Manager Engineer

R. M. (Mike) McCrary, P.E.

A licensed professional engineer with experience in plant operations, product and

process design/development, and process engineering. Familiar with operations

safety and environmental compliance requirements and a certified Six Sigma

Master Black Belt.

Contact information:

Home phone – 903-***-****

Cell Phone – 903-***-****

Email – ********@*********.***

Flint Hills Resources/Huntsman LLC 4/1998-10/2009

10/06 to 10/09 Production Manager

• Responsible for all operation and compliance aspects of a 800MM lb/yr

polypropylene plant and a smaller compounding unit

• Used increased extruder motor capacity to realize an extra 40 MM lbs/yr capacity

• Conceptualized project to increase reactor capacity by 20MM lbs/yr for $140K

• Nearly a year experience as site manager on an interim basis

1/04 to 10/06 Engineering, Quality, and C3 Unloading Manager:

• Responsible for installation of new projects, managing local quality effort, and

managing propylene rail car unloading.

• Reduced lab operating cost by $1MM/yr while improving service and reducing

variability.

• Reduced product retest rate by 90+%

• Led team to cut metal contamination by 90+%.4/98-8/98

1/02-1/04 Six Sigma Master Black Belt: Mentored Black Belts at other facilities and

pushed continuous improvement effort at 4 sites.

9/00-1/02 Six Sigma Black Belt: Led local continuous improvement effort.

• Reduced catalyst cost by $1MM/yr

• Improved Processing Prime from 90 to 98%.

• Determined key variables and control strategy for reducing propylene losses by

8+MM lbs/yr and reduced emissions by 40+% resulting in a savings of $3MM/yr

8/98-9/2000 Production Manager: Responsible for plant operation and operational

improvement.

• Conceptualized and pushed through development of P4-134 which has reduced

transition by roughly 3%. Sales in 2005 were a little over 32MM lbs or around

$3.5MM in increased profit.

4/98-8/98 Senior Process Engineer: responsible for Process Improvement

Baker/Petrolite Corporation 9/1981-4/1998

12/92-4/98 Product/Process Research and Quality Manager:

• Responsible for overseeing the development of new products and processes as

well as managing the Pilot Plant. Also responsible for managing the quality

department.

• Annual budget of $1.1 million.

• Focused Technical Department resources to reduce reject lot rate in Kilgore

Manufacturing by 80%.

• Developed and maintained ISO-9001 certified commercialization and quality

processes.

• Managed a technical work force of 17.

4/17/96 Received Professional Engineer’s License- #81272

In receipt of 3 Awards of Excellence for outstanding performance from Petrolite

Polymers Division. (most since inception of award)

9/86-12/92 Production Manager- Barnsdall, Oklahoma manufacturing facility

• Responsible for scheduling production and troubleshooting processes.

• Complete responsibility for 3 operating units with an annual budget in excess of

$5 million. Work force of 70+.

• Entire facility environmental responsibility. Designed and installed two major

environmental projects. One reduced solvent emissions by 90%. The other solved

a major environmental issue.

• Reduced manufacturing costs in one unit by 15% through improving operating

efficiency and better asset utilization. Moved the unit from a “can’t supply”

position to an “extra product available for sale” position.

9/81-9/86 Product and Process Research Engineer at the Research Facility in

Kilgore, Texas

• Responsible for development of new products and process improvements.

• Completed successful commercialization of several key Petrolite Polymers

Division products including Unilin polymer-based alcohols and ethylene-

propylene copolymers.

• Developed several major process improvements to Petrolite’s polymer

manufacturing unit based on studies of contaminant impact on catalysts,

reaction kinetics, and unit debottlenecking.

12/79-9/81 PPG Industries in Lake Charles, La

Primarily a design engineer and worked in an operating unit as a technical

assistant.

B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University-December, 1979

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