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Austin, Texas, United States

• Technical owner for all Lithium refinery utilities process engineering scopes and equipment – coordinating between construction, detailed engineering, operations, and onshore/offshore third parties• Managed and drove engineering deliverables to completion on schedule, including process design, P&IDs, isometrics, list list, HAZOP, and procurement lists• Developed site standards for steam piping design criteria and was sought out as Subject Matter Expert on steam piping design by other Tesla projects• Mentored engineers and interns, identifying initiatives for junior engineers to complete, allowing the group to prioritize tasks and increase overall productivity

Austin, Texas, United States

• Streamlined Lithium refinery technology processes by descoping an underperforming engineering firm, successfully taking over and leading the design and procurement of pumps, tanks, and instrumentation• Developed site-wide hydraulic model to optimize control valve sizing and pinpoint piping loops requiring load and pressure balancing adjustments• Proactively identified and closed gaps in specialty item procurement and piping design to prevent construction delays and maintain project timelines

Houston, Texas, United States

• Led chemical recycling contaminant study for site-specific impact to process units and product quality • Co-authored chemical recycling contaminant yields, fractionation, and removal handbook to standardize site studies• Modeled contaminant fractionation and removal to augment limited literature and experimental data

Annandale, New Jersey, United States

• Directed teams to enable startup of new circulating fluid solids pilot plant unit on accelerated timeline • Managed advanced recycling thermal decomposition research program and coordinated new laboratory bench-scale unit design to facilitate scale-up (inventor on pending patent applications)• Designed experimental testing in bench-scale fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) unit to increase yields• Improved process modeling capabilities to assess FCC and refinery configurations

Houston, Texas Area

• Developed process modeling cases and provided fluid catalytic cracking technology insights to projects organization• Designed hardware for fast-paced project in collaboration with mechanical division• Provided site support to multiple refineries during equipment inspections and unit start-ups• Headed program in work group to facilitate on-boarding and career development of new employees

Corpus Christi, Texas

• Performed daily unit monitoring and troubleshooting on caustic treating unit and amine contactor unit.• Optimized light sulfur gasoline unit flow rates to decrease product octane loss.• Designed alkylation contactor monitoring tool to justify yearly cleanings.• Created project to decrease caustic treating unit process fluctuations.

Provo, Utah Area

Blood Filtration • Authored research paper published in Journal of Microbiological Methods• Standardized techniques to reduce experimental error by 50%• Innovated procedure to make research clinically relevantMRI Bio-Orthogonal Metastasis Detection• Performed an extensive literature review to identify and critique previous related attempts.• Implemented various experiments to analyze optimum laboratory procedure.Drug Delivery• Collaborated with small teams in cancer treatment research lab experiments, tripling the amount of experiments performed each week.• Prepared and handled ADR and MCF7 cells for experimentation