James Birkle

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Garden Ridge, Texas 78266

E-mail: acrscx@r.postjobfree.com

210-***-**** (Home) 925-***-**** (Cell)

Executive Summary

Education: Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, University of Cincinnati.

Resourceful, results oriented professional offering thirty years of experience with a consistent record for minimizing costs while maximizing production and profitability both for long term and short term projects.

Outstanding interpersonal communication, motivational skills, presentation skills and diligence.

Extensive experience in project management, detail design, contract specifications, start-up activities, technical staff leadership, management and facilities management.

Project experience includes new installations, rebuilds for optimization and process control upgrades.

Technical staff management experience includes administrative duties and technical direction for corporate engineering staff, outside engineering and construction firms.

Engineering design expertise providing operating facilities with the required engineering support to implement their capital spending programs.

Facility engineering project management and design.

Specific Experience

Director, Sr. Technical Engineering

FP International, Fremont, California, 1999 – September 2014

Primary engineering reference for the executive management staff with regards to capital spending programs and plant operations.

Detailed functional knowledge of all engineering disciplines as they relate to the design and installation of facilities and operating processes.

Responsible for the design and installation of new facilities

Direct control for project management for all major capital projects.

Primary resource for engineering, design and technical support for all manufacturing facilities.

Conceive/manage new and renovation construction projects to assure that the goals of the capital spending program are met.

Support the engineering requirements of the plant resident maintenance engineers in each facility

Conceived/designed/implemented both inline and offline film configuration equipment utilizing a unique plastic sealing process and state of the art motion control technologies. This project resulted in annual operating cost savings in excess of $3MM.

Provided the primary design and installation management for the newest and largest state of the art manufacturing and warehousing facility at 600K sq.ft.

Principle Project Manager, The Foxboro Company

San Ramon, California, 1998 - 1999

Management of purchased project services for the installation of the Foxboro I/A distributed control systems.

Project services include the design and configuration for purchased equipment as well as the coordination of third party vendors for non- Foxboro equipment to meet the specifications of the customer.

Management of fixed resources and budgets were significant responsibilities of the position as well as the

Extensive communication with clients regarding project requirements, budgets and schedule to the customer and internal management.

Management of the installation of the systems is also a responsibility of the position such that the equipment performs as designed.

Extensive knowledge in the field of process control in order to facilitate the design and configuration for these types of systems.

Completed projects include the automation of a winery, a fish hatchery and a copper smelter re-instrumentation.

Owner, ProServ Professional Services

Redding, California, 1997 - 1998

Provided full service project management skills to assist in the successful and cost effective implementation of capital spending programs.

Managed the installation of a high-pressure steam header connecting two operating facilities in excess of a mile apart in the heart of Los Angeles.

Engineering Manager Services, Simpson Paper Company

Corporate Engineering, Anderson, California. 1990- 1997

Provide professional engineering services to assist in the timely and cost effective implementation of the corporate capital spending programs. This responsibility was accomplished through the

Management of a group of corporate staff engineers and technicians specialized in the various engineering disciplines. The main emphasis for the group was to serve as an in house consultant group acting as advisor and/or performing the detail engineering and construction supervision as required.

This position required extensive communications with various levels of management, operations and vendors/consultants to assure project goals and progress were well understood and maintained by all necessary personnel.

Direct involvement in the capital spending plan included identifying long and short term needs, evaluating and recommending potential solutions to operating problems and project cost estimating to provide management with a realistic capital spending program that met the company’s business goals.

This responsibility required a good understanding of the business as well as the engineering aspects associated with long term planning and capital spending.

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Senior Project Engineer, Simpson Paper Company

Corporate Engineering, Anderson, California. 1988 - 1990.

Responsible for the management and coordination of capital projects to ensure project goals and budgets were met. Primary emphasis was on the process control and instrumentation aspect of the projects. Project management duties include the evaluation and selection of consultants to assist in the detailed engineering, supervision of the engineering effort, contract negotiation and construction management. Project engineering duties include equipment specification, evaluation, selection, equipment layouts, installation details and specifications. During the construction phase of assigned projects, contractor support was provided for on site modifications of the engineered package, engineering solutions to problem areas and startup checkout and commissioning.

Corporate Instrumentation Engineer, Champion International

Corporate Engineering, Hamilton, Ohio, 1983 - 1988.

Process Design Engineer, Sherwin-Williams Chemical Company

Plant Engineering, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1981- 1983.

Additional Education

AutoCAD

Allen Bradley PLC

Battelle Leadership Training, Seattle, Washington.

Zenger Miller Frontline Leadership Training

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