Management Team
Biosource America Management
John Jackam serves as Director of Process and Controls. Mr. Jackam received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Ohio University with a Minor in Chemistry in 1999. Mr. Jackam has more than seven years experience as both a Research and Development Engineer and as a Process Design Engineer. Mr. Jackam optimized each unit operation of the biodiesel process on laboratory scale equipment, establishing that the process could be completed and then designed and supervised the construction of a pilot plant, and operated the pilot plant to collect scale-up information on a first- hand basis. His research and development of advanced chemical processes has involved the development of analytical methods and models to quantify and describe the reactor performance, based on product distributions and yield, using HPLC, GC, ELSD and other methods. Mr. Jackam has been responsible for all pilot plant operations in the biodiesel industry, including multiple feedstock evaluation and processing, process optimization and steady state yield determinations, and product quality control. Mr. Jackam has played a very key role in the process design of the individual process units and his experience in the pilot plant operations is invaluable during plant startup, commissioning and operator training. Mr. Jackam also was a lead design engineer on the 20-MGY biodiesel plant for Sanimax Energy and provided the operational training, startup and performance testing services required.
Jeff Jonesserves as the senior chemical process engineer and a Project Manager. Mr. Jones spent six years as a manufacturing process development engineer for IBM Corp in Endicott, NY. During his time at IBM, Mr. Jones specialized in impinging jet process and equipment development and hazardous waste reduction in electronics manufacturing. He also taught Six Sigma statistical process control to 200 engineers and technicians and served as a Site Technical Liason, overseeing technical development of 10,000 employees. In addition Mr. Jones has spent 10 years as an independent consultant aiding in the areas of product and process development, manufacturing, as well as the testing and licensing of 14 major prototypes. Mr. Jones is an inventor on 12 U.S. patents with combined value exceeding $50 million, co-authored a cover article in the March 1993 IBM Journal of Research and Development, and is a recipient of the 1999 SMT Magazine Vision Award for market leadership in new cleaning equipment. Mr. Jones graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Brigham Young University with a minor in Japanese.
Joel Pierce serves as the Senior Process Engineer and a Project Manager. Mr. Pierce worked for Phoenix Solution Co. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Pierce worked as a Research and Development Engineer on combustion processes related to material synthesis and power generation, as well as high temperature reactors for the production of hydrogen from short chain hydrocarbons. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Pierce worked as a Senior Chemical Engineer at Resodyn Corporation in Butte, Montana. At Resodyne he conducted research on mass transport operations and designed bench-scale and pilot-scale chemical processes for several government agencies including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. In 2005, Mr. Pierce became a Process Engineer with Biosource Fuels in Butte, Montana. Mr. Pierce received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 1998 from the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology.
Mark Chadek serves as the Senior Mechanical Engineer. Mr. Chadek began his career in 1976 as a Boilermaker, Rigger and Welder for the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders in Eugene, Oregon. Mr. Chadek's career has included working as a Manufacturing Engineer for Nordic Track, where he provided engineering support to the welding and metal fabrication departments, as well as the Senior Manufacturing Engineer at Mustang manufacturing, where Mr. Chadek worked closely with Design Engineering to identify and implement design changes to enhance manufacturability and introduce new product and product enhancements into to production. In 2004, Mr. Chadek joined the team at Resodyn Corporation in Butte, Montana as a mechanical Engineer. His responsibilities included mechanical design and specification of processing equipment in support of Resodyn's development of Straw Pulp and Biodiesel production technology. Later that year, Mr. Chadek became the Lead Manufacturing Engineer, for ATK Thiokol, in Brigham City, Utah, where his responsibilities included process development and ongoing production support for the manufacturing of the Booster Separation Motors used in the Space Shuttle program. In 2005, Mr. Chadek was hired as the Senior Mechanical Engineer for Biosource Fuels. Mr. Chadek received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Utah State University in 1995.
John McKee In 2004, Mr. McKee became the Network Administrator and Project Manager for Resodyn Corporation in Butte, Montana. John McKee worked for Resodyn until he joined the team at Biosource Fuels as I & C Technician and Project Manager. In 1997, John McKee earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Montana in Missoula. In 2000, he also earned another B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Montana in Butte. Mr. McKee later went on to earn an M.S. in Engineering Project Management from the University of Montana in 2005.
