Plant Engineer

Stephano Bastiani, eng. Profile on LinkedIn: Stephano Bastiani

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Suffolk, Virginia, USA 23434 E-Mail: ********.********@*******.*** January 12th, 2016

SUMMARIZED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (see pictures last pages) Employer 1: Alfiniti Inc. (Aluminum Extrusion & Cold Drawn Tube Plant for Automotive Tier 3 & General Utility) Period: 2014-2015

Title: Plant General Manager

Employer 2: Niobec Inc. (Div. of IAMGOLD) (Niobium Mining Plant) Period: 2012 – 2014

Title: Maintenance, Engineering & IT Superintendent Employer 3: Berlie-Falco Technologies (OEM SS, Pressure Vessels & others for dairy, food, brewery, etc) Period: 2009 – 2012

Title: Project Director of Doha-Qatar Sludge Drying Plant) doubled with Automation Engineer Employer 4: ArcelorMittal Canada Inc. (Steel Rod & bar Mill, Billet Caster, Slab Caster, Hot Strip Mill, Foundry) Period: 1998 – 2009

Title: Plant Project Mgr/Engineer for Reliability and Continuous Improvement Terminated for: needed to do something more challenging after so much years, it became redundant at the end Employer 5: Orica Explosives (Detonator Manufacturing Plant) Period: 1997 - 1998

Title: Engineering and Maintenance Manager: electrical and automation Employer 6: ABB Power Apparatus Division (High and Medium Voltage Service Center) Period: 1994 - 1997

Title: National Customer Training Manager

Employer 7: Rio Tinto (Iron & Titanium, Metal & Steel Powder Plants, Open Pit Mining Plant) Period: 1986 – 1992

Title: Plant Electrical & Automation Engineer + Control and Instrumentation Trainer Employer 8: Technical College & International Industrial Training Center Period: 1984 – 1986 and 1992-1994

Title: Instrumentation & Process Control Teacher + Process-PLC-HMI Industrial Training Consultant Employer 9: Dominion Glass (Bottle and glass container manufacturing plant) Period: 1981 – 1984

Title: Student in Electrical Engineering (1 year internship spreaded over my studies) EDUCATION & COURSES

School name: École de Technologie Supérieure ETS (Quebec University in Montreal) Period: 1981-84

Degree Graduated: Bachelor degree in electrical engineering (Member of OIQ – Quebec Order of Professional Engineers) School name: CEGEP de Sorel-Tracy (Technical College) Period: 1978-81

Degree Graduated: Technician degree in Process Control & Instrument (Internship at Tioxide Inc. & Atlas Steel, stainless) Other Skills:

Languages spoken and written: English & French, very basic Spanish, needs practicing, learning Italian

Designed the plan of my house in 3D in the mid-eighties (CAD 3D didn’t exist at that time, I made every stud and bricks in wire mesh 3D) then I built it all by myself, no carpenter, no plumber, no electrician, it was the first time I built a house and the inspector said It was really well built, I was kind of proud of this realization more than anything I have done throughout my career as an engineer

I designed lots of inventions (mechanical or electronics) in the past 30 years but since I am not very entrepreneur, I never turned them into production so nowadays of lot of them are on the market, I am very creative so that why I always have ideas for inventions

Love road trips and baseball, my wife and I we travel through all the cities of USA to see the baseball stadiums

Play piano, guitar and sing (pop, jazz)

I have never applied on a job since 2009, after university, I was called by my college teachers to start a teaching career then I have always been offered new jobs by colleagues, head hunters or friends. Stephano Bastiani, eng. Profile on LinkedIn: Stephano Bastiani 1003 Sawtooth Dr.

Suffolk, Virginia, USA 23434 E-Mail: ********.********@*******.*** January 12th, 2016

SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE (see pictures last pages)

Career Progression

Plant General Mgr

Maintenance, Engineering and IT Superintendent

Director of Engineering – Project Qatar

Project Mgr/Engineer for Plant Reliability and Continuous Improvement Engineering & Maintenance Mgr

Customer Training Mgr

Electrical & Automation Engineer

Instrument & Process Control Teacher

Corporate Employers Privately Owned Employers

Arcelor Mittal (1600+ empl. unionized) Rio Tinto (1500+ empl. unionized) Berlie Technologies (110+ empl. unionized) ABB (250+ empl. unionized) IAMGOLD (475+ empl. unionized) Alfiniti Inc. (135+ empl. unionized) Orica (450+ empl. unionized) Domglas (500+ empl. unionized) Type of Industry

Steel, Stainless, Iron Foundry, Arc Furnace batch and continuous feed, Induction Furnace, Ladle Furnace, Slab-Billet Casters, Hot Strip-Rod & Bar-Wire Mills, Stainless Steel Pickling Line, Cold Roll Mill, Steel Powder Making, Ball Mill, Hybrid CO-Nat. Gas Burner Annealing Furnace, Rotating Kiln, SS OEM (Equip. Manuf. of ASME Vessels for Dairy, Food, Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Mining)

Aluminum Extrusion, Cold Drawing, Swaging, Fabrication, Punching, Bending, Coating, Painting, Anodizing Chemical Titanium, Niobium, Caustic Plant, Lixiviation (hydro metallurgy), TiO2 Sulphuric Acid Treatment Mining Open Pit & Underground

Glass Bottle & Container Manuf. Plant

Biomass Treatment Municipal Sludge Drying Converter to Fertilizer Plant High Voltage Div. Air Blast, Oil, Vacuum, SF6 Breakers up to 735kV and Gas Insulated Substation GIS Explosives Detonator Manufacturing Assembly Line

Automotive (Parts Tier 3)

Expertise and Knowledge

Project Management - Capital Projects & International Project of up to 37M$ Engineer - Automation & Process Control, Electrical and Mechanical Projects Maintenance Management - Big process and manufacturing plants Plant General Management - P&L, Safety, Production, Quality, Customer Complaints, Maintenance, Shipping, Inventory PLC-HMI-OPC Server - Programming, Hardware Design (Siemens, Allen-Bradley, Schneider, Wonderware, Iconics) Mining - Underground Power-DATA-Voice Communication Lines Distribution, Ore Treatment Processes Budget - Preparation CAPEX – OPEX

P&L - Profit & Loss

KPI Metrics - presentation to Shareholders

Speaker in front of an Audience - Conduct Employees Monthly Meetings (100+ empl.) ISO 9001- 14001

ISO TS 16949 - Automotive

Safety OSHA, TRIR, DART - HAZOP, Hot Work Permit, Work at height, in Confined Area, Explosive & Toxic Environment Continuous Improvement - Reliability, Safety and Environment Projects (several projects done throughout my career) Lean 6 Sigma - 5S, Kaizen, DMAIC, Pareto, PDCA, SPC, 5Why’s Root Cause Analysis, Fishbone, Pick chart Lean 6 sigma - PFMEA, PPAP, Control Plan, PAR, CAR, CPQP Teaching & Customer Training - Teacher at College Level, Customer Process Control Training Consultant MS Office Suite - including MS Project, EXCEL complex formulas, macros & VB knowledge, MS Access SAP, Oracle - ERP & CMMS

Oral & Writing Skills - excellent, strong ability to present information in a neat & concise manner Languages - French, English fluent, Spanish beginner level, immersion will definitely help, learning Italian Relocate - for short and long periods (kids not living with me anymore) Travel - locally and/or worldwide possible for Projects or Plant Turnarounds Stephano Bastiani, eng. Profile on LinkedIn: Stephano Bastiani 1003 Sawtooth Dr.

Suffolk, Virginia, USA 23434 E-Mail: ********.********@*******.*** January 12th, 2016

DETAILED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (see pictures last pages) Employer 1: Alfiniti Inc. (Aluminum Extrusion & Cold Drawn Tube Plant for Automotive Tier 3 & General Utility) Job description and realizations:

Managing the operations of an Extrusion and a Cold Drawn Tube Plants (+150 employees)

Responsible for Safety, Production, P&L, Maintenance, Inventory, Transportation, Quality

Implement physical Inventory of raw and finish goods

Prepared and presented an action plan to the shareholders to ensure profitability and perennity of the assets

Prepared and presented the annual budget to the shareholders

Reassigned and laid off people to enhance production efficiency

Put in place daily/weekly KPIs to measure productivity and make sure our production goals are achieved and to bring up corrections immediately before we get behind, presented the KPIs each week to shareholders

Logged operation/maintenance downtimes and produced Paretos to increase press availability

Conducted ISO-TS management review and corrective action meetings to solve quality problems

Conducted ISO-TS internal audits to review money making processes and others: APQP, PFMEA, PPAP

Conducted employees’ monthly meetings about health and safety, cleanliness, productivity, quality, etc… Employer 2: Niobec Inc. (Div. of IAMGOLD) (Niobium Mining Plant) Job description and realizations:

Managing the maintenance, engineering project & IT departments (+30 employees)

Responsible for IT and electrical projects going from surface/underground power feed and distribution to plant expansion and automation, hoist, wireless communication, etc… Employer 3: Berlie-Falco Technologies (OEM SS, Pressure Vessels & others for dairy, food, brewery, etc) Job description and realizations:

Managed the mechanical and automation design of four (4) sewage sludge drying plants to be constructed in Qatar in Middle East for 2010-12 37 M$ (1.5B$ overall project)

Managed intercontinental process equipment fabrication (Canada, USA, Germany, France, Switzerland, Netherlands, England)

Managed the quality control for the local and outsourced equipment fabrication

Accomplished the complete equipment fabrication within a year

Managed the communication, the engineering change notices and the contractual issues with the client (main contractor located in Singapore SE Asia)

Managed the equipment packaging, shipping via seaways and storage in Middle East

Conducted the CHAZOP study in Qatar and supported our client (Keppel Seghers Engineering Singapore) and its partners (KEO International Consultants & Stanley Consultants)

Managed the engineering documents and drawings flow control with the client

Improved the process control and safety, selected all of the instrumentation for a flawless operation according to the client specifications and requirements (over a thousand pages of specs)

Prepared several quotations on extra works for our Singapore client

Designed the plant process including choice of process equipment, control instrumentation, choice of PLC and GUI (graphical user interface), designed the redundancy of the PLCs, GUIs and Plant Server

Designed the automation and process control schemes for the dryers PLC and HMI (FUPS and FDS)

Designed the start-ups/shutdowns control sequences so the plants start and shut down safely (this plant was handling explosive matter and gases)

PLANT STARTUP: Conducted the FAT (Factory Acceptance Tests), the SAT (Site Acceptance Tests), the Pre- Dry Run Tests, the Dry-Run Tests, the Hot Run Tests Employer 4: ArcelorMittal Canada Inc. (Steel Rod & bar Mill, Billet Caster, Slab Caster, Hot Strip Mill, Foundry) Job description and realizations:

Installed and commissioned a slag detection system

Managed, supervised the installation and commissioning of an arc furnace off-gas analysis system in a foundry

Designed and installed a ground system for an electrode furnace

Supported three steel plants realizing special projects improving productivity, reliability and energy efficiency

Developed and commissioned a mill speed control system (+ 400 i/o)

Replaced two obsolete PLCs (+1000 i/o) and prepared the technical specs for the replacement of a third one

Replaced a billet furnace combustion analog control system by a PLC/HMI system. Created an animated simulation system for the furnace charging operating cycle for operators training

Installed and commissioned a real time laser measuring gauge for the bar mill

Prepared a replacement program for all of the plant AC and DC drives (+75 drives from 10 to 800 HP). Also replaced the auxiliary logic by PLC for each drives

Elaborated and commissioned a flat bar pack annealing system for the cooling bed Stephano Bastiani, eng. Profile on LinkedIn: Stephano Bastiani 1003 Sawtooth Dr.

Suffolk, Virginia, USA 23434 E-Mail: ********.********@*******.*** January 12th, 2016

Developed and commissioned a new flying shear control system and a sampling device allowing to take online samples of the steel bar running at 1300 feet/min

Designed and installed a client-server network, an fibre optic and CAT5 link throughout the whole plant allowing data acquisition for all of the PLCs

Designed and installed a drawings visual research system for the bar mill

Managed the replacement for all of the plant PCB transformers 13.8kV/600V by dry-type transformers. Employer 5: Orica Explosives (Detonator Manufacturing Plant) Job description and realizations:

Responsible for Engineering & Maintenance of the plant Employer 6: ABB Power Apparatus Division (High and Medium Voltage Service Center) Job description and realizations:

Put up a training service dept. for customers such as Hydro-Quebec, Ontario Hydro, Manitoba, BC Hydro,etc…

Provided technical hands-on courses, including breaker dismantling (735kV, SF6, oil & air blast bkrs)

Participated in breaker installation, commissioning and overhaul

Wrote Instruction and Training Manuals in French and English

Organized technical seminars in order to increase sales in the regions Employer 7: Rio Tinto (Iron & Titanium, Metal & Steel Powder Plants, Open Pit Mining Plant) Job description and realizations:

Developed and improved PLC, DCS programs. Solved several process control problems

Participated in a 150 M$ plant start-up over a two year period

PLANT STARTUP: Conducted the SAT (Site Acceptance Tests), the Pre-Dry Run Tests, the Dry-Run Tests, the Hot Run Tests, worked 16 hours a day during the commissioning time

Eliminated explosions in an annealing furnace heated with natural gas and carbon monoxide

Trained all of the electrical maintenance staff on a steel powder process including the electrical power distribution, the gas and water services, the instrumentation and control loops, the PLC and DCS Employer 8: Technical College & International Industrial Training Center Job description and realizations:

Taught electronics, PLCs and Instrumentation for Adult Education day+evening courses (full and part time)

Provided customized on-site training to customers such as Pittsburg Plated Glass (Caustic Plant), Hydro- Quebec

Employer 9: Dominion Glass (Bottle and glass container manufacturing plant) Job description and realizations:

Worked on maintenance and automation projects

Stephano Bastiani, eng. Profile on LinkedIn: Stephano Bastiani 1003 Sawtooth Dr.

Suffolk, Virginia, USA 23434 E-Mail: ********.********@*******.*** January 12th, 2016

NIOBEC – IAMGOLD – Niobium Mining Plant Niobium Treatment Plant Berlie Technologie – Sludge Drying Plant Project (Design, Fabricate, Ship & Build) Stephano Bastiani, eng. Profile on LinkedIn: Stephano Bastiani 1003 Sawtooth Dr.

Suffolk, Virginia, USA 23434 E-Mail: ********.********@*******.*** January 12th, 2016

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