Engineer Chemical Engineering

John McNeely

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Ballwin, MO 63021

Phone: 419-***-****

E-mail: *********@*****.***

PROFESSIONAL OBJECTIVE

I am seeking a challenging and rewarding position with a progressive company that will utilize my skills in Contract Administration and Process Engineering as well as my educational background to assist in the success of that organization.

EDUCATION

Masters in Business Administration, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

Bachelor of Science Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri - Rolla

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DuPont, Food & Ag Division (formerly Solae, LLC)

Senior Contract Manufacturing Specialist, St. Louis, Missouri (01/13-02/16)

Responsible for the administration of several contracting companies that provided additional production capacity or processing technology.

Identifying new Contractor firms to supply capacity and/or services to meet DuPont's manufacturing needs.

Qualifying contractors for cGMP's, safety, quality, regulatory practices, etc.

Site inspections, annual quality reviews, inventory counts, and intercompany communications.

Contract creation and modification.

Identifying cost savings and safety projects for DuPont and contractors.

Remediate any problems that occur during manufacturing.

Coordinate DuPont, shippers, and contractors.

Senior R&D Engineer, St. Louis, Missouri (05/12-1/13)

Responsibilities included research and design of protein extraction processes in the food industry.

Worked in Pilot Lab and Research Lab on various bench and pilot scale equipment.

Completed plant trials in pilot plant and at full scale manufacturing facilities.

Solae, LLC, Saint Louis, Missouri (05/09 – 05/12)

(Soy Technologies and Ingredients)

Site Technololgy Engineer, Bellevue, Ohio

Responsible for Performance Rate, Availability, and Quality Improvements for the entire Bellevue Plant Site (Utilities, Elevators, Meal Preparation, Extraction Processes, Extrusion Processes, Drying Processes, Packaging) with special emphasis on the Soy Protein Concentrate Department.

Develop innovative solutions to eliminate process bottlenecks and unplanned downtime events

Site Lead for Management of Change

Advocate and/or Project Manager for various process improvement projects that increase safety, productivity, and reliability.

RKNeal Inc., Paducah, Kentucky (08/07 – 10/08)

(IT Consulting Consulting Firm)

Operations Manager, St. Louis Office

Supervised St. Louis office staff (6 – 12 employees)

Planned and Managed Project Operations as they pertained to customers located in and around the St. Louis area

Liaison to the company’s largest customer; Ameren

Created of Project Proposals and Company Procedures

Provided status updates to corporate clients

Eli Lilly Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana (08/02 – 03/07)

(Pharmaceutical Industry Leader)

Process Engineer, Fermented Products

Led several Process Teams; Fermentation, Filter, Make-Up Area

Maximized Fermentation Process efficiency to outperform productivity goal

Investigated Process Incidents that impact the integrity of the equipment or the materials produced

Managed Capital Change Management Projects up $100K

Responsible for planning and scheduling batch runs to test modifications to the equipment

Coordinated scheduled maintenance with the Production Schedule

Synchronized any capital project initiatives, involving vendors, with scheduled production and/or shutdowns

Created, reviewed, and approved commissioning and qualification documents

Upheld cGMP (SISPQ or Safety, Integrity, Strength, Purity, and Quality) standards though the generation and/or approval of Commissioning, Qualification, and Validation documents

Completed approximately 80 change management projects in areas which included Process Improvement, Process Safety, and Environmental Safety (refer to Achievements below for some specific examples)

Completed numerous Safety Audits and addressed any concerns found via change management, when necessary

Monsanto Company, St. Louis, Missouri (06/99 – 08/02)

(Animal Agriculture – Industrial Scale Fermentation)

Unit Specialist, Augusta, Georgia

Created cGMP Procedures as part of the Start-up/Scale-up of the Process from the Lab Pilot scale to full Manufacturing scale

Reviewed and updated of PID’s

Reviewed and updated the Detailed Design Specifications for Provox

Today’s Temporary, INC., Dallas, St. Louis, MO (08/97 – 05/99)

(Contracting Firm)

Research Chemical Operator

Reviewed results of process to identify possible trends or areas for potential improvement

Batched, Sampled, and Monitored the Fermentation of 15 L, 75L, 150L, and 1500 L Fermentors

Performed preparation and minor maintenance of equipment

Creation of and correction of Batch Records in order to meet cGMP compliance

ACHIEVEMENTS

1)At DuPont I was successful in reducing costs, improving safety, and increasing production at several of the contracting firms. This led to less downtime, improved relations with the contracting firms, and increased revenues and profits. Additionally, I was able to identify several opportunities for production at the contracting firms that assisted DuPont with meeting customer requirements and debottlenecking production.

2)In the Soy Protein Concentrate Department I have been working on various initiatives to improve rate and on stream time (or OST) for the process. One project that is currently in progress is focusing on OST revolves around the vent lines on the process Desolventizers. This project is expected to improve OST by 5 to 10% annually, adding significant capacity to the production facility.

3)At Solae, LLC like many other companies consumption of public utilities can be costly. One project at Solae has involved the completion of an Ultra Filtration / Reverse Osmosis installation meant to reduce consumption of city water by 150K to 200K gallons a day and waste water to the city by ~150K gallons a day, for an estimated annual savings of $400K.

4)Nuisance alarms are a problem at many plants and they were at Eli Lilly. I investigated the 12000 alarms that were occurring monthly in the department. Through a series of initiatives, I was able to identify those alarms that were a nuisance and reduce the number of alarms occurring to ~2400 a month. This had an approximate savings to Eli Lilly of ~$100K.

5)The last couple of years at Eli Lilly, the facility became Production Constrained with regards to the Tylosin Production. I performed Time Studies of the various operations, reviewed many of the equipment specifications, did comparisons on the yield of various Fermentors. The results of these actions were: a Best Practices Procedure was created (based on the shift with the least amount of down time), identification of equipment that had been improperly repaired in the past (thus a loss in its productivity), and identified that various Fermentors required modifications (in order to match those that were high yield Fermentors). This had a combined productivity increase and cost reduction of approximately $1MM.

6)When I first started at Eli Lilly one project that was a constant safety issue was installation of Probe Trees into the Fermentors. Employees had cracked ribs and strained backs as a result of installing the existing Probe Trees. The Probe Trees were approximately 21’ and weighed in at about 20 lbs. I shortened the length of the Probe Tree and modified the connections. I tested this on several Fermentor runs and asked various Operators to try using the new Probe Tree. The feedback from Operations was that they were extremely happy with the results. This had minimal impact to costs or productivity directly, though Eli Lilly Operators were able to install the probe trees more quickly and the company did avoid any loss time incidents as a result of the project. Potential savings from lost time incident was approximately, ~$5K to $10K.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Applications:

-Microsoft Office Suite -PI Data Historian

-Remedy -SAP

-Maximo -Sharepoint

-Delta V -Aspen

-Minitab -LIMS

-CMS (Change Management System)

Six Sigma Black Belt with Lean emphasis

References Available Upon Request

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