EL LAGO, TEXAS, UNITED STATES, February 2, 2018 /EINPresswire.com/ -- If you take a look at Arthur Di Nicolantonio, popularly known as Art Di Nick, and his hobbies as a youth, you could almost predict his successes today. There he was racing go karts and little boats, and at 15 years old, he used his engineering instincts to modify and improve the boat. His love of speed, risk taking, and winning set the course for his future career and life. For Di Nick it’s all about problem solving; finding the route to do it better or faster.

Di Nick had a career as a Mechanical Engineer with Exxon that spanned nearly 35 years and gave rise to more than 20 patents. Then he retired, only to continue work as an engineering consultant. He also bought a powerboat company (so he could make the boats better, of course.)

Di Nick sounds like a genius, but wasn’t really viewed as one, especially not by the company that tested kids in his High School. They told him not to go into his planned field of engineering. He proved them all wrong: he was the Valedictorian in High School and finished number one in his undergraduate class (BS Engineering) at Villanova. He also won a National Science Foundation Fellowship in 1964.

“I’m not who people think of as the typical Engineer.” Di Nick began doctoral studies at Lehigh University but didn’t finish because his first child came along. Instead, he earned a Master’s in less than a year, beating the odds. Next, he went to work for DuPont and then Exxon in 1965. That’s where Di Nick gained his oil and gas industry expertise.

Di Nick had a stellar career and now works as a contractor for Night Hawk Engineering while running a boat company. He is proud to do it all. The powerboat company is almost as much a hobby as a business, since he so loves boats and racing. American Offshore www.americanoffshore.net, builds both performance-type powerboats and family powerboats and his engineering genius is behind them.

What makes Di Nick so successful in all these ventures? The willingness to take a risk! Early in his career at Exxon, he came up with an idea on how to improve reactors and the yield of polyethelene plastics. Management didn’t want to try the ground-breaking idea; it would cost $4 million to even create the test plant! The rest is history (tune into the show to hear it all) and inspired the first of many patents he won in the Exxon name, including MVP in 1992.

“I look at something and strive to improve it. I come up with an idea. I’ll take the risk to make it happen.” This separates Di Nick from other consultants. Problem solver. Risk taker. Speed demon. Any one of those could define this brilliant engineer and business owner.

Lou Ceparano
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