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Birmingham, AL, US

Denver, Colorado, United States

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

• Leader of a 11-person technical group, supporting world-scale alcohol and adhesions process units.
• Initiated team restructure across multiple sites improving engineer development, aligning resources with assets needs, and identifying $2M/yr in capacity creep opportunities
• Drove manufacturing aspects of commercialization for next-generation adhesive resin improving tire life by 25%
• Built and presented quarterly asset performance presentations to regional vice president

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States

• Coordinated feed and products for 400 kT ($400M/yr) aromatics chemical plant and world scale refining/chemical complex dock
• Collaborated with commodities traders conducting economic modeling and feasibility analysis for market opportunities
• Identified opportunity and formed a team of traders, maritime specialists, and engineering experts to integrate marine logistics between ExxonMobil affiliates saving $10M/yr of freight. Initiative received EM Global.
• Led team of 9 coordinators responsible for optimizing scheduling of $5B year of chemicals and fuels dock movements
• Developed PowerBI profitability tool and used income statement data to identify and drive structural cost improvements initiatives across shifting operations and maintenance teams

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Technical support for 3 HDPE reactors producing 500 kT ($500 M/yr) of resin
• Designed and installed a new reactor catalyst feeder capturing $1M/yr in increased production
• Served as tech lead coordinating team of 5 engineers directing commissioning of emergency shutdown system
• Implemented reliability project reducing flare downtime 98% and installed $2M of compliance instrumentation
• Spearheaded site team responsible for developing compliance plans, environmental reporting tools, maintenance strategies, and SOPs needed to meet new EPA requirements

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Led new additive testing with multiple venders. This testing identified an opportunity to improve final fuel quality potentially capturing a $2,000,000 margin increase and $500,000 cost reduction.
• Established and coordinated new quality monitoring program to ensure final fuel quality was not impacted during a significant operational change.
• Gained valuable insight into systems management best practices for manufacturing facilities.

Fairfax, VA

• Analyst for commodity trading group
• Conducted strategic market analysis for US heavy crude markets, allowing traders to understand potential impacts of pipeline and rail infrastructure growth projects
• Compiled public and proprietary data to build refinery crude import analysis tool increasing competitive intelligence and identifying potential heavy crude customers

Norcross, GA

• Collaborated with a team of engineers to implement our company’s deinking chemicals. The startup was very successful and is saving the customer over $2,000,000 per year.
• Led data analysis for several weeks of an international trial. This involved monitoring process information and recommending process changes to optimize performance of the deinking equipment with the new chemical.
• Created sales presentations, weekly reports, and value calculators for the team to use in meetings with the customer.

Fernandina Beach, FL

• Worked alongside a senior process engineer to improve byproducts recovery. The project identified an opportunity and created a plan to capture more than a million dollars a year of a valuable byproduct.
• Participated in several energy reduction trials. I was responsible for gathering data and analyzing the effects of reducing stock refiner energy. The trials resulted in $200,000 per year of energy savings.
• Assisted a team tasked with minimizing environmental heat exchanger fouling. Our team used the PI information database to determine heat transfer coefficients, and then established a cleaning system that maintained.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business

GMAT 780

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Bs Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering + Bs Paper Science Engineer

Summa Cum Laude: 3.97/4