Program Manager Business Development

THOMAS NELSON WILLIAMS, JR.

Houston, TX ***** 346-***-**** ********@******.*********.*** linkedin.com/in/tom-williams-947a638

CONSULTANT

Thinks like an entrepreneur and acts like an owner: Capable leader and change agent with an outstanding track record of innovation and commercial successes in manufacturing, process engineering, and consulting. Diverse manufacturing experience including new venture feasibility and design, start-up, optimization, and automation in polymers, chemicals, and petroleum.

KEY SKILLS

Consulting Business Development Innovation Six Sigma Program Management Project Management Economics and Technical Feasibility Simulation Automation Polymers Chemicals Petroleum

EXPERIENCE

Honeywell International, Honeywell Process Solutions, Houston, TX 2008 – Mar 2024

Senior Engineering Program Manager, 2018 – 2024

Director of the Abnormal Situation Management Consortium (ASM®), 2013-2024 (http://asmconsortium.net)

Engineering Program Manager, 2008-2018

Global Operator Effectiveness Manager

Created a $20+ million global consulting engineering business for Honeywell from its lead role in the ASM® consortium. Membership: major Petroleum Companies (XOM, Shell, BP, Phillips66, SASOL, etc).

Managed a global team of 28 engineering consultants deploying Operator Effectiveness tools and methods including Process Control Strategy, Graphic Displays, Automated Procedures, and Operations Consulting. Tested new methods, including AI (NLP, Natural Language Programming) and ChatGPT.

Developed, promoted, and sold consultancy engagements.

Honeywell Performance Materials and Technology (formerly AlliedSignal), Chester, VA 1986-2008

Senior Technical Manager, Specialty Materials Engineering

Automation Showcase Venture Manager

At request of Honeywell CEO & COO, served as Venture Manager for cross-division program to demonstrate impact of Honeywell’s Controls in its own manufacturing site.

Technical Manager, Nylon and High-Performance Fibers

Led design of the manufacturing plant for Evergreen Nylon Recycling, LLC, a JV of AlliedSignal and DSM

Optimized manufacturing of Nylon-6 polymers for production of fiber, film, & resin

Optimized manufacturing of Aclon polymer

Served as Engineering Department Six Sigma Leader

Served as Modeling and Simulation leader for Performance Materials Division

Supervisor, High Performance Fibers

Led design and optimization of new Spectra® lines and solvent and vapor recovery systems

Mobil Chemical Research and Development, Edison, NJ 1977-1984

Senior Staff Engineer, Polyolefin Process Development

Research Engineer, Crop Chemical Process Development

Engineer, Industrial Chemical Process Development

Mobil Research & Development Corporation, Central Research Division Princeton, NJ 1975-1977

Research Intern, Desulfurization & Denitrogenation Catalysis, Tertiary Oil Recovery

EDUCATION

Master of Science (MS), Chemical and Biochemical (now Biological) Engineering

Rutgers University

Bachelor of Science, Engineering (BSE), Chemical Engineering

Princeton University, Princeton NJ

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Languages

Capable in French.

Aspen Engineering Suite UniSim (HYSYS) SimSCI Standard PC based software PLC ladder logic Distributed Control Systems.

ADDENDUM

Awards

Six Sigma Black Belt, certified 8/2007

Nominated for Premier Achievement Award 11/2002

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) trainer 9/2002

Six Sigma Green Belt, certified 12/1999

AlliedSignal “Quest for Excellence” Polymers finalist. (Highest honor awarded in AlliedSignal) 1998

Chemical Manufacturing Association’s CAER (Community Awareness and Response Award) for outstanding improvement to the environment 1989

AlliedSignal’s Chairman’s Special Recognition Award 1988

Accomplishments

Leadership:

Built a global Operator Effectiveness business in Honeywell from ASM Consortium research. Grew annual sales from $800,000 in 2008 to 20+ million

Started a Process Control Center of Excellence in Honeywell, hired a Director, and built a global team of knowledgeable consultants.

Promoted several new consulting offerings, Operator Role Complexity Analysis, Interaction Requirements Analysis, Overall Process Effectiveness, to add to Honeywell Process Solutions capabilities as a trusted advisor.

Automation Showcase: Selected as leader by Honeywell COO and CEO to lead development, approval, and execution of a Showcase to demonstrate the “Factory of the Future” using automation tools from Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (sister division).

Led adoption of engineering tools throughout Specialty Materials (for example Six Sigma, Honeywell UniSim and Aspen Engineering Suite).

Trained engineering department (54 people) in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS).

Developed E-Engineering Strategy and implemented Polymers Engineering web site. Digitized company engineering standards, procedures, Polymer data books (Nylon, Polyester, Spectra, and Polychlorotrifluoroethylene), and archived Aspen models.

Built Polymer Process department through external and internal recruitment.

Built a Process Engineering Team for Evergreen Nylon Recycling, LLC, a Joint Venture of Honeywell and DSM to recycle post-consumer carpet. Assembled and coordinated core team of engineers from Honeywell, DSM, and Lockwood-Greene to design the $85+M facility. Total team included at least 150 engineers at design peak.

Reduced capital cost of Carpet Recycle Venture by $20MM via value engineering process to meet approved budget.

Developed new funding system for the Process Technology Department.

Management:

Served as Program Manager for a dozen Procedural Automation projects for ExxonMobil.

Managed, coached, and developed team of seventeen Process Engineers supporting the Polymers division. Served as Department Six Sigma coach and successfully certified 37 green belts.

Managed $5MM Forward Engineering budget to support initiatives in Capacity Productivity, Capital Productivity, Six Sigma, and new Product/Process Development. Typical annual returns: $6MM in capacity productivity, $7MM in capital avoidance, and $6MM in cycle time reduction.

Recruited experienced employees, including a successor as Group Manager, and Nylon Process Leader.

Developed numerous leaders/supervisors for Manufacturing and Technical departments.

Composed, directed, and coordinated process design teams for $150-$200MM/year annual capital investment.

Served as Plant Manager for Spectra solvent recovery plant.

Commercial and Technical:

Developed a process to make a highly proprietary ferroelectric polymer in testing as a memory substrate.

Led successful effort to improve the polymerization process of polychlorotrifluoroethylene (PCTFE). Demonstrated 20% increased production, worth $5.8M/year in a process in which changes are limited by requirements of the Drug Master File (DMF) and cGMP requirements. Changes also enabled increased sales in worldwide markets.

Led teams of Honeywell and University resources to model Honeywell’s Nylon polymer trains and PCTFE polymer production.

Demonstrated a process to devolatilize Nylon-6 polymers and led teams that reduced extractables in Nylon fiber.

Developed and commercialized a process to recycle solvents used in Spectra manufacturing process. (Pretax savings: $3M annually).

Led teams responsible for boosting nylon production with no capital: (1) 8.3M ppy in Staple Carpet, (2) 13M ppy in Filament Carpet Fiber. (Pretax profit $7.9M/year).

Led teams that increased nylon production with minimal capital: (1) 6M ppy in Filament Carpet Fiber, (2) 6M ppy in Staple Carpet Fiber, (3) 10M ppy in Engineering Plastics resins. (Pretax profit $8.7M/year).

Developed and commercialized routes to produce Tackle Herbicide (2-Nitro-5-(2’-chloro-4’trifluoromethylphenoxy) benzoic acid, sodium salt), and an uranium extractant, Bis (2-ethylhexyl) phosphoric acid (trade name DEHPA).

Commercialized three new LDPE products, 1982-1983.

Publications

“Improve Safety and Performance: Abnormal Situation Management Consortium Celebrates 20 Years,” Hydrocarbon Processing, 10/1/2014, http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/magazine/2014/october-2014/columns/hp-viewpoint-improve-safety-and-performance-abnormal-situation-management-consortium-celebrates-20-years

“Procedural Automation”, Proceedings of the Mary K OConnor Process Safety Center 2013 International Symposium, October 22-24, 2013, http://pscfiles.tamu.edu/symposia/2013/2013%20abstracts/Tom%20Williams%20HONEYWELL.pdf

“Migration in Motion: Making a Legacy Plant a Technology Showcase”, a Control Engineering podcast: http://www.controleng.com/article/CA6414326.html#2

“New Mass-Transfer Model for Simulating Industrial Nylon-6 Production Trains”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., DOI: 10.1021/ie0400671 July 3, 2004.

“A New Phase-Equilibrium Model for Simulating Industrial Nylon-6 Production Trains”, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 42(17), 3900-3913 (2003).

“Production of World Class Caprolactam from Recycled Post-Consumer Carpet”, Paper 95a, AIChE Spring National Meeting, March 8, 2000.

"The Thermomechanical Transitions of Ferrocene Containing Polymers," Organometallic Polymers, C.E. Carraher, J.E. Sheats, and C.U. Pittman, Jr., editors. Academic Press, 1978, pp.53-65.

U.S. Patents 4,288,392 & 4,456,767; others pending.

European Patent 033,999; others pending.

Other Community Service

Member AIChE; President of Tidewater VA section. 2003 - 2004

Board of Directors, Science Museum of Virginia Foundation. 2002 - 2007

Board of Directors, Central Virginia Council, Boy Scouts of America. 2000 - 2008

Chairman, Advisory Board, Virginia Commonwealth Graduate Education Program

(Virginia’s distance learning initiative). 2001 - 2006

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