Ananth has been with John Crane Canada Inc. since 2000.  Before moving he worked previously with Burgmann and John Crane in the Middle East, and before that with an indigenous seal manufacturing Co. in India; following seven years of pump design/testing experience.  Ananth is qualified in pump design (post grad masters degree) and has 32 years experience with rotating equipment, 25 of those years specifically in mechanical seals. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario.

Roger Davey

Sulzer Pumps US Inc.

Doug has 34 years of experience in pump mechanical design and application with Bingham Willamette and Sulzer Pumps.

Mike Greer, P.Eng. is currently a Machinery Health Technical Sales Specialist with Spartan Controls. For the past 25 years, Mike’s contributions have been in the field of asset reliability, machinery diagnostics and vibration training. Periodic and continuous vibration expertise, coupled with sales and communications skills, have resulted in several teaching and instructional opportunities in Canada and abroad. As a recognized leader in industry, Mike has developed and administered vibration tests for engineers, technicians and labourers throughout western Canada.

Lal is a Mechanical Engineer with 34 years of experience, specializing in vibration engineering. His expertise includes application of vibration analysis, modal analysis, torsional analysis, structural dynamics, stress analysis and rotor dynamic analysis techniques in solving machinery vibration problems. Lal has operated as a field consultant engineer, developed course material and conducted specialized training courses in basic, intermediate and advanced vibration analysis. He has set up and implemented reliability base vibration monitoring programs. Lal has a B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering (Honours) from the University of Sri Lanka, and an M.Eng. Mechanical from the University of Calgary.

John Sharpe is an independent consultant with 43 years experience. He has worked on the extraction of oil from the Alberta oil sands for the last 28 years including the design and development of Syncrude's Aurora Mine and Albian Sands Muskeg River Mine, Canadian Natural's Horizon Project, as well as studies on several other oil sand leases that are at various stages of development. In particular he has been involved with the specification and design of hydrotransport and tailings systems for oil sands operations.

 In 2009 Andy Shelton left his role as the Director of Engineering for Mabre PD Pumps to join Weatherford International. He was the Engineering Manager for the Myers and Aplex line of industrial pump for the previous 15 years. He has lectured often at the Houston Pump Users Symposium and the Calgary Pump Symposium. He is on the Hydraulic Institute Committee for PD pumps and a member of the API 674 Committee.

Andy graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M in 1991.

Nuno Canario, Senior Sales Representative for Western Canada has extensive experience with ProMinent in the metering pump industry since 1997. He comes from an industrial engineering background, where he studied at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario.

Calgary Pump Symposium webpage presented by:
Westpower Equipment Ltd.