Manage capital and expense projects.

Energy Systems• Managing a $9MM process and distributed control systems renewal project in cogen plant.• Facilitate the Improvement Process in two power generation facilities by identifying projects, developing scopes, and obtaining management approval.• Led a team from four power facilities at three sites in an external cogeneration/combined cycle plant benchmarking study.• Serve as the Energy Conservation Focal Point for the Energy Business in Freeport. • Developed a… Show more Energy Systems• Managing a $9MM process and distributed control systems renewal project in cogen plant.• Facilitate the Improvement Process in two power generation facilities by identifying projects, developing scopes, and obtaining management approval.• Led a team from four power facilities at three sites in an external cogeneration/combined cycle plant benchmarking study.• Serve as the Energy Conservation Focal Point for the Energy Business in Freeport. • Developed a growth strategy for the site instrument air system which included commissioning a supply side audit of the compressed air system.• Developed Gate Cycle models of gas and steam turbines.• Managed an $800M project to replace the exhaust ducting for a W501D5 gas turbine. This project has realized about $375,000 in energy savings per year.• Managed a $2.1MM project to replace super heater tubes in three auxiliary fired HRSGs. Show less

Energy Systems• Analyzed work order data looking for opportunities to reduce maintenance spending. Two projects that developed from this are expected to save about $100M per year in maintenance costs.• Analyzed Energy Systems unplanned event data using reliability growth analysis tools to determine whether reliability is improving and to predict future events.• Analyzed turbine, compressor and pump performance after overhauls to identify energy savings from improved efficiency… Show more Energy Systems• Analyzed work order data looking for opportunities to reduce maintenance spending. Two projects that developed from this are expected to save about $100M per year in maintenance costs.• Analyzed Energy Systems unplanned event data using reliability growth analysis tools to determine whether reliability is improving and to predict future events.• Analyzed turbine, compressor and pump performance after overhauls to identify energy savings from improved efficiency. • Developed repair and failure distributions for site steam system reliability models.• Developed RCI and Corrective and Preventative Actions Processes, and implemented an audit process to improve RCI quality.• Have led over 70 root cause investigations on various power generating equipment. • Led an investigation which solved the problem of repetitive bearing failures on a gas turbine torque converter which had resulted in about $200M of maintenance costs. • Successfully lead a Six Sigma project that optimized the output of duct burners resulting in a savings of $100M. Show less

Developed P&IDs, sized pipelines, wrote equipment specifications, evaluated vendor bids and selected vendors for several natural gas compressor station and cogeneration plant projects. Equipment involved was separation vessels, air coolers, valves, strainers and heat recovery steam generators.

Energy Systems, Dow Chemical Freeport Texas• Assisted control board operators in following a production optimization computer program by tracking a key metric and working with the operators to understand and work through problems.• Coordinated gas/steam turbine and fired boiler operation with plant customer demand for greatest economic benefit. Developed a steam balance spreadsheet.• Collected historical plant operational data to aid in the troubleshooting of equipment… Show more Energy Systems, Dow Chemical Freeport Texas• Assisted control board operators in following a production optimization computer program by tracking a key metric and working with the operators to understand and work through problems.• Coordinated gas/steam turbine and fired boiler operation with plant customer demand for greatest economic benefit. Developed a steam balance spreadsheet.• Collected historical plant operational data to aid in the troubleshooting of equipment operational problems.• Coordinated the production plant portion of a transformer outage that electrically isolated one side of the plant. Developed an operating procedure and possible what-if scenarios and trained operations staff.• Developed a plan to make a hot-tap on a 36”- 150 psig steam line. This involved modeling in the system in GateCycle and coordinating a test run to determine if it would be possible to reduce the line temperature low enough to perform the hot-tap. Show less

Responsible for the operation and maintenance of the plant instrument air production and distribution, nitrogen distribution, and natural gas distribution systems.

Designed pressure vessels using the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code. Designed API storage tanks using the API Codes. Performed pipe stress analyses.