Design / Process Engineer
Resume:
Snehal Patel
Goshen, IN ****6
********@*******.***
Summary of Experience
A 6+ years of successful 24 hour operations in retail business. A skilled Design Engineer with two (2) years of experience in equipment design (reactor and fractionation), creating hydroprocessing tools, pilot plant optimization and operation. Excellent communication skills coupled with an analytical approach to problem solving. Strong team oriented background actively participating on project teams.
2003 to 7-ELEVEN, Goshen, Indiana
Present The company runs the world’s largest chain of convenience stores, globally with annual sales of $15784.7 million and a net annul income growth of 400.8%.
• Ran two 7-Elevens store with 24 hours operations.
• Order, control and maintain inventory to increase inventory turn.
• Maintaining Labor force and scheduling to efficiently use payroll hours.
• Increase annual sales by 15%. Increases sales in the key category (Food services) by 72% and rank 1st market 1910 division C.
• Trained new employees to use the state or the art technology of online ordering and other store operations.
2001 to UOP LLC, Des Plaines, Illinois
2003 A $1.2 billion company wholly owned by Honeywell and Union Carbide involved in research, development and supply of process technology and specialty products for the petroleum, petrochemical and gas processing industries.
2002 to Design Engineer. Reporting to the Department Manager. Responsible for
2003 process flow, schemes, optimization, preparation of heat and weight balances, process flow diagrams, piping and instrument diagrams and equipment specification for various UOP licensed units.
• Generated preliminary equipment designs for the reactor and fractionation sections for hydrocracking and hydrotreating units using various commercial and in house tools.
• Worked on tool development team to create various tools for hydroprocessing technology center.
• Received yield estimates from R&D and customer request.
- Started process work to generate the required information for the input to the standard flow scheme.
- Simulated the standard flow scheme to get the approximate product quantity and quality.
- Modified the standard flow scheme to meet the customer’s specific requirements.
• Developed a new heat exchange network to minimize the utility requirement for each project and if a multiple feed case, generated several different flow schemes.
• Developed process flow diagrams using micro station.
• Generated the vessel specifications: operating temperature, pressure, metallurgy and physical dimensions.
- Equipment such as pumps, valves, piping, compressors, etc. were also designed to meet the process requirement.
• Designed an electronic copy and hard copy of the vessels, equipment and utility summaries.
• Developed cost estimate for cost estimation and the final report for each project.
• Actively participated in the project meetings.
2001 toDevelopment Engineer. Reported to the Shift Supervisor. Responsible for 2002 operating pilot plants, process optimization, and operator training including plant
operations.
• Performed sample collection, data collection, tuning the operation to optimize yield, periodic maintenance of pumps, pressure gauges, dryers, charge drums, thermocouples, flow meters, etc.
• Worked on Modified Linear Alkyl benzene, Pacel Enhancement Process and Ethylene plants.
• Managed assigned pilot plants.
• Communicated with the operator from previous shift about any changes made on the plants.
• Read operators log and technicians instructions for each pilot plant.
• Periodically cut in feed, changed dryers, reactors, and receivers.Collected and labeled the samples from the pilot plants as per schedule.
• Followed the instructions of researchers and technicians thoroughly during startups and shutdowns.
• Ran a nitrogen pressure test before startups and purged during shutdowns.
• Prepared the biweekly reports for presentation and discussed any issues with researcher and the technician to optimize the project goal.
• Assisted the technician in replacing high-pressure separators, thermocouples, heaters, and chiller systems when a malfunction was detected.
• Observed strict safely procedures at all times.
1999 toUNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, Chicago, Illinois
2000
Research Assistant. Responsible for assisting the professor and his graduate students in conduct research on flameless combustion using a shock tube. Operated GC machines, assisted in operating the shock tube, collecting samples and data, derived kinematics correlations.
• Conduct research project on membranes and molecular sieves used for fluid separations and composed a summary of various sources and documents available as resources for professor’s research.
• Assisted a professor in a nanotechnology research by studying the molecular structure of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons using Electron Microscope.
• Worked in a team of four (4) to come up with a process and project design for large-scale production of single wall carbon nanotubes (5 months).
EDUCATION: Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering, 2001
University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois
ADDITIONL
TRAINING: Two months in intensive Project/Process Engineering training
Six Sigma training – applied when working on tool development team
Pilot Plant Operations school – 4 weeks, including theoretical and hands on training HS&E basic and safety training
Attended weekly Training and Engineering System Skill Center seminars included session on metallurgy, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, pinch technology, utilities, etc.
COMPUTER
SKILLS: Software: Aspen, Hyses, Office 2003, MathCAD, Lotus, UOP’s
Proprietary simulations, Visio 5.0, Netscape, Communicator, Corel WordPerfect, Internet Explorer.
Systems: Windows 2003, NT and Macintosh
Languages: C++, FORTRAN, UOP’s proprietary P9.8
PROFESSIONAL
AFFILITATIONS &
MEMBERSHIPS: American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Treasurer, 1999 – 2003
American Chemical Society, member, 1998-1999
FOAC Member, 2003 - present
RECOGNITION
& AWARDS: Recognized for accurately finishing project before the due dates at UOP
Recognized for multiple volunteer work at UOP and while in College
Highest achievement award in the field of process design-production by Abbott laboratories.
First place certificate for the most innovative process/project design for production of single wall carbon nanotubes from the University of Illinois at Chicago
SECOND
LANGUEGE: Read and write Spanish and a few ethnic Indian languages.
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