Mr. Stephen A. Anderson, MSME, P.E. (USA) is a Technology Manager and a Senior Materials Scientist with over 25 years of industrial experience in Refineries, Petrochemical Plants and Oil companies in the USA, Canada and South Africa. For the past twenty five years, Mr. Anderson has specialized in Technical Integrity, Engineered Safety, metallurgical and corrosion science of refinery and chemical plant equipment and the development of innovative inspection and maintenance programs for a variety of facilities. 

Mr. Anderson is an accomplished trainer and manager who has been at the forefront of the development and implementation of mechanical integrity and risk based inspection programs, has published many papers on the subject and has been an invited speaker at numerous international conferences. This experience includes the inspection, condition assessment, fitness for service and remaining useful life evaluation of refinery and petrochemical equipment. Additional experience includes software development, corrosion control, metallurgical failure analysis, materials selection, materials testing and the monitoring and analysis of vessel and piping circuit corrosion data.

Mr. Anderson worked for Shell, Mossgas and Caltex in different refineries and process plants in North America and South Africa. He has published more than ten books and papers in Technical Integrity and Engineered Safety.

Mr. Anderson has Bachelor and Master degrees. He is a Member of NACE (National Association of Corrosion Engineers), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) and ASM (American Society for Metals)