James Rooney
Senior Risk/Reliability Consultant; ABS Consulting
James J. Rooney, PMP, is a Senior Risk/Reliability Consultant for ABS Consulting. He has 50 years of experience in quality, project management, reliability engineering, risk assessment, incident investigation and process safety management. This includes the application of techniques such as fault tree analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, root cause analysis and hazard and operability analysis. Rooney received a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Virginia in 1975, an M.E. in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1978 and an M.B.A. in management/operations research from the University of Tennessee in 1983.
Since helping start JBF Associates in 1977 (acquired by ABS Group in 1998), Rooney has performed numerous risk and reliability analyses on nuclear, chemical and petroleum systems. A Fellow of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Rooney served as the Chair of ASQ's Board of Directors in 2011 - 2012. He has published numerous papers on risk assessment and reliability engineering methods and was a guest editor of the IEEE Transactions on Reliability special issue on chemical process safety.
Mr. Rooney teaches several different courses for the training division of ABS Consulting, including courses on procedures, qualitative and quantitative hazard/reliability analysis, human performance, and incident investigation/root cause analysis.