Certification Number: 1663815

Operations and Supply Chain Management

Plant Design and Process Optimization

- 210 MMSCFD Natural Gas Compression Station EPC

- Led $5B Construction Services portfolio strategy and competitive bid process
- Developed Safety Initiatives for Arc Flash, Line of Fire, JSA and others
- Facilitator of Division/Corporate change management initiatives

- Client Manager for Northern Tier Energy – Petroleum Refinery
- Managed a number of Waste-to-Energy/Biomass projects including:
o Lockheed Martin/Concord Blue – 5.4 MWe Pyrolization plant
o Trenton Biogas / Renew Energy – Anaerobic Digestion to Power/Gas plant
o Fiberight – Anaerobic Digestion/Fermentation to Ethanol

- New office startup / closure
- New business development responsibility
- Work execution focus on Petroleum, Food, Mining, Metals and Infrastructure with projects up to $100,000,000 total installed cost

- Managed 10-15 direct reports
- Profit and Loss responsibility for engineering group
- Managed staffing strategy in a 50% growth pattern
- Improved standards, quality practices and work environment
- Strategic initiatives in oil and gas, CNG, fractionation tailings processing, and energy optimization
- Projects in barley malting, edible oil extraction and refining, waste to energy, landfill gas collection and power generation, natural gas expansion for power generation, dust collection systems and materials handling

- Managed 4- 10 direct reports
- Lead project process standardization efforts
- Created and implemented Standard Operating Procedures
- Created resource management program for project site
- Coordinated multiple work site efforts for project execution
- Mentored Project and Process Engineers
- Developed and trained Project Engineers with client relevant processes
- Lead design and engineering of capital projects ranging from $50,000 to $90,000,000 installed costs on over 100 different small cap projects
- Liaison role among 7 different contracting agencies and client
- Coordinated QA activities for part of a $330,000,000 petroleum plant upgrade
- Reviewed projects with a cross-functional team evaluating safety, construction, environmental, and operational concerns
- Engineered projects focused on:
o Vessel replacement, upgrade, and grass roots installation
o Metallurgy upgrades of Stainless Steel, Incoloy 825, 1 ¼ Cr, 5 Cr, 9 Cr, CPVC, HDPE and replacement of carbon steel systems
o Instrument protection standards projects
o Remote safety isolation systems
o Nuclear level devices
o Unisar™ unit rerate and upgrade
o Alkylation reactor replacements
o Utility systems modeling and upgrades
o Plant Emission reduction projects
o API Tank compliance programs
o Plant alert systems
o Specialty chemical injection systems
o API and ANSI pump installations, replacements and upgrades
o Fire protection system upgrades including infrastructure, deluge and foam systems
o Steel structure installation and upgrades
o CEMS Environmental monitoring and compliance
o Ground water remediation

- Increased capacity by identifying and implementing contaminant constraints resulting in a 10% increase in throughput and $500,000 annual savings
- Assessed and identified alternate processing strategies and chemistries, resulting in a profitability improvement of $3,000,000 annually
- Directed 150 people in a plant-wide data campaign. Obtained 90% closure, an industry first, and identified process changes to reduce expense from corrosion
- Motivated operations staff with direct interaction, and provided immediate positive feedback resulting in improved staff performance
- Managed 30+ operations personnel during process upsets
- Improvised chemical injection system to bypass time constraints in a union environment. System was operational in 3 hours versus 2 ½ days resulting in $1,000,000 saved
- Revised chemical delivery systems and procedures to minimize human error resulting in reduced incident rates from 2.0 annually down to 0.3 annually
- Implemented a management program that improved system and environmental performance while maintaining capacity
- Troubleshot process upsets. Determined raw material blending issue and put metric into place improving performance resulting in $1,500,000/year savings

- Assessed and identified alternate processing strategies and chemistries. Improved profitability by $3,000,000 per year
- Interpreted and formatted tens of thousands of data points in order to evaluate system performance, which was presented to senior engineering staff. Facilitated raw material and system changes to improve processing performance
- Supplied, serviced, troubleshot and audited water treatment chemical additives