Process - Project Engineer

SUMMARY

Experienced chemical plant production process/project engineer and manager. Experience includes involvement in engineering, startup, troubleshooting, operation and maintenance of both batch and continuous chemical and synthetic fuels projects. Industrial work history includes involvement with synthetic fuels, resin, emulsion polymerization and organic chemicals manufacturing, utilizing a variety of processes including batch and continuous reaction, distillation, solids separation and wastewater treatment.

Engineering/Management Skills

Production/Engineering Supervision/Management

Process and Project Engineering

Instrumentation/DCS Installation and

Startup Experience

Wastewater Design, Troubleshooting and

Startup Experience

OSHA PSM – Management of Change

Extensive Process and Plant Operations Knowledge

Technical/Computer Skills

ISO 9002/14002 Auditing and Compliance

Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs)

MicroSoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Power Point, Visio Access, Project

SAP, OSI Plant Information (PI) system, Northwest Analytical (NWA) Quality Analyst, Yokogawa CS3000 recipe system, AutoCAD, ChemCAD

Engineer’s Aide – SINet

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Dow Reichhold Specialty Latex/Reichhold Inc.,

Cheswold, DE 8/98 to 12/08

Batch emulsion polymer producer of specialty latex used in gloves, gasket and paper coating applications.

Sr. Process Engineer 5/03 to 12/08

Performed process and project engineering duties for capital and expense projects through out plant. Modified batch recipes, investigated quality issues, and scaled up new products. Led Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs) for various projects. Project Engineering responsibilities for projects up to $800K.

•Served as acting plant manager during plant manager’s absence.

•Installed novel reverse osmosis water purification system, savings of $550K capital & $50K/yr expense.

•Implemented recipe management system for 35 emulsion polymer recipes, including writing DCS recipes. Started up and wrote batch recipes for 2 new Yokogawa DCS control systems.

Operations Manager 4/99 to 5/03

Managed 120 MM lb/yr production department. Responsibilities included personnel scheduling, production and quality issues as well as trouble shooting and revising operating instructions. Duties also included managing raw material handling department which received all bulk raw materials for entire plant.

•Managed production during the merge of two production building, and closure of an older building, while maintaining production and quality.

Process Engineer 8/98 to 4/99

Made pilot plant process improvements, including troubleshooting, scale-up recommendations, and project engineering. Troubleshot main production plant process problems and designed improvements for the plant thermal oxidizer system. Served on a team that completely revised the plant Management of Change system to meet PSM standards.

•Scaled up processes from pilot plant 100 gallon to production 3000 or 7800 gallon reactors.

•Wrote scale-up plans, batch recipes, and performed material balances.

Velsicol Chemical Corporation,

Chestertown, MD 12/94 to 8/98

75MM lb/yr. Batch ester production facility manufactured synthetic lubricants and plasticizers.

Plant Engineering Manager 10/96 to 8/98

Managed plant engineering department, developed and installed process and environmental improvement capital projects, including odor control, improving thermal oxidizer performance, wastewater treatment capacity expansion, batch reaction raw material conservation, and product storage utilization. Responsible for process design and equipment selection; instrumentation specification; selection and configuration.

•Acted as consultant for plant’s RAS biological wastewater treatment plant

•Temporary management of plant QC lab; including maintaining plant ISO 9002 certification.

Sr. Process Engineer 12/94-10/96

Continuation of responsibilities of previous position; assisted with plant’s ISO 9002 certification; performed internal quality audits of various plant departments.

Note: Velsicol Chemical Corporation acquired Chestertown Md. facility from Hüls America, Inc. in December 1994

Hüls America Inc. Chestertown, MD 7/90 to 12/94

Sr. Production Engineer 2/94 to 12/94

Made production procedure revisions for ISO 9002 compliance, process improvements, and DCS configuration. Participated in Safety Reviews for OSHA PSM compliance.

•Managed EPA BIF program for waste combustion, and wastewater treatment plant.

Production Manager 1/93 to 2/94

Managed production department with responsibility for production scheduling of monomeric and polymeric ester-based plasticizers, lubricant base stocks and polyacrylate oil additives. Duties also included managing raw material ordering, trouble shooting, revising operating instructions for conformance with ISO 9002 certification plan and personnel management; led and participated in process Safety Reviews.

Sr. Process Engineer 7/90 to 12/92

Process engineering duties included construction monitoring & startup of a batch acrylic polymerization unit

Previous Experience in chemical and synthetic fuels with Ashland Chemical (Philadelphia, PA); Triad Research (Ashland, KY); Ashland Synthetic Fuels (Catlettsburg, KY), Liquefied Coal Development Corporation (Moundsville, WV), and American Cyanamid Corp. (Bound Brook, NJ).

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

•OSHA Hazardous First Responder Training

•Kepnor Tragoe Project Management

•Industrial Refrigeration

•DRSL Leadership Workshop

•Apollo Root Cause Analysis

•Kepnor Tragoe Advanced Trouble Shooting

•Dale Carnegie Leadership for Managers

•ISO Auditing

EDUCATION

Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania

B.S., Chemical Engineering

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Sr. Member; Held previous local chapter officer positions

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS

Boy Scouts of America - Assistant Scout Master, Associate Venture Crew Advisor

Chestertown Optimists Club – Member, past President

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