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James F. Parkinson IV

ab8315@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: To broaden my career path to more fully utilize business skills in a management position with a growing

and dynamic company.

EDUCATION: GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY Fall 2010 –

Spring 2012

• Masters of Business Administration GPA:

4.0/4.0

GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Summer 2003 – Summer 2005

• Bachelor of Science in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

GPA: 3.2/4.0

• Related Coursework in Pulp and Paper Science

GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY Fall 2001 –

Spring 2003

• Chemical Engineering RETP Program

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DSM CHEMICALS NORTH AMERICA – AUGUSTA, GA

03/12-present: Production Manager

Evergreen Nylon Recycling, LLC

• Oversee PSM facility that produces ε-caprolactam from post consumer carpet

waste

• Lead the challenge of operating a maintenance intensive, chemically complex,

novel process and provide guidance for diverse manufacturing activities

• Direct 5 Professional/Semi-professional staff including 2 Production Supervisors,

2 Production Engineers, and 1 Production Coordinator

• Central point of communication between 100% owning partner Shaw Industries

Inc. and DSM contracted operating staff

• Anticipates and resolves complex issues in creative and effective ways while

improving Safety, Health, and Environmental standards

• Develop budgets and forecasts annual fixed, variable, and capital expenditures

• Provide technical and economic review of proposed changes and champion

progress to a more sustainable and efficient process

• Implemented $1.5MM of projects aimed to increase annual production by 700,000

lbs/yr by eliminating performance killers

DSM CHEMICALS NORTH AMERICA – AUGUSTA, GA

03/08-03/12: Production Supervisor

Evergreen Nylon Recycling, LLC

• Supervised 32 employees over four rotating shifts including 4 Shift Supervisors

• Maintained and directed operations of reactors, extruders, distillation columns, pumps,

tanks, crystallizers, vacuum jets, heat exchangers, piping, process control equipment, and

instrumentation

• Exercised latitude to increase production, decrease downtime, and diagnose problems with

equipment or process chemistry

• Implemented new mode of operation to reduce steam consumption by 250,000 lbs/day

during reduced sales demand periods

• Created several new procedures that have increased the robustness of the process and

significantly reduced downtime

• Performed material and energy balances to specify higher capacity vacuum system to

increase production by 15% at a critical bottleneck

• Upgraded existing materials of critical valves to HVOF hardened wetted parts to reduce

mean time between failures in highly abrasive services

• Developed extensive experience in turnaround scheduling and execution

DSM CHEMICALS NORTH AMERICA – AUGUSTA, GA

10/06-03/08: Production Engineer

Caprolactam Flaking – Raw Material Un/Loading – Ammonium Sulfate – Nylon-6 Polymerization

• Actively sought process improvement projects to enhance on-stream time, maximum

proven capacity, and product quality

• Responsible for process improvement projects over three different manufacturing

environments: Ammonium Sulfate Crystallization, Caprolactam Flaking, and Nylon-6

polymerization

• Heavily involved in product quality driven project to improve particle size distribution

out of the Ammonium Sulfate crystallizer train by optimizing mode of operation and equipment

setup

• Secured technology partner to develop patented mechanical process to achieve desired

particle size distribution

• Led Lean Manufacturing Kaizen team to reduce caprolactam flaking downtime by 15%

- achieved 23% which generated 1.3MM in gross margin

NAN YA PLASTICS CORPORATION AMERICA

10/05-10/06: Polymer Production Supervisor

PET Polymerization

• Managed three continuous polymer production lines totaling 600 MT per day

• Supervised 31 employees over four rotating shifts

• Facilitated lot change procedures while minimizing downgrade

• Interpreted control data to isolate and correct set point deviations

• Installed secondary additive tanks to monitor material consumption

ADDITONAL SKILLS/TRAINING:

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