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Shreveport, La, Us

Metairie, Louisiana, Us

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

► Led all manufacturing operations (Activated Carbon manufacturing), overseeing vertically integrated manufacturing along with raw material / mining operations (two U.S. manufacturing facilities and six product transload / storage facilities).► Managed EHS, Supply Chain, CapEx and new-product integration - 150-member team, $65M annual operating budget, and $15M annual Maintenance-Capital budget.► Achieved $4.5M P&L optimization through Strategic Supply Agreement development / execution - scaled-up and commercialized 15 new products including manufacturing design / execution and cost-of-sales analysis.► Enabled 24% production expansion and new-market penetration through M&A and $60M project - business plan / due diligence / cost modeling / project development and management.► Achieved customer “On-Time In-Full” to first delivery commitment > 97% - optimized S&OP / supply chain processes with significant gains in logistics and inventory availability and forward-looking constraint modeling.► Improved organizational effectiveness and costs through organizational structure re-alignment, coaching / mentoring, training, workflow and work systems enhancements, and core value / mission / vision focus.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

► Led all manufacturing operations at the Red River Plant including EHS, Operations and Production, Quality, Technical and Engineering, Maintenance and Reliability, and Capital Planning and Execution.► Managed the operating budget and Operational Excellence initiatives to optimize processes, product formulations, quality, process trials, Standard Operating Procedures, automation strategies, workflows, and KPI’s. ► Improved Manufacturing OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness) +10% through Operational Excellence – increased first-pass product quality 5%, production rate / capacity 15%, and achieved 97% production uptime.► Increased market share by 15% over three years through rapid New-Product Development and scale-up – implemented five new commercial-scale products.► Reduced customer quality issues by 90% over 2 years through enhanced quality controls.► Reduced process waste by 25% through repurposed usage and improved process reaction efficiency.

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

► Designed / implemented Maintenance Excellence work systems, including preventative / predictive maintenance strategies, reliability control plans, spare-parts management, and work management processes.► Developed / facilitated Root-Cause-Analysis (RCA), Process Hazard Analysis, and Management-of-Change.► Successfully commissioned / optimized a $500M “greenfield” Activated Carbon Plant – built operations teams and work systems including EHS, maintenance and reliability, operations, quality, process and capital engineering.► Implemented solutions to close performance gaps through Design for Excellence and Lean Six-Sigma processes, training systems, culture assimilation and accountability, KPI’s / reporting and process optimization.► Designed and executed major process-safety improvements ($15M) to resolve plant initial design gaps.► Served as an Engineering and Manufacturing subject-matter-expert.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

► Developed and led Industrial Automation and Process control strategies for six Chemical Manufacturing Facilities in the Honeywell Specialty Materials Business Group.► Successfully led the emergency replacement / upgrade of a plant-wide Emerson Fisher PROVOX Distributed Control System (DCS) in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike (flooded plant in Orange, Texas). ► Responsible for multi-plant process optimization/process variability reduction activities and automation roadmap / gap analysis development and execution.

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

► Led Maintenance strategies for the Shreveport Catalyst Plant - focused on API Tank/Vessel reliability, preventive/predictive maintenance technologies, work execution efficiency, and production uptime improvements.► Served as a technical member of the Honeywell Specialty Materials - Electrical Skills Center of Excellence, contributing expertise in work management systems and technical strategies.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

► Led facility / division manufacturing information technology, process control / automation, teams, budgets, projects, and efficiency improvements for this wood products manufacturing company. ► Directed the design, coding / configuration, testing, installation, optimization, and maintenance of business and manufacturing software applications, process control systems, and networks.► Improved Paper Quality Acceptance by 0.75% - replaced paper machine Quality Control System and implemented new multivariable and automatic grade-change controls. ► Achieved $2M/yr operating savings through process variability reduction - statistical process control enhancements, recovery boiler cleaning optimization, incinerator fuel usage optimization, and purchased power reduction.► Led, coached and developed a team of 6 engineers and 7 technicians / analysts.

Memphis, Tennessee, Us

► Led Electrical / Instrument / Controls reliability efforts to include Electrical Systems / Power generation and distribution / process and machine controls, failure analysis, and project development / management.► Optimized paper machine electrical drive systems, crane and elevator systems, batch/material-handling automation, process instrumentation, hydraulic / pneumatic machine controls and vibration analysis systems.► Maintained / optimized steam and gas turbine generators, medium & low voltage motors and starters, uninterruptable power supplies, and performed protective relay coordination and electrical fault analysis.► Led RCA teams, specified and procured equipment, managed contractors, managed budgets, designed / managed projects, designed predictive / preventive maintenance strategies and work systems.

Us

► Operated / maintained / optimized a 400 MW electricity cogeneration / transmission / distribution facility.► Achieved $2.25M/yr efficiency improvement through Gas Turbine cleaning strategy design and execution.► Maintained / upgraded substation distribution system: protective relays, switchgear battery systems, transfer switches, transformers, site-wide automatic electrical load-shed system.► Served as ERCOT (Electric Reliability Council of Texas) / Houston Lighting & Power liaison.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

► Held Top Secret Security Clearance- supported RC-135 Rivet Joint mission systems and B-52 EW systems.► Led an eight-member team in maintaining / evaluating / testing / upgrading EW components and systems.► Collected and analyzed data and collaborated with systems engineers to implement operational modifications.► Prioritized work and training schedules, assessed work-quality for aircraft flight clearance, certified on-the-job training, and conducted personnel performance evaluations.