Frederick Boyd Plummer, Jr. graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1960. He spent his early project engineering days as an officer in the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, serving in Germany, Viet Nam, and as an Instructor at West Point after receiving a MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Following ten years of service to his Country, he returned to Illinois and earned his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, while working as a Principle Investigator at the U. S. Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign.

In 1973 he joined Exxon and spent nearly 30 years working as an engineer, supervisor and manager in the offshore oil and gas business. Nineteen of those years were spent working on large international projects. His assignments included Engineering Manager on the Snorre Field Development Project -- the first deepwater platform in the North Sea -- and Marine Manager for ExxonMobil Development Company.

After two years of consulting and retirement he joined FloaTEC, LLC, a joint venture, startup-company formed by J. Ray McDermott and Keppel FELS to engineer and build deepwater oil and gas production systems. There he is the Director of Execution Excellence, responsible for coordinating the development of the company’s business processes and project management system.