Engineer Process

Francia Gomez

Manufacturing – Process Engineer

http://Iinkedin.com/in/francia-gomez-castro-4433256

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CELL 979-***-**** • E-MAIL **********@*******.***

PROFILE Chemical Engineer with more than 15 years of experience in Process Engineering in Petrochemical plants and Refinery in areas of production, strategic planning and process design.

Experience working in different businesses, functions, geographies and cultures.

EDUCATION Management and Audit of Energy Resources Specialist: Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, (Spain)

B.S. Chemical Engineering: La Universidad Industrial de Santander (Colombia)

SKILLS Process Engineer, Project Planning, Project execution, Cost Management, Plant Operations, Environmental Health & Safety, Contractor Management, Personnel Training, Specialty Catalysts

Six Sigma (Green Belt Project Leader);

Languages: English++, Spanish++, Portuguese-

EXPERIENCE

W.R. Grace 2013 - to date

Senior Process Engineer

Scope: UNIPOL® PP Licensing, located in the West Virginia Operations Site, Institute, WV.

Working virtually from Brentwood, CA since 2015.

Achievements:

Design and develop Process Design Package (PDP) for different sections of Polypropylene Technology - UNIPOL® for different clients worldwide (Purification, Degassing, reaction and regeneration) that include:

oCreate technical documentation and design specification

oDevelop heat and material balances

oComplete process equipment sizing calculations

oCreate process control instrumentation data sheets

oCreate process control logic diagrams

oCreate piping and instrument diagrams

Assisted in plant trials: Testing of new catalyst in a process plant in Slovnaft (Slovakia).

Translated English to Spanish to English of both Commercial and Technical Proposals of a Polypropylene Plant design for a refinery (YPFB) located in Bolivia.

Jacobs Engineering 2012-2013

Process Engineer

Scope: Several Jacobs’ clients, located in the Charleston, WV.

Achievements:

Designed engineering solutions including:

oCreated detailed manufacturing documentation.

oWorked with electrical, piping and instrument diagrams.

oOrganized complex process logic diagrams and detailed O/I lists

Dow Chemical 2007-2012

Control Emission Monitoring System (CEMS) Online Analyzer Engineer

Scope: Analytical Technology Center. Located in Texas Operations Site, Freeport, TX and in the West Virginia Operations Site, Charleston WV.

Designed CEMS for a DOW plant in Pittsburg, CA. Work with vendors to get quotes and with contractors during the construction and FAT process. The system met the CA state and EPA regulations. The new installation decreased plant down time and reduced emissions by 10%.

Created a statistical tool to monitor the reliability performance of the analyzer validation on-line. The tool allowed to monitoring more than 80 analyzers automatically and reduced the overall down time by and it was a primary tool for predictive maintenance program

Wrote the first CEMS design guidelines for the Most Effective Technology (MET) library at DOW Chemical. The documentation is in wide use throughout the analytical global group.

ECOPETROL – Cartagena’s Refinery 2003-2005

Planning and Strategic Management Leader

Scope: Planning and Cost Division, located in Cartagena’s Refinery, Colombia (South America)

Achievements:

Planned and led the annual strategic planning for the Refinery Company. The refinery portfolio includes projects for M$17. The new process resulted in an increment in Refinery project execution of 10%

Monitored costs and strategic plans with the Plant Manager and Production Engineers and suggested changes if any deviations

Managed the Balanced Score Card of the Refinery, including provide guidance and coaching in the strategic planning process to the leadership team and other stakeholders

ECOPETROL – Cartagena’s Refinery 1995-2003

Scope: Production Engineering, Improvement Engineering and Process Engineering for Utilities Plant (water treatment, air, power and steam), located in Cartagena, Colombia (South America)

Achievements:

Wrote technical specifications and participated in the selection of new contractor for the water treatment plant. The new contact included a reduction of $300.000 annual

Designed and lead a program to reduce of steam leaks for the Refinery. This program reduced in a 15% the steam leaks in less than 3 months and it was applied as part of the utilities preventive plan maintenance plans

Led a team to identify, implement and evaluate opportunities in a large industrial utilities plant. The opportunities were implemented in one year or less and reduced operating cost by more than $500,000 annual

Developed technical specifications for the Water Treatment Contract.

Manufacturing Rep and Project Engineer for the Demineralization Plant expansion project

Designed the basic engineering for the potable water network improvement project

Developed technical foundations for chemicals consumption budgets

Conducted periodic benchmark of the plant using the Solomon and Exxon Indexes

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