Engineer Maintenance

Christopher Zachary Malinsky

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Summary

I am comfortable and enjoy working in fast-paced & demanding work environments, performing with calm & reason in critical and stressful situations and successfully resolving conflict. Experienced in coordinating and supervising teams as well as working within a group. Strong data analysis & trouble shooting skills. Exceptional technical and creative writing abilities and gifted at teaching others.

Education

B.S. from the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, Pulp & Paper Engineering May 2000

M.S. and Management Certificate from the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at

Georgia Tech, Pulp & Paper May 2002

Miscellaneous Employment

Owner/Operator of Melon Sky Photography Studio Nov ‘12 – May ‘14

- Sold framed prints and notecards featuring my pictures

- Portraits for family reunions and senior pictures, home gardens, in-home realty for-sale pictures/videos

- Filmed, created and edited music videos and family event videos

Professional Experience

Packaging Corporation of America, Filer City, MI Mill Jun ‘12 – Oct ‘12

Process Engineer for 3 Corrugated Medium Machines and Semi-Chemical Pulp Mill

- Performed analysis of white-water flow: found losses through heat exchangers

- Created virtual diagrams of white-water flow systems for all paper machines

- Supervised maintenance on felt guide rolls during shutdowns

Wausau Papers, Brokaw, WI Mill Dec ‘09 – Dec ‘11

Maintenance Supervisor, Finishing Maintenance

- Directed maintenance resources to maximize equipment uptime

- Developed shutdown maintenance resource priority plans

- Implemented new lock-out procedures for maintenance and grade-change set-up work

- Supervised shutdown day maintenance work and equipment startups

- Implemented machine breakdown logging program to track trends in equipment failures and increased

uptime 35% on two of our box folders by isolating the problem to the same part on each folder

NewPage Corporation, Biron, WI Mill Oct ‘08 – Apr ‘09

Technical Process Engineer for Coated Rotogravure and Web Offset magazine paper

- Developed machine trial plans for coating formulation improvements

- Lead data-analysis troubleshooting efforts for paper machine quality issues

- Provided analytical support on project for implementation of online brightness control

- Compiled all available machine data during effort to reduce frequency of supercalendar breaks

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Everett, WA Mill Jan ‘05 – Oct ‘08

Process Engineer for very unique Double Re-crepe Tissue/Towel machine and converting lines

- Planned and supervised all operator tasks during tissue machine outages.

- Coordinated operator, maintenance & contractor schedules for planned & unplanned outages

- Created on-the-spot work order priority lists and schedules for unplanned shutdowns.

- Implemented new lock out procedures as part of site wide safety initiative

- Reduced waste ~50% in tissue converting through implementation of standardized and

improved basepaper quality standards and testing procedures.

- Implemented quarterly Quality reviews with internal (K-C) and external customers.

- Joint responsibility with Corporate Planner for machine production run schedule and sole

responsibility for maintaining and ordering all needed operating supplies.

- Reduced waste and delay by 50% through implementation of brand-change procedures

- Planned and executed “Papermaking 101” training with converting operators and maintenance

personnel resulting in improved paper quality feedback and understanding

Safematic, Norcross, GA Jan ‘04 – May ‘04

Applications Engineer for North American sales of OEM Automatic Lubrication systems

- Provided technical support to national sales team.

- Liaison between manufacturing headquarters in Finland and North American operations.

- Created standardized quotation templates for complete product line, including automatic sizing &

pricing information

Metso Paper, Norcross, GA May ‘02 – Nov ‘03

Technical Service Engineer for North American Paper Machine Service & Sales

- Managed contractor crews on paper machine service and rebuild projects

- Performed field technical service including the audit and upgrade of pneumatic press

assemblies, inspection of pressure screens, sheet moisture profiling, headbox reconditioning,

and press shoe rebuild

- Troubleshooting and implementation of new call report template for all North American Service.

- Marketed Metso’s Trial Deinking Cell by setting up and operating at different mills

Pre-Graduate Experience

Masters’ Degree, Institute of Paper Science and Technology Aug ’00 – May ’02

- Masters Degree research project: Examining the effect of wood species on the corrosivity of

black liquor on stainless steels.

- Learned effective leadership techniques in gaining employee buy-in and leading organizations

successfully through change

Research Intern, UPM-Kymmene, Valkeakoski, Finland May ’01 - Aug ‘01

- Researched different pressure and temperature conditions to achieve the most efficient

mechanical pulping operations

- Involved in numerous mechanical pulping projects through the writing of technical reports

Research Intern, IPST Jun ‘99 – Aug ‘99

- Investigated the effects of T.A.D. process variables on the vacuum dewatering of tissue paper

- Conducted systematic troubleshooting and analysis on the research apparatus “Vacuum

Dewatering and Drying Simulator” (VDDS); made suggestions for improvements and wrote

user’s manual

Sales & Service Rep., Buckman Labs, Jefferson Smurfit container mill, Wabash, IN Jun ‘98 – Aug ‘98

- Evaluated overall process performance and efficiency through daily, weekly and monthly

testing with emphasis on Buckman’s seventeen existing chemical applications

- Evaluated viability of 4 chemical applications & assisted in implementation of 2 new applications.

- Minimized chemical addition downtime through pump maintenance

Technical Coop, Willamette Industries Bleached Pulp Mill, Hawesville, KY Jan ‘97 – Aug ‘97

- Monitored various mill systems to confirm optimal performance of pulp mill processes

- Assisted in startup and troubleshooting of Kamyr digestor and coordinated co-op support of

accompanying chip screening system

Activities & Volunteer Work

- Active as a “Big Brother” in Big Brothers Big Sisters program since 2004, spent 5 months backpacking the North Country Trail from Southern MI to Northern MN, volunteer for Safe Harbor homeless program in Manistee, volunteer in renovations & operations of 1920s movie theater “The Vogue” in downtown Manistee, in-home caretaking for elderly gentleman from my church and waiter/bartender at fine-dining restaurant

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