Plant Superintendent, Operations advisor, Operations

Jerome C. Whiddon

**** ******* ***, *********, ********* 71360 Cell: 318-***-**** *************@*****.***

Summary

Experienced Operations supervisory/management/advisor candidate with strong leadership and relationship-building skills. Highly experienced in all areas of Petrochemical plant operations and maintenance, including commissioning, startup and normal operations. With over 35 years’ experience, candidate welcomes hands on roles in the field and DCS as part of the management role. Excels in troubleshooting, training and coaching operations personnel, and plant optimization.

Areas of Expertise Accomplishments

•High temperature catalyst reforming(SMR)

•Experience with many types of Reactors

•High pressure natural gas and steam

•Distillation columns (stripping)

•Water treatment, Ion exchange/UFRO

•Boiler systems and Utilities

•Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide production

•Cryogenic cold box operation

•Steam turbine and compressor operation

•Petroleum Coke to Hydrogen gasification experience

•CO2 and H2S removal by solution stripping

•Cooling Towers, heat exchangers

•DCS control systems (Foxboro, Delta V, Siemens, Honeywell, Yokogawa)

•All areas of biodiesel production

•PSA (Pressure swing absorption)

•Mole sieve adsorption

•Experience with all types of pumps.

•Pipeline, rail and truck loading/shipping

•Commissioning and startup of new plants and plant upgrades.

•Excel in Troubleshooting/problem solving.

•20+ years’ experience at a 1550 ton per day Anhydrous Ammonia Facility (Hold the production and efficiency records set at plant)

•Assisted in construction, commissioning and startup of a Gasification plant in Coffeyville, Kansas.

•3 years at a Hydrogen/Carbon Monoxide plant

•Commission and startup of 2 large scale Hydrogen plants in Texas (Port Arthur and Texas City)

•Startup of a Zeolite production facility

•Design, construct, commission and startup of the first biodiesel plant in La.

•Served on PHA and PSM committees.

•Trained in Hazmat, firefighting, and all safety practices.

•Very knowledgeable in plant construction including electrical, mechanical and welding inspection.

• Previous 14 years in management positions, including supervisor, superintendent and advisor/consulting roles.

•Received 2 awards for multi-million-dollar savings advice from Dyno Nobel July 2018.

Experience

Operations Supervisor

Juniper GTL, Lake Charles, Louisiana

January 2019-Present

Supervision role at GTL facility utilizing Fischer Tropsch reactors for production of long chain carbon waxes. First plant of its kind to be built in the US.

Mechanical completion, Commissioning and Start-up phase of Gas to Liquids plant

Training and development of Operations personnel

Recruitment and hiring team

Provide input during HAZOPS

Conduct workshops for SOP development, startup procedures, emergency procedures, training modules, etc.

Attend meetings for development of path forward, master scheduling plan, vendor selection, safety plans, etc.

Provide expertise in Syngas production (SMR), compression and purification.

Ensuring the operational readiness plan is complete prior to start up.

Provide operational input for development of BMS for SMR, catalyst loading, SOL’s (Safe operating limits) and NOL’s (Normal operating Limits).

Development and Implementation of the SIMOPS plan.

Developed the LOTO template and procedure change form.

Ammonia Plant Operations Advisor

Dyno Nobel Ammonia Plant, Waggaman, La.

(Brunel Contractor)

January 2017- November 2018

Operations Advisor at a 2536 stpd Anhydrous Ammonia facility from introduction of NG to SMR to finished ammonia product utilizing Linde Cold Box Liquefaction technology.

Commissioning and startup of the newly built plant.

Advise operations personnel on the proper operations of the Facility.

Assist with the startup, shutdown and daily operations of the Plant.

Train operators on operation of the plant, safety, SOP’s, P&ID’s, LOTO, etc.

Technical writing of SOP’s, LOTO’s, MOC’s, etc.

Troubleshoot issues and problems and advise solutions.

Advise on de-bottlenecking areas.

Advise/Implement MOC process. (Management of Change)

Enter work orders, SAP notifications and SHAERS documents.

Responsible for facilitation during outages.

Provide operational input during HAZOPS/PHA’s.

Root cause analysis

Risk management

Operations Superintendent

Sundrop Fuels, Inc.

August 2013- January 2017- Louisiana, Colorado, North Dakota

Chemical process to convert biomass to methanol and then to gasoline (MTG), Utilizing natural gas reforming and gasification of woody biomass.

Constructed, commissioned and started up a Pilot plant in Longmont, CO. at the R&D facility.

Constructed, commissioned and started up the Demonstration Plant at the University Of North Dakota gasification facility.

Assisted working on the engineering, design and operations plan for the Commercial scale plant to be constructed in Louisiana.

Conducted campaign runs in Colorado and North Dakota for data collection.

Write SOP’s for commissioning, startup, shutdown and normal ops for all facilities.

Equipment reviews and signoffs.

Write Job descriptions for Operations dept.

Operations Superintendent/Interim Plant Manager

Consolidated Energy Holdings/Vanguard Synfuels LLC

August 2005 to August 2013—Pollock, Louisiana /Alexandria, Louisiana

Supervised the design, construction, commissioning and startup of the first Biodiesel plant in Louisiana.

Responsible for the daily operations and maintenance of a 15 mm gallon per year biodiesel production facility

Supervised the multi-million dollar upgrade of the plant and restarted.

Overseen the Lab and chemist for quality assurance

Instrumental in the hiring, development and training of new employees

Responsible for the daily operations and maintenance of the 5.5 mm gallon fuel terminal on Red River.

Revamp and upgrade the terminal facility for 24hr unmanned usage

Lead Operator

Praxair, Inc.

December 2002 to August 2005—Westlake, Louisiana

Operation of a HYCO,( Hydrogen/Carbon Monoxide) chemical plant.

Natural gas reforming

Steam generation

Hydrogen extraction and compression

Cryogenic production (Cold Box)

PSA

Mole sieve beds

CO compression and liquefaction

Commission and Startup of 2 large scale Hydrogen plants for Praxair. Port Arthur, TX (Valero site) and Texas City, TX. (BP site).

Operator/Supervisor

Farmland Industries, Inc.

June 1983 to April 2002—Pollock, Louisiana

Operation of a 1550 TPD Anhydrous Ammonia production facility.

Started as an entry level operator and moved through the ranks to supervision over a 20 year span.

1500 psi / 900 Zurn steam system

Natural gas reforming

Waste heat boilers

Natural gas fired boilers

Steam drum and deaerator operation

Multiple catalyst bed operation

Steam turbines and Compressors

High pressure synthesis gas loop

Benfield solution stripping and absorber columns

Ion exchange water purification

Cooling tower operation

High pressure pipeline injection

Refrigeration loops

Railcar and Truck loading

Training and Committees

Pro-active supervision training

40hr Hazmat Cert.

LSU firefighting School

CPR certified

PSM

PHA

Hazop

Safety Committees

Root Cause Analysis

References upon request

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