Engineer Project Manager
Resume:
Don Bloomdahl
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www.linkedin.com/pub/don-bloomdahl/10/877/322
Chemical Engineer with 28 years experience in specialty chemicals and
biofuels industries including:
Engineering:
( Process Development: Process scale-ups that optimize yields & cut
factory capital & operating costs.
( Process & Equipment Design: Designed & evaluated >$600 MM capital, ran
projects for > $100 MM.
( Process Engineering: Met quality, cost, yield, safety, & schedule
targets for pilot plant & factory runs.
( Technology Development: Improved designs for reactors, distillation,
patents, and plant layouts.
Business / Management:
( Project Management: Developed and controlled capital budgets, scopes,
and project schedules.
( Financial: Reduced operating and product costs. Process cost
estimates. ROI estimates.
( Business: Business planning and development. Patent position & market
opportunity analysis.
( Engineering Leadership: Train & mentor & improve thought process of
engineers. Correct mistakes.
Top 5 Business Results
1- Improved 3M's MV31 monomer process that resulted in $ 53 MM in annual
sales of polymer.
2- Brought technical expertise to Foth enabling them to take on a $ 46 MM
biodiesel project.
3- Cut steam use for bio-butanol process by ~64%, worth $>80MM/yr if
built at 100 MMGY scale.
4- Improved 3M's C8 process that saved $ 23 MM capital and added >$ 5 MM
to annual profits.
5- Improved 3M's project management of carpet coaters that sped market
entry, saved $ 5 MM in capital, and helped increase annual sales by $
9 MM.
Professional Experience
Chemical Process Design Engineer / Consultant (engineer levels 4 to 5)
2006 - 2010
Worked through Foth, AMEC, and Aerotek for their clients, including
projects for: 3M (US & Korea), Cargill (Canada and England), Kraft Foods,
Proctor & Gamble (Canada), Esso / Kearl (Canada),
North Prairie Productions (biodiesel in Wisconsin), and Cobalt Biofuels
(bio-butanol in California).
( Redesigned biodiesel plant layout and saved over 18,000 feet of pipe,
segregated truck drivers from
the chemical plant, re-routed solvent vents to boiler, setup LDAR and
got EPA permit in only 73 days.
( Redesigned bio-butanol process to optimize heat recovery from hydrolysis
and distillation, re-routed
solvent vents to boiler as fuel, cut cooling water by 51%, cut CO2
process emissions by ~49%, and
changed paper mill add-on process from ~energy neutral to creating >80%
more energy than it uses.
( Identified limitations of technology in 3M's glass milling project and
added recycle to meet goals.
( QC checks of engineers work for designs, pipeline, & relief system
sizing for US, UK, & Canada.
( Reviewed technology supplier's design, identified flaws, and worked with
them to resolve problems.
( Modeled processes in excel and aspen, interpreted simulation results,
and optimized designs. Set up
screening criteria for solvents for extraction of biofuels from
fermentation broths & modeled in aspen.
Process Engineer, Salesman, and Marketing Consultant
2004 - 2006
Biorefining, Inc. - (a start-up company and
technology supplier to ethanol industry.)
Evaluations of: biodiesel, biomass-to-syngas-to-ethanol, membrane, and
fermentation processes. Analysis of: patent positions and business
opportunities. Sales. Wrote biodiesel business plan for LLC.
Entrepreneur / Product Design Engineer / Inventor / & Marketer
2002 - 2004
HSHT Venture,
Invented, designed, built, and tested prototypes. Business opportunity and
patent position evaluation.
Don Bloomdahl
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Process Development Engineering Specialist (engineer levels 3 to 4).
3M 1997 - 2002
Process scale-up, development, and transfer of technology for pilot scale
synthesis, extraction, and purification of specialty and flammable
chemicals including monomers for low Tg polymers, imidates, fuel cells,
nitrile-vinyl ether, gases, catalysts, PFOA, Diols, glycidyl azide polymer,
and fluoro-alkanes. Project management of process development. Identified
process data for PhD chemists to collect to enable process optimization.
Directed union operators to make new products. Followed PSM.
( Authored procedures, schedule, and oversaw 90+ chemical runs at pilot
plant and 2 factories.
( Increased MV31 yield by 65% and tripled throughput. Sales in 2008 of
elastomer were~$53MM.
( Set up financial analysis of capital and operating costs for new
processes being developed.
( Modeled and optimized distillation, reactions, vacuum drying,
polymerization, and evaporators.
( Ran lab experiments, modeled, and redesigned process for fuel cell
monomer and NVE cross-
linker that increased yield by 105% and 80%, respectively, then
oversaw pilot plants runs.
( Invented novel cutting wheel for diaper tape, reduced scrap by several
tons per year. Invention
earned 3M corporate level Inventive Engineering award and saved over
$2MM.per year.
( Changed researchers focus from: "can we make it" to "let's optimize
the process, insure the process
always meets product specs, add recycle streams, recover energy &
solvents, and cut capital".
Project Manager / Process Design Engineer (engineer levels 2 to 3).
3M 1984-1997
Managed projects for design and installation of chemical processing
equipment. Designed/installed reactors, extractors, evaporators, and
distillation equipment. Created project schedules and budgets, then
controlled activities to meet targets. Created/signoff of P&IDs & design
basis. Hired numerous contract engineers and oversaw work. Oversaw
factory construction and start-up. Hazop analysis.
( Directed 11 engineering design teams and worked with 7 customer teams
concurrently.
( Completed 210 projects. Wrote 3000 purchasing & 130 construction
contracts.
( Designed and installed 30+ reactors & 35+ machines. Created and
interpreted ASPEN models.
( Added inert liquid to gas/solid reaction, increasing heat removal
(reaction rate) by 14 fold.
( Cut batch reaction cycle time by 60%. Raised F89 distillation yield
by $5,080,000 per year.
Increased PFOA acid recovery from cells by 60%. Earned pollution
prevention award.
( Invented vacuum coating of Scotchgard foam on carpeting, earning
patent. Sales increased $ 9MM.
( Led team to develop plan for safely making sterile artificial red-
blood cell product for humans from
"gasoline" using fluorine gas, acids, and bases. Authored master
validation plan for API.
( Redesign of electrochemical cell system increased capacity from 20,000
to 32,000 amps.
( Authored distillation and batch reactor design guidelines for 3M that
cut design costs and mistakes.
( Wrote business startup plan for liquid explosive product line being
divested, including startup action
list, land lease, process designs, capital investment budgets and
timing, operating cost estimates,
schedules, P&L, permitting, inventory, sales & cash flow forecasts,
skills to hire, and management
exit strategy. Later helped outsource its manufacturing.
Project Manager / Process Design Engineer (engineer level 1).
Ecolab 1982-1984
Education / Other
M.B.A. and B. S. in Chemical Engineering from University of Minnesota +
>150 professional classes.
P.E. License, MN, 1984 and PMP Certification, 2002 (could reinstate).
AICHE, Mensa.
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