John A. Williams, Ph.D., M.B.A., P.E.

EPS founder and general manager Dr. John A. Williams has built a reputation not only for providing innovative and highly profitable engineering solutions – but also for ensuring that those solutions are driven by the client’s business objectives, timetables, and available resources. With more than 25 years in design engineering and manufacturing, Williams has demonstrated time and again that the creative approach his firm brings to each project – no matter how large or small – generates profitable processes and products for its clients.

With his strong leadership skills, comprehensive engineering expertise, and hands-on understanding of plant operations – plus a solid business/financial background – Williams has developed a unique, synergistic approach to engineering design. Together, he and the EPS team provide creative engineering strategies designed to achieve a high ROI, while meeting or exceeding client objectives and environmental challenges.

Areas of Expertise

• Chemical, biological, and mechanical engineering sciences
• Production practices
• Site and facility assessments
• Profit maximization –delivering the maximum ROI for a given design engineering need
• Economic evaluation – accurate capital cost estimation and project analysis
• Process development – successful facilitation of production processes to profitable commercialization
• Plant retrofit designs for new processes and/or process improvement for developing and implementing new processing operations in existing facilities
• Team-building – creating synergistic relationships, both interdepartmentally and outside vendors, equipment manufacturers and regulatory agencies

Notable Achievements

Every project completed by John Williams and the EPS team qualifies as a “notable achievement,” in that each one provides significant benefits for the client that typically range far beyond the original stated objectives. See the case histories included on this site for examples of the value of EPS’s innovative design engineering.

The Fast Five List – Professional Accomplishments

• Author, Chemical Engineering Progress featured article, “Optimize Distillation System Revamps,” March 1998
• Author, Chemical Engineering Progress featured article, “Keys to Bioreactor Selection,” April 2001 (Click to read article)
• ASME and AIChE Instructor for Conceptual Development and Detailed Cost Estimating
• ASME and AIChE Instructor for Practical Project Economical Evaluation
• Professional consultant, “Ask the Experts” column for Chemical Processing magazine’s website, www.ChemicalProcessing.com

Professional Affiliations & Education

• Professional Engineer License and NCEES Record
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Chemical Society
• Instrument Society of America
• Wastewater Treatment Plant Industrial Operator License

• M.B.A. in Finance, University of Chicago
• Ph.D., University of Utah
• M.S., University of Utah
• B.S., University of Delaware