Engineer Manager

Eámon Hogg

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Decatur, GA *****

Cell: 334-***-****

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Objective

Short-term: Use my knowledge of chemical engineering in a challenging and rewarding environment

Long-term: Manage technology development in an industrial setting

Work History

Process Development Engineer, Cobalt Technologies, Mountain View, CA: June 2007—June 2010

• Worked to develop processes for co-generation of paper and biofuels

• Rewarded and recognized by CEO for significant contributions

• Driving force behind two innovations Cobalt is seeking to patent

• Reduced capital and operations costs by six times (as compared to previous process costs) through novel separation design

• Managed research projects with little supervision and consistently met goals under tight deadlines

• Successfully scaled up unit operations from bench to pilot plant

• Developed/tested both bench and pilot scale equipment related to fermentation along with downstream processing equipment

• Commissioning/troubleshooting of pilot scale fermentation to downstream separations equipment

• R&D experience related to downstream separations processes, dilute acid hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, detoxification of lignocellulosic hydrolysate, fermentation, bioprocessing, and cell recycle

• Used Aspen Plus for bio-refinery modeling and data regression modeling complex thermodynamic systems using various equations of state

Research Intern, Integrated Science Solutions (ISSI) at NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA: May 2007—September 2007

• Performed an environmental study of Hexavalent Chromium

Financial Analysis and Account Specialist, Apple, Cupertino, CA: April 2006—January 2007

Process Engineer and Process Manager, Mohawk Industries, Dalton, GA and Bennettsville, SC: October 2005—March 2006

• Promoted to process manager after only three months

• Supervised startup of green field commercial synthetic fibers plant

• Optimized extrusion equipment to match product specifications

• Trained process technicians on extruding process SOPs that I developed

• Worked on product development and implementation in a large scale environment

Student Assistant, Auburn University Chemical Engineering Department, Auburn, AL: May 2003—September 2005

• Assisted with hazardous chemical disposal

Education

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

• MS Chemical Engineering, Spring 2010

• Master’s Project: “Simulating the Extraction of 1-Butanol from Model Fermentation Broth Using Supercritical CO2”

Auburn University, Auburn, AL

• BS Chemical Engineering, Summer 2005

Unit Operations Experience

• Batch and Continuous Reactors

• Batch Distillation

• Filtration

• Precipitation

• Ion Exchange

• Liquid-Liquid Extraction

• Extrusion

• Heat Exchangers

• Mixing

• Winding and Texturizing

Software Competencies

• Aspen Plus

• Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio)

• Matlab, Solidworks, Some Programming Experience

Equipment Competencies

• Mass Spectrometer

• HPLC

• GC

• Refractometer

• Spectrophotometer

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