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Houston, Tx, Us

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

• Provide strategic leadership and full accountability at the Houston Manufacturing Site.• Manufacturing includes formulations, packaging and blending operations at the site as well as third party operations at an external facility in Houston.• Lead the integration of the Houston facility and workforce following the global acquisition of the business into the Corteva network.• Responsible for global technology in addition to plant management to drive innovation and operational excellence.• Ensure compliance with Corteva's EH&S and manufacturing standards, developing and executing action plans to address any operational gaps.• Drive continuous improvement by identifying and implementing new technologies to increase manufacturing capacity and enhance product quality.

Indianapolis, Indiana, Us

* Core member of the Global Portfolio Business Leadership teams (Insecticides, Rice and Pastures portfolios).* Responsible for developing and owner of the technology strategy for the global portfolios.* Support the launch of new pipeline molecules into the market. Successfully increased the capacity of multiple external plants through focused technology support and implementation of initiatives.* Manage and assess the competitive cost of molecules. Developed and implemented a multi-year plan to reduce cost by 32% over the life of a strategic molecule.* Owner of the strategic capital investment plan for all internal assets in my portfolio. * Participate and provide approval for technology and process safety reviews occurring at chemical plants under my responsibility.* Set goals and ensure alignment with business expectations. Coach plant managers and technical staff to achieve the goals and expectations of the business.* Corteva site leader and responsible care leader for the Corteva operations in Freeport, TX through December 2022.

Indianapolis, In, Us

* Site leader and responsible care leader for the Corteva operations in Freeport, TX. Consists of the Picloram and Dichlorophenol facilities in Freeport. Senior Corteva leader in Texas with full accountability for the operation of both chemical plants.* Manage the service contracts for the 4 Latin American and Freeport Corteva industrial park sites.* Developed and negotiated contracts between tenants on 5 industrial park sites in Texas, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil and Argentina. This was in preparation for the separation of DowDuPont into 3 new companies.* Accountable for a $92MM budget between the facilities in Texas. Successfully reduced the budget by $3MM in 2017 by identifying and optimizing waste streams in the plant. * Responsible for transitioning and accountable for all permits, licenses and registrations in Freeport in the new company name. * Listed as the duly authorized representative for all environmental and operating permits, risk management plan, process safety and hazard analysis, operating budget, plant production plans and quality for the 2 chemical production facilities in Texas.* Administering operating and raw material contracts totaling $200MM with 3rd party companies related to the Corteva facilities in Freeport, TX, Midland, MI and Pittsburg, CA

Indianapolis, In, Us

* Direct supervision of 50 total personnel in the plant. Responsible for plant process/project engineering, process control, plant maintenance/reliability, Six Sigma, site logistics, capital/expense projects, and process R&D.* Achieved 6 year’s injury free milestone in this plant. Historically, this facility was EH&S challenged. Also achieved several multi-year leak free milestones.* Successfully implemented a $50 million rehabilitation project.* Improved the reliability and production capability of a 50 year old plant by 13% (2200MT to 2500MT) through Six Sigma projects and LEAN implementation in the plant over a 4 year period. Also set annual production records in 2011, 2012, and 2014.* Successfully executed 7 Turnarounds (ranging from $2MM-$15MM) safely, on-time and on budget. Achieved a 45% reduction in turnaround cost ($5.5MM to $3MM) and reduction in duration by 30% (30 days to 21 days) through Six Sigma and implementation of a multi-generational strategy. Strategy included elimination of a 10 day annual maintenance pitstop of $1MM.* Led a cost reduction team in the plant to achieve a $10MM (25%) reduction in operating costs over a 4 year period in the plant. Accomplished through the efficiency increases and implementation of strategies noted above.* Responsible for setting and managing the $40 million plant budget.* Member of the Range & Pasture Global business team and helped to prioritize business opportunities and set business strategy. * Accountable for EH&S in the facility, process safety hazard analysis, $40MM plant operating budget including a $3.2MM annual turnaround, 2400 MT annual production plan, ISO 17025, and business communications and presentations. * Managed chemicals that are toxic inhalation hazards, flammable, corrosive or fall under OSHA’s process safety management regulations and EPA’s risk management program.

Midland, Michigan, Us

* Direct supervision of 30 total personnel in the chemical terminal and distribution plant. Responsible for plant process/project engineering, process control, plant maintenance/reliability, Six Sigma, site logistics, capital/expense projects. Staff includes chemical and mechanical engineers as well as process operators, and technicians.* Responsible for EH&S in the facility, process safety hazard analysis, plant operating budget and management of the 25 facility site chemical distribution terminal.* Successfully shutdown, decommissioned and demolished 2 chemical production plants with zero EH&S incidents.

Indianapolis, In, Us

* Accountable for production, business communications, budget tracking and setting, advanced troubleshooting, and mentoring of the junior engineers and technicians in the plant.* Responsible for leading the process safety and hazard analysis in the facility, process safety focal point, reactive chemicals audits and layers of protection analysis. * Set goals and directed the work for 20 operating technicians in the plant as well as an additional 15-20 seasonal contractors in the packaging facility and warehouses. * Led a Green Belt Six Sigma Project to reduce the inventory of washing and flush material in the warehouse by more than 70%. This was accomplished through procedural changes, operator training, and programming modifications. This material was recycled back into the production process eliminating the need to incinerate or utilize fresh raw materials. * Improved EH&S behaviors in the plant through pre-task analysis and Six Sigma methodology. Achieved a 95% compliance target and zero injuries in the facility post implementation. * Developed process control strategy diagrams and wrote process control computer code, which eliminated the need for a process automation engineer.* Implemented the supply chain work process and business rules (MRP II) for production planning, data and analysis in King’s Lynn. * Responsible for the technical plant to produce Dursban and Reldan, the formulations facility to produce 500 different aqueous/solvent based emulsion concentrates and suspension concentrates, and supported the packaging facilities to produce multi-product insecticides in ¼ Liter bottles up to 55 gallon drums, 1000 Liter IBC’s and isocontainers.

Indianapolis, In, Us

* Manufacturing representative and project manager on capital/expense projects ranging from $50M - $900M. Implemented a total of $4.5MM in capital/expense projects over a 2.5 year period. Projects included a redesign of the heat transfer and piping system throughout the facility that was at end of life and eliminated heat tracing fluid leaks.* Filled the production engineer role initially for the Dursban technical plant and was responsible for advanced troubleshooting of unit operations such as hydrolysis and esterification reactions, steam stripping column, solids recovery units, chlorination reactors, and decanting and washing of the organic phase. * Learned to program on Dow’s proprietary process control computer system. Achieved a 70% reduction in nuisance alarms by leading a green belt project and completing my own computer code changes. * Core team member on the Six Sigma leak reduction team that reduced large leaks in the plant from 30 down to 6 in a 9 month period. Sustained the reduction through training and implementation of new work processes in the plant. * Added on responsibility to track and manage the $15MM budget for the plant. * Process safety focal point role which included hazard analysis for the unit operations in the facility. * Sole production engineer for the technical plant, formulations plant and 2 packaging facilities after a re-organization was completed in 2003. These were 3 independent units and a production engineer role was fully absorbed after the re-organization. * Member of the US national production engineers network and the Site leak reduction team.

Dulles, Virginia, Us

* Determine the impact of raw material and processing changes on the cure kinetics, mechanical and rheological properties of the polymer. * Evaluate the particle size distribution and its effects on our final product. Coordinate changes and procurement of raw materials with the vendor. * Identify and implement methods for improving the quality, safety and cost effectiveness of our process. * Responsible engineer for facility changes and audits of several different processes in the plant. * Prepare and deliver results and recommendations to upper management and 3rd party customer representatives.

Los Alamos, Nm, Us

* Developed a technique to coat and agglomerate small explosive crystals with a polymer. * Implemented this technique on the pilot plant scale to produce large batches of plastic bonded explosives. * Researched the chemical and physical properties of polymers in order to attain the mechanical integrity necessary for processing the molded product. * Planned all experiments and test plans with statistical design methods. * Constructed a model of the bench scale experiment in order to control and optimize the production process.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Chemical Engineering