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Cantonment, FL, US

Houston, Texas, US

• Led deployment of wireless vibration sensors across the site, targeting 100% coverage of all critical equipment by end of 2025. Program as already generated ~$240K is savings/cost avoidance in 2024.
• Drove continuous improvement of equipment through engineering team initiatives, including OEE improvements, pump seal bad actor reductions, and capital projects to address obsolete equipment resulting in $2.3MM in.
• Managed purchase of forging and manufacturing of two high-pressure expander wheels for our Nitric air plug ($1MM) and oversaw multiple machine rebuilds, each costing approximately ~$1MM.
• Lead a 20-member team of rotating equipment engineers, and PDM/PM technicians responsible for all rotating equipment across the site.
• Collaborated with operations and maintenance departments to streamline processes and improve overall equipment effectiveness.
• Developed a strategic plan to address gaps in current PM & PDM program, increasing reliability by reducing non-value add PMs and modifying PMs to address common failure modes.

Houston, Texas, US

• Successfully led change out and startup of environmental rotary screw compressors and upgrading the Bently vibration monitoring systems on the compressors improving, reliability and performance.
• Collaborated on rebuild of multiple large pieces of rotating machinery, (Boiler feed water pumps, turbine generators, CoGen Unit, Centrifugal compressors, Centrifuges, etc.) addressing common failure modes and.
• Worked with team to troubleshoot vibration issues on compressor rotor in CoGen unit, identifying an R5 rotor blade failure and managing an extended outage with a successful compressor rotor change out.
• Developed repair plans with our team for wrecked Nitric air plug, a large two-stage air compressor driven by a hot gas expander wheel & steam turbine, ensuring minimal downtown and improving reliability.
• Acted as backup maintenance supervisor for 28-person rotating equipment workgroup, directing teams to safely complete scheduled work throughout the plant maintaining a strong safety record.

Houston, Texas, US

• Developed multiple preventive maintenance (PM) routes for critical equipment in Continuous Process (CP) and In-Line Compounding (ILC) areas, utilizing advanced PM/PdM techniques such as vibration analysis, oil.
• Innovatively designed and built a polymer-pushing device to remove polymer from CP reactors following unplanned shutdowns, ensuring timely startup and meeting customer demands.
• Successfully troubleshot and repaired ILC’s vent stuffer gearbox, creating a repair plan that saved the company approximately $75K in pump-out reduction costs.
• Implemented a comprehensive plan to improve transfer pump reliability by introducing new seals, isolation ram valves, and enhanced rebuild procedures, resulting in zero pump failures since Q1 of 2017 and saving the.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to drive reliability improvements and achieve operational excellence.

Houston, Texas, US

• Led cross-functional teams to plan/schedule/execute outages for multiple areas at the Pensacola Site.
• Conducted scope review and challenge sessions to determine outage scopes to meet reliability/compliance & budget needs.
• Used P6 software to determine critical path and adjust resources as needed throughout outages to meet the planned durations.
• Successfully executed the sites Hydrogen reformer re-tube & HMD turnaround in 2020, turnaround included a large cap project (1.2MM) along with routine maintenance/compliance items (750K). Restarted units 2 days early.

Houston, Texas, US

• Maintenance Supervisor -Continuous Process (CP)/ Nylon Utilities
• Directed multiple CP/Vaporizer overhauls consisting of ~150 people, costing ~$750k each. Many times, beating the scheduled start-up dates resulting in additional capacity.
• Had zero recordable and first aids for my teams throughout the entire year.
• Managed a ~13million dollar maintenance budget. Able to meet all KPI’s for our maintenance shops.

Houston, Texas, US

• Mechanical Maintenance Engineer in Nylon:
• Developed new installation procedures for finisher head and transfer line pump installs. Eliminating leaks, which can result in a potential fire.
• Redesigned method for finisher screw removals, improving the safety for those tasks
• Developed process for removing filter head assembles to increase number of filter elements cleaned simultaneously, resulting in a cost avoidance of ~350K.

Houston, Texas, US

Bachelor'S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Pre-Engineering