Manager Customer Service

Leonard A. Matthews

** ******** ******, *********, ** 06787

(Home) 860-***-**** (Cell) 203-***-****

Objective: Plant or Operations Management in a chemical manufacturing company.

Summary: My background includes process development, plant engineering, customer interface, and production in the lube and fuel additive, urethane prepolymers, optical monomers, fluorine chemicals and oleochemicals businesses. I am recognized for my creativity and ability to develop processes, both manufacturing and business, to meet strategic business goals using my technical and communication skills. I am a Six Sigma Greenbelt and have been trained in Lean Enterprise Systems. I am a safety leader with DuPont STOP and Safety for Supervisors training.

Professional Experience

Chemtura Corporation – a leading manufacturer of plastic and lubricant additives, pool and agro chemicals and urethane prepolymers

Middlebury, Connecticut

Director Supply Chain, Petroleum Additives March 2006 to Present

Developed and implemented a segmented, strategy driven customer service policy.

Managed all operational aspects of 3 strategic business units generating $700 million in annual revenue

Coordinated manufacturing at 12 global facilities

Worked with market and regional business managers to determine production strategy, inventory levels and customer serviceability, maximizing production and cost efficiencies

Memphis, Tennessee

Operations Manager, North Plant July 2003 to March 2006

Responsible for product manufacturing for the Oleochemicals Business

Led team to increase profitability by $6 million

Middlebury, Connecticut

Supply Manager, Petroleum Additives October 2002 to June 2003

Responsible for product manufacturing scheduling for the global Petroleum Additives Business

- Maintained global balance for manufacturing products at ten plants in six countries

- Trained the new Demand Manager while maintaining demand and supply forecasts for tenure as Supply Manager

Demand Manager, Petroleum Additives January 2000 to September 2002

Responsible for sales and financial forecasts for the global Petroleum Additives Business

- Programmed a sales forecasting and tracking software package in Excel for use in the Petroleum Additives Business.

- Led the business to 98+% sales forecasting

Harvey, Louisiana

Production Manager January 1998 to December 1999

Responsible for the production of neutral and highly overbased calcium sulfonates.

- Led team that improved production by 75+% within one year

- Instituted shift team management to improve efficiencies

Technical Director June 1995 to January 1998

Responsible for leading the R&D and Quality Control Laboratory teams.

- Led R&D Team to the successful introduction of two new neutral calcium products, one new highly overbased product, and one new Petromix product into commercial production.

- Led the commercialization of a high viscosity highly overbased product at all three of Witco's Petroleum Additives Plants. Also, co-authored two patents for same product.

- Led R&D Team to the commercialization of a new refrigeration oil process.

Texaco Inc., Research and Development Department

Port Arthur, Texas

Project Chemical Engineer December 1985 to June 1995

Responsible for additive process development from glass scale through to commercial scale.

- Assisted in the translation of a new dispersant process to Texaco Additive Company’s plant in Rio de Janeiro

- Devised a process to remove sediment from a new ethylene-propylene copolymer dispersant and a current member of a task force to redesign the process to eliminate sediment formation.

- Co-inventor of Texaco’s calcium oxide overbasing process for the manufacture of overbased calcium sulfonates

- Co-inventor of a continuous process to manufacture nitrogen containing dispersants and member of a team which built, trained personnel for, and started up this process at Texaco Additive Company’s Port Arthur, Texas plant.

- Translated a two-lime, calcium hydroxide and calcium oxide, overbasing process to commercial scale at Texaco Additive Company’s Port Arthur, Texas plant which decreased byproduct solids by over fifty percent.

Chemical Engineer May 1984 to December 1985

Responsible for Fluid Catalytic Cracking catalyst evaluation for Texaco’s refineries and FCC computer modeling.

- Designed and constructed a fully automated Fluid Catalytic Cracking catalyst deactivation pilot unit.

- Member of a team which designed and maintained Texaco’s Fluid Catalytic Cracking computer model.

Education

1984

Lamar University

Beaumont, Texas

BS Chemical Engineering

Patents

Process for Preparing Overbased Calcium Sulfonates, Matthews, Leonard A.; Powers, William J. III; Pryzbala, Henry M.; Whittle, Joanne R.; Perciful, Jerry C.; US Patent Number 4,879,053, November 7, 1989.

Process for Preparing Overbased Calcium Sulfonates, Powers, William J. III; Matthews Leonard A.; Jao, Tze-Chi.; US Patent Number 4,929,373, May 29, 1990.

Process for Preparing Improved Overbased Calcium Sulfonate, Jao, Tze-Chi; Vaccaro, Jane M.; Matthews Leonard A.; US Patent Number 4,997,584, March 5, 1991.

Process for Overbasing Sulfonates Comprising Two Separate Additions of Calcium Oxide, Black, Elzie D.; Matthews Leonard A.; Powers, William J. III; Erickson, R. W. Jr.; US Patent Number 5,108,630, April 28, 1992.

Process for Producing ORI Control Additives, Powers, William J. III; Matthews Leonard A.; Leong, Marian F.; Erickson, R. W. Jr.; US Patent Number 5,147,414, September 15, 1992.

Continuous Process for Alkenyl Succinimides, Allen, Billy R.; Martin, Bobby R.; Lemen, John A.; Matthews Leonard A.; US Patent Number 5,235,067, August 10, 1993.

Viscosity drift control in overbased detergents, Muir; Ronald J; Eliades; Theo I.; Matthews; Leonard A.; US Patent Number 6,239,084, May 29, 2001.

High viscosity overbased sulfonate detergent and marine cylinder oils containing same, Muir; Ronald J; Eliades; Theo I.; Matthews; Leonard A.; US Patent Number 6,444,625, September 3, 2002.

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