Don Petty, President and Chief Consultant, LINE of SNACKS Consultants International • Current responsibilities: Provide worldwide consulting services for snack food companies for all phases of production, process control, quality control, process optimization, new product development, product start ups, line startup, plant startups and company startups. • President, LINE of SNACKS Consultancy since 1991.- present; Principal Research Scientist in the R & D Department, Frito-Lay, Inc. 1970 -1986.; Research Product Manager at Anderson, Clayton Foods, Richardson, TX 1966 –1970; Production Chemist, Dow Chemical, Freeport, TX 1960 – 1965 • Bachelor of Science at East Texas State University, 1960, majors in Chemistry and Mathematics; Post graduate work in the 1960s and 1970s at East Texas State U, Texas A & M U, Texas U. • Association memberships: Past Institute of Food Technology, and American Chemical Society • Authored non-technical books, novels and How to books. • Traveled in 23 countries to over 112 companies in consulting work for LoSnacks.