Alex H. Diehl
Bettendorf, IA *2722
*******@*****.***
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)