Greg Alvarado

Greg Alvarado possesses over 40 years of experience in the chemical, petrochemical and oil and gas industries. His roles have included positions as an owner operator, consultant, Chief Chemist, and Corrosion/Materials/NDE applications engineer. He has specialized in risk based inspection consulting, training, mentoring, RBI program gap assessment and project management since 1996. He is a 30 year member of the API Sub-Committee on Inspection, an original working member of the API group that created the recommend practices (RP 580 and RP 581, all editions) for Risk Based Inspection. Mr. Alvarado currently provides risk management, NDE technical consulting, and equipment lifecycle/fixed equipment reliability program gap assessments and consulting as a Principal Consultant with Trinity Bridge Consulting LLC. He has extensive experience working at plants and with central engineering. He has served as an invited guest speaker on creating sustainable reliability strategies for fixed equipment in the US, Canada, South America, Europe, Caribbean, Australia, Middle East, Asia, and eastern Europe and has educated regulatory agencies on important API practices such as Fitness for Service and RBI in the US and abroad. Greg was an invited participant/interviewee for the RAND study, New Forces at Work in Refining - Industry Views of Critical Business and Operations Trends (a critical look at industrial infrastructure as part of national security), copyright 2003.