Chemical Process Engineer
Resume:
RICHARD KRIEG
Auburn, Georgia 30011
Cell: 678-***-****
*******@*****.***
Summary of Experience:
A Chemical Engineer with a variety of experience including Process/Project Engineering, Equipment Specification and Design, Thermodynamics, Physical Properties, Corrosion Resistance, Sales and Sales Support and strong computer literacy, along with a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering. Familiar with refinery processes, petrochemicals and HCl technology. Extensive experience in heat exchanger design.
Employment Experience:
Mersen (formerly Carbone of America), Chemical Equipment Division, Salem, VA Apr, 2007 - Feb, 2016
The world’s premier manufacturer of Graphite and Reactive Metals Heat Exchangers and associated equipment for the Chemical Processing Industries, supplying corrosion resistant heat exchangers and other process equipment, as well as HCl synthesis and processing systems.
Senior Process Engineer (Sales Department)
Ascertain customers’ needs, specify/design equipment, and write bids
Produce high-level and mid-level design of metallic and non-metallic heat exchangers for North American fabrication facilities using ASPEN and proprietary software
Prepare PFDs, heat and mass balances, and produce data sheets for various equipment
Manage systems projects, prepare various manuals
Perform preliminary engineering and costing for bids, including modifying existing AutoCAD drawings
Provide evaluations of existing equipment
Write RFQs, submit to vendors, and evaluate their proposals
Prepare and give sales and technical presentations both to customers and internally
Write, maintain, and update proprietary software
Developed innovative design for multi-shell graphite block heat exchangers, reducing cost 15%-20%
The Home Depot (Suwanee, GA store), Atlanta, GA 2005 - 2007
Largest home center chain in the United States
Sales Associate
Menard's Inc. (West Chicago, IL store), Eau Claire, WI 2002 - 2005
Third largest home center chain in the United States
Assistant Department Manager
Assigned tasks for department personnel, and assured proper completion
Assured accuracy of pricing and computerized inventory
Adjusted sales associate schedules to meet payroll/sales goals
Galileo International, Rosemont, IL (subsidiary of Travelport) 1999 - 2001
A $1.48 billion company, the world's second largest Computerized Reservations Systems company
Technical Analyst Reporting to Manager of Customer Billing Services. Responsible for upgrading, troubleshooting, and new development for customer billing systems.
Maintained and enhanced all railroad vendor billing systems
Helped company tap new market by designing, coding, preparing technical and user manuals, and putting into production a billing system for a new category of railroad vendor
Performed coding and unit testing for a major project to consolidate two parallel billing systems; established and performed major function for change management
Negotiated requirements definitions for projects
Advised and assisted coworkers modifying programs written in PL/I
UOP LLC, Des Plaines, IL (subsidiary of Honeywell) 1979 - 1999
A $1 billion company, and a leading supplier of process technology, catalysts, and specialty products and services to the worldwide petroleum refining industry.
Design Engineer 1997 - 1999
Reporting to Platforming Technology Center Leaders in Engineering Department. Responsible for Process, Project, and Development Engineering functions. Used HYSYS and UOP’s in house simulator.
As Lead Engineer, prepared Naphtha Hydrotreating unit PFDs, P&IDs, heat & weight balances, hydraulics, and equipment specs using process simulator models, specialty software, and judgment
Performed technical feasibility study for reuse of existing fractionator
Took over design work on one of the first Recovery Plus units using Hysys, with particular attention to relief valves
As heat exchanger specialist:
-prepared heat exchanger specifications for other engineers’ units
-performed economic studies for use of shell and tube heat exchangers vs. Packinox welded plate heat exchangers using HTRI and Packinox software, on a unit by unit basis
-reviewed foreign prints to assure conformity with UOP specifications
Prepared Preliminary Engineering Design specifications for bids on projects
Verified and enhanced method for fugitive emissions estimation, to help clients meet regulatory requirements; corrected and enhanced associated computer tool
Scientific Programmer Analyst (various grades) 1981 - 1997
Reporting to the Manager of Engineering Information Systems
Supported company’s in-house simulator in various capacities, including:
-Researched, analyzed, coded, and installed thermodynamic calculations to enable company’s expansion into new technologies
-Researched, analyzed and performed many enhancements to component properties generation function
-Added access to, and use of, properties from DIPPR pure component database
-Added creation of any number of pseudocomponents, under user control, from boiling range material
-Researched, analyzed, coded, and installed specialized vapor-liquid equilibrium functions
-Worked with model writers to address their needs for ease of use and access to data
-Assisted engineers with use of simulator
Provided in-house consultation in areas of thermodynamics, physical properties, program integration, and simulator problem resolution
Supported R&D kinetic modeling by integrating component properties generation routines and phase equilibrium routines into their programs, and helping with reactor duty calculations
As part of a team, ported major applications from IBM mainframe environment to Windows NT
Provided enhancements to mainframe (later, Windows NT) full screen I/O routines
Wrote program to design, rate, and analyze thermal cracking heaters
Pilot Plant Engineer 1980
Instrumentation Engineer 1979 - 1980
Pilot Plant Operator 1979
Education:
MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, TX
BS, Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Additional college courses in Advanced C Programming, Advanced C++ Programming, Graphical User Interface Programming (Visual BASIC), UNIX, and Java
Additional Training:
HYSYS for Programmers
MTQ Facilitator
References furnished upon request.
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