Energy Magazine January 2017 | Page 56

Scott Ray , Vice President of Engineering for SCT & E LNG

Raised in an entrepreneurial family in a small town near Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , Scott Ray grew up working on farms and developing real estate with his father . His father instilled in him the importance and value of hard work and dedication , and this work ethic propelled him to strive for excellence which landed him in one of the most prestigious engineering colleges in the world , Carnegie Mellon University . Mr . Ray covered much of the cost of his college tuition from the proceeds of his real estate transactions . After completing his Chemical Engineering degree at Carnegie Mellon ’ s College of Engineering , Mr . Ray has had a successful 26-year career in the EPC business . With a focus on world scale LNG projects , Mr . Ray has served in a wide variety of leadership positions designing , building , and commissioning LNG liquefaction facilities globally , and has engineered and commissioned five LNG trains and seven cryogenic storage tanks to date . Mr . Ray ’ s engineering career began at MW Kellogg , now Kellogg Brown and Root ( KBR ), in a program designed to develop young engineers . MW Kellogg was recognized as an international leader in the field of LNG facility design . After completing the MW Kellogg engineering program , Mr . Ray joined a startup team from MIT , Aspen Technology , to develop software for chemical engineering companies . While at Aspen Technology , Mr . Ray was part of a team that successfully took the company public . During the time Mr . Ray worked at Aspen Technology , the stock price increased over 400 %. He was recognized at Aspen Technology for making the company ’ s single largest sale to Fluor , a highly recognized global engineering company . As part of the sale , Mr . Ray spent roughly one year at Fluor implementing a training program with its employees . Upon the completion of his responsibilities at Fluor , Mr . Ray rejoined KBR to pursue his passion for LNG development . At KBR , Mr . Ray was part of a world-class engineering and design team that developed LNG facilities globally , which included