Tom Shephard has 42 years of experience in global operating, engineering design and consulting companies in the hydrocarbon and related technology industries. Tom designed and delivered safety solutions and studies to world-class global projects in O&G, refining, petrochemicals, pipelines. Early roles included corporate technology and project leadership, functional safety, HMI and safety system design and delivery, and technology and project consulting. Roles also included developing new corporate and project technology standards, applications, and project execution methods. Over the last 20 years those roles included process safety, safety and reliability studies, and department management for a world-class technical safety department. Tom’s efforts to integrate cognitive ergonomics and cognition science into human barrier design began with the Deepwater Horizon accident. He brings a seasoned practitioner’s mindset, persistence, passion and an atypical range of multi-discipline competencies to that effort.