James M. Watterson has a PhD in mechanical engineering and is currently serving as independent training consultant with JMW, United Arab Emirates, since January 2003, and as part-time senior lecturer/lead trainer-commissioning and process start-up in the oil and gas refineries with ADNOC since February 2011. He trains groups of maintenance, operations, instrumentation, and planning engineers in groups of 8 to 20. This includes public courses and in-house courses. Usually spanning five days, these courses are highly interactive and use many types of software for vibration analysis, compressors-turbines. There are also many 3D animated videos for most rotating equipment. Coupled with this, he also provides self-assessment questions. Previously he was managing director at JW Management and Marketing Consultancy from September 1985 to October 2000.