• Developed and managed pilot plant tests to fully de-risk and guarantee a liquid-liquid extraction process. Pilot plant tests often contained multiple extraction columns.• Designed and tested solvent extraction processes to determine optimal operating conditions and maximize yield and efficiency. • Incorporated liquid-liquid extraction into more extensive chemical processes that included downstream solvent recovery and purification. • Designed commercial scale liquid-liquid extraction columns based upon laboratory data and pilot plant trials. Columns supplied with a process performance guarantee.• Presented full technical seminars on solvent extraction thermodynamic principles, commercial technology, pilot plant testing, scale-up and process integration at client's facilities and conferences.• Authored detailed proposals for liquid-liquid extraction columns, pilot plant tests, engineering packages and modular systems.

• Served as the lead process engineer on modular separation systems ranging in value from $1.0 million to $10 million.• Designed complete separation processes across industries such as biofuels, polymers, and renewable / specialty chemicals.• Led process start-ups at clients’ sites as the sole KMPS representative domestically and internationally. Trained engineers & operators on how to confidently run an installed system.• Incorporated polymer equipment such as extruders, loss-in-weight feeders, and pelletizers into a supercritical purification process. • Solved pressure safety relief calculations, including super critical and two-phase relief.

• Developed lean processes with high functionality to maximize performance while staying within a client’s budget.• Modeled process simulations which required VLE and LLE data analysis.• Specified instrumentation, developed automated sequences, designed safety alarms & interlocks.• Performed FATs on assembled modules – inspected instrumentation, equipment & piping.• Executed engineering packages for clients that would allow for immediate module / equipment fabrication.• Completed engineering studies that optimized an existing process. Determined the process bottleneck and delivered an operational narrative with equipment ratings & commentary.• Selected and specified distillation column internals such as trays, packing and distributors to maximize mass transfer and turndown.• Participated in PHAs / HAZOPs and gave recommendations for increased safety.• Implemented design standards and gave presentations based upon field experience.

• Collaborated with two senior research and development chemists on a project to develop specialty chemicals to remove or stabilize organic impurities in aluminum processing (Bayer process).• Tested various additives to impede precipitation of organic impurities, and synthesized polymers with various pendant / side groups to facilitate their removal.• Presented the background theory, project goals, laboratory methods and results to the entire Stamford, Connecticut research facility.

• Assisted product development scientists with the formulation, preparation and analysis of UV cure epoxies.• Conducted laboratory tests to determine a epoxy’s sheer strength, response to thermal stress & aging, dynamic viscosity, fixture time, glass transition temperature, and heat cure enthalpy & temperature.• Analyzed and provided tabular and graphical presentations of laboratory test results, and assisted other group members in epoxy preparation and analysis.