Engineer Project Manager

GARY L. BURGESS, P.E.

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Charlotte, NC 28277 http://www.linkedin.com/in/garylburgess

Project Engineer / Manager in handling complete project cycle, including business, sales, marketing, capital approval, design, scheduling, budgeting, bid evaluation, construction management, commissioning, start up & validation.

Process / Facilities Engineer with experience in all aspects of engineering including design, R&D, pilot plant study, P&ID’s, trouble shooting & operations.

Biopharm / Consumer Goods / Food / Microelectronics / Specialty Chemical Industries

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1 PROENGINEER, CHARLOTTE, NC 2002 - PRESENT

Project Engineer / Manager

Process Engineer for design, commissioning, start up of $3,000,000 Boiler / Boiler Feed Water, Condensate Polishing, Deaerator / 3D Trasar and $2,000,000 energy recovery project.

Process Design for the filtration and sampling of (7) Cell Factory, (1) Microfiltration, (1) Ultra filtration, (3) Fermentation, (3) Acid/Base, (5) Media Preparation / Hold, (1) Recovery Tank Systems and (9) CIP Systems. This constituted 15%+ of a $10,000,000 (10) plant remediation project. Created / modified 117 P&ID’s drawings.

Developed 1100 line MS Project Schedule for Installation / Validation of 9 consumer good projects.

Project Manager for design / installation of Blend Skid for production of nonwoven wet wipes. Developed process for zero discharge / CIP – Clean in Place Blend Skid.

Project / Construction Manager for cell culture media CIP system which included 800 automatic sanitary welds for Mixer, Mill, Dispenser system.

Developed 18 P&ID’s for the upgrade / enhancement of bleaching & refining plus designs for reducing water & steam consumption for (2) edible oil plants.

Identified 15 API Plant Safety Issues. Developed Scope of Work and Designs for correction.

Designed & developed bid packages for filtration, ultra filtration, diafiltration, CIP & chromatography skids.

Developed multiple infrastructure & process improvement / addition projects for adhesive, coating & agricultural intermediates projects to add plant capacity, improve operations & reduce costs.

Developed P&ID’s for an active pharmaceutical ingredient - API - Thin Film Evaporation CIP system. Completed estimates for Design Qualifications (DQ), IQ & OQ along with preliminary scope / system integrator interviews for a 21 CFR Part 11 compliant Intellution batch control system.

Wrote and / or approved Change Control, Commissioning, Functional Requirements Specifications, Remediation & Validation Plans, Trace Matrixes, Automation Installation & Operational Qualifications, (AIQ) & (AOQ) for biological products infrastructure & Water for Injection - Building Management Systems (BMS). Participated in AIQ / AOQ and /or FMEA of HVAC, airlock / door, compressed gas, USP Water and / or media / buffer preparation - bioreactor process systems.

Wrote Regulatory & Complexity Assessment (RCA), SRS & IQ / OQ documentation for Colloid Mill, CIP, & SIP process system. Wrote dispensing / vial filling IQ / OQ & Cold Room Automation Systems Requirement Specifications (SRS) for biotech / protein manufacturers.

WYETH / AMERICAN HOME PRODUCTS, MARIETTA, PA – SITE CLOSED 2001 - 2002

Project Engineer / Manager

Developed designs for $10,000,000 Vaccine Development Center renovation. Created database for utility requirements, relocation, calibration & installation of 450 pieces of laboratory equipment.

Managed $750,000 Clinical Live Virus Aseptic Filling / Lyophilization Project from Scope of Work & Basis of Design through Engineering Turnover Package & Commissioning. First project to incorporate Corporate Project Management & Commissioning SOP & HVAC Engineering Standards.

Led Scope of Work & Design for $500,000 Biosafety Level – 2 (BL-2) Clinical Filling / Freeze Drying enhancement project.

Developed designs for $400,000 cGMP – small pox vaccine warehouse lighting / security project & $250,000 clinical packaging relocation.

Plant representative during construction for Cold Adaptive Influenza Vaccine (CAIV) facility expansion.

1 PROENGINEER, CHARLOTTE, NC 2000 – 2001

Project Engineer / Manager

Interim Plant Engineer / Manager for agricultural intermediate contract specialty chemical manufacturer. Organized plant information, interfaced with customers, participated in HAZOP reviews & executed multiple process & facility projects.

Lead Process Engineer for the design / upgrade of USP water, DI Urea, chemical & waste inactivation systems for insulin, parathyroid & human growth hormone manufacturer.

EMERGENT BIOSOLUTIONS / BIOPORT, LANSING, MI 1999

Mechanical Engineer - Project Engineer / Manager

Project Manager for $2,500,000 chiller, centrifuge, CIP & neutralization system project for producing Human Plasma Derivatives Fraction II - Immune Globulin & Fraction V - Albumin.

Project Engineer for $100,000 albumin pasteurizer relocation / controls enhancement project. Enhancements added 3 levels of protection against a $450,000 product loss.

Improved process safety for anthrax vaccine fermentation & separation process.

1 PROENGINEER, CHARLOTTE, NC 1993 – 1998

Project Engineer / Manager

Designed process for converting animal blood from a traditional $600 / ton to a value added $3,800 / ton product. Conducted pilot studies on collection, centrifugation, filtration, evaporation, membrane concentration & spray drying for separating cellular fraction & drying plasma fraction.

Developed process design for an emulsification upgrade project to increase vaccine efficacy, enhance production flexibility & reduce cycle times 40% eliminating a second shift.

Team leader for the development & implementation of ISO 14000 program for a vaccine manufacturer.

Corporate project engineer for 4 specialty chemical plants in the USA & Canada. Expanded two plants & worked to close two plants while executing 22 infrastructure upgrade projects.

MARATHON / JAAKKO POYRY, AUGUSTA, GA – SITE CLOSED 1991 - 1992

Process / Project Engineer - Manager

Managed design, construction, & start up of a $3,000,000 polymerization process addition increasing capacity 350%. Provided project management for client & for engineering company.

Completed all remaining project management & engineering commitments as the last working employee during the closure of Marathon's Southern Engineering Office.

RHODIA / RHONE POULENC, SPARTANBURG, SC 1989 – 1991

Plant Engineer – Engineering Manager

Managed all project / engineering, environmental, maintenance, & utility functions. Managed the design, construction, HAZOP & start up of a $1,000,000 ethylene oxide derivatives / surfactants batch reactor project improving cycle times 35%.

Assisted in the design, permitting & construction of a $2,500,000 wastewater treatment plant & a $9,000,000 phosphate ester batch reactor process, warehouse, tank farm, GMP drumming & DCS project.

CH2M HILL / LOCKWOOD GREENE, SPARTANBURG, SC 1983 – 1989

Process / Mechanical Project Engineer – Manager

Leading High Tech / Pharmaceutical income producing project manager for over a year. Projects focused on the design, troubleshooting & start up of microelectronics / pharmaceutical systems.

MEMC / MONSANTO, SPARTANBURG, SC 1980 - 1982

Facilities / Utilities Engineer

Coordinated acceptance, start up, tie-in & operation of utilities with each new manufacturing department during phased 14-month construction / start up of the world’s largest silicon wafer plant.

Set up pure water analytical laboratory & helped create a new business of analyzing pure water quality & designing ozonated pure water systems.

Managed utility systems & maintenance / operation technicians. Set up spare parts, wrote operating procedures, helped develop progressive written and hands on testing program for mechanical and electrical technicians and completed utility balance of plant.

DOW CHEMICAL / UNION CARBIDE - TECHNICAL CENTER

S. CHARLESTON, WV 1975 - 1980

Process / Project Engineer

Business team member for the design, development, marketing, & sales of pure oxygen biological reactor & disinfection / chemical enhancement ozonation systems.

Start up engineer for several of the world’s largest industrial ozonation & wastewater treatment plants.

Wrote corporate guidelines for contract waste disposal.

EDUCATION

30 +/- PDH’s per year for the last 18 years as part of maintaining Professional Engineering Registration

MARSHALL UNIVERSITY / AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN CAIRO

Chemical Engineering / International Studies – Master Degree Level Course Work

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

MS Sanitary Engineering – 1975

BS Mechanical Engineering – 1973

Student Advisory Member to the Chairperson of Mechanical Engineering – 2 year elected position.

Received / Awarded scholarships from High School, Mechanical & Civil Engineering Departments.

Graduate Teaching Assistant for Environmental, Hydraulics & Surveying Labs.

Five Summers Engineering Employment in Civil Engineering, Quality Assurance, Testing & Development, Plant Engineering & Construction.

MANUFACTURING PLANTS WORKED IN – 1 PROENGINEER

FOOD - 119

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Cargill, Charlotte, NC, Cargill, Sioux City, IA, Valley Protein / Carolina By-Products, Fayetteville, NC, Carolina By-Products, Gastonia, NC, Carolina By-Products, Greensboro, NC, Farmer John's, Munger, MI, Carolina Turkey, Mt. Olive, Jelly Beans, Mississauga, Ont., Maumee Grain, Maumee, OH, Meats, Mississauga, Ont., Milliken’s Country Sausage, Asheboro, NC, Pepsi, Mississauga, Ont., Powdered Milk, Riviere-du-Loop, Que., Powdered Milk, Trois-Pistoles, Que., Randolph's Packing, Asheboro, NC, Reddyice, Gaffney, SC, Rocco Turkey, Raeford / St. Pauls, NC, Townsends, Pittsboro, NC, Townsends, Siler City, NC

BIOTECH – PHARMACEUTICAL - 89

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Bayer, Clayton, NC, bioMerieux, Durham, NC, Lonza / Cambrex Bioscience, Walkersville, MD, Community Bio-Resources, Greensboro, NC, Eli Lilly, Indianapolis, IN, EON Labs, Wilson, NC, Indiana Protein Technologies, Greenwood, IN, IRIX Pharmaceuticals, Florence / Greenville, SC, Medimmune, Frederick, MD, Merck, West Point, PA, Novartis- OTC, Lincoln, NE, Pfizer, Terre Haute, IN, Protein Design Labs, Plymouth, MN, Steris Isomedix, Whippany, NJ, Tyco Healthcare / Mallinckrodt, Maryland Heights, MO

SPECIALTY CHEMICAL - 95

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Chemol, Greensboro, NC, Coatex, Chester, SC, High Point Chemical, High Point, NC, Nipa Hardwicke, Elgin, SC, Nipa Hardwicke, Rock Hill, SC, Pesco-Beam, Roanoke, VA, Quality Terminal, Chester, SC, Reichhold, Bramalea, Ont., Dow / Reichhold, Jackson, TN, Dow / Reichhold, Nashville, TN, Dow / Reichhold, Toronto, Ont., DuPont, RTP, Stockhausen, Greensboro, NC, SEACO, Lenoir, NC, South Eastern Petroleum, Chester, SC, Specialty Polymers, Chester, SC, Tailored Chemical Products, Hickory, NC

MISCELLANEOUS MANUFACTURING - 304

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Industrial Laundry, Bramalea, Ont., International Paper, Ticonderoga, Limitorque, Greensboro, NC, MESCOM, Charlotte, NC, MG Newell, Greensboro, NC, QualPak, Laurinburg, NC, Dow / Reichhold, RTP, US Nonwovens, Brentwood, NY

ADDITIONAL

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Worked in or toured 608 plants as part of engineering society tours, open houses, public tours, evaluations & work. The first three plants toured were when I was a Cub Scout.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

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AIChE, AFE, AITP, ANS, CITPG, & Developers Guild - former AIPE, ASME Chair, IO3, ISPE, MPA, MPUG Co- Chair, NCPE, SAE, WPCF / WEF, Professional Engineer WV 7800

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

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Habitat for Humanity – 18 Homes / 350 +/- hours / NC & SC, Special Olympics – Track & Field, Bowling, Swimming, Parades / GA, NC, & SC, Civitan – Founder of Annual Golf Tournament benefiting Spartanburg New Day House / Adopt a Highway, Annual Fall / Spring Pancake Fund Raiser / GA, NC & SC, Ruritan – maintain small historical grave site & Annual Chicken Dinner Fund Raiser, Junior Achievement – JA Advisor, Math Counts / Science Fair Judge, American Youth Soccer Organization – AYSO referee, Marshall at Wachovia and Greater Greensboro Championships

COUNTRIES WORKED IN

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Canada –work visa, China- work visa, Egypt – work visas, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Japan, and United States – 28 States

COUNTRIES & PROJECTS INVOLVED WITH

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Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Scotland, Singapore, South Africa, & Spain

TECHNICAL / TEACHING PRESENTATIONS – ATTENDEES - 600

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ACS – American Chemical Society, Charlotte, NC – 31

AFE – Association for Facilities Engineering, King of Prussia, PA - 29

AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Greenville, SC – 35

AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Charlotte, NC – 25 (High Purity Water)

AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Charlotte, NC – 12 (Part 11 Compliance)

AIChE - American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Charlotte, NC – 21 (Waste Water Treatment)

ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Charlotte, NC – 22 (High Purity Water)

ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Charlotte, NC – 67 (Waste Water Treatment)

CSI – Construction Specifications Institute, Charlotte, NC - 23

High Tech & Pharmaceutical Conference, Brussels, Belgium – 55

IMEC, Leuven, Belgium - 10

Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ – 110

Johnson & Johnson – Centocor - Malvern, PA -10

Kemet Electronics, Greenwood, SC – 10

Lockwood Greene, Spartanburg, SC - 40

Lockwood Greene, Plano, TX – 10

Novozymes, Salem, VA - 12

PSPE – Pennsylvania Society of Professional Engineers Philadelphia Section, Philadelphia, PA – 27

PENC – North Carolina South Piedmont Chapter of Professional Engineers, Charlotte, NC - 26

Texas Instruments, Richardson, TX – 25

MS Project Training, Wachovia, Winston Salem, NC – 16

MS Excel Training, Computer Education Services, Charlotte, NC - 10

IT Membership - Charlotte IT Professionals Group – CITPG and Association of IT Professionals – AITP and Developers Guild

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