Resumes
Larry S. Wasik - Process Specialist
Mr. Wasik specializes in process simulation and process optimization, offering services to Pulp and Paper and other clients in the following areas:
 Overall process design to meet product quality, production rate and environmental requirements
- Plant wide process simulation to determine area production capacities, inter-area requirements, overall water and energy requirements, system closed cycle requirements, chemical consumption and operating costs.
- Dynamic simulation to investigate start-up scenarios, tank farm management, batch process scheduling, filtrate management and optimal production scheduling.
- Process de-bottlenecking, process trouble shooting and optimization studies.
- On-line application development for data reconciliation, quality prediction / soft sensors, process visualization and product quality tracking.
- Assistance and training for consulting and operating companies to set up their own custom process simulation.
Process Engineering Consultant Experience
Mr. Wasik spent 15 years with H.A. Simons consulting engineers. As Plant Wide Process Manager, he supervised a group of process engineers responsible for the process design of 5 successful green field mills and numerous re-builds. Mr. Wasik was the lead process engineer on the 1.3 billion dollar expansion at the Howe Sound Pulp and Paper. He played a lead roll in on- site process optimization studies in North American mills as well as in Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Siberia.
He spear-headed Simons computer process simulation in all areas of the mill using the CADSIM and MASSBAL simulation programs. He developed mass and energy balances for specific areas as well as specializing in plant-wide chemical consumption, water and energy balances. Notably, his Overall Material Balances; Water and Energy Balances; Sodium, Sulfur, Potassium, Chloride and metal ion balances; Pulping and Bleaching balances are standards in Simons today.
Plant Experience
After graduating as a Chemical Engineer in 1972, Mr. Wasik had 8 years of experience at Canfor's Port Mellon Pulp Mill. As Assistant Technical Superintendent, he was responsible for the mill's environmental programs, as well as the computerized process control developments.
Simulation Experience
For more than 35 years, Mr. Wasik has been providing process simulation services to the Pulp and Paper industries, in various capacities with industry and consulting as mentioned above, as well as founding the simulation software company Aurel Systems Inc. At Aurel, he developed the original CADSIM graphical interface program, and led the development of the CADSIM Plus dynamic process simulator
Norman Jaffe – Senior Systems Programmer
Mr. Jaffe has over 36 years of experience as a developer of software for data communication and embedded systems. He has worked on systems ranging from very small microcontrollers to mainframes, in a multitude of programming languages:
- Application support for Microsoft Windows COM, DDE and OPC
- Implementing custom GUI applications
- Support software for the Canadian Air Traffic System on HP minicomputers using HP OpenView
- Windowing software for a microcomputer, as a component of a Data Fusion product
- LAPB-subset controller to operate as a satellite downlink, in the form of a dedicated single-board computer that was used as a coprocessor in an HP minicomputer
- Graphics subsystem developed for IBM VM/CMS
- Intercommunication software for HP 1000 and HP 3000 minicomputers
- Secure automatic synchronization of remote files – US Patent 7,127,447
- Dynamic electronic flowsheet (CADSIM Plus) core simulation engine and plug-in architecture
- Device drivers and device controllers for a variety of platforms – IBM 1800, HP 9000, various microprocessors
Programming Experience
Mr. Jaffe has developed systems in FORTRAN, Pascal, BASIC, C, C++, Java, APL and a variety of other languages.
He has taught courses at Vancouver Community College, B.C. Institute of Technology, Douglas College and Simon Fraser University, on Pascal, simulation systems and languages and microprocessors.
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