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Gurnee, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Responsible for site production logistics including all tank fields, pipelines, finished product blender operations, rail and marine operations and wastewater treatment plant operations.
• Led implementation of weighing agent project for WWTP enabling higher TAN crude rates for refinery. Commercial benefit significant (proprietary).
• Reduced personnel H2S exposures from weekly occurrences down to near zero through systematic investigation, human factors analysis and implementation of corrective actions. Celebrated 1 year no H2S exposures in my.
• Reduced temporary equipment charges at wastewater plant by >$1m/year by restoring operability of degraded permanent equipment using budgeted routine maintenance spend.
• Implemented lineup procedure requirements for operators reducing lineup errors by 90% reducing both process safety and product quality incidents.

Whiting, Indiana, United States

• Manage the operations shift team at the Whiting Refinery in Indiana. Responsible for four shift managers, one operating practices manager, 44 supervisors and 450 plus USW represented operators. The Whiting Refinery.
• Ensure safe, reliable and compliant operation of all refinery units relying on HRO principals (high reliability organization) coupled with an underlying philosophy of safety leadership and self-verification processes..
• Responsible for ensuring personal and process safety of refinery operations by driving a culture which strives for procedural and policy commitment leveraging near miss reporting, safety observations, incident.
• Develop processes to ensure shift and day teams are present to multitude of management systems including refinery threats, abnormal operations and event communication, incident sharing, near miss reporting and sharing.
• Responsible for operations practices management including development of operating procedures and management of operator training, qualification and requalification processes. Additionally, responsible for recruiting.

Whiting, IN

• Responsible for safe, reliable and compliant operations of ‘Hydroprocessing South’ complex (Reformer, Jet hydrotreater, distillate hydrotreater, isomerization unit, and (2) flares with flare gas recovery unit).
• Accountable for personal and process safety, compliance and environmental regulation compliance for the complex.
• Responsible for fixed and variable cost budgeting and budget delivery.
• Drive systematic improvement in availability and reliability through programs such as process monitoring, maintenance processes, and unit health monitoring initiatives.
• Ensure production plans are optimized and constraints and risks are identified and mitigated.
• Ensure the capability of the 24/7 on shift team for the complex (shift supervisors and operators).

Houston, TX

• Responsible for the Upstream risk management process including the delivery of a holistic understanding of Upstream strategic, compliance and operational risk as well as ensuring conformance with corporate requirements.
• Developed and published the first issue of the BP Upstream Risk Management procedure defining the corporate process for risk management; ensuring consistency across a large and complex organization and incorporating.
• Interface to senior stakeholders to ensure consistent application of risk management requirements and on-time completion of risk reporting requirements.
• Provide risk input into key business processes to ensure both conformance with requirements but also to collaborate with other process owners to ensure existing processes are fully leveraged to meet multiple needs as.

Naperville, IL

• Responsible for the coordination and oversight of the systematic implementation of corporate practices and requirements across five US refineries:
• Practices Include: Overpressure Protection Systems, Occupied Permanent Shelters, Electrical Area Classification, Control of Work & Isolations, Process Safety Procedures, High Value Learnings and others.
• Authored program guidance documents defining detailed implementation instructions for US refining sites to ensure consistency. Authored risk notification and endorsement guidance documents to ensure that program gaps.
• Provided rigorous and detailed line verification for business leaders on implementation progress. Reporting provided year on year plan conformance and changes, entity on entity comparisons, cumulative implementation.
• Facilitate the use of external expertise to support quality, efficient and consistent program implementation where specialized needs are required, e.g., 3rd party dispersion modeling experts and pressure relief systems.

BP Whiting Refinery, Whiting, IN

• Operations superintendent for hydrotreating north complex within Whiting refinery during Whiting modernization project commissioning ((2) Gasoil hydrotreaters, (2) distillate hydrotreaters, refinery hydrogen system and.
• Responsible for the day to day safe, reliable and compliant operations of multiple hydrotreating units within the Whiting business unit.
• Awarded refinery ‘Gold Coin Award’ for excellence in Process Safety Leadership and BP Values Award for ‘One Team’.

BP Carson Refinery, CA

• Successfully lead the organization through the implementation of both CoW and Isolation for the Carson Refinery.
• Designed isolations and control of work programs for the Carson Refinery including underlying policies, tools/interfaces and training program for the site.
• Program designed to be compliant with both corporate and OSHA requirements.
• Integrated into the site maintenance management process to ensure efficiency and maximize time on tools as well as ensure safe isolations and safe work permitting processes.

BP Carson Refinery, CA

• Transferred to unit following fire / explosion resulting in significant damage. Lead unit rebuild, opportunity debottleneck and ultimate safe unit restart.
• Brought unit to safe and reliable operations through the introduction of systematic operations and management practices.
• Responsible for operating and capital budgets totaling ~$20m / year
• Performance ratings in role: “Exceptional”

BP Carson Refinery, CA

• Restored unit to original design nameplate throughput using a structured examination of sequence of events from plant commissioning to present day.
• Performance Award: Quarter Finalist for ‘HELIOS’ award for performance stemming from unit optimization project.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Operations Management And Supervision

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Tau Omega, Rugby Team