P&ID Engineer

Biogenesis, Inc.

January **** - present

Provide drafting and engineering support for various process and plant designs to develop large and small projects in the soil/environmental remediation industry.

Create environmental and safety drawings for company and client permits

Create area classification drawings to determine plant layout/equipment location

Utilize AutoCAD to create 3D plant and pipe models

Create critical lift drawings for extensive overseas shipments that require crane operation for unloading

Provide training on reading and correcting P&ID’s

Pilot Plant Technologist

Elevance Renewable Sciences

March 2015 – November 2015

Managed pilot plant and produced specialty chemicals. Operation management included: alumina purification, metathesis reaction, distillation, vacuum & pressure filtration and plug flow batch reactor operation.

Perform process safety reviews using Dow Chemical's LESIF

Design alumina purification systems to remove peroxides from olefins and methyl esters

Develop methods to scale up the production of proprietary chemicals from R&D Department

Write and update SOP’s for routine operations in the pilot plant

Prepare research samples for customer base

Manage customer sample orders and coordinated pilot plant runs to fill orders

P&ID Engineer

British Petroleum (BP)http://www.dobergroup.com/SitePages/dober.aspx

January 2015 – March 2015

Limited-term contract position focused on maintaining and updating the P&ID AutoCAD drawing database.

Audited P&ID drawings for compliance with BP’s current drawing standards

Performed safety reviews on work area using BP’s HITRA safety review process

Chemical Technician

Dober Chemical

February 2014 – January 2015

Engineered, operated and designed processes for the granulation and coating of ammonium persulfate using a fluidized bed.

Advised plant manager on production process and equipment selection

Audited work environment and equipment for compliance with GMP

Operated and maintained the Fluid Air™ fluidized bed spray coating machine

Used psychrometrics parameters to determine and adjust the air and polymer flow rates of fluidized bed

R&D Engineer

UIUC – Dept. of Agricultural Engineering

May 2011 - August 2011

Outlined batch reactor standard operating procedures (SOPs) to improve process flow in addition to management of small-scale manufacturing of HMF.

Assembled, disassembled, operated and cleaned (P.A.R.R.) Batch Reactor

Applied Soxtec™ System HT6 1043 extraction procedures to quantify bio-mass extractives

Determined composition of biomass using National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) wet chemistry procedures

Project Engineer

Dow AgroSciences

January 2011 - May 2011

Implemented extensive modification of silage sample manufacturing process to increase throughput and improve quality control protocols.

Six Sigma Lean Principles utilized to redesign the silage size reduction operations

Designed custom biomass shredder for particle size reduction using Inventor 8, Solid Works and Auto CAD

Co-designed vacuum system to reduce levels of cross contamination by 95%

Chemical Operator

UIUC – College A.C.E.S.

June 2008 - July 2010

Assisted in development of an assay using the acid hydrolysis of starch to test the quantity of residual starch remaining on the germ and fiber after fractionation.

Dry grind ethanol processing

Wet milling processing

Dry milling processing

Enzymatic milling processing

Education / Certifications:

University of Illinois (UIUC)

B.S. Agricultural & Biological Engineering

2007 - 2012

Chicago Safety Institute

Cert. of Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response

2013

City University of Hong Kong

(Study Abroad) - Analytical Chemistry

2011

Core Competencies:

PFD / P&ID flow diagram

SAP and SPC

Bill of Materials (BOM)

AutoCAD/Plant 3D / Microsoft Office

GMP / GLP / cGMP / CFRs

Red Line Drawings

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