Anita Jones Hilliard

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Union Carbide Corporation, A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company – 1992 to 2014

Envelope Reliability Modeling Engineer – 2006 to 2014

•Provide envelope reliability modeling and site integration support to the Saudi Aramco - Dow Chemical joint venture, Sadara Company.

•Specialize in Discrete Event Simulation applied to chemical process manufacturing envelopes to drive continuous improvement of existing facilities and/or capital and operating expense cost avoidance for planned projects.

•Provide discrete event (Monte Carlo Simulation) modeling expertise for evaluating capability of existing assets to deliver product at needed rates or provide estimate of design rates for new assets to deliver specified production rate.

•Use of Titan software or alternate discrete event modeling tools to model existing or planned assets. Includes entering failure probability information, operating logic (via VBA) and running software.

•Data mining accomplished using a combination of personal interviews, asset utilization data and existing equipment reliability information to generate mean time between failure and time to repair data for use in software model.

•Facilitate Process Risk Assessments for new capital projects.

•Certified Six Sigma Black Belt – Employ Six Sigma Principles in daily work. Goal of discrete event modeling is to maximize envelope throughput and overall asset utilization using a variety of statistical tools.

•Reactive Relief Device Design Engineer – Analyze and specify pressure relief devices for reactive and nonreactive unplanned process upset events.

Manufacturing & Engineering Specialist - 2002 to 2006

•Frequently serve as acting site leader for 24 non-exempt employees and monitor daily operations activities to ensure empowered work teams are staffed and productive and customer needs are met. Provide guidance and coaching to help associates understand policies and align themselves with company vision and goals.

•Six Sigma Black Belt and project manager of reactor cycle time reduction project which achieved $450M in Pre-Realization savings. Trained in Six Sigma MAIC methodology and tools such as Apollo root cause analysis. Previously served as Green Belt member of several successful Six Sigma project teams.

•Coordinate new product scale-ups, inter-plant product transfers and product recipe changes involving recipe work, programming changes, monitoring of batches, and follow-up.

•Scope, estimate, and implement capital projects ranging in size from $20Mto $125M.

•Frequent use of SAP R2 to manage cost center budgets, schedule maintenance, monitor capital spending, purchase equipment and services, and revise Bills of Material.

Manufacturing & Engineering Specialist - 2002 to 2006 (cont’d)

•Team Leader of corporate Dow’s NCSU College Relations Team – Interviewed and recruited new hire engineers graduating from NCSU and Georgia Tech

•Awarded Dow’s Waste Reduction Always Pays (WRAP) Award which recognizes individuals who find innovative ways to save money while reducing waste. Raw Material losses at the Tucker Site were reduced saving $22M per year in raw material costs.

Process Engineer - 2000 to 2002

•Key player in plant ‘Management of Change’ process – initiated plant change reviews, performed risk screenings, led design safety and prestart-up reviews, redlined drawings.

•Investigated and resolved issues with UNIX-based Siemens APACS+ distributed control system used in automation of semi-batch reactor lines and bulk raw material unloading facility.

•Controlled plant minor property funds.

•Communicated and established priorities for production operators during off hours (nights and weekends).

•As member of multifunctional product development team, earned Dow global award, The Cramer Award, sponsored by the Development Scientist Organization, to recognize individuals and/or teams that demonstrate excellence in the development and commercialization of new technology applied at Dow customers.

Note: Union Carbide became a subsidiary of Dow Chemical in 2001.

Process Design Engineer - 1994 to 2000

•Developed process design information packages for capital projects which ranged from significant modifications of existing units to construction of new facilities.

•Design experience includes cooling water and compressed air systems, new and relocated latex production units, upgrade and automation of existing reactor lines, site-wide pressure relief device upgrades to ensure Process Safety Management standard compliance, and automated bulk raw material unloading, storage, and transfer facilities.

•Served as member of business market area teams and engineering representative on new product development teams.

•Union Carbide Corporation-qualified Pressure Relief Device Engineer.

•Drafting experience with a variety of CAD packages: Microstation, Visual CADD, and Generic CADD.

•Performed economic evaluation and feasibility study of continuous latex production unit for high volume vinyl acrylic production.

•Stock award recipient for process design of new $6.6MM monomer unloading, storage, and transfer facility installed on-time and within budget to meet regulatory compliance deadline.

New Product Development Engineer - 1992 to 1994

•Project engineer on capital projects ($30Meach) to install automated laboratory reactor controllers based on Intec’s Paragon process control and automation software. Worked closely with hardware/software integration firm and site contractors to ensure projects completed on-time and within budget.

•Winner Annual R&D report of the year.

•Stock award recipient for successful product development of new family of latexes, from bench through scale-up to full production. Directed experimental work of laboratory technician.

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EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, NC State University, August 1987 to December 1991

•Summa Cum Laude, GPA 3.998/4.000

•Financed own education via combination of academic merit scholarships, internships and alternating-semester, full-time cooperative education program.

oAllied Fibers (co-op)

oCarolina Power & Light (co-op)

oProcter & Gamble (intern)

oHoechst Celanese (scholarship)

oTennessee Eastman (scholarship)

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