Lawrence Youngblood

Lawrence Youngblood father of Megan (’18) and Roman (’21), sees his professional career not as a job but as an adventurous journey into the heart of enterprise and opportunity. He was an electrical engineer with Chevron for 25 years; working in Kazakhstan, Angola, Indonesia and consulting in Siberia as well as factory testing in Florence, Italy, and Grenoble, France. Mr. Youngblood currently serves as Vice President of Business Development for the technology consultant start-up Statistics & Controls (S&C) of Des Moines, Iowa.

Eschewing the quick-fix answers to technical problems that oil and gas, utility and chemical companies grapple with, S&C offers its clients long-term solutions through a harmonious blend of cutting-edge homegrown software and tried-and-true, old-school engineering practices.

Mr. Youngblood is an electrical engineer who has enthusiastically taken on work that is involved with chemical and mechanical engineering. His company develops software which utilizes in-house developed algorithms that allow for the management and control of extremely chaotic systems — dealing with advanced mathematics, physics and statistics — that are influenced by everything from the weather conditions to the anomalies of the oil that comes out of the ground. The stimulation of “brown fields,” moment-to-moment operations (real-time analytics), and the ability to better control — and do predictive analysis of equipment that will need maintenance before catastrophic failure events — allows companies to reduce 3 to 5 percent of their operating costs and for employees to manage rather than live a reactive existence — which is often the environment where accidents happen. He is also very experienced at marketing and project management, which involves the handling of hundreds of personnel and millions of dollars of budgets.

Mr. Youngblood has a Bachelor’s of Science in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University.