Born in England, Dave Phelps, CEng FIMechE, Eur Ing, immigrated to the US in 2008. He is a Fellow of the London-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a highly respected international organization of Professional Engineers. Dave spent much of his career in the process and oil industries and held leadership positions in design, manufacturing, operations, project management and new product development. As Global Product Development Manager for an international Fortune 500 company he led teams that developed and commercialized numerous world-class multimillion-dollar product lines.
Dave pioneered methodologies to rapidly analyze complex development needs, define the optimal solution and bring the product or process plant to market. He achieved the company’s only ‘methods’ patent. Dave’s current focus is on EMP’s and other critical threats to US security where his main attention is on initiating or supporting a realistic power grid-hardening program. He is actively involved with a number of national, independent groups of EMP experts including the Task Force on National and Homeland Security.
A U.S. citizen since 2015, Dave and his wife Trudy live in South Carolina.
