Sustainable Operations Solutions

Sustainable Operations Solutions, LLC was formed in 2008 to provide consulting services to help companies make significant and sustainable improvements in workplace safety, process safety management, capital effectiveness, operational excellence and risk management and reduction. It's Founder and President, James B. Porter, Jr. (Jim) received a BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1965. Following military service he joined the DuPont Company and spent more than 42 years where he held various technical and managerial positions in engineering and manufacturing. He was named Vice President of Engineering in 1996 and he became Vice President of Safety, Health & Environment and Engineering in 2004. He assumed the position of Chief Engineer and Vice President - DuPont Engineering and Operations in 2006, a position he held until his retirement in 2008.

Jim has served as chair for the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and he was the 2004 recipient of CII's Carroll H. Dunn Award of Excellence. In 2005 he received the Engineering and Construction Contracting Association Achievement Award and in 2007 he was honored with the Society of Women Engineers Rodney D. Chipp Memorial Award. In 2008 he was the first recipient of FIATECH's "James B. Porter, Jr. Award for Technology Leadership." He is a member of several Boards of Directors and the National Academy of Construction and was on the Argonne National Laboratory Board of Governors.