Next Meeting: Friday, November 21st Dinner Meeting
Exploring Future Career Paths
Student Event - At our Section’s first meeting on the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering’s Brooklyn campus, a diverse panel of young chemical engineers will discuss what led them to their current positions. The panelists will also offer their advice on your future moves, such as which direction your career should go - advanced engineering education, or other options such as law school, biomedical, or other paths, as well as the importance of the Professional Engineer credentials and continuing education during your career.
Panelist: • James Galloway, Senior Manager at Pfizer, Inc.
James Galloway is a native of the Metro New York area, being born in Queens, and raised in Teaneck, NJ. He was graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1994. His first chemical engineering job was a co-op position at Dow Chemical, in Midland, MI, where he did process troubleshooting and optimization, at both lab and production scales for their Applied Organics and Functional Polymer Research group.
After he graduated college, James went to work for a small automation consultancy. Based in Connecticut, it only had four people including him, and was named Automation and Control Specialists (ACS). The company specialized in providing “turnkey” automation services, from design through start-up. At this job, he was exposed to a variety of industries and process technologies, including invaluable time spent starting up his own automation designs on factory floors in industries including: pulp and paper, specialty chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food science.
James was hired by Pfizer in 1999. He started with Pfizer’s Global Engineering organization, as a result of several projects he had done, as a consultant for Pfizer while with ACS. Global Engineering provides engineering expertise across all of Pfizer’s global manufacturing sites (50+), including major capital project oversight, site engineering oversight (maintenance) and engineering SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) in automation, process and equipment engineering. From 1999 to 2004, James was a technical lead for several large-scale API-manufacturing facility-automation projects in Puerto Rico and Singapore. He was responsible for design of piping, instrumentation, control system hardware/software, and overall automated operating strategy for these facilities, as well as for project execution and facility commissioning.
From 2004 to 2009, James led Pfizer’s Global API Automation team responsible for coordinating automation strategies across 14 API manufacturing sites, developing internal standards for use of next generation control systems, developing an automation approach for biotech API manufacturing, and supporting key projects through extended assignments in Puerto Rico, England, Ireland, Singapore, and Sweden.
In 2009, he moved into Pfizer Global Engineering’s “Process Engineering and Analytics” team to broaden his technical expertise within Pfizer. In this role, James provides expert process-engineering support for development of new manufacturing technologies, leveraging his multi-discipline expertise in process and controls to guide Pfizer’s Manufacturing Informatics strategy (i.e. “Big Data” for pharma manufacturing), and also provides process-engineering support for critical projects and troubleshooting efforts.
Topic: “Exploring Future Career Paths”
When: Friday, November 21, 2014, 5:00 - 8:00 pm (5:00-6:00 pm: Registration, Networking & Buffet Dinner; 6:00-8:00 pm: Panel Discussion)
Where: 
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering, Metrotech Campus, Brooklyn. Jacobs Building, room number JAB 475. Map. Directions.
Costs: for Networking, Buffet, and Panel Discussion. Register Now.
• Free for all students.
Note: Limited to first 70 students (room capacity) who register.
As of 10/30, we have registered the first 11 students.
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If you are not a Member of this Section, you can apply the $10 additional amount paid as a Guest to a full Membership for 2014-15. Please notify Treasurer Joel Kirman that you wish to be a Member. Register Now.
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Save the Dates: 2014 Meeting Dates
• Friday, Nov. 21, Student Event at NYU School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY. Panel Discussion concerning Future Career Paths.
• Thursday, Dec. 18 (tentative date), Joint Meeting with the Metropolitan Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) at Ukrainian East Village Restaurant, 140 Second Ave (just south of East 9th Street), Manhattan. (5:30 - 7:30 pm)
Topic and Speaker: to be determined.
• Tuesday, Jan. 20, Dinner Meeting at Pfizer Building, 219 East 42nd Street, Manhattan. (5:30 - 7:30 pm)
Topic and Speaker: to be determined.
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