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Houston, Texas, United States

Leads Six Sigma DMAIC and productivity savings projects for the Americas region within the Dow Process Operation Functionality Improvement team resulting in significant cost savings and improved reliability.- Provides expertise in the advancement of process control/automation technology, operability, and profitability- Translates identified improvement opportunities into prioritized and actionable plans and ensures alignment with overall business goals and objectives- Technical leadership and training with Dow's Most Effective Technologies (MET) and methodologies for control loop performance monitoring and improvement.- Identify and Assess Project improvements, conducting thorough analysis to determine potential benefits and impacts.- Leads cross-functional teams within the Advanced Polymers and Performance Monomers (APPM), Energy and Environmental (EEO), Light Hydrocarbons (LHC), Polyethylene plants (HDPE/LDPE), Industrial Solutions, Packaging and Specialty Plastics businesses identifying exceeding $8MM/yr in value.- Builds and maintains strong relationships with business leaders, technology centers, and team members in manufacturing and engineering work streams, ensuring effective communication and collaboration.

Accountable and responsible for the lifecycle of an internal developed and supported SaaS Alarm Management application serving the Dow Global footprint for manufacturing operations. - Develop support models that appropriately utilize Dow internal support capabilities and leverage external support services to meet client requirements.- Lead cyber-security risk assessments and mitigation initiatives with IT for new applications for the Manufacturing businesses- Key stakeholder with Expertise Area Leaders and Technology Experts in architecture and strategies to meet business needs- Identify and prioritize new functional enhancements and bug resolution through end-user engagement- Initiated new work-process to introduce project execution principles such as SCRUM and Agile into the existing work processes. - Introduced DevOps and Pipelines to modernize software development practices in which the development team- Developed Honeywell Proof-of-Concept for safety system tool working with plant to define the key rulesets linking control system safety data and alarm data together.- Alarm software application is installed globally

Deer Park

Responsible and accountable to provide a fresh eyes review to assess process automation systems in Dow plants to improve productivity and competitiveness while driving continued growth and raising enterprise-wide performance.- Waste Reduction Award (WRAP) recipient for PA+ engineering contributions to reduce site flaring of ~120tons/yr carbon reduction, reduced natural costs purchase needs by ~$5.7MM/yr, and increased power sales by ~$2MM/yr- Executed process automation opportunities in Advanced Polymers and Performance Monomers (APPM), Energy and Environmental (EEO), Light Hydrocarbons (LHC), Polyethylene plants (HDPE/LDPE) businesses.- Improved the reliability and controllability of Syngas K3000, K2000, and K2001 by ABB and PLC integration to provide control, alarms, and process information to operations.- Created advanced control system graphics for ABB to demystify black box operation of critical compressor surge control by making available to operations a real-time surge control monitoring application providing critical compressor information to operators. - Presented technical presentation on Surge Control and PID Tuning Methods for the Dow monthly global automation meeting.- Lead statistical analyses in SIMCA and JMP for - modeling inferential sensor proof of concept, PLS-DA for good state / bad state identification of process run conditions, correlation analysis for large data sets in analyzing process conditions, and fit analyses for process control algorithms.

Channelview, Tx

Led EPC turnkey automation projects for Koch and ExxonMobil to scope, develop, execute and commission automation projects.- Automation Engineer for a chemicals light ends pipeline joint venture in Texas, for the automation controls portion of the project- Scoped and designed control drawings, instrumentation detail drawings, P&IDs, Loop Drawings, I/O drawings, control philosophy and installation summaries for execution and commissioning

Freeport, Tx

Accountable for the application, implementation and continuous improvement of process control and information platforms, hardware, software, best practices, operating discipline, and most effective technology to ensure safe, reliable and optimized process automation for a plant with 16 MOD5 systems and 10,000 I/O. - Prioritized and coordinated process automation resources and timing with plant staff to align with production - Legacy system migration and optimization to more modern supportable solutions- Accountable for completion of LOPAs and DowGEP (Dow Good Engineering Practices) assessments to ensure Loss Prevention Principles (LPP) 15.2 and 15.4 compliance) was achieved- Led and represented process automation in Root Cause Investigations (RCI’s) for unplanned events

Beaumont, Tx

Responsible and accountable for scoping, defining, executing, and commissioning system integration projects involving control systems, IT, software, applications. - Executed Instrumentation, Electrical and Automation EPC projects on behalf of CAS for client ExxonMobil Refinery, Chemical Plant, and Polyethylene plants in Beaumont, TX. Major systems integrated include Honeywell, Foxboro, Triconex, Allen Bradley, Siemens, Modicon, (SEL) Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Beckwith. and SCADA - Led project Gate Reviews for engineering design packages. Scope, Front-End Engineering Documents, Process Design Basis (PDB), Detailed Design Documentation, Scheduling and Costs, Projects: - Updated TDC2000/3000 Fluid Catalytic Cracker (FCC) startup/shutdown logic - Converted Beaumont Refinery from ERCOT Energy to MISO to participate in Day-Ahead market which required integration Honeywell, Modicon, and Beckwith Line Relays, (SEL) Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories to aggregate, pre-process and transmit data via modbus protocol to MPLS externally to a third-party SCADA including creating algorithms to convert binary data.- Safety Systems, Base Layer Controls, and instrumentation upgrade for Lube Oile Ketone Compressor.- Created an automation network linking various plant assets that enabled switching power providers- Closed gaps in network architecture to comply with with ISA 95 and 99 requiring Integrations of Siemens, Allen Bradley PLC5 & ControlLogix, and Analyzers to a Foxboro IA/EVO system, Wonderware HMI system, and FoxView graphics

Sergeant Bluff, Iowa

Responsible for improving engineering and operations ability to monitor plant performance of a 1600 MW coal fired plant comprised of four plants. • Identified and corrected VBA and Access bugs to repair automated plant performance shift reports • Developed online cleaning procedures for furnace decoking • Led training for entire plant staff for new digital redtag lock out tag out (LOTO) procedures and collaborated on converting plant equipment/energy isolation work processes from paper systems to an eSOMs (electronic Shift Operations Management) application• Digitized paper startup, shutdown, and isolation procedures

Greater Omaha Area And Lincoln Area

Accountable and responsible for administering university lab physics curriculum for 50 students, set technical report expectations, grade technical reports, assist students with lab setup, and discuss the fundamental concepts, theories, and derivations.

Iowa And Nevada Gaming

Worked in a fast-paced and high stress environment providing excellent customer service while adhering to gaming policies.