Andrew Hightaian Email & Phone Number

Houston, TX, US

Houston, Texas, United States

Spring, Texas, United States

Lead on utilities and power design scope for multiple multi-billion dollar LNG facilities across the ExxonMobil portfolio and led a first-of-kind optimization study to improve project sustainability and reduce the greenhouse gas impact.

Farnborough, England, United Kingdom

Led the project team in the timely closure of all outstanding Knowledge Based HAZOP Action Items, which amounted to closing 80+ items in less than 4 months.

Houston, Texas, United States

Interfaced and engaged with multiple disciplines and contracting teams for the Olefins Recovery scope at Technip and Polymers scope at Worley to progress Stage 2 engineering design. Led development of a full site water, steam, fuel, and flare gas balance, which was utilized to reduce the project energy intensity.

Beaumont, Texas

Yard Utilities (YU) and Effluent Water Treating (EWT) Contact Engineer:Led a multiple vendor cooling water trial to improve refinery heat exchanger reliability and reduce total operating expense, performed innovative studies to quantify specific reliability impacts to equipment, and completed data analysis of cooling water performance across trial circuits.

Beaumont Refinery

Crude Unit A Turnaround Engineer:Supported the CUA Flex Encon T/A for 72 night shifts that expanded unit throughput. Worked as the main contact for chemical cleaning 30 unit circuits, ensuring all Key Performance Indicators were met, and providing guidance through every chemical clean stage. Performed initial and final vessel inspections throughout all of.

Beaumont, TX

Heavy Oils Process Engineer:Created two complete Monitoring Variable Database packages for Crude Unit B (CUB) and Coker to consolidate and improve engineer unit monitoring, leading to a total manpower time saving of 3 hrs/wk. Facilitated the vacskim minimization project by rectifying controller logic and prioritizing the installation of a reduced trim.

Biomimetic & Biohybrid Materials, Biomedical Devices, & Drug Delivery Lab

Led design for an engineered solution to control the release of medication into the eye through silicone hydrogel contact lenses to treat glaucoma.

Houston, TX

Researched the copy number variants for several genes to determine if deletions or duplications in these genes lead to an increased risk for autism in the SSC cohort in Dr. Arthur Beaudet's lab in the Molecular and Human Genetics Department.

Duke University Center For Biologically Inspired Materials And Material Systems

Progressed development of a selectively targeting nanoparticle delivery vehicle to treat triple negative breast cancer cells.

Auburn University, Harrison School Of Pharmacy

Developed a zero order release pattern for the drug Metoprolol Succinate to advance potential pharmaceutical treatments.