Jovan Giaimuccio

Jovan currently serves as Quality Manager at IPA’s headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia. As Quality Manager, Jovan is responsible for monitoring internal work processes, identifying improvement opportunities, and supporting the development of new products.

Prior to this role, Jovan held the role of Product Development Leader for IPA’s Project Evaluation System (PES®), managing IPA’s core services, including the Pacesetter and Prospective Project Evaluations (for proactive, independent risk analysis and benchmarking) and Closeout Evaluation (for retrospective lessons learned analysis and benchmarking). In this role, Jovan was responsible for driving research and development efforts aimed at improving the accuracy and precision of IPA’s risk measurement and benchmarking services.

Jovan joined IPA in 2008 and has extensive experience in providing project risk assessment and benchmarking services across the Energy, Oil Sands, Chemicals, Refining, Midstream, Minerals, Metals and Mining, LNG, and Utilities sectors. Jovan is also currently IPA’s client relationship manager for the downstream operations of one of the largest multinational oil companies in the world.

Before joining IPA, Jovan was a postdoctoral research associate at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD) where he studied the use of organic dyes in dye sensitized solar cells. He has extensive experience in both the synthesis and analytical measurement of organic and inorganic compounds, as well as the fabrication of transparent mesoporous metal oxide films.

Jovan is a Ph.D. chemist and acquired both Ph.D and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois) where he characterized the energy and electron transfer characteristics of organic dyes used in nanotechnology applications (specifically organic photovoltaic and semiconductor devices). Jovan has a B.A. in Chemistry from Albion College (Albion, MI).