INDUSTRY FACES


Award Winner, Environmental Advocate Dan Oman Changing Firms Daniel Oman, formerly of environmental engineering


consulting firm RMT Inc., Ann Arbor, Mich., has joined Haley & Aldrich, Burlington, Mass. Oman has more than 30 years of environmental manage- ment experience, with an emphasis in solid and hazardous waste management, environmen- tal compliance and remediation. Oman was an early advocate of the beneficial reuse of metalcasting sands in construction projects and has pushed for more reuse in the casting industry. “Tere are other materials that


can be reused, and I think we’re going to have to keep looking for markets for those materials,” he said. “Popcorn slag, for example, is granular and produces a nice consistent material that’s perfect as an aggregate.” For his efforts in helping the


metalcasting industry become more environmentally friendly, Oman was recognized by the American Foundry Society (AFS) with the Jonathan Stone Outstanding EHS Contribution Award in 2009 and the James P.


PERSONALS Powerit Solutions, Seattle, named


Matt Schiltz its new group chief executive officer.


Palmer Manufacturing & Sup-


ply Inc., Springfield, Ohio, has added a number of employees to its engineering and administrative staff, including Jeff Hurey as engineering manager, Rich McNeely as design engineer, Chris Andorfer as appli- cations engineer and Matt Sims as customer service representative.


Victor Garza


Victor Garza has been tapped to head a new interna- tional sales office in Monterrey, Mexico, for Palmer Wahl Instrumentation Group, Asheville, N.C.


16 | MODERN CASTING April 2011 OBITUARIES Harold Simmons died on March


4. He was 87. Simmons spent two years in college before joining the U.S. Army. Following his service, he completed his degree at the Massa- chusetts Institute of Technology and joined the metalcasting industry as a metallurgical engineer. Simmons’ last place of employment was Garrett Corp. (now Honeywell), where he worked until his retirement in 1986. After retirement, he became a cast- ing consultant for Shogun Castings and took on short term assignments for various facilities in the U.S. and overseas. An active member of the American Foundry Society (AFS) since 1946, Simmons received the AFS Service Citation in 1997.


James Palmer, Springfield,


Ohio, died March 1. He was 89. Palmer was a longtime metalcaster and consultant to casting facilities throughout the U.S. and Mexico. He served in the U.S. Navy and was an engineering graduate of the Univ. of Michigan. He worked for Ingersoll Rand, Bay City Foundry, Wauseon Foundry, Dayton Mal- leable, Canton Malleable and White Motors. Palmer was a past president of the AFS Central Ohio Chapter. Along with his sons Wesley Palmer and Jack Palmer, he was involved in the start-up of Palmer Foundry, which later became Palmer Manufacturing & Supply Inc.


Keating Founders’ Freedom Award in 2010. Haley & Aldrich, a firm focused on advising develop-


ers, major institutions and Fortune 100 clients on their geotechnical and environmental challenges, hired Oman as a senior client leader for its Industrial Environmental practice. He is expected to lead teams to develop innovative and cost effective approaches for in- dustrial clients like metalcasters. The firm has a résumé of more than 25,000 engineering and environmental consulting projects and operates from more than 20 offices nationwide. Oman has an M.S. in civil and


Oman was an early advocate of beneficial reuse for spent metalcasting sands.


environmental engineering from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis., and a B.S. in Civil Engineer- ing from the Univ. of Delaware, Newark, Del. He is a registered professional engineer in 13 states and is a member of AFS, AFS- FIRST, the Foundry Association of Michigan and the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has authored seven papers and given more than 50 presentations to industrial trade groups.


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