TPi October 2011

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Guill appoints vice president of engineering

Jim Houston, Guill Tool & Engineering’s new vice president of engineering

80 officers, professors and enlisted personnel. In addition to monitoring and integrating the strategic growth of both technology and staff, he managed million-dollar facility upgrades, coordinating virtually all modifications. According to Glen Guillemette, Guill’s president, “We wanted an experienced Naval officer with a strong military and nuclear background for our efforts to

Guill Tool & Engineering, USA, has appointed retired Naval officer James R Houston as vice president of engineering. In addition, he will handle business development for the company. Mr Houston served as operations officer for the War Gaming Department at the Naval War College from January 2005 to April 2010, where he directed and mentored a department of more than

grow new business specially for our company’s components and assemblies group that sells to naval and nuclear facilities pipeline, oil and gas.” Mr Houston served as deputy/planner for Future Operations of the Multi National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) and orchestrated the $76mn dollar Operation McCall, an extremely complex extraction of 550 tons of yellowcake uranium and other radioactive sources from Baghdad, Iraq, during regional conflict in 2007 and 2008. Additionally he was selected as MNF-I lead for the development of nationwide coalition and Iraqi security plans for the January 2009 Iraqi national elections. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, with a BS in Aerospace (Astronautical) Engineering, Mr Houston subsequently attended Naval Nuclear Power School and qualified as a Naval Nuclear Engineer. He also earned an MA in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College Newport, Rhode Island, as well as an MS in Personal Finance from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas. Guill Tool & Engineering, Inc produces precision-machined components and assemblies for US Navy vessels and submarines in accordance with technical drawings. Guill’s precision components are engineered for high-pressure and high-temperature systems, which handle high energy gases, fluids and chemicals. The company’s extrusion division designs and manufactures extrusion tooling for advanced applications that include medical tubing, multi-lumen tubing, multi-layer co-extruded products, profile products and fibre optics. Guill Tool & engineering co, Inc – USA sales@guill.com www.guill.com

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