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Arlington, Virginia, Us

Whiting, New Jersey, Us

• Develop requests for quotes for single-axis trackers, fixed-tilt racking, and central and string inverters from vendors in order to win bids with developers and owners• Review external site layouts for constructability and estimates assessing electrical, civil, interconnection, and Geotech parameters• Design preliminary site plans with AutoCAD Civil 3D and PVCase using manufacture-specific racking tolerances, topography limits and AHJ requirements• Model production estimates in PVSyst using updated site plan layouts and as-built voltage drops

Annapolis, Maryland, Us

• Led Virginia, New York and Maryland project portfolios for New Energy Equity with co-developers• Modeled production energy capacity across several U.S. states using PVSyst• Designed solar array site designs using AutoCAD and Google Earth Pro• Assisted in interconnection application, registration, and studies• Created initial bid drawings for new sales opportunities• Ran performance capacity tests per ASTM standards

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Led remote teams in Russia and India using communication software and protocols• Managed quality control for digital product across global and inter-departmental stakeholders for an eighteen-member team• Supervised bi-weekly resource staffing between engineering, technology specialists, and IT infrastructure for project execution and post-deployment issues• Developed digital twin utilizing Industrial Internet of Things infrastructure to analyze and predict customer issues for 5 global customers• Troubleshot issues with Industrial Internet of Things tools and infrastructure to optimize performance• Established a LGBT employee resource group and developed it into a 45-member network enhancing diversity and inclusion

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Saved $2 million by troubleshooting process and mechanical turnaround issues• Traveled to collaborate with customers in Qatar, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Vietnam, and USA• Liaised with top engineering management to efficiently solve issues impeding startup schedule• Demonstrated cultural competency by troubleshooting technical and mechanical issues with both Japanese and Vietnamese engineers and operators• Monitored groundbreaking Industrial Internet of Things digital twin to analyze and predict customer issues across 17 global customer units• Streamlined collaboration across global team of 11 people in India, UK, Russia, and UAE • Reloaded and restarted a Parex unit in a record 40 days in collaboration with German client• Monitored the United States’ first clean-coal gas-treating technology located in Mississippi• Guided mechanical construction and identified potential process issues in Doha, Qatar• Directed a customer in reloading UOP catalyst for an isomerization reactor in Louisiana• Led two fixed-bed Platforming regeneration turnarounds of catalyst in Mexico and Texas • Saved an an average 10 hours per week with new Internet of Things process• Championed safety and environmental regulations when presented with violations• Managed process improvements and procedure updates for a catalyst manufacturing plant in Louisiana

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

• Troubleshoot and managed four pilot plants related to aromatic process technologies to gather and to analyze data.• Lead a team of peers to manage and to improve the existing training sessions for the Career Development Program.• Collaborated with a global team in India to test and debug custom simulators for hydroprocessing and catalytic reforming processes.• Designed and sized hydroprocessing equipment for customer project proposal cost estimation.

Midland, Michigan, Us

• Compiled a site-wide pressure relief audit, which has been leveraged for expanded audits, and presented it to site leaders and global process safety specialists• Designed and sized pressure relief devices for adequate safety protection scenarios• Developed an energy and material balance sheet for a hydrocarbons deaerator, which was used to make recommendations on how to increase its capacity • Modeled heat exchangers and fluid flow to evaluate current and future equipment

Midland, Michigan, Us

• Investigated reasons of product deficiencies including reactant losses, product yields, and off-grade tracking via Six Sigma methodology• Troubleshot a vibratory feed tray using process control knowledge to double the rate of feed before installing another reactor• Scoped, drafted, and priced several dewatering decoupling options to expedite cleanout time• Discovered the cause of plugging in a rotating dewatering filter table, which saved weekly operation costs• Quantified environmental issues and concerns of cutting decanting time in half• Summarized a proposal that addressed economic and ergonomic difficulties in a business opportunity plan and technology implementation plan

Midland, Michigan, Us

• Collaborated with several stakeholders including maintenance and packaging to redesign a new layout using Lean Six Sigma methodology for the 5,000 ft2 storage area of the site• Created 5S waste-reduction methods to maintain compliance of spacing and inventory• Documented and registered the pressure safety relief devices for thermal expansion

Blacksburg, Va, Us

• Engineered arc lamp experiments to optimize the effect of light's wavelength on the rate of hydrogen production with a supramolecular photocatalyst using different colored LEDs• Designed a pressure reduction system for hydrogen fuel production

Blacksburg, Va, Us

• Develop a web interface with HTML, Javascript, and CSS for Software Defined Radio • Utilize frameworks based on PHP, MySQL, Python, and XML

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering; Minors In Green Engineering, Computer Science, And Chemistry

Study Abroad, Chinese Culture And Language