GARY L. BURGESS, P.E.
**** ********* **. acby8d@r.postjobfree.com
Charlotte, NC 28277 http://www.linkedin.com/in/garylburgess
Project Engineer / Manager in handling complete project cycle, including
business, sales, marketing, capital approval, design, scheduling,
budgeting, bid evaluation, construction management, commissioning, start up
& validation.
Process / Facilities Engineer with experience in all aspects of engineering
including design, R&D, pilot plant study, P&ID's, trouble shooting &
operations.
Biopharm / Consumer Goods / Food / Microelectronics / Specialty Chemical
Industries
1 PROENGINEER, Charlotte, NC 2002 - Present
Project Engineer / Manager
. Process Engineer for boiler, blend skids, CIP - Clean in Place, energy
recovery, and filtration projects.
. Developed P&ID's for increasing performance of edible oil processing,
reducing water / steam consumption and addressed API Safety Issues.
. Designed & developed bid packages for filtration, CIP & chromatography
skids.
. Wrote and / or approved Change Control, Commissioning, Functional
Requirements Specifications, Remediation & Validation Plans, Trace
Matrixes, Automation Installation & Operational Qualifications, (AIQ) &
(AOQ) and Performance Qualifications (PQ) for biotechnology and
pharmaceutical plants. Participated / executed AIQ / AOQ's / FMEA for
USP Water and media / buffer preparation / bioreactor process systems.
. Wrote Regulatory & Complexity Assessment (RCA), SRS & IQ, OQ and / or PQ
documentation for biotech / pharmaceutical production / utility systems.
pfizer / Wyeth, Marietta, PA - site closed 2001 - 2002
Project Engineer / Manager
. Engineer / Manager for all Building 32 clinical manufacturing / R&D
projects.
1 PROENGINEER, Charlotte, NC 2000 - 2001
Project Engineer / Manager
. Interim Plant Engineer / Manager for agricultural intermediate contract
specialty chemical manufacturer.
. Lead Process Engineer for the design / upgrade of insulin, parathyroid &
human growth hormone manufacturer.
Emergent Biosolutions / BioPort, Lansing, MI 1999
Mechanical Engineer - Project Engineer / Manager
. Project Manager for plasma derivatives centrifuge /CIP / pasteurizer
projects.
1 PROENGINEER, Charlotte, NC 1993 - 1998
Project Engineer / Manager
. Designed process for producing animal plasma feed products, developed
process design for an emulsification upgrade project, and helped
implement ISO 14000 program for a vaccine manufacturer.
. Corporate project engineer for the upgrade of two plants & closure of two
adhesive plants.
EDUCATION
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
MS Sanitary Engineering
BS Mechanical Engineering
Professional Engineer WV 007800
GARY L. BURGESS, P.E.
8928 Castlebay Dr. acby8d@r.postjobfree.com
Charlotte, NC 28277 http://www.linkedin.com/in/garylburgess
Project Engineer / Manager in handling complete project cycle, including
business, sales, marketing, capital approval, design, scheduling,
budgeting, bid evaluation, construction management, commissioning, start up
& validation.
Process / Facilities Engineer with experience in all aspects of engineering
including design, R&D, pilot plant study, P&ID's, trouble shooting &
operations.
1 PROENGINEER, Charlotte, NC 2002 - Present
Project Engineer / Manager
. Process Engineer for design, commissioning, start up of $3,000,000 Boiler
/ Boiler Feed Water, Condensate Polishing, Deaerator / 3D Trasar and
$2,000,000 per year energy recovery project.
. Process Design for the filtration and sampling of (7) Cell Factory, (1)
Microfiltration, (1) Ultra filtration, (3) Fermentation, (3) Acid/Base,
(5) Media Preparation / Hold, (1) Recovery Tank Systems and (9) CIP
Systems. This constituted 15%+ of a $10,000,000 (10) plant remediation
project. Created / modified 117 P&ID's drawings.
. Developed 1100 line MS Project Schedule for Installation / Validation of
9 consumer good projects.
. Project Manager for design / installation of Blend Skid for production of
nonwoven wet wipes. Developed process for zero discharge / CIP - Clean
in Place Blend Skid.
. Project / Construction Manager for cell culture media CIP system which
included 800 automatic sanitary welds for Mixer, Mill, Dispenser system.
. Developed 18 P&ID's for the upgrade / enhancement of bleaching & refining
plus designs for reducing water & steam consumption for (2) edible oil
plants.
. Identified 15 API Plant Safety Issues. Developed Scope of Work and
Designs for correction.
. Designed & developed bid packages for filtration, ultra filtration,
diafiltration, CIP & chromatography skids.
. Developed multiple infrastructure & process improvement / addition
projects for adhesive, coating & agricultural intermediates projects to
add plant capacity, improve operations & reduce costs.
. Developed P&ID's for an active pharmaceutical ingredient - API - Thin
Film Evaporation CIP system. Completed estimates for Design
Qualifications (DQ), IQ & OQ along with preliminary scope / system
integrator interviews for a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant Intellution batch
control system.
. Wrote and / or approved Change Control, Commissioning, Functional
Requirements Specifications, Remediation & Validation Plans, Trace
Matrixes, Automation Installation & Operational Qualifications, (AIQ) &
(AOQ) and Performance Qualifications (PQ) for biological products
infrastructure, USP Water System & Water for Injection - Building
Management Systems (BMS). Participated in AIQ / AOQ and /or FMEA of
HVAC, airlock / door, compressed gas, utilities, OTC / solid dose
manufacturing, USP Water and / or media / buffer preparation - bioreactor
process systems.
. Wrote Regulatory & Complexity Assessment (RCA), SRS & IQ, OQ and / or PQ
documentation for Colloid Mill, CIP, SIP - Steam in Place & USP Water
process systems. Wrote dispensing / vial filling IQ, OQ & Cold Room
Automation Systems Requirement Specifications (SRS) for biotech / protein
manufacturers.
pfizer / Wyeth, Marietta, PA - site closed 2001 - 2002
Project Engineer / Manager
. Developed designs for $10,000,000 Vaccine Development Center renovation.
Created database for utility requirements, relocation, calibration &
installation of 450 pieces of laboratory equipment.
. Managed $750,000 Clinical Live Virus Aseptic Filling / Lyophilization
Project from Scope of Work & Basis of Design through Engineering Turnover
Package & Commissioning. First project to incorporate Corporate Project
Management & Commissioning SOP & HVAC Engineering Standards.
. Led Scope of Work & Design for $500,000 Biosafety Level - 2 (BL-2)
Clinical Filling / Freeze Drying enhancement project.
. Developed designs for $400,000 cGMP - small pox vaccine warehouse
lighting / security project & $250,000 clinical packaging relocation.
. Plant representative during construction for Cold Adaptive Influenza
Vaccine (CAIV) facility expansion.
1 PROENGINEER, Charlotte, NC 2000 - 2001
Project Engineer / Manager
. Interim Plant Engineer / Manager for agricultural intermediate contract
specialty chemical manufacturer. Organized plant information, interfaced
with customers, participated in HAZOP reviews & executed multiple process
& facility projects.
. Lead Process Engineer for the design / upgrade of USP water, DI Urea,
chemical & waste inactivation systems for insulin, parathyroid & human
growth hormone manufacturer.
Emergent Biosolutions / BioPort, Lansing, MI 1999
Mechanical Engineer - Project Engineer / Manager
. Project Manager for $2,500,000 chiller, centrifuge, CIP & neutralization
system project for producing Human Plasma Derivatives Fraction II -
Immune Globulin & Fraction V - Albumin.
. Project Engineer for $100,000 albumin pasteurizer relocation / controls
enhancement project. Enhancements added 3 levels of protection against a
$450,000 product loss.
. Improved process safety for anthrax vaccine fermentation & separation
process.
1 PROENGINEER, Charlotte, NC 1993 - 1998
Project Engineer / Manager
. Designed process for converting animal blood from a traditional $600 /
ton to a value added $3,800 / ton product. Conducted pilot studies on
collection, centrifugation, filtration, evaporation, membrane
concentration & spray drying for separating cellular fraction & drying
plasma fraction.
. Developed process design for an emulsification upgrade project to
increase vaccine efficacy, enhance production flexibility & reduce cycle
times 40% eliminating a second shift.
. Team leader for the development & implementation of ISO 14000 program for
a vaccine manufacturer.
. Corporate project engineer for 4 specialty chemical plants in the USA &
Canada. Expanded two plants & worked to close two plants while executing
22 infrastructure upgrade projects.
MARATHON / Jaakko Poyry, Augusta, GA - site closed 1991 - 1992
Process / Project Engineer - Manager
. Managed design, construction, & start up of a $3,000,000 polymerization
process addition increasing capacity 350%. Provided project management
for client & for engineering company.
. Completed all remaining project management & engineering commitments as
the last working employee during the closure of Marathon's Southern
Engineering Office.
RHODIA / Rhone Poulenc / Solvay, Spartanburg, SC 1989 - 1991
Plant Engineer - Engineering Manager
. Managed all project / engineering, environmental, maintenance, & utility
functions. Managed the design, construction, HAZOP & start up of a
$1,000,000 ethylene oxide derivatives / surfactants batch reactor project
improving cycle times 35%.
. Assisted in the design, permitting & construction of a $2,500,000
wastewater treatment plant & a $9,000,000 phosphate ester batch reactor
process, warehouse, tank farm, GMP drumming & DCS project.
CH2M Hill / Lockwood Greene, Spartanburg, SC 1983 - 1989
Process / Mechanical Project Engineer - Manager
. Leading High Tech / Pharmaceutical income producing project manager for
over a year. Projects focused on the design, troubleshooting & start up
of microelectronics / pharmaceutical systems.
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SunEdison/ MEMC / Monsanto, Spartanburg, SC 1980 - 1982
Facilities / Utilities Engineer
. Coordinated acceptance, start up, tie-in & operation of utilities with
each new manufacturing department during phased 14-month construction /
start up of the world's largest silicon wafer plant.
. Set up pure water analytical laboratory & helped create a new business of
analyzing pure water quality & designing ozonated pure water systems.
. Managed utility systems & maintenance / operation technicians. Set up
spare parts, wrote operating procedures, helped develop progressive
written and hands on testing program for mechanical and electrical
technicians and completed utility balance of plant.
DOW CHEMICAL / Union Carbide - Technical Center
S. Charleston, WV 1975 - 1980
Process / Project Engineer
. Business team member for the design, development, marketing, & sales of
pure oxygen biological reactor & disinfection / chemical enhancement
ozonation systems.
. Start up engineer for several of the world's largest industrial ozonation
& wastewater treatment plants.
. Wrote corporate guidelines for contract waste disposal.
EDUCATION
30 +/- PDH's per year for the last 18 years as part of maintaining
Professional Engineering Registration
Marshall University / AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN cAIRO
Chemical Engineering / International Studies - Master Degree Level Course
Work
MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
MS Sanitary Engineering - 1975
BS Mechanical Engineering - 1973
. Student Advisory Member to the Chairperson of Mechanical Engineering - 2
year elected position.
. Received / Awarded scholarships from High School, Mechanical & Civil
Engineering Departments.
. Graduate Teaching Assistant for Environmental, Hydraulics & Surveying
Labs.
. Five Summers Engineering Employment in Civil Engineering, Quality
Assurance, Testing & Development, Plant Engineering & Construction.
Professional Engineer WV 007800
MANUFACTURING PLANTS WORKED IN - 1 Proengineer
FOOD - 122
Cargill, Charlotte, NC, Cargill, Sioux City, IA, Valley Protein / Carolina
By-Products, Fayetteville, NC, Carolina By-Products, Gastonia, NC, Carolina
By-Products, Greensboro, NC, Farmer John's, Munger, MI, Carolina Turkey,
Mt. Olive, Jelly Beans, Mississauga, Ont., Maumee Grain, Maumee, OH, Meats,
Mississauga, Ont., Milliken's Country Sausage, Asheboro, NC, Pepsi,
Mississauga, Ont., Agropur, Saint-Alexandre-de-Kamouraska, Que., Agropur /
Lactel Group, Trois-Pistoles, Que., Randolph's Packing, Asheboro, NC,
Reddyice, Gaffney, SC, Rocco Turkey, Raeford / St. Pauls, NC, Townsends,
Pittsboro, NC, Townsends, Siler City, NC
BIOTECH - PHARMACEUTICAL - 96
Bayer, Clayton, NC, Ben Venue Labs, Bedford, OH, bioMerieux, Durham, NC,
Lonza / Cambrex Bioscience, Walkersville, MD, Community Bio-Resources,
Greensboro, NC, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN, EMD Millipore / Merck KGaA,
Kankakee, IL, EON Labs, Wilson, NC, Indiana Protein Technologies,
Greenwood, IN, IRIX Pharmaceuticals, Florence / Greenville, SC, Medimmune,
Frederick, MD, Merck, West Point, PA, Novartis - OTC, Lincoln, NE, Pfizer,
Terre Haute, IN, Protein Design Labs, Plymouth, MN, Steris Isomedix,
Whippany, NJ, Transdermal Specialties, Charlotte, NC, Tyco Healthcare /
Mallinckrodt, Maryland Heights, MO
SPECIALTY CHEMICAL - 99
Chemol, Greensboro, NC, Coatex, Chester, SC, Chemdal, Aberdeen, MS, High
Point Chemical, High Point, NC, Nipa Hardwicke, Elgin, SC, Nipa Hardwicke,
Rock Hill, SC, Pesco-Beam, Roanoke, VA, Quality Terminal, Chester, SC,
Reichhold, Bramalea, Ont., Dow / Reichhold, Jackson, TN, Dow / Reichhold,
Nashville, TN, Dow / Reichhold, Toronto, Ont., DuPont, RTP, Stockhausen,
Greensboro, NC, SEACO, Lenoir, NC, South Eastern Petroleum, Chester, SC,
Specialty Polymers, Chester, SC, Tailored Chemical Products, Hickory, NC
MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING - 326
Arizona Glass, Casa Grande, AZ, Industrial Laundry, Bramalea, Ont.,
International Paper, Ticonderoga, NY, Limitorque, Greensboro, NC, MESCOM,
Charlotte, NC, MG Newell, Greensboro, NC, QualPak, Laurinburg, NC, Dow /
Reichhold, RTP, US Nonwovens, Brentwood, NY
ADDITIONAL
Worked in or toured 643 plants as part of engineering society tours, open
houses, public tours, evaluations & work. The first three plants toured
were when I was a Cub Scout.
HAZOPS - Hazard Operability Study, FEMA - Failure Mode & Effect Analysis,
PHA - Process Hazards Analysis and / or Search for Anomalies Training with
Monsanto, GAF, Rhone Poulenc, Nipa Hardwicke, DuPont and Novartis.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
. AIChE, AFE, AITP, ANS, CITPG, Developers Guild & ISA - former AIPE, ASME
Chair, IO3, ISA, ISPE, MPA, MPUG Co- Chair, NCPE, SAE, WPCF / WEF,
Professional Engineer WV 7800
. IT Membership - Charlotte IT Professionals Group - CITPG and Developers
Guild - former member Association of IT Professionals - AITP and
Microsoft Project Users Group - MPUG / MPA
Community involvement
Habitat for Humanity - 18 Homes / 350 +/- hours / NC & SC, Special Olympics
- Track & Field, Bowling, Swimming, Parades / GA, NC, & SC, Civitan -
Founder of Annual Golf Tournament benefiting Spartanburg New Day House /
Adopt a Highway, Annual Fall / Spring Pancake Fund Raiser / GA, NC & SC,
Ruritan - maintain small historical grave site & Annual Chicken Dinner Fund
Raiser, Junior Achievement - JA Advisor, Math Counts / Science Fair Judge,
American Youth Soccer Organization - AYSO referee, Founder Golfers in
Transition, Volunteer National Public Radio / NPR, Marshall / Volunteer at
Wachovia / Wells Fargo, Chiquita Classic, USGA Championship Girls Junior,
Charlotte and Greater Greensboro / Wyndham Championships, Volunteer for
2008 and 2012 Presidential Campaigns
COUNTRIES WORKED IN
Canada -work visa, China- work visa, Egypt - work visas, Belgium, Germany,
Italy, Japan, and United States - 29 States
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COUNTRIES & PROJECTS INVOLVED WITH
Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, England, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Mexico, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, & Spain
TECHNICAL / TEACHING PRESENTATIONS - attendees - 900*
. ACS - American Chemical Society, Charlotte, NC - 31
. AFE - Association for Facilities Engineering, King of Prussia, PA - 29
. AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Greenville, SC - 35
. AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Charlotte, NC - 25
(High Purity Water)
. AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Charlotte, NC - 12
(Part 11 Compliance)
. AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Charlotte, NC - 21
(Waste Water Treatment)
. ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Charlotte, NC - 22 (High
Purity Water)
. ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Charlotte, NC - 67
(Waste Water Treatment)
. CSI - Construction Specifications Institute, Charlotte, NC - 23
. High Tech & Pharmaceutical Conference, Brussels, Belgium - 55
. IMEC, Leuven, Belgium - 10
. Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ - 110
. Johnson & Johnson - Centocor - Malvern, PA -10
. Kemet Electronics, Greenwood, SC - 10
. Lockwood Greene, Spartanburg, SC - 40
. Lockwood Greene, Plano, TX - 10
. Novozymes, Salem, VA - 12
. PSPE - Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers Philadelphia
Section, Philadelphia, PA - 27
. PENC - North Carolina South Piedmont Chapter of Professional Engineers,
Charlotte, NC - 26
. Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX - 25
. MS Project Training, Wachovia, Winston Salem, NC - 16
. MS Excel Training, Computer Education Services, Charlotte, NC - 10
. Microsoft - CTS Service Ready (Mission Critical / Technical Support) -
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