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Engineer Process

Location:
Bettendorf, IA, 52722
Posted:
February 03, 2011

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Resume:

Alex H. Diehl

*** ******* *****

Bettendorf, IA *2722

608-***-****

*******@*****.***

EXPERIENCE:

Archer Daniels Midland

Clinton, IA

Process Engineer (Feb 2008 - Sep 2009, Mar 2010 - Present)

. Member of Milling and Feed departments of ADM's Wet Corn Milling

Processing plant

. Responsible for supervising everyday operations and troubleshooting

production issues in milling department and corn receiving department.

o Including scheduling of truck hours, filling in for shift

supervision, production meetings with plant upper management,

lab analysis

. Developed, provided financial justifications for and implemented

projects

o Provided statistical analysis for new impact mill trial (over

$400,000)

o Converted old electrical controls to modern equipment ($24,000)

o Automation and installation of new MCC in corn storage

($400,000)

o Installation of magnets on heavy steep water evaporators

($35,000)

o Conducted trial on new style centrifuge merco nozzle with

results showing a 10% reduction of power

. Created new production reports for entire plant and individual

departments

o Updated report format using excel for Milling and Feed

departments

o Created plant wide reports including daily production of entire

plant reported to the division

. Involved with start up of new feedhouse

. Active member of Incident Investigation Committee

o Trained hourly On-site Investigators and facilitator for

recordable and serious investigations

Archer Daniels Midland

Columbus, NE

Project and Process Engineer (Sep 2009 - Feb 2010)

. Involved in the start up of new Dry Grind Ethanol plant

. Supervised 5 contractor groups during plant construction

o Including pipe fitters, insulation, civil, and millwrights

. Managed insulation on dried distillers grains ring dryers

o Determined required insulation, field contact for installing

over all 4 dryers

o Weighed all options and methods (over $1,000,000)

. Set up work with environmental engineers for required stack testing

. Trained operations and optimization of production

o Operated dryers and feed loadout buildings during initial start

up

o Help determine best operating conditions based upon trials and

samples

Iowa State University

Ames, IA

Undergraduate Research (May 2007-December 2007)

. Statistical Process Control Research under Dr. Derrick K. Rollins

. Development of experimental data

. Validation of process control equations

COMPUTER SKILLS: Fluent with Microsoft Excel with OSIsoft PI realtime

data software and Microsoft Office 2007; experience with MiniTab, MatLab,

VBA, NovaTech D3 Programming

EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science in Biological and Chemical Engineering

(December 2007)

Emphasis in Statistics

Iowa State University (Ames, IA)



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