Senior Process Engineer

Weyman Dunaway Chemical Engineer

** **** ******** **** ******, The Woodlands, TX 77382

Email: ******.*******@*****.***, Home Phone: 936-***-****

Professional Profile

Technical role in commercialization of new processes and products in the energy and chemicals industries.

Skill Set Summary

- Process Development

- Project Management (MS Project)

- Contractor & Vendor Management

- Operator Training & Plant Start Ups

- Batch & Continuous Processes - Solid chemical, mechanical and electrical fundamentals in a chemical manufacturing environment

- Strong Stand Alone & Network PC Skills, Aspen Hysys, OLI Electrolytes

- Unusually broad range of production equipment operating experience - Multi-phase systems including water, oil, gas and solids

- Process trouble shooting and failure analysis - Broad range of analytical techniques and procedures

- Ability to quickly identify and test key technical parameters - Six Sigma Green Belt Certified

- Descriptive & Inferential Statistics

- Design of Experiments -Technical Reports & Presentations

- Bulk Material Handling -Coauthor of 12 US Patents

Employment History

Manager of Engineering & Special Projects, TETRA Technologies, Inc., Houston, TX-February 1998 to February 2011:

• Designed, constructed and operated Pilot Plant for converting magnesium chloride waste stream into $2,000,000 per year new magnesium hydroxide product.

• Supported design, construction and successful commercial startup of the waste stream process as a $20,000,000 battery within a $130,000,000 greenfield production complex.

• Developed patented high efficiency process for the manufacture of zinc bromide with $3,000,000 to 5,000,000 per year sales.

• Developed two specialty additives products with combined sales of $250,000 per year.

• Developed several in-house test instruments and procedures for measuring industrial product efficacy under use conditions.

Also performed optimization studies of market specific grade/form variants, evaluation of alternate process technologies, comparison of alternative raw material scenarios as well as general technical support for R&D operations via knowledge of engineering, analytical, computer and statistical procedures.

Process Technology Group Leader, Great Lakes Chemical, El Dorado, AR-November 1990-February 1998:

-Achieved waste reduction, quality improvements, and capacity increases through process understanding and application of new manufacturing technologies.

-Managed various capital projects up to $1,500,000.

Manufacturing Process Engineer, English China Clays America, Sandersville, GA, February 1979-September 1989

-Process Engineer supervising 1-2 BSChE’s, 3-6 full time technicians & 1-9 temporary technicians.

-Helped design, start up, operate and optimize $50,000,000 worth of manufacturing plants, which are still in operation.

Process Engineer Proctor & Gamble Corporation, Cincinnati, OH, August 1977-1979

Education and Training

BSChE with High Honors and Cooperative Plan, Georgia Institute of Technology, GPA 3.4/4.0

Continuing Education-Aspen Hysys, OLI ScaleChem Water Chemistry Modeling & Simulation Software, Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, Environmentally Assisted Corrosion Control, Database Design, Safety Leadership Training, HazWoper Training, Technical Management, Statistical Process Control, Statistical Quality Control, Experimental Design

Unit Operations-Batch and continuous reactor design, gas/liquid/solid reactions, emulsification, homogeneous and heterogeneous polymerization, solvent extraction, batch and continuous solvent stripping, batch and continuous distillation, ion exchange, crystallization, halogenation, oxidative and reductive reactions, ozonation, wet and dry grinding, wet and dry particle size classification, basket centrifuges, solid bowl centrifuges, nozzle disk centrifuges, liquid/liquid centrifuges, flocculation, filtration, controlled atmosphere furnaces, oven drying, flash drying, spray drying, densification, pelletizing, extrusion, briquetting, Chilsonating, bulk material handling, froth flotation, and high intensity magnetic separation.

Analytical Procedures- Ion Chromatography, Low and High Shear Rheology, Melt Flow Index, GC, GCMS, LC, TLC, HPLC, UV-Vis, FTIR, AA, ICP, HPIC, DSC, TGA, SEM, ESCA, TEM, XRD, Scanning Auger.

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