
Project Manager / Reliability / Special Projects / Business Development
Last Updated: 28th April 2020 (over 2 years ago)
Summary
- Worked 13 years in Downstream Petroleum Refining
- Worked 4 years in Biomass / Waste to Energy projects
- Supported clients through plant optimization, reliability improvements, cost optimization for capital projects to a realized savings of more than $100,000,000 USD.
- 4 years working directly in Business Development in E/EP/EPC/EPCM projects including proposal development, marketing materials and client presentations.
Education
Project Management Professional
Oct 2013
— Oct 2022
Master's of Business Administration
Sep 2004
— Dec 2006
Master's of Chemical Engineering
Sep 1997
— Jul 1999
Experience
Sr. Project Manager
Dec 2018
— Mar 2020
Specialized Business Consultant II
May 2016
— Dec 2018
- Developed Safety Initiatives for Arc Flash, Line of Fire, JSA and others
- Facilitator of Division/Corporate change management initiatives
Business Development & Project Manager
Nov 2013
— Nov 2015
- 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
Manager of Projects / Project Manager II
Mar 2013
— Nov 2013
- New business development responsibility
- Work execution focus on Petroleum, Food, Mining, Metals and Infrastructure with projects up to $100,000,000 total installed cost
Industrial Operations Manger / Project Manager
Mar 2012
— Mar 2013
- 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
Engineering Manager / Large Cap Project Engineer
Apr 2005
— Mar 2012
- 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
Sr. Account Representative / Consultant
Aug 2000
— Aug 2004
- 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
Account Representative / Consultant
Aug 1999
— Aug 2000
- 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