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Ken Allsford, PhD, C.Eng. 713-***-**** adkee6@r.postjobfree.com

Greater Houston, TX linkedin.com/in/kenallsford/

CHEMICAL ENGINEER PROCESS CONTROL & OPERATIONS PROCESS SIMULATION/MODELING Multi-disciplinary chemical engineer well versed in process safety engineering (high hazard process/low hazard operation). Subject matter expert in process operations, simulation, control, and optimization. From ethylene plant projects (all major licensers), expanded to polymers, refining and more. Worked in many control rooms with many process plant control systems. Experienced with the software development life cycle and agile project/program management. Follower of emerging compute technologies with proficiency in software development (legacy through Python) for systems integration in the process industries advanced applications workspace. Known for personal endeavors as project team lead for successful completion of more than 30 high-level process automation projects per technical scope, budget and schedule in oil and gas (including LNG plants), refining, chemicals, and power industries. Able to engage engineering stakeholders across functional hierarchies and cultures via collaboration, delegation, team building and mentoring/training. SKILLS:

Program and Project Management:

MS Project, Primavera P6, SAP, Salesforce

Engineering Leadership and Mentoring

Design for Lean Six Sigma

Process and Continuous Improvement

R&D; DoE; Pilot plants

Exploratory Data Analysis; Data Analytics

Innovation scalability (“re-use”)

Customer-centric Sales; Collaboration

Proposal and Business Development

Chemical Engineering:

Process Automation and Process Control

Process Safety Management and Engineering

Machine Learning & AI Awareness

Operability and Process Commissioning

Process Modeling and Process Simulation

Mathematical Modeling and Optimization

Process Design and Process Analysis

Continuous Manufacturing

Reaction kinetics

Basic Chemicals: Ethylene (most licensers);

Ethylene oxide/glycol; Oleflex

(dehydrogenation); Acetic Acid; Air

separation; Syngas; Sulfuric Acid

Polymers: PE; PP; EVA; PVAC

Refining: FCC; CDU/VDU; Naphtha Processing;

Hydrotreating/Hydrocracking; Sulfur recovery

Oil & Gas: subsea; gas conditioning; NGLs; LNG

(ConocoPhillips & APCI)

Power: CHP/IGCC; Balance of plant for coal

feeding system; CO2 removal; Gas turbines;

Steam systems and power generation.

Honeywell Technical Tools: Hysys (2006);

UniSimDesign; UniSim Operations; Profit Suite

Familiarity: OLGA; VMGSim; AutoCAD; CFD

Control Systems Maintenance: Yokogawa

Centum, Prosafe; Honeywell Experion, Safety

Manager, TDC, PHD; Emerson Delta V; Rockwell

Logix (with Wonderware); Triconex; CCC

Programming/Software Development:

Legacy: VAX; Unix; Fortran, C, C++, VB, VBScript

MS Office Environment: Excel; Access; Word;

PPT; Visio; VBA

.NET; C#; Visual Studio

SQL/NoSQL databases

Octave/MATLAB; Python; Jupyter Notebooks

Cloud environment aware (tabular AutoML

included)

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KEN ALLSFORD adkee6@r.postjobfree.com 713-***-**** Page 2 of 3 WORK HISTORY

Lead Project Engineer (Chemical) 01/1999 - 06/2020 Honeywell International, HPS Connected Plant (Advanced Solutions) – Houston, TX

• Applied first-principles (dynamic) models to design, configuration, implementation & commissioning of Advanced Process Control (APC) applications and Operator Training Systems (OTS) for multiple projects in the chemical and process industries, working with many control systems. Skills list includes a selection of the greenfield/brownfield processes worked on.

• Greenfield projects (for which operability & control systems configuration were validated) included: o Gas to Liquids (Syngas, Fischer-Tropsch and Products Work-up Unit) o Refinery complex, (including UOP technologies such as Oleflex) o Several platforms (gas/condensates, liquids)

o 5 LNG plants using Conoco-Phillips technology; 2 LNG plants using APCI technology o 2 ethylene crackers

o Ethylene oxide/Ethylene Glycol plant

• Successfully led/executed these multi-million-dollar projects in an agile project environment: managed internal engineering, customer technical relationships and project execution plans.

• Selected as technical manager (4 years) for Operations Assurance collaboration with major oil company leading to increased internal business and client-audited benefits across multiple projects.

• Recruited to serve as OTS corporate-wide project execution discipline lead (3 years) improving internal project technical execution consistency through best practice alignment.

• Provided business development support for 20+ project awards: presentations; benefits study; proposal development; training course delivery; continuing customer support.

• Selected to support New Product Introduction programs: Elearn initiatives and Dynamic Digital Twins (repurposing of rigorous OTS dynamic models) for look ahead and operations assurance.

• At PAS & Dot Products, prior to Honeywell acquisition, engineering experience included: o Configured/commissioned multivariable Non-Linear Controllers (NLC – kinetic model-based):

Polymer processes: EVA, PVAC, Spheripol polypropylene, Unipol Polyethylene

Geographies: Gulf Coast, Taiwan, South Africa

Implemented new state estimator based on moving horizon estimation o Commissioned Non-Linear Galaxy controller for acetic acid plant

Galaxy “enhanced” the proprietary STAR Linear Multivariable Controller o Commissioned steady-state equation-based optimizer for ethylene plant.

Contributed to review of approach for handling discontinuities (complementarity vs function approximation)

• On acquisition by Honeywell, supported integration of acquired technologies into Honeywell Profit Suite – including control law review (trajectory constraints) for NLC. 3

KEN ALLSFORD adkee6@r.postjobfree.com 713-***-**** Page 3 of 3 WORK HISTORY (continued)

Principal Engineer 05/1988 - 12/1998

ABB Simcon – Stevenage, UK and Bloomfield, NJ

• UK: Operator Training simulator development (aromatics separation) utilizing in-house technology.

• USA: Advanced process control and optimization projects for >10 ethylene plants (US Gulf Coast, Brazil, East Asia, Europe).

o Progressive increase in project activities and responsibilities. o Initially utilized in-house modelling technology (software development) prior to migration to licensed technology (Dot Products).

o Led development of an MS Access-based online state-based configuration/end user interface for online optimization.

Higher Scientific Officer 04/1985 - 05/1988

Warren Spring Laboratory – Stevenage, UK

• R&D: handling of rheologically difficult materials (slurries, non-Newtonian liquids) in a multiclient corporate sponsored research environment (government research laboratory). o Repeatability and automation of rheological measurements o Literature reviews (including 200+ pp review on slurry pipeline transport) o Product formulation guidance.

o Pilot plant scale experiments for equipment performance analysis, etc.: flowmeters & mixers EDUCATION

PhD: Chemical Engineering (bioreactor orientated; Tate &Lyle sponsor): University of Birmingham, UK BSc (Hons): Chemical Engineering: University of Birmingham, UK ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

USA, UK Citizenships

Chartered Engineer, Fellow, Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), UK Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Developed ~10 Technical Papers for Chemical Engineering Conferences Open Group: Digital First Virtual Event, July 2020 ELA254: Engineering Leadership Development, AIChE Academy June 2020 16th Global Congress on Process Safety (as part of Virtual rescheduled AIChE Spring 2020 Meeting)

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