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Houston, Texas

Delivering innovative solutions from lab-scale to field applications.Built business case for minimizing corrosion/erosion issues in field Discharge Manifold Equipment (DME) and Fluid Ends (FEs). Investigated root causes related to fluid composition and process designs to potentially decreasing failures by 15% and yielding $18MM in savings.

Freeport, Tx

Process support scientist within Olefins, Aromatics and Alternatives (OA&A) Research and Development. Focus on solving problems within the Process Chemistry and Propane Dehydration (PDH) areas. This details understanding fouling fundamentals, preventive chemistries and solids handling.

Freeport, Texas

Exploration Chemicals Technology Platform Leader: - Conduct research and provide technical leadership on multiple projects across the various applications under the O&G Exploration umbrella. - Interacted with R&D/TS&D/marketing to develop strategy road maps to expand, protect (IP) and sustain the platform's pipeline. - Build a collaborative team, identify and develop new opportunities for the team members. - Track platform metrics (sales, documentation, external presence, etc.) - Provide mentoring and resourcing needs. - Develop and support product and application training tools to leverage to sales and commercial partners. - Safety Advocate Led a cross-functional team on the development/scale-up of multi-functional coatings for proppants in stimulation applications. Supported the continual sales of a HT fluid loss (FL) additive and collaborated on the development of next generation FL additives.

Freeport, Texas

- Rheology Modifiers Project Lead: Introduced existing products into new markets, identified potential new chemistries to close O&G market needs. Developed experimental designs and procedures to fundamentally evaluate the products for various O&G applications. - Managed the CO2 EOR experimental activities to support the EOR platform for reservoir model validation and surfactant performance. Aid in new customer relationship development. - Managed a multi-disciplinary team to successfully scale-up an O&G product (RPM), which delivered direct sales within 3 months (concept to commercialization) - Managed a sub-group of a larger project to develop ASPEN model of existing manufacturing technologies to leverage and optimize for new process technology in parallel with economic models - Plant support, identified opportunity to reduce batch cycle time by manipulating process conditions (experimental and model validation).

Freeport, Texas

- Lead researcher for a multi-phase fixed system. Reactor design, flow map development, validation of in-situ catalyst regeneration. - Evaluation of continuous separators for solid/liquid systems. - Optimized existing ASPEN models to include different parameters, catalyst deactivation and extended the models regression data validation range. - Run plant engineer for pilot scale process, enabled validation of technology and data generation for the technology package. Managed a group of about 10 people (technicians and contractors).

M.S. research based on the experimental study of free falling wavy films in the visco-capillary and inertial regimes. Thesis: Experimental Study of Free-Falling Wavy Films in the Visco-Capillary and Inertial Regimes (8/2004)Doctorate research was a continuation of M.S. work with addition of numerical pulsing (single and multi frequency) simulations of the thin falling films for both incline and vertical setups.Dissertation: Modeling and Experimental Studies of Large Waves on Free-Falling Wavy Thin Films. (8/2007)

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Chemical Engineering

Master Of Science (Ms), Chemical Engineering

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Chemical Engineering