RICHARD KRIEG

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Auburn, Georgia 30011

Cell: 678-***-****

acwa08@r.postjobfree.com

Summary of Experience:

A Chemical Engineer with a variety of experience including Process/Project Engineering, Equipment Specification and Design, Thermodynamics, Physical Properties, Corrosion Resistance, Sales and Sales Support and strong computer literacy, along with a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. Familiar with refinery processes, petrochemicals and HCl technology. Extensive experience in heat exchanger design.

Employment Experience:

Mersen (formerly Carbone of America), Chemical Equipment Division, Salem, VA Apr, 2007 - Feb, 2016

The world’s premier manufacturer of Graphite and Reactive Metals Heat Exchangers and associated equipment for the Chemical Processing Industries, supplying corrosion resistant heat exchangers and other process equipment, as well as HCl synthesis and processing systems.

Senior Process Engineer (Sales Department)

Ascertain customers’ needs, specify/design equipment, and write bids

Produce high-level and mid-level design of metallic and non-metallic heat exchangers for North American fabrication facilities using ASPEN and proprietary software

Prepare PFDs, heat and mass balances, and produce data sheets for various equipment

Manage systems projects, prepare various manuals

Perform preliminary engineering and costing for bids, including modifying existing AutoCAD drawings

Provide evaluations of existing equipment

Write RFQs, submit to vendors, and evaluate their proposals

Prepare and give sales and technical presentations both to customers and internally

Write, maintain, and update proprietary software

Developed innovative design for multi-shell graphite block heat exchangers, reducing cost 15%-20%

The Home Depot (Suwanee, GA store), Atlanta, GA 2005 - 2007

Largest home center chain in the United States

Sales Associate

Menard's Inc. (West Chicago, IL store), Eau Claire, WI 2002 - 2005

Third largest home center chain in the United States

Assistant Department Manager

Assigned tasks for department personnel, and assured proper completion

Assured accuracy of pricing and computerized inventory

Adjusted sales associate schedules to meet payroll/sales goals

Galileo International, Rosemont, IL (subsidiary of Travelport) 1999 - 2001

A $1.48 billion company, the world's second largest Computerized Reservations Systems company

Technical Analyst Reporting to Manager of Customer Billing Services. Responsible for upgrading, troubleshooting, and new development for customer billing systems.

Maintained and enhanced all railroad vendor billing systems

Helped company tap new market by designing, coding, preparing technical and user manuals, and putting into production a billing system for a new category of railroad vendor

Performed coding and unit testing for a major project to consolidate two parallel billing systems; established and performed major function for change management

Negotiated requirements definitions for projects

Advised and assisted coworkers modifying programs written in PL/I

UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL (subsidiary of Honeywell) 1979 - 1999

A $1 billion company, and a leading supplier of process technology, catalysts, and specialty products and services to the worldwide petroleum refining industry.

Design Engineer 1997 - 1999

Reporting to Platforming Technology Center Leaders in Engineering Department. Responsible for Process, Project, and Development Engineering functions. Used HYSYS and UOP’s in house simulator.

As Lead Engineer, prepared Naphtha Hydrotreating unit PFDs, P&IDs, heat & weight balances, hydraulics, and equipment specs using process simulator models, specialty software, and judgment

Performed technical feasibility study for reuse of existing fractionator

Took over design work on one of the first Recovery Plus units using Hysys, with particular attention to relief valves

As heat exchanger specialist:

-prepared heat exchanger specifications for other engineers’ units

-performed economic studies for use of shell and tube heat exchangers vs. Packinox welded plate heat exchangers using HTRI and Packinox software, on a unit by unit basis

-reviewed foreign prints to assure conformity with UOP specifications

Prepared Preliminary Engineering Design specifications for bids on projects

Verified and enhanced method for fugitive emissions estimation, to help clients meet regulatory requirements; corrected and enhanced associated computer tool

Scientific Programmer Analyst (various grades) 1981 - 1997

Reporting to the Manager of Engineering Information Systems

Supported company’s in-house simulator in various capacities, including:

-Researched, analyzed, coded, and installed thermodynamic calculations to enable company’s expansion into new technologies

-Researched, analyzed and performed many enhancements to component properties generation function

-Added access to, and use of, properties from DIPPR pure component database

-Added creation of any number of pseudocomponents, under user control, from boiling range material

-Researched, analyzed, coded, and installed specialized vapor-liquid equilibrium functions

-Worked with model writers to address their needs for ease of use and access to data

-Assisted engineers with use of simulator

Provided in-house consultation in areas of thermodynamics, physical properties, program integration, and simulator problem resolution

Supported R&D kinetic modeling by integrating component properties generation routines and phase equilibrium routines into their programs, and helping with reactor duty calculations

As part of a team, ported major applications from IBM mainframe environment to Windows NT

Provided enhancements to mainframe (later, Windows NT) full screen I/O routines

Wrote program to design, rate, and analyze thermal cracking heaters

Pilot Plant Engineer 1980

Instrumentation Engineer 1979 - 1980

Pilot Plant Operator 1979

Education:

MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX

BS, Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Additional college courses in Advanced C Programming, Advanced C++ Programming, Graphical User Interface Programming (Visual BASIC), UNIX, and Java

Additional Training:

HYSYS for Programmers

MTQ Facilitator

References furnished upon request.

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