Kerry F. Gunn is currently a Principal Engineer with Lyondell Houston Refining. He is assigned to the FCCU unit where he provides reliability engineering support including machinery repair; troubleshooting of rotating equipment; and identifying reliability improvement projects for rotating equipment. Prior to his current position, Mr. Gunn worked for 14 years at Sterling Chemicals as a Rotating Equipment technologist and five years at Quantum Chemicals Houston Plant as an Area Maintenance Engineer and Project Engineer. Previously, Mr. Gunn was a Senior Research Engineer at Exxon Research and Engineering for nine years. He participated in design, construction, and operation of synthetic fuels pilot plants.

Mr. Gunn received a B.S. degree (Mechanical Engineering, 1975) from Oklahoma University and an M.S. degree (Mechanical Engineering, 1977) from Purdue University. He is a member of ASME and the Vibration Institute, category II certified.