David Moore, PE, CSP
President & CEO

David Moore is a subject matter expert on petroleum and chemical security, process safety management, risk assessment and inherent safety. He is actively involved in leading-edge consulting and training assignments to industrial facilities worldwide. Mr. Moore has taught process safety and security courses for over 20 years to many of the world’s largest corporations. He has been an instructor on process safety and security for such organizations as the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), AIChE, API, OSHA, USEPA, ACC, and the NPRA.

He has served in various capacities to advise the DHS on chemical security management and vulnerability assessment, including Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards 6 CFR Part 27. He served as the Sector Coordinator for petroleum, chemical, and LNG for the) initiative to develop a common vulnerability analysis standard ‘Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP).

Mr. Moore was the lead author of the AIChE CCPS® “Guidelines for Managing and Analyzing the Security Vulnerabilities of Fixed Chemical Sites”, the security guidelines for the American Petroleum Institute (API), and the API/National Petrochemical and Refiners Association Security Vulnerability Assessment Methodology.

Mr. Moore was formerly a Senior Engineer with Mobil Corporation in Princeton, NJ; and a Fire Protection Engineer with the National Fire Protection Association in Boston, MA. Mr. Moore is a Registered Professional Engineer.  He is a board member for the Energy Security Council. He serves on the AIChE Center for Chemical Process Safety Technical Steering Committee, the CCPS Plant Security Committee, and the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. He is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the National Fire Protection Association, and the American Society of Industrial Security. He has an MBA, (NYU-1987), and a B.Sc., Fire Protection Engineering (University of Md.-1979).
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Mike Snakard
Director, Middle East Services

Mr. Snakard has over 20 years of experience in the permitting, design, start-up, troubleshooting and safe operation of industrial facilities. He has been working on engineering, environmental and health & safety projects for clients in the Middle East for the past 10 years and has lived in Qatar since 2004.  He is very knowledgeable in the areas of OSHA Process Safety Management (PSM), loss prevention, risk assessment  and completing Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) in accordance with local (Middle East) and international requirements. He has led numerous HAZOP studies, Conceptual Design Risk Assessments (CDRAs), Health Risk Assessments (HRAs), COMAH Assessments, conducted OSHA PSM Compliance audits and has lead Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Assessments.  In addition, he has completed projects for LNG liquefaction and receiving terminals in the US, Qatar and Australia.   

Prior to Joining AcuTech he was the URS Country Manager in Qatar and Vice President of URS Qatar LLC and has worked as the Process Safety Management Coordinator for a major refinery in California, USA. He is also an approved Risk Assessment Specialist under the Malaysian Department of Environment (DoE) EIA Consultant Registration Process. 

Michael J. Hazzan
Manager, Eastern Business Unit

Mr. Hazzan has over thirty-three total years experience in process safety and risk analysis, process security, engineering, and plant operations.  He has served as a Project Manager/Lead Engineer for a number of safety and risk studies, security analyses, and audits.  This work has comprised extensive experience in PSM/RMP auditing (over 100 such audits in the past 12 years), security vulnerability analyses (SVA), process hazard analyses (PHA), release (source term) calculations for severe reactor accidents, facility siting studies, and dispersion/consequence calculations, development of mechanical integrity management systems, and probabilistic risk analyses.  He has also performed approximately 85 SVAs for MTSA-covered and non-MTSA-covered chemical/process sites, and prepared 27 facility security plans for such facilities, and has performed the marine vessel collision frequency analysis for the Independent Risk Analyses for four proposed LNG deep water ports.  He is one of the developers of DHS’s Risk Analysis and Management for Critical Asset Protection (RAMCAP) sector screening and SVA methodology for the chemical, petroleum, and LNG sectors.  He has also served as a design engineer for nuclear power plant fluid/mechanical systems.

Mr. Hazzan has authored and extensively taught training courses in process safety and risk analysis, as well as security/SVA for the chemical/process and power industries.  He has developed and conducted SVA and Facility Security Officer training to hundreds of chemical and petroleum industry representatives, including the SVA training provided for DHS’s Protective Security Advisors (PSA) and Federal Protective Service, as well as many training courses in various areas of process safety and risk management.  He has published 25 technical papers in the areas of process safety and risk and security, has served as an expert witness on process safety during the permit hearing process for a new chemical recycling facility, and is the co-author of the CCPS book, Guidelines For Analyzing And Managing The Security Vulnerabilities Of Fixed Chemical Sites, the upcoming CCPS book, Inherently Safer Chemical Processes, 2nd, edition, the upcoming CCPS book, Guidelines for Auditing Process Safety Management Systems, as well as serving as a contributor to the new CCPS book on Mechanical Integrity.

Mr. Hazzan also served over 26 years in the U.S. Navy, including 7 years on active duty in the nuclear submarine force, and retiring as a Naval Reserve Engineering Duty Officer with the rank of Captain.  He holds a Secret clearance.
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 Ed Jopeck
Vice President, AcuTech Government Services, Inc.

Ed Jopeck is a security risk management expert with more than 22 years of experience.  He has served as a consultant supporting numerous government organizations, including DHS, and most of the branches of the US military services.

He has led the development, evaluation and application of numerous security risk assessment methodologies in the intelligence, defense and homeland security communities. Since the early 1990s Mr. Jopeck has been continuously involved in creating and modifying risk analysis methodologies, performing and leading risk assessments, and teaching security risk management to federal, state and local agencies concerned with terrorist and counterintelligence threats to the nation. 

For the US Department of Homeland Security, Mr. Jopeck has led the development of strategic-level antiterrorism risk analysis methods, policies, and national plans to improve the protection of critical infrastructures and special events from terrorist attack. Prior to September 11, 2001, Mr. Jopeck worked  as a security analysis and risk management consultant to numerous federal and military organizations.

Mr. Jopeck also founded and served as a past President and Director of the Security Analysis and Risk Management Association (SARMA), a not-for–profit professional trade association serving the professional needs of security analysts and the federal government users of security and risk analysis. 
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 Robert E. Schoen
Manager, Southern Business Unit

Bob Schoen is a leader in Homeland Security with over 26 years of militaryand non-military work experience specializing in regulatroy compliance, physical security, intelligence collection and analysis, business resiliency, risk management and crisis communications.  He has an MBA (Loyola) and BBA (UT-Arlington), and extensive consulting and homeland security experience very relevant to the services AcuTech provides.

He is a Commander, U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. His USCG reserve officer duties have included Deepwater Horizon, Hurricane Ike, and post 9/11 assignments. Bob formerly worked with AliTek Consulting and CAL DATA SYSTEMS/CDSI in Houston where he provided consulting services to assist clients with complying with MTSA, TWIC, CFATS, DOT, HAZMAT, Pipeline, FERC/NERC and C-TPAT regulations. He has in-depth experience with Energy, Chemical and Transportation industry clients.
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