Chemical Engineer

José Del Valle, PE

Objective

I strive to use my experience and knowledge for the operational efficiency and economical benefit of my employer, while gaining further experience and capabilities for my future personal growth.

Experience Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc.

1989–2008

Technical, Process and Operation Support

 Increase alignment and facilitate technology transfer between the engineering headquarters in Houston and the downstream operation in Yabucoa through procedures, processes, and business priorities.

 Customer-focused to assure product quality and customization of products as per client requirements.

 Supporting of site by troubleshooting of equipment, improvement of processes, and site initiatives.

 Perform design review, HAZOPS, PSSR, and pre-validation assessments to ensure a safe and environmentally sound start up of processing units.

 Project planning, development, implementation, and modification.

 Plan, perform investigations, surveys, and process studies.

 Equipment design and development, tests, preparation of specifications, process studies, and reports.

 Provide onsite engineering.

 Record, evaluate and report quality and reliability data.

 Process engineering group leader.

 Monitoring of the process and supporting of operation’s activities to maximize plan utilization and reliability and minimize quality issues.

 Troubleshooting and optimization.

 Lead, coordinate and follow up special activities of commissioning, turnaround, regeneration and cleaning.

 Support benchmarking activities.

 Lead corrective action teams to address performance gaps.

 Origination and follow up of projects to completion.

 Development, update and revision of procedures, and training of personnel.

 Support compliance of OSHA’s regulation 26 CFR 1910.119 and Management of Change.

 Lead Evaluation of Hazards, and investigation of incidents.

 Design review and HAZOPS of process units.

 Focal point for the exchange of key information and experience with other sites.

 Energy coordinator.

 Economic evaluations.

 ISO 9000

DuPont Agrichemical, Manatí, PR 1988–1989

Operation’s engineer

 Engineering support to batch-production operation.

 Troubleshooting.

 Production review and reporting.

Education University of Puerto Rico (RUM) campus, Mayaguez, PR

B. S., Chemical Engineering.

 Graduated Magna Cum Laude. 3.7 GPA

Skills

Computer literate: Microsoft office, Windows Vista, PROII, CHEMPRO

Achievements

Start UP of Idle unit

Identification and Coordination of required activities for the successful start up of processing unit that had remained out of service for five years.

HAZOPS

Coordination and completion of HAZOPS of the site processing units.

Organization and prioritization of findings for follow up and completion.

Energy optimization and savings

Identification of improvement areas, monitoring, and reporting.

Savings of $20 MM in 2007.

Recruiting

Recruiting and development of process engineers.

Utilization and Reliability

Identification of problem areas to improve operational availability and

reduction of uncontrollable losses. Losses reduced from 10% down to 3.5%

on EDC basis, placing the site from 4th quartile in Shell to 2nd quartile.

References

Eng. Jay Yohana; Planning and Economics and Marketing Manager at Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc. ********.*.******@*****.***.

Eng. Victor Vega; Maintenance Manager at Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc.

Tel 787-***-****.

Eng. Julio R Perez; Project Engineering Manager at Shell Chemical Yabucoa, Inc. Work phone 787-***-****, Cell phone 787-***-****.

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