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Findlay, Ohio, Us

Responsible for leading collaborative teams of subject matter experts to establish the long-term growth and optimization strategies of multiple business units, and advise senior and executive leaders on strategically-aligned opportunities to guide and grow the company. • Primary responsibilities include the Permian Basin refining and midstream businesses, Rockies refinery value chain, integrated gas and NGL midstream business throughout the United States, and targeted reviews of Midwest crude and international clean products lines of business.• Provided support and strategic guidance for over $1B of organic and inorganic growth and divestiture opportunities to date, exercising capital discipline to guide leaders in decision-making processes. $330MM of projects and opportunities have been sanctioned.• Coordinating specific acquisition and divestiture opportunities from transaction origination to closing, including negotiating and executing agreements with external counterparts.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Led (2) cross-functional teams, developing and executing feedstock procurement and optimization strategies to maximize profitability for US Gulf Coast and Permian Basin refinery value chains, resulting in over $280MM incremental revenue.• Coordinated refinery and crude quality technical teams and feedstock trading and logistics teams, leveraging LP modeling and data science to develop agile acquisition strategies for success in the dynamic global crude oil market.• Develop innovative asset utilization strategies and new modes of operation, positioning refining and marketing segments to maximize opportunity capture.• Won 45 million barrels of crude oil supply in Strategic Petroleum Reserve competitive sales. Developed innovative competitor analysis processes, enhancing bid strategies that ultimately achieved industry leading price performance.• Collaborated with crude oil traders and leadership to assess and implement futures trading strategies based on refining sector and commodity market analysis and intelligence.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Drove strategic initiatives for the Permian Basin in alignment with senior leadership, creating opportunities, assessing business cases, and negotiating contracts to turn ideas into successes.• Innovation and business development efforts directly resulted in (4) projects forecasted to generate $3.5MM annual revenue growth.• Leveraged strong business relationships and collaboration to enable mutually beneficial system optimization, improving operational performance and repositioning multiple under-utilized assets and contracts to maximize return on investment.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Transformed feedstock supply chain, implementing new tools and processes for refining, marketing, and logistics business segments. Generated $65MM profit and numerous new business opportunities.• Enhanced crude oil supply chain in Midwest, Permian, and U.S. Gulf Coast regions, coordinating supply for (8) refineries, domestic marketing, and U.S. Gulf Coast export marketing.• Pioneered feedstock blending programs in (2) domestic market centers enabling $25MM annual commodity pricing value capture.• Developed and implemented business process improvements enabling peers to translate value creation opportunities and best practices across domestic and international commercial regions.

Findlay, Ohio, Us

Implemented innovative problem solutions to generate $3MM cost, schedule, and scope efficiencies while executing $16MM pipeline integrity management project portfolio.• Led team of (5) engineers in executing $27MM annual group project portfolio, identifying and implementing process improvements, and developing integrity program budget in collaboration with senior leadership team.• Drove integrity inspection R&D implementation effort in collaboration with inspection technology contractor and program sponsors. Project partnership to assess challenging integrity anomalies with ground-breaking technology was recognized as industry-leading by regulators and peers.