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James B. Porter, Jr.

James B. Porter, Jr. is Vice President and Chief Engineer - Safety, Health, & Environment and Engineering for DuPont.  Jim joined the company in 1966 as a chemical engineer in the engineering service division (ESD) field program at the Engineering Test Center in Newark, Delaware.

He left in March of 1966 for a two-year tour in the United States Army. He returned to DuPont as a field engineer at DuPont's Textile Fibers plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In 1970, Mr. Porter was reassigned to the design division as a process engineer at Louviers and returned to ESD in 1971 as a campus recruiter.  In 1972, he was reassigned to the Engineering Test Center as supervisor of the chemical engineering testing group. In 1975, he became a member of the ESD field staff.

Jim became field manager at Chambers Works Construction in 1979, followed by an assignment in business methods and investment division as manager of investment engineering in 1981. In 1983, he returned to design as a design manager for Textile Fibers and then assumed the responsibility of facilities design manager for Chemicals in 1988.  With the restructuring of DuPont Engineering in November 1990, Jim became director - engineering operations.

In September 1992, he was named director of operations for the Fluoroproducts business.

On May 1, 1995, Jim was appointed director of operations. He also assumed the position of vice chairman of the DuPont Corporate Operations Network.

Jim was named vice president of Engineering on November 1, 1996 and became vice president of Engineering and Operations in January 1999.  He assumed his present position of Vice President and Chief Engineer – Safety, Health & Environment and Engineering on February 1, 2004.

Jim has served as Chair for the Construction Industry Institute (CII) and Delaware’s United Negro College Fund.  He is the 2004 recipient of CII’s Carroll H. Dunn Award of Excellence.  He is a member of the Board of Directors for AIChE, FIATECH, the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative, and the Fieldbus Foundation and participates on various industry advisory boards including AIChE’s Center for Chemical Process Safety and is a member of the University of Tennessee’s College of Engineering Board of Advisors and the National Academy of Construction.

Born August 21, 1943, in Knoxville, Tennessee, Jim received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1965.  He, his wife Debbie, and daughter Alyson reside in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.