JAMES E. MORRIS

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ODESSA, TX 79762 CELL: 832-***-****

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Innovative Chemical Engineer with extensive experience executing capital and expense projects in the

chemical industry. Skilled at all facets of the project life cycle from analysis, scope, and design through

development, implementation, operator training, and startup. Demonstrated hands -on creative

implementation of instrumentation and control system applications driven to meet/exceed business and

customer expectations while improving process control and cost efficiencies. Exp ertise includes:

New Technology Implementation & Transition

Strategic & Operational Planning

Safety, Health & Environment Compliance in PSM Facilities

Process Development & Improvement

Statistical Process Control

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Controls: APACS, Honeywell HC900 Programming, Loop Tuning

Instrumentation: MicroMotion, Pressure Transmitters, RTD, Thermocouples, dP Transmitters,

Level, Oxygen, Current, Flow, Density, Conductivity

Equipment Sizing: Pumps, Piping, Control Valves, Flow Meters, Heat Exchangers, Motors

Project Construction packages: Scope, Cost Estimate, AFE, PFD, P&ID, ISO, BOM,

Implementation: IFC Package, MOC; Contractor Selection; PSSR; Startup

Process SPC, Kaizen, Root Cause Analysis, Kepner-Tregoe

Optimization:

Production Directing, Motivating, Training, Developing Enthusiasm in Co-workers,

Management: Scheduling, Operating & Capital Budgets, Cost Control, Quality Control,

EHS Compliance, Logistics

Software: Microsoft Office–Outlook, Word, Excel; MS Project; Lotus Notes; SAP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Long tenure with two major chemical companies; anticipate another; health has never been an issue.

FLINT HILLS RESOURCES LP – Odessa, TX 2008 – 2009

Petrochemical Subsidiary of Koch Industries

Senior Process Engineer

Implemented capital projects up to $2M from start to finish, including, scope, cost estimate, AFE, quote

request, PFD, P&ID, ISO, BOM, issued for Construction package, MOC, PSSR, and startup.

Allowed tar drainage from SRT Quench Tank by replacing a 2" line with four 3" lines connected to

a 6" manifold; heat traced and insulated.

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Removed source of process upset at SRT compressors by replacing the common oil reservoir vent

and 400' manifold with individual vents fixed with flame a rrestor above the roof line.

Replaced a 700' underground drain line from the column decanters with over-head line to remove a

potential environmental contamination source.

Submitted an AFE to add an air compressor at the SRT furnaces; project had 2 -year payback.

Submitted an AFE and began detailed design to bring all plant bullets (storage for LPG) into

conformance with current API standards by adding actuated valves on nozzles below the liquid

level.

OPTIMA CHEMICAL GROUP LLC – Douglas, GA 2004 – 2008

Specialty Chemicals & Pharmaceutical Precursors

Facility Manager

Led Mechanical Integrity, Maintenance team of 6, and Capital Projects with $500K annual budget.

Zeolite was toll manufactured and dried in batch process to 10 -20% moisture, which required the

customer to blend off. Designed and installed continuous dryer process using maintenance staff

with slurry blend tanks, rotary dryer, direct-fired air heater, bag house, air blower, pumps, screw

conveyor, VFD, MCC, Honeywell HC900 control system, and instrumentation consisting of density,

flow, level, temperature, pressure, differential pressure, and current. Met rate of 3000 ppd and

quality of 8-10% moisture, which allowed customer to use without blending.

Designed and installed two 2000 gal. batch reactors on load cells, blend tank on load cells,

condenser, intermediate storage tank, product storage tank, pumps, filters, piping, flow meters,

instruments, VFD, and Honeywell HC900 control system to meet new business opportunity. Met

scheduled startup date and customer expectations of rate and quality.

Installed two other glass-lined reactors with load cells and retrofitted stainless steel reactor with

MicroMotion meters, oxygen sensors, VFD, pressure transmitter, control valves, temperature

control, and Honeywell HC900 control system to meet new business opportunities.

Purified water was used as a raw material in several products and was obtained by leasing ion

exchange beds to treat water on site. Designed and installed a reverse osmosis system that met

quantity and quality requirements at an annual savings of $24000.

TRI CHEMICAL SYSTEM – Modesto, CA 2002 – 2003

High Purity Specialty Chemicals

Chemical Engineer

Developed distillation process for purification of organo-metallic compounds for semiconductor industry.

Clean room environment. Intel was constructing two plants to use DMDMOS of which there was no

domestic supplier.

Set up equipment, wrote procedures, established temperature and pressure controls, programmed

Honeywell control system, and evaluated data. The results were successful with metal purity of

99.99999% achieved and the White Paper submitted to the semiconductor industry.

BORDEN CHEMICAL, INC. – Fremont, CA

PF Resins, UF Resins, Wax Emulsion, Formaldehyde

Plant Manager – Fremont, CA and Baytown, TX 1994 – 2002

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Managed specialty chemical plant of up to 26 employees with up to 7 direct reports.

Improved productivity resulted in 12% lower electricity usage.

On-site liaison for construction of 150 ppy formaldehyde plant; met startup date.

Maintained 25% profitability by improving productivity and implementing 33% expansion.

Met quality requirements for all customers; received Supplier Quality Award from Mon santo.

Complied with EHS requirements, including PSM and RMP, and passed corporate audits .

Developed personnel of which four were promoted, one to another site.

Community participation included Baytown CAP, Plant Manager’s Network, and Bayer Alliance .

Plant Engineer – Diboll, TX 1983 - 1994

Managed Maintenance Dept. and Formaldehyde Dept while implementing capital projects in three plants and

completing environmental compliance reporting.

Increased resin production capacity 30% by expanding reactor volume .

Expanded the formaldehyde unit capacity 30% by replacing catalytic reactors with larger size,

repacking absorber column, removing blanks from sieve trays in distillation column, and modi fying

heat exchangers, pumps, control valves, and piping; completed during 10 day Christmas shutdown .

Achieved zero liquid waste discharge by total recycle.

Upgraded pneumatic controls with electronic instruments in Diboll and Vicksburg plants and added

computer monitoring.

Developed processes for Sulfa-Scrub and Keydime emulsion.

Scaled up resin formulations from R&D to Production, set minimum and maximum batch sizes, and

provided unit cost to Sales for Eastern plants.

MONSANTO – Eugene, OR 1979 - 1983

PF Resins, UF Resins, Formaldehyde, Latex, Copolymer

Production Supervisor – Eugene, OR

Supervised 12 direct reports, production schedule, quality control, scale up from R&D, environmental

compliance reporting, Industrial Hygiene, wrote procedures, and process optimization.

Improved yield and energy in formaldehyde without increasing reaction temperature of catalyst by

adding inert ingredients, which improved conversion and lowered the amount of steam needed in the

distillation column to remove unreacted methanol.

Improved resin productivity by reducing cycle time by 50% from R&D formulas .

Achieved zero liquid waste discharge by total recycle; modified NPDES permit to reflect the change.

Achieved State Award for zero lost time injuries in over 1MM man-hours.

Incorporated statistical analysis of cycles and quality into all product operating procedures.

Manufacturing Technology Engineer – Addyston, OH 1969 - 1979

Improved yield and energy in formaldehyde by $50000/year with optimization of vacuum distillation

that involved finding and maintaining the optimum vapor velocity independent of production rate.

Eliminated negative environmental impact of off-gas stream by routing to boiler for use of the

hydrogen rich stream as fuel with energy savings of $75000/year.

Process development included styrene-maleic anhydride Copolymers and styrene-methacrylic acid

Latex products; new product was developed for light-weight paper pigment.

EDUCATION

B.S., Chemical Engineering - University of Cincinnati 1969

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