Part of management team; working to set direction of company, goals, HR policies, etc. Continued with engineering responsibilities in a management role, providing technical guidance to the process team. Also continued in sales and client relationship management duties. Five full-time engineers as direct reports and up to two direct report intern or co-op students. • Responsible for process department productivity, work product quality, and department goals• Responsible for personnel issues with direct reports (performance evaluations, goal-setting, time-off requests, etc.)• Worked with other managers in hiring process – reviewing resumes, setting up interviews, interviewing prospective hires, etc.

Continued with engineering responsibilities in an expanded role, functioning primarily as technical lead for projects. Added sales and business development responsibilities.• Assigned tasks to engineers and functioned as mentor to younger engineers• Developed proposals for engineering work, for both time and material and fixed-bid jobs. Proposals include scope, deliverables, and commercial terms• Travelled to customer sites for sales efforts and to maintain and/or improve customer relationships• Researched new target markets/businesses. Directed marketing effort for this campaign. Landed a new client that has generated over $300,000 of revenue to date• Technical Lead for multiple, simultaneous projects including flare studies and crude unit expansion• Provided technical support through detailed engineering phase for crude unit expansion. Included details of Vacuum Tower internals, location of equipment, structural evaluation, equipment quote comparisons and evaluation, etc.• Worked in the evaluation and justification phases of purchasing proprietary kinetic modeling software

Design work for crude unit, catalytic reformer, and hydrotreater revamps. Involves hydraulic modeling of process units in HySys, evaluation of equipment (such as heat exchangers, fired heaters, pumps, distillation columns, fixed-bed catalytic reactors) for suitability at multiple conditions, development of solutions for revamps (reactor configuration), and reactor internals design (center pipes) Technical lead for two refinery-wide flare studies. Included evaluation of all overpressure scenarios, relief valve sizing, and flare system analysis.Unit monitoring of catalytic reformers for contracted clients. Includes data collection (using software such as PHD), cycle-length predictions, hydrogen production and yield calculations, and data interpretation for coke make Covered catalytic reformer turnarounds, providing technical support during catalyst loading and catalyst regenerations. Involves procedural review, unit examination, recommendations for blinding and utility tie-ins, and decision making for completion of steps during regeneration Provided technical support for catalyst loading of steam-methane reformer Performed regular surveys of various units including: pressure survey of vacuum tower, tube temperature of steam-methane reformer, and fired heater efficiency Supervised test runs of catalytic reformers to collect data for unit revamps Completed process design for waste water treatment revampDirector of Marketing and Business Development

Researched cellular and tissue engineering by way of gene therapyResponsible for two weekly review sessions for Thermodynamics I course in addition to grading all homework and tests and tracking grades (Fall Semester) Instructed heat transfer lab in Unit Operations Lab (Spring Semester). Explained procedures and theory, graded lab reports, and provided final examination question Conducted gene therapy and circadian rhythm research, including microdissection, DNA splicing, cell transfection using polymers, bacterial transformation, cell culture, and cellular engineering Managed laboratory ordering, was involved with fume hood specification and installation, and attended Polymerase Chain Reactor training course. Completed 6 hours of graduate course work and passed Doctoral Qualification Exam Left New Orleans following hurricane Katrina

Daily support and small capital work for 3 chemical units, and one water treatment unit; was responsible for one to two units at a time during rotation Tracked unit performance daily and reported raw material usagesInterfaced with operations personnel to optimize unit run conditions Process representative for all safety and environmental matters in unit of my responsibility, including Process Hazard Analyses, Management of Change issues, Title V air permitting, fugitive emissions, relief scenario calculations, release reporting, etc.; calculated all Title V emissions, and relief scenarios for isocyanate unit; Designed process changes such as pump and piping upgrades, agitation improvements for CSTRs, process control improvements, and simplified solvent recirculation path to improve plant yieldCovered unit turnarounds and inspected towers, vessels, reactors, boilers, and scrubbers Provided project scopes to project engineers; worked with project engineers during installation of projects to ensure process needs were met.

Worked in Plant Staff Group (process engineering group) with responsibility for daily support and small capital work for 3 polymerization unitsOrganized all process engineering requests, performed trouble-shooting for operating equipment, and engineered solutions for catalyst metering, and steam generationContact for process engineering with production and maintenance