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Student Success Stories in Process Technology
CAPT believes that employers, institutions, and students benefit from quality educational programs that lead to successful careers. With this in mind, CAPT decided to highlight program graduates who have been hired by and are productive contributors to industry partners.
Thus, CAPT requested that each institutional partner nominate a recent graduate to be included in the Student Success Stories publication. Students, professors, and industry supervisors were then interviewed to provide diverse viewpoints on the reasons for a particular graduate's success. Twenty students and 5 interns, representing 21 colleges, 17 employers, and 8 states are profiled in this publication.
In addition, the publication includes profiles of the 2002 summer technician interns recruited by CAPT and employed by BP Exploration and Production, Inc. on various processing facilities.
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André Ardoin - McNeese State University/PPG Industries
André Ardoin had been a process operator at PPG Industries for eight years after earning his Associate Degree in Process Technology at McNeese State University...
Ché Ardoin - Sowela Technical Community College/CITGO Petroleum Corporation
"Even though I’m only 5’4", I have a great big heart and I put it into whatever I do," Ché Ardoin, a process technician for Citgo Lake Charles, said...
Marjorie Brown - San Juan College/BP America Production Company
After Marjorie Brown was laid off from her clerical job, she had the opportunity to go back to school and earn her Associate Degree in Process Technology (PTEC™)...
Brad Cayko - Montana State University/ConocoPhillips
After high school, Brad Cayko attended college for a year before deciding to go into construction work with a friend. When the effort didn’t work out, he tried other jobs...
Russell Cosby - Calhoun Community College/Nova Chemical
Russell Cosby turned to the Internet to learn more about Process Technology (PTEC™) careers after the manufacturing plant where he had worked for 15 years closed...
Erica DuShane - Texas State Technical College/Eastman Chemical Company
Originally, Erica DuShane enrolled in the computer program at Texas State Technical College and never considered becoming a process technician until she...
Salvador Garcia - Houston Community College/Pasadena Refining System Incorporated (PRSI)
He explained that employment opportunities for process technicians are increasing because the ‘baby boomers’ are retiring. After this conversation...
Scott Guitreau - Louisiana Technical College/Shell Chemical LP
While investigating careers that required less traveling, Scott spoke with process technicians and learned from them about the benefits a career in process technology offers...
Chuck Hudson - Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College/Chevron
Chuck Hudson was one of the first students to
graduate from Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College’s Process Technology Program...
Tim Hurst - Delaware Technical and Community College/Sunoco, Inc.
Tim resisted until he fully realized the financial opportunities and challenges a process technology (PTEC™) career could offer him...
Leslie Jackson - Lamar Institute of Technology/CITGO Petroleum
"I have learned that I can achieve anything I am challenged to do," said Leslie Jackson, a process technician at CITGO Petroleum in Lake Charles, Louisiana...
Ed Jacques - Alameda High School
Ed Jacques still remembers how he first learned about process technology. "During my sophomore year, I attended a career fair at my high school and saw a video"...
Austin Kirklin - Louisiana Technical College/Marathon Petroleum
After 14 years of commendable law enforcement service, at the age of 39, Austin Kirklin went back to school following a 20-year break...
Robert Klebe - Bismarck State College/Rentech Inc.
Since his uncle had worked in the power and process industry in North Dakota for years, it was easier for Robert Klebe to make an informed decision to become a process technician...
Scott Lambson - Bellingham Technical College/BP Cherry Point Refinery
"Although I had previously worked on oil rigs in the 1980s, right after high school, it made no difference when I applied at BP before earning my Associate Degree in Process Technology"...
Aaron Lorentzen - Kenai Peninsula College/BP Prudhoe Bay
When Aaron Lorentzen decided to go back to school, he said to himself, "This is going to be no different than waking up in the morning and going to work"....
Steven Lucio - Wharton County Junior College/Shell Oil
Steven Lucio started college as a general business major, but soon realized that his friends who had graduated were having trouble finding jobs...
Pamela Mack-Bennett - University of Alaska-Fairbanks/Teck Pogo Inc.
Pamela Mack-Bennett worked for many years as a tour guide and then a training manager at Denali National Park in Alaska....
Tatum McPhetridge - University of Alaska-Anchorage/ConocoPhillips Alaska
"I first heard of the Process Technology (PTEC™) Program while living in Oregon, where I was working as a dental hygienist,"...
Andrew Minter - College of the Mainland/BP Texas City
When Andrew Minter was growing up he always thought he would be a state trooper. Several of his friends’ fathers worked at industrial plants in the area, and they told him...
George Parker - San Jacinto College/Pasadena Refining System Inc.
"As a kid growing up in Freeport with many refineries, it wasn’t surprising that most of my friends went to work for industry,"...
Kedrick Redd - Baton Rouge Community College/INEOS Olefins & Polymers USA, Chocolate Bayou Works
For years, Kedrick Redd drove product trucks to chemical and refining plants across the United States. "I had always wanted to be a process technician"...
Diane Sagan - The Victoria College/BP America
At the age of 50, Diane Sagan had to support herself after being a stay-at-home wife, as well as mother of three, for most of her adult life...
Justin Thornton - Alabama Southern Community College/Alabama River Paper Companies
After Justin Thornton completed his service in the Air Force, where he worked on aircraft electronics, he began looking for job training that met his search criteria...
Sheila Wilson - Brazosport College/Dow Chemical
When Sheila Wilson first worked for Dow in the 1980s, initially as a process technician, and then as a lab technician, the job environment was different...
