James Byrne

BRG Machineary Consulting

James M. Byrne is a member of the BRG Machinery Consulting team in North Garden, Virginia. BRG provides a wide variety of machinery consulting services including design and analysis, selection, auditing, commissioning and troubleshooting. Mr. Byrne began his career designing internally geared centrifugal compressors for Carrier in Syracuse, New York. He continued his career at Pratt and Whitney aircraft engines and became a technical leader for rotordynamics. Later, Mr. Byrne became a program manager for Pratt and Whitney Power Systems managing the development of new gas turbine products. From 2001 to 2007, he was President of Rotating Machinery Technology, a manufacturer of tilting pad bearings. Mr. Byrne holds a BSME degree from Syracuse University, an MSME degree from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a member of the API 613 special purpose gear and API 617 centrifugal compressor task forces.