KENT HARRY CUMPIO
Licensed Chemical Engineer
**B Maalalahanin St., Teachers’ Village East, Diliman, Quezon City 1101, Philippines Mobile: +639*********, Email: **********@*****.*** EDUCATION
REGISTERED CHEMICAL ENGINEER
Professional Regulation Commission
Registration No: 0034888
December 17, 2019 – July 30, 2022
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES - DILIMAN, Quezon City, NCR B.S. Chemical Engineering (2012-2019)
Thesis – Optimization of an Electro-Fenton System for Diesel-contaminated Water Treatment using Central Composite Design
Plant Design – Production of Ethylene via Catalytic Dehydration of Ethanol Market Study – A Review of the Philippine Sugar Milling and Refining Industries PHILIPPINE SCIENCE HIGH SCHOOL – EVC, Palo, Leyte
Proficiency in Research Award, Ranked 5
th
out of 88 graduates
Delegate to the 1
st
Japan Super Science Fair (2012)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Development Innovation Insider Intern - Quezon City, Philippines August 2017 – October 2017
Wrote a feature article, titled When Girls Rise, We All Rise, about Tahanan Sta. Luisa, a shelter for abused girls in the Philippines. Article was featured in the September issue of Change Magazine
Change Magazine collects stories of grassroots innovation from different parts of the world and provides a platform for many organizations doing game-changing work Air Liquide Summer School Delegate - Paris, France June 27 – July 3, 2017
Part of 27 students from 21 countries to participate in Air Liquide’s Summer School
Collaborated with a diverse team of students on a business case about the Digitalization of Food Cold Chain for the Last Kilometer. Our report touched on pricing strategy and the supply chain of an e-bike delivery system for dry ice; Visited Air Liquide’s Mitry-Mory Plant and discussed various business issues with the company’s executives
Engineers Without Borders Diliman - Quezon City, Philippines January 2013 – May 2017 Project Manager (August 2014 – March 2015); Head of Operations (2015-2017);
Head of the Biodigester Project, which builds small-scale biodigesters that convert food waste into biogas as an alternative to LPG; Coordinated with other student organizations for the implementation of this project;
Managed a 5-person team for the successful completion of the The Bokashi Project, a river cleanup project using balls made from soil and other locally-sourced materials; Coordinated with local officials for the proper implementation of our creek cleanup project at Tumana Creek, Marikina City
One of the founding members of Engineers Without Borders, which is the only campus organization that uses engineering concepts to help communities
Philip Morris International Operations Intern - Marikina City, Philippines June 2015 - July 2015
Responsible for the design of the OBEYA Room of PMFTC's Marikina Plant. The OBEYA Room is used for 20-30 minute meetings where supervisors meet to address the production and technical problems for one shift.
Identified the QA and auxiliary materials and tools needed in a link-up, recommended standard team board contents for performance visualization, suggested ways of improving knowledge management, determined the optimum locations of materials within one linkup considering various ergonomic factors. A linkup is made up of a cigarette maker and packer.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
First Prize Winner – International Essay Contest for Young People November 2018
Won the first prize (13,815 entries from 162 countries) of the 2018 International Essay Contest for Young People (Youth Category) of the Goi Peace Foundation, with my essay titled "Engineering for the People". I am the third Filipino to win this competition.
Received the Minister of Education Award during The Goi Peace Foundation Forum 2018 at Nikkei Hall in Tokyo, Japan
The event is supported by UNESCO and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.
First Prize Winner – Write For Our Rights Essay Contest October 2017
Won first place in the #WriteForOurRights Campaign by the Youth Movement for Transparency - Asia Pacific, the youth wing of Transparency International.
My essay, titled "From Citizens to Consumers: The Youth and the Pathology of Accumulation," talks about the effects of consumerism on the youth's role as citizens of a democracy Shell Ideas360 – Semifinalist November 2013 – April 2014
Part of the top 100 out of 680 global ideas about innovative solutions to the energy, water, and food crises;
Supervised by an international Shell Expert about the fundamentals of scaling ideas into profitable ventures and came up with an improved proposal about “Photon Economy in Solar Cells”
One in three students from the Philippines who were included in the world’s top 100. RELEVANT SKILLS
Conducting a Market Study and Economic
Analysis
Aspen HYSYS
MATLAB
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Python, SQL, Java, Javascript, HTML. CSS
Attention to Detail
Project Management
Technical Writing
Technical Presentations
Organizing and managing data
Setting goals and objectives
Data analysis
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English (Advanced written and spoken
fluency)
Tagalog (Advanced written and spoken
fluency)
Cebuano (Intermediate spoken fluency)
Waray-waray (native language)
INTERESTS
Writing about political and environmental
issues
Learning a new language
Collecting foreign currencies
Collecting paintings from different countries