WATT DURDEN
Senior Commissioning Specialist
Watson “Watt” Durden joined JHE in May of 2019 as a Senior Commissioning Specialist. Previously, Watt worked as an Instrument and Control Supervising Engineer and as a Commissioning Manager with an international design consulting and construction firm for eleven years.
He began his formal career in 1977 as an Instrumentation Technician working for Texas Instruments at their Dallas Expressway Site, focusing on the development of an in-house Energy Management/Optimization computer system. Watt has always worked with instrumentation and controls, primarily in the water and wastewater industries but also in the processed foods, batch polymers, ultrapure water, and automotive production industries. At the time, he didn’t realize that when he brought all those systems and sub-systems online, proving they all worked together,that he was already performing a major part of Startup and Commissioning.
Watt believes his sense of humor is vital to his ability to overcome challenges. He knows that areputation of trust is earned every day and that it is easily lost without personal and professional integrity.