and IEC standards working groups and has held numerous leadership positions in those organizations.

He co-chairs ISA18, chairs IEEE841 is the convener of IEC62682 and has actively led and participated in numerous other standards.

Mr. Dunn has served as the IEEE Houston Section chairman in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2011-2012, Vice President for the ISA Standards and Practices Board in 2011-2012, chairman of the IEEE IAS Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC) for 2012-2014 and chairman of the API Subcommittee on Electrical Equipment 2012-2015. In 2015, he was elected to serve a three-year term on the ISA Board of Directors 2015-2018. Currently Mr. Dunn is the Co-Chair of ISA Technology Search Committee.

In 2016, he received the “Keith Otto Award” from the ISA Publications Department, which recognizes the author(s) of the best article in InTech magazine - July/August 2015 article titled, “Automation IT – Diagnosing your alarm system”.

In 2016, Donald also received from the IEEE IAS PCIC their “Outstanding Technical Contribution Award”, which recognizes the dedicated technical contributions of the individual to the Petroleum and Chemical Industry Committee (PCIC).

In 2017, he received the Russell W. Mills award, recognizing his outstanding dedication and service to furthering the objectives of the PCIC. Donald is a Certified Automation Professional® through ISA and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Prairie View A&M University.

Key accomplishments include: managing engineering, technology management, Research and Development (R&D), and venture capital divisions; recruiting and mentoring key employees utilizing facilitative leadership to empower people to work together to achieve common objectives; instituting innovation and implementing Key Performance Indicators (KPI) that focused engineers on leveraging technology to solve challenges, which resulted in direct savings of >$250 million; and streamlining internal and external processes, which resulted in improving efficiencies between various departments to proactively provide support for expanding global operations.