Dan Pereira
Dan Pereira has worked for ITT / Goulds Pumps for 22 years. He began his career as an applications engineer and moved on to sales engineer with a focus on the chemical/petrochemical, pulp and paper, engineer contractor, and energy markets. Dan has extensive experience working as an on-site Pump Specialist at major chemical manufacturing facilities working with engineering, operations, maintenance, and purchasing to help companies reduce Life Cycle Cost and increase equipment life and reliability. Over the past 15 years, Dan has brought his expertise to the classroom teaching general hydraulics, pump operation, pump maintenance, and pump optimization for the petro chemical, pulp and paper, and energy industries.

Tom Dabbs
Tom Dabbs is a Reliability Specialist with ITT’s Plant Performance Services Group.  He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Clemson University with more than 30 years experience delivering behavior based reliability solutions working with clients to reduce cost and improve business effectiveness.  Tom is certified as a Maintenance and Reliability Professional (CMRP) by the Society of Maintenance and Reliability Professionals (SMRP).  Tom has provided training, coaching and hands on implementation expertise for the metals, mining, pulp and paper, foods, chemicals and energy industries.  Tom has also delivered hundreds of seminars and workshops worldwide on the subject of reliability and related topics and has been a guest speaker for SMRP, MARTS, IMC, NMF&T, NWPA and many other reliability-focused organizations and conferences.  He is an accomplished author of numerous published reliability focused articles in Plant Engineering, Maintenance Solutions, AFE Facilities Magazine, Maintenance Technology, Pump & Systems and Reliability Web.