Plant Manager Operation Specialist

GERARD CARAMANNA

*** ***** ***** *********, ****** 89015

Phone: 702-***-**** Mobile: 928-***-**** E-mail: ***************@*****.***

OPERATION MANAGER

Proactive, Performance-driven, Operations Professional with 15+ years’ expertise in leadership and

problem solving for industrial manufacturing operations.

Complete understanding of business priorities, genuine team player committed to managing operations

and projects flawlessly while contributing to revenue-producing activities.

Versatile, innovative, and loyal management professional able to see the “big picture” while staying on

top of all the details.

Recognized for consistent success leading the operations team in safe, reliable and efficient methods in

improving processes and procedures to streamline plant operations, increase revenues, and enhance

profit performance.

Areas of Expertise Include:

Gas Pre-Treatment Liquefaction (LNG) Operator Training/Development

Regulatory Compliance Plant Safety Develop/Implement Budgets

Preventive Maintenance Process Improvement Proficient with MS Office

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LNG Consulting LLC, Henderson, Nevada 4/2012 to Present

Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Consultant

Consultant for HEYCO LNG with the key role as the technical operation manager for a new LNG plant

located in Yoakum, Texas.

Consultant for RGCE, LLC with the key role as the technical operation manager for a new LNG plant

located in Columbia, South America.

Providing operation expertise working on a Feed Study (front end engineering & design).

Making necessary process improvements with safety and efficiency of the facility, by an operational

stand point.

Salof Refrigeration 8/2011 to 3/2012

New Braunfels, Texas

International Commissioning Manager

Manage construction and commissioning of a Liquefied Natural (LNG) plant located in Mongolia China.

Ensuring the necessary completion of reports for Welding, PID’s, ASME forms ect.

Trained operators on LNG safety and plant operations.

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GERARD CARAMANNA

Arizona LNG/Applied Natural Gas Fuels

Topock, Arizona 11/2005 to 8/2011

Director of Operations/Chief Safety Officer

Manage and directed all plant operations, processing natrual gas with pre-treatment and the Liquefaction

(LNG).

Operations included:

Schedule and planning production and maintenance outages with a major emphasis on safety.

Managed regulatory compliance requirements, training and mentoring plant operators.

Managing operations of customer fuel stations (LNG & CNG) located in Southern California.

Directed operations of field technicians and company’s terminal lcated in Fontana, Califonia.

Managing the safe operations and complience (DOT) of trucks and cryogenic trailers.

Cytec Industries Inc. (Formerly known as American Cyanamid)

Woodbridge, NJ 1978-2004

Operations Supervisor

Managed and direct daily plant operations.

Developed daily production and maintenance activities for a high-volume chemical manufacturing

facility, specializing in the manufacture of synthetic polymers used in drilling and enhanced oil recovery

programs.

Always consistent with reducing plant operating expenses while achieving production goals and always

maintaining a high level of safety and quality.

Prepared technical requirements and developed cost estimates for new capital expansions.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Increased production of LNG by 33% at the Topock facility.

Increased plant up time from 75% to 98%.

Served as a Technical consultant with start-up and commissioning of a $30M chemical processing

plant outside of Beijing, China.

Managed the decommissioning and demolition project at Cytec’s Woodbridge, NJ chemical site.

Member of several corporate engineering and maintenance teams that developed recommendations

to improve productivity and quality, while reducing operating expenses.

Served as an ISO 9000 auditor, evaluated operating procedures, identified deficiencies, and

recommended corrective actions for regional manufacturing facilities.

Improved safety conditions by creating teams to solve problem areas.

Savings of $100K annually by maintaining only critical spare part inventory.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Cytec Industries major award “Circle of Excellence” for manufacturing.

Innovation Award for modifications of equipment, increasing safety, efficiency, productivity.

M.R.P.II (Manufacturing Resource Planning).

ISO 9000 Auditor.

A.S.M.E. code compliance.

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified in New Jersey as a Hazmat Responder

First Aid and Fire and Confined Space Rescue

Maintenance Management preventive and predictive

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