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Fernandina Beach, FL, US

Témiscaming, Quebec, Canada

-Direct the area in the pulp mill from the digesters to the bleach blend tank just before the dry machine.-Manage a team of approximately 24 operators, direct maintenance priorities, and implement process improvements to improve safety and cost.-Oversee and implement the migration of the bleach plant lockouts from one computer system to another while.

Témiscaming, Quebec, Canada

- Manage the digester area to drive improvements in safety, environmental protection. production, and cost.-Worked to improve the safety culture of the area by simplifying lockouts, retraining operators on lockout procedures, decrease gas evacuations in the department, and reducing SO2 gas minutes by over 50%.-Oversaw the start-up of a rebuilt molten.

Témiscaming, Quebec, Canada

• Working as a technical advisor to the production manager.
• Utilizing my experience in Fernandina to improve Temiscaming’s evaporator and digester operations.

Fernandina Beach, Florida

• Manage a team of 14 operators to safely produce high purity pulp from the woodyard to the machine.
• Implement Rayonier’s safety vision by having impactful safety conversations with my team, following up on action items from those conversations, and lead monthly safety meetings.
• In my role as a shift supervisor, I command the ERT (Emergency Response Team), direct grade changes, monitor chemical usage, and organize the response to mechanical upsets when they occur.
• Undertook a process improvement project to improve the discharge consistency of the plant’s medium consistency pumps. I optimized the performance of one pump and identified the equipment deficiencies limiting the.

Fernandina Beach, Florida

• Eliminated a five-year quality issue ensuring ~8,000 ADMT/year of acetate pulp production stayed at Fernandina. This was accomplished by optimizing the cleaner system, developing a silica size analysis test, and.
• Co-led a washer improvement team capturing 1.5 MM in savings due to reduced liquor generation. I contributed by receiving quotes from the vendors, estimating cost savings, and developing a financial analysis of the.
• Mitigated the plant’s evaporation bottleneck by financially justifying 1 MM in improvement capital to expand the scope from replacing 3 evaporator internals instead of 2.
• Helped initiated a project to begin a new by-products business of selling residual saltcake from the ClO2 generation process. This project is currently in the Pre-PAR stage of approval.

North Charleston, South Carolina

• Conducted a safety audit that targeted slip, trips, and falls to highlight Nalco’s dedication to safety and willingness to work with our customer to jointly lift our safety standards.
• Presented the findings of the audit to the area managers and learned how to present delicate information to the customer without causing offense.
• Worked conjointly with the area Nalco sales representative and our customer to monitor and reduce defoamer usage on two brown-stock vacuum washers.
• Collaborated with the customer to plan, test, and verify baseline data to support an upcoming paper machine retention trial. ($ 1,000,000 opportunity)

Fernandina Beach, Florida

• Worked to identify heat entering and leaving the spent sulfite liquor system and where potential improvements could be made as part of a temperature reduction investigation.
• Utilized information from operators, area managers, engineers, and process data to create a heat balance on the system and implement a solution to remove the bottleneck.
• Worked with GL&V in a washer study by performing consistency and dissolved solids tests on various testing locations throughout the targeted washing systems.
• Undertook a safety inspection of the bleach plant and recovery boiler. Created a documentation strategy for the discovered safety hazards and issued/uncovered 15 work requests.

Big Island, Virginia

• Conducted routine tests and adjustments on in-line equipment to maintain the accuracy of consistency meters and performance of refiners.
• Led multiple trials on the cleaner rejects system by improving the performance of the water extractors to optimize the consistency of the stock entering rejects refiner and adjusting the settings on the magna-cleaner.
• To act upon the results of the trials, the mill purchased original manufacturer parts for the water extractors to improve water removal and permanently changed the operation setting on the magna-cleaner.
• Learned to challenge myself daily on safety and how to interact/work inside a large company with many various departments.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical And Paper Science Engineering With A Minor In History

High School Diploma, General Studies