Chemical Engineer

EDWARD LAZEAR

*************@*****.***

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Collierville, TN 38017 Cell: 610-***-****

CHEMICAL ENGINEER

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Senior chemical engineer, supervisor, and manager. Have worked in chemical plants as process support engineer, production manager, and process control engineer. Have also worked as project engineer and manager. U.S. citizen, with BSChE and MBA.

Key accomplishments:

• Created and sponsored a project that replaced an existing distillation train, cutting energy costs by one million dollars annually.

• Implemented distributed process control system for polymerization reactors that replaced manual control with fully automatic control. Wrote control algorithms that: eliminated hazardous reactions that were once routine; increased the plant capacity; and reduced process variability across several manufacturing steps.

• Improved kiln controls in a Six Sigma project that de-bottlenecked waste incinerator, decreasing its downtime and increasing its throughput. Reduced off-plant disposal costs by $100,000 annually.

CORE COMPETENCIES

Assistance to operations; yield improvement; process troubleshooting and optimization; energy conservation; process hazard reviews and prestart-up safety reviews; petrochemicals; polymers; textile fibers; silicones; pharmaceutical-grade compounds; statistical process control (SPC); design of experiments (DOE); current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP); Total Quality Management (TQM); supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA); distributed control systems (DCS); programmable logic controllers (PLC); process data monitoring and interpretation; instrumentation; safety systems; process simulation; process design; project engineering and management; distillation, polymerization, refrigeration, heat transfer; heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC).

WORK EXPERIENCE

JACOBS ENGINEERING, Charleston, WV Feb. 2011 – Present

Project Engineer [Contract position]

Calculating process flow diagrams; creating process and instrumentation diagrams. Sizing relief valves and documenting relief criteria. Writing Scopes of Work for projects and equipment specifications.

PENN A KEM, Memphis, TN Apr. 2010 – Nov. 2010

Process Engineer / Production Manager

Managed operators and processes in Pilot Plant; scaled up new processes from laboratory to production scale. Wrote the justification for new process equipment; specified and procured it. Developed detailed cost estimate for million-dollar expansion project. Simulated new chemical processes using ChemCAD.

MINRAD, Inc., Bethlehem, PA June – Sep. 2009

Process Engineer [Four-month contract assignment]

Expanded and improved functionality of programmable logic controller that manages tank farm at plant that makes isoflurane and sevoflurane.

MUSTANG ENGINEERING, Newark, DE Sept. 2001 – Mar. 2009

Senior Project Engineer

Designed equipment, including reactors, heat exchangers, solid particle conveying systems, cyclone separators, pumps, and blowers; wrote purchase specifications for same. Solicited bids from vendors, and

checked vendor drawings, and placed purchase orders. Sized process lines and created Process and Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs). Developed and documented heat and material balances. Performed process optimization studies. Provided construction and start-up assistance.

CROMPTON CORP., Sistersville, WV 1998 – 2001

Production Manager

Responsible for production of pharmaceutical-grade organosilicone compounds, consumer products, and industrial silicone oils. Wrote and got approved a Clean-in-Place (CIP) procedure for new reactor. Managed operators on rotating shifts.

• Prioritized workloads and modified production schedules to meet product demand.

• Managed raw materials ordering, finished product analyses, and product disposition.

• Diagnosed process problems and recommended fixes. Wrote and updated Operating Procedures.

DUPONT DOW ELASTOMERS, Louisville, KY 1983 – 1998

Process Control Engineer

Supported computer system that monitored and/or controlled material processing and movement at 100 million pound per year Neoprene plant. Continually expanded and improved functionality of system. As new distributed control systems were installed at the plant, added data acquisition from them and real-time supervisory control of them to the system. Worked with research chemists to scale-up their new product formulations to full-size production runs.

E.I. DUPONT, Belle, WV

Process Engineer

UNION CARBIDE TECHNICAL CENTER, South Charleston, WV

Project Engineer

EDUCATION

M.B.A., West Virginia College of Graduate Studies

B.S., Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University

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