Project Manager Engineer
Resume:
PAT HOEKSTRA, PMP, MS
Largo, FL 33773
***********@*******.***
Phone: 641-***-****
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
Experienced problem-solver with expert project management and communications skills strives to enhance your firm's brand and bottom line. Polished team-builder fosters productive, working relationships to produce peak performance outcomes for stakeholders in a safe and ethical environment. Transformative system organizer transitions process requirements into practical business solutions. Driven to achieve goals, manage multiple projects, meet stakeholder requirements and apply best practices deploying PMI project management processes.
KEYWORD SUMMARY:
Strategic Planning • Multi-Discipline Team Leadership • P&L Responsibility • Due Diligence • Scope, Cost, Schedule Control • Site Supervision • Start-Up • Process Design & Optimization • Coal & Biomass Power • Pulp and Paper • MDF • GHG Reduction • Catalytic Gas Treatment • Sustainable Development
MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
* Led EPC projects and implemented two competing CO2 sequestration strategies that contributed $2.8 million in pre-tax profit, 39% of Turbosonic Technologies Inc. record-breaking earnings in FY09.
* Safely installed, commissioned or operated heavy industrial systems, including coal- and biomass-fired power, pulp and paper, MDF and air pollution control.
* Supervised erection and managed client expectations for two fiberboard equipment deliveries with a combined valued of $41 million.
* Developed projects and presented results of comprehensive business assessments, feasibility studies and engineering projects, with a combined value exceeding $3 billion for Pyry, a global consulting and engineering company dedicated to balanced sustainability.
EXPERIENCE:
2000 to 2010
PAT HOEKSTRA CONSULTING
Principal
* Provide consultancy and on-site services to clients in need of data-driven decisions to implement strategic projects and business decisions. Perform business performance audits, develop investment alternatives and assess raw material supply for product/process viability and cost benchmarking. Provide field project commissioning and process optimization services. Clients served include International Paper, Nuchem Ltd. (USAID), UAE Sultan Bin Tahnoon Al Nahyan, Parton Group, BAE Systems, Southern Industrial Constructors.
* Led an on-site evaluation and directed feasibility planning for a $60 million USAID project in India to convert an existing MDF plant from wood chips to agricultural residuals and to double electrical cogeneration capacity firing waste biomass.
* Demonstrated viability of palm fiber biomass for MDF manufacture sponsored by the Abu Dhabi government by designing and executing pilot-scale tests in Wales, Sweden and Malaysia, witnessed by three key UAE government stakeholders.
* Performed due diligence for an "urban wood" MDF plant to be located on a decommissioned US Army Base.
* Performed recovery boiler rebuild check-out, purging and commissioning of new piping and in-service natural gas system for a recovery boiler rebuild, meeting the 39-day shutdown schedule constraint.
August 2008 to November 2009
TURBOSONIC TECHNOLOGIES INC., RALEIGH, NC
Project Manager
Led teams engineering air pollution control systems and negotiated design/build contracts for deliveries to the company's most valued clients including the world's largest biofuel producer (US), the 8th largest oil producer (Spain) and a building material producer (Chile).
* Negotiated $987K in material cost savings to achieve a 42% margin on a $4.4 million air pollution control project for an ethanol producer.
* Developed and executed mission-critical logistics plans and documents for consolidated international shipments, avoiding $280K in late delivery penalties.
* Delivered the first commercial-scale Catalytic Gas Treatment (CGT) system, a patented process replacing air stream contaminant thermo destruction technologies that promises to reduce fuel costs, earn carbon credits and offer an alternative to carbon sequestration strategies that reduce GHG's.
April 1998 to November 2000
JACOBS CONSULTANTS, ATLANTA, GA
Consultant
* Collaborated on a proprietary software development launch, now offered by RISI.com, analyzing cost competitiveness and benchmarking unit costs for all paper producers by grade, country, US region and machine.
* Performed due diligence and market study for a new MDF plant to utilize recycled biomass.
August 1993 to October 1997
SUNDS DEFIBRATOR, NORCROSS, GA
Process Specialist / Site Supervisor
Solved unique client operating problems in existing plants for a major OEM. Coordinated capital equipment deliveries; installation, commissioning, operations teams, customer interface and warranty issues.
* Operated the fiber and power control room during commissioning of the Kronotex GmbH MDF plant and 5MW wood-fired cogeneration plant in Wittstock, Germany.
* Saved a $1 million client insurance claim by documenting operator error caused a dryer fire during commissioning of a new production line.
EARLY CAREER EXPERIENCE
1989 to 1993
Senior Consultant, JAAKKO POYRY, INC., RALEIGH, NC
1987 to 1989
Applications Engineer, J & L FIBER SERVICES, WAUKESHA, WI
1986 to 1987
Sales Engineer, PENFORD PRODUCTS, CEDAR RAPIDS, IA
1983 to 1985
Guest Scientist, SWEDISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE, STOCKHOLM
1979 to 1983
Scientist R&D / Plant Start-up Operator, WEYERHAEUSER, TACOMA,WA
1977 to 1979
Power Plant Start-up Operator, SALT RIVER PROJECT, ST. JOHNS, AZ
1974 to 1977
Mill Chemist, SOUTHWEST FOREST INDUSTRIES, SNOWFLAKE, AZ
EDUCATION:
1983 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, SEATTLE, WA
MS Wood Science and Technology, GPA 3.3
1974 CENTRAL COLLEGE, PELLA, IA
BA Chemistry, GPA 3.4
2001 GWINNETT TECHNICAL COLLEGE, LAWRENCEVILLE, GA
AA Microcomputer Programming, GPA 3.6
Continuing Education and Training
* Certificates: PMP®, CompTIA A+
* Sustainable Development Program, North Carolina State/Duke University
* Computer Literacy: MS Office Applications, MS Office, MS Project, Primavera
* Fluent in Spanish; basic skills in Swedish
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