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Texas, United States

Irving, Texas, US

Irving, Texas, US

Enabled sales for sustainable versions of Celanese products (ECO-B/ ECO-CC/ ECO-R) using mass-balance. Managed acetyls sustainability mass-balance globally and ensured International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) regulations are met. Drove first-of-its-kind sustainability certification for low-carbon CCU methanol at CE JV Fairway Methanol.

Irving, Texas, US

• Provided daily operations technical support and monitoring to foresee unit issues. Coordinated with supply chain and site shipping to ensure raw material availability and final product storage capacity. Managed and.
• Coordinated process inspection/cleanliness quality control activities for major 3 weeklong turnaround, the largest in Bay City history.
• Enabled a 30-day running average production record, 7% increase, due to successful catalyst change, break-in and throughput increases.
• Drove alignment, planned phased increases and coordinated operations execution of a reactor pressure increase project boosting unit productivity by $3K per running day.
• Leveraged historical run time and fouling data to model predicted production losses. Prepared dollar estimates for losses based on three different shutdown times/ cleaning scenarios and presented recommendations to the.
• Championed creation of a DCS emulator in PI Vision enabling easy visualization and troubleshooting from any company device.

US

• Owned early stage facilities scoping, business case justification and alignment with stakeholders in phase-gate process for capital projects totaling over $7M. Managed procurement, construction and delivery for $1.2M.
• Eliminated financial loss potential of $250K per day by ensuring on schedule completion of project procurement, construction and start-up during corresponding refinery outage.
• Reduced capital spend $400K (25%) allowing project, which had not progressed in 6 years, to be prioritized for 2021 spend by eliminating scope not required and driving new business case justification.
• Drove consistency in full Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) on light ends storage and motor gasoline blending system as well as managed scoping and alignment for 295 SHE risk findings from the catalytic light ends unit PHA.
• Developed method for more effective visualization identifying LPS insights and key performance indicators that highlight high-risk activities. Presented quarterly findings to the department head.
• Directed co-op student’s activities providing 1:1 support and guidance through progression of projects.

Riyadh, SA

• Managed capital and improvement projects across three polymer extrusion finishing plants. Expanded polymer experience to include understanding of individual customer specifications. Directed education committee.
• Increased product throughput capacity and reduced line down time resulting in $300K profit per year by developing and executing feed stock debottlenecking project.
• Managed operations execution of trials on new technology aimed to decrease time spent cleaning blenders, currently the highest cause of downtime in the unit.
• Initiated creation of VBA user form to more effectively analyze blending cleaning times.
• Championed team in study of Aspen IP21 tags to drive standardization. Renamed 4K unit tags for consistency and removed 62% old or excess tags.

Riyadh, SA

• Provided day-to-day operations technical support in the chlor-alkali unit through process monitoring and troubleshooting to solve operational problems. Owned unit engineer MOC action items and accountable for driving.
• Avoided $32K spend for replacement of failing seal flush tank by exploring feasibility and commissioning alternative pump seal flush source in the unit.
• Identified $50K in site savings through energy conservation program where co-ops documented steam leaks to be mitigated.
• Mitigated 7 ergonomic findings resulting from Find It/Fix It ergonomic event, a weeklong event where a core team of unit individuals learned to spot ergonomic hazards and come up with quick solutions to fix them.

Riyadh, SA

• Supported capital project development and construction for two of the site’s polymer operation units. Gained experience reading piping & instrumentation diagrams, tracing lines and drawing isometrics.
• Mitigated safety risk of insufficient nitrogen inertion on combustible material storage vessels through coordination of project construction through start-up.
• Designed storage area for flaked bags of raw materials to compensate for increased unit throughput.

West Lafayette, IN, US

Measured adhesion forces to various surfaces to supplement data for a new method for determining Hamaker constants.

I served as the design lead for the small scale solar system model on the Visiting our Solar System (VOSS) project team. We created interactive educational tools to help children in grades 2-5 better understand the solar system.

Extracted, analyzed and graphed various well data in excel and MBAL software.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Chemical Engineering

London, England - Summer 2018

Education record