Sr. Process Engineer, Engineering Manager

Core Skills

* Leadership and team building

* Exceptional analytical abilities

* Mentoring others

* Project management

* Process engineering

* Excellent written and verbal communication

Professional Engineering Licenses:

NY License Number: 083909-1

NJ License Number: 24GE05037000

Education:

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Master of Science, Chemical Engineering

September 2004

Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering

May 2000

Work Experience:

The Clean Air Group, LLC, Parsippany, NJ

Engineering Sales Manager, May 2014 – Present

The Clean Air Group designs and sells pollution control equipment formerly sold by Croll Reynolds Company including jet venturis, high energy venturis and packed towers.

Duties include:

- Manage all day to day business activities on behalf of the COO.

- Lead team consisting of project manager, draftsmen, process engineer & spare parts coordinator.

- Oversee preparation of technical offers in accordance with client RFP’s.

- Develop engineering cost estimates and project budgets for fully executing RFP’s

-Manage projects ranging from $10,000 to $200,000 with six to eight running concurrently.

- Negotiate pricing with sub-vendors, typically resulting in savings of 10% or more per job.

-Support small network (3-5) of international sales reps and dedicated regional agents.

-Actively participate in the interview, selection and training of new engineers.

-Responsible for engineering, design and sale of air pollution control systems including jet ventrui fume scrubbers, high energy unit, and packed towers

- Present technical content / paper(s) at conferences, including Jan 2015 ACS EO Safety Seminar.

- Improve and streamline proposal preparation process by:

Pre-engineering systems as much as possible.

Standardizing piping and instrumentation configurations.

Developing worksheet for automating pump sizing, line sizing, and pressure loss.

Making similar improvements to line sizing / pressure drop analysis process.

Automating equipment selection process to increase overall productivity.

Increased quoting activity by 20% during 1st year

Croll Reynolds Company, Parsippany, NJ

Senior Process Engineer, December 2007 – May 2014

Croll Reynolds is an industry leader in steam ejector vacuum systems.

Oversaw and reviewed the work of three other process engineers

Duties included:

- Mentored / counseled junior engineers (2) and interns (2) and directed their work

- Designed custom vacuum systems (ejectors, heat exchangers, valves, instruments)

- Reviewed and incorporated customers specifications into designs

- Worked across a wide range of industries and product lines

- Specialized in $100,000 to >$1,000,000 jobs for the refinery / petrochemical industry.

- Prepared preliminary drawings, process flow diagrams & P&ID’s

- Improved analysis process as follows:

Upgraded programs used to size ejectors / eductors and direct contact condensers.

Increased use of process simulation software for better modeling of complex systems.

Automated proposal and preliminary drawing generation process.

- Resulted in proposals being generated in up to half the time, increasing overall productivity.

- Developed additional analysis tools to enable sales team to develop preliminary equipment sizing, further reducing the workload on the engineering team.

Exergy, LLC, Garden City, NY (formerly Exergy, Inc., Hanson, MA)

Application Engineering Manager September 2004 – November 2007

Applications Engineer May 2000 – September 2004

Exergy is a manufacturer of high performance heat exchangers, including miniature shell & tube designs.

Duties included:

- Reviewed and corrected technical work of both applications engineer and sales manager.

- Trained new personnel, including new engineers and support staff.

- Offered technical support to network of up to a half dozen inside and outside sales reps.

- Delegated and prioritized tasks of sales & engineering departments.

- Developed and implemented improvements to the analysis process.

Better models for two phase flow.

More robust correlations for property estimation.

- Sized heat exchangers for customers & prepared technical proposals (average of 10 per week).

- Created design specifications for custom units.

- Developed pricing for custom designs.

- Followed up on sales leads & represented company at trade shows.

Software Packages

MS Office (including MS Access)

Aspen’s Exchanger Design & Rating

HTRI

AutoCAD

Solidworks

Compress

VMG Sim (Process Simulation Software)

Visual Basic Programming

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