Project Manager Engineer

NILCE PALMER

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Executive Summary

• Project Manager with managerial experience.

• Strong strategic-planning and people-management skills.

• Background in food industry and in the equipment manufacturing industry.

• Budget development for new customer’s projects.

• Cross-functional team management skills.

• Hand on experience in the development of company strategies, providing directions influencing top directors and team workers.

• Continuous improvement and strategic thinker.

• Experience overseas in Brazil, Germany, France and Spain.

• Award-winning - Aseptic Packaging Project.

• Bilingual English / Portuguese and Intermediate Spanish.

Education

• Master in Bussiness Administration

Webber International University, Babson Park, Florida

• B.Sc. in Chemical Engineer

Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Master in Science

Courses: Thermodynamics; Operations Research; Differential Analysis (at Mathematical Institute}; Projects and Planning; Kinematics of Fluid Flow; Process Analysis and Industry Pollution Control. All these were course work only and they were taken at COPPE – UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Professional post graduate courses.

• Published technical papers in Europe and US.

Professional Experience

FMC FoodTech / JBT FoodTech – Engineering Department, Araraquara, Brazil / Lakeland, Florida

John Bean Technologies Corporation (JBT) is a leading global technology solutions provider to high-value segments of the food processing.

PROJECT MANAGER 2003 – 2012

• Reported to the Engineering Manager, responsible for managing and overseeing all activities related to the engineering of citrus processing automation projects, general citrus projects and projects in the aseptic area.

Key Accomplishments:

• Successful managed, planned and coordinated all phases of engineering work for customers' citrus aseptic projects related to tanks aseptic loading and unloading; calcium on-line aseptic addition to orange juices, aseptic pulp addition, etc.

• Responsible for turn-key projects from $ 500,000.00 to 1.5 million related to the citrus industry. These projects included engineering, purchasing, manufacturing, control systems, shipment, installation, and commissioning. The main turn-key project was the management of the Garcia Carrion facility in Spain. The engineering was developed between JBT Brazil, US, Italy and Spain. Facilitate communication between team workers.

• Supervise and review performance of a staff composed of mechanical Engineers, Electrical Engineers, Computer Technicians and Software Programmers

• Conducted technical management meetings with customers in US, South America and Europe related to future projects.

• Participated in the development of company strategies.

• Developed engineering and purchasing standards. These standards saved 25% engineering time of projects.

• Implement PERT/CPM control for projects saving time and having a better control of vendor’s delivery time.

• Finalize projects 10% under budged.

• Established good working relationships with team workers, customers and suppliers.

• Developed Aseptic Engineering projects for several customers with improvement on their production capability.

• Generate Equipment Manuals for Aseptic Area.

• Transferred to United States as Project Manager after 9 years working for JBT Brazil.

PROJECT ENGINEER 1994 - 2003

• Reported to the Engineering Manager, responsible for managing and overseeing all activities related to the engineering of citrus processing automation projects.

Key Accomplishments:

• Responsible for citrus processing machinery design including material selection, instrumentation & control systems, engineering drawings, technical reports, analysis and calculations, process and equipment specification, manuals and management documents.

• Started at FMC FoodTech in Araraquara, Sao Paulo, Brazil as a Senior Engineer.

• Worked at all citrus customer's facilities in Brazil implementing new projects and updates.

• Control over a budged in the amount of $ 1.1 million. These projects were related to the successful automation of the biggest orange juice production in Brazil.

• Work with AutoCAD, Excel, MS Project, MS Office.

• Developed a Brazilian Automation Department for JBT.

• Improved customer production in 10% per adding process automation.

Prior 2003 – BRAZIL:

ZANINI EQUIPAMENTOS PESADOS, Marketing and Engineering Department, Sertaozinho, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Zanini was a leader in the equipment manufacture being responsible for the implementation of the sugar and alcohol industry in Brazil. It manufactured all types of equipment and turnkey facilities all over the world as methanol factories, chemical and metallurgical plants, etc. In 1992 Zanini merged with Dedini, its main competitor, and create a new company: DZ S/A Engenharia Equipamentos e Sistemas.

MARKETING AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER DEPARTMENT MANAGER - 4 YEARS

• Reported to the Marketing Director, responsible for all technology technical contracts; responsible for keeping all existing technologies and for bringing new technologies to Brazil related to any kind of industry. Responsible also for all papers published on the news related to the company.

Key Accomplishments:

• Developed partnerships with Foster Wheeler for boilers technology; CdF - Charbonnages de France for the iron industry technology; Humboldt Wedag for the aluminum technology and several other partnerships for the alcohol industry, etc.

• Generate several interviews for the company owner on television and newspapers leveraging the company business.

• Writing technical articles for newspapers with focuses in the alcohol industry.

ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT MANAGER – 4 YEARS

• Reported to the Engineering Director, responsible for manager all engineering departments excluding boilers.

Key Accomplishments:

• Managed 1 billion dollars projects related to the mining and steel segments.

• Successfully managed over 130 engineers, mechanical, electrical and instrumentation designers.

• Engineering Manager for several projects for the Brazilian alcohol industry including fermentation, sugar production and alcohol distillery.

• Engineering and Equipment Manager for the implementation of the ALBRAS, a Brazilian Aluminum facility.

Montreal Engenharia / IESA – Cia Internacional de Engenharia - Engineering Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Montreal Engenharia was one of the largest engineering project companies in Brazil. In 1978 bought IESA – Cia Internacional de Engenharia from the Morrison-Knudsen group and kept the name. IESA was responsible for all large engineering projects in Brazil from 1970 to 1990. Recently, IESA was sold in to INEPAR a Brazilian manufacturer group.

METALLURGICAL DEPARTMENT PROJECT MANAGER – 9 YEARS

• Reported to the Mining and Metallurgical Director, responsible for managing turn key projects.

Key Accomplishments:

• Manager successful of a turnkey aluminum project of 1.5 billion for VALESUL – Brazil, including planning, purchasing, engineering, installation, commissioning and start up.

• Manager of turnkey projects for expansions of existing facilities for Caraiba Metais (Copper production), Cia Paraibuna de Metais (Zinc production), COFAVI and USIBA (steel production).

• Manager of turnkey projects for expansions of existing facilities for PETROBRAS (Brazilian Petroleum Company).

Project Engineer in the Chemical Department at IESA – 4 YEARS

• Reported to the Mining and Metallurgical Department Manager, responsible for generate drawings and basic calculations.

Key Accomplishments:

• Transferred to the metallurgy department and promoted to Project Manager.

• Projects for the Brazilian Petroleum Company – Petrobras.

• Installation of a turn-key project of a beer production facility in Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Cia Cervejaria BRAHMA).

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