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Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Delivered $150 Million in Annual Improvements• Directed Global Team of AI & Data Analytics Engineers• Championed Digital Transformation & Change Managements efforts across North America, Europe, South America, China, and Australia• Deployed 1000 Online Machine Learning Models across a wide variety of Chemical Manufacturing facilities and Unit Operations• Delivered training to over 400 Engineers and 100 Manufacturing Leaders, across 4 languages in 4 continents•Featured Keynote Speaker at various Industry 4.0 and AI Conferences

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Manufacturing Data Analytics Leader - Operational Excellence• Delivered $15Million in Annual Improvements• Designed and Implemented a global Digital Transformation program, Project AI - Albemarle Intelligence.• Created over 300 pages of technical standards to support Enterprise-wide deployment of OSIsoft PI Asset Framework, NWA Statistical Process Control, and SIMCA Multivariate• Created the first Process Optimization Academy program, merging traditional LEAN Six Sigma Techniques, alongside cutting-edge advanced analytics and digital technologies• Developed and Delivered Global Change Management Strategy for Digital Transformation program, leveraging the ADKAR Change Management philosophy• Created the first Global Manufacturing Data Analytics Community of Practice, bringing together hundreds of Engineers and Manufacturing leaders to share best practices and success stories.•Delivered over $5 Million in annual improvements, after completion of the LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt program

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Championed the site vision and strategy for digital transformation including accelerating manufacturing data analytics initiatives and developing Operations best practices around data driven decision making. • Implemented Northwest Analytics statistical process control software across 12 unique production units by training and empowering 6 Operations Engineers and 80+ Operators/Foremen.• Improved Raw Material Utilization by optimizing reactor process conditions, modifying catalyst usage, and reducing batch to batch variability, resulting in $165,000 annual savings.• Lead a culture change effort to increase operators’ “ownership” of their plant, resulting in improved communication, improved equipment reliability, increased operator confidence, troubleshooting skills, and process knowledge & understanding.• Collaborated with the corporate Operational Excellence Team, site management, lab technicians, operators, engineers, and supervisors, facilitating a long term improvement project for increasing the reliability of product sampling and quality control analysis.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Managed Aluminum Alkyl & Aluminum Powder Manufacturing Plants -Experienced in Organometallics, Alumina Alkyl Reactions, Hydroalumination, Hydrogenation, Aluminum Powder Atomization & Processing, Hydrolysis, Thin Film Evaporators, Distillation• Created higher purity Trinormalbutylaluminum, $1,000,000 annual risk mitigation, improving customer relations, and providing opportunities for future additional business in other product chains.• Reorganized the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) program by facilitating a collaborative and proactive team environment, aligning resources and efforts, and standardizing data collection.• Initiated a Multivariate Modeling Project, partnering with Infometrix and Northwest Analytics, resulting in real-time models of Aluminum Alkyl Reactors, Distillation Columns, and multi-stage Vacuum Pumps.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Served as interim HPC Complex Superintendent, April – July 2017 -Encouraged a culture of safety superiority, environmental excellence, and operating discipline, while maintaining high production rates and high product quality. -Facilitated a high performance and collaborative team environment across Operations, Maintenance, Technical Resources, Research & Development, Engineering, and Logistics.• Managed the HPC North and Metal Solution Chemical Manufacturing Plants -Experienced in Alumina Precipitation Reactions, Metal Solution Reactions and Complexing, Alumina Oxide Manufacturing, NOx Scrubbing, Solids Handling & Transporting, Belt Filtration, Extrusion, Dry Mixing/Kneading, Rotary Calcining, Fluidized Drying, Blow Pot Conveying• Championed the integration of Northwest Analytics statistical process control software into daily operations, creating $650,000 in cost savings. -Improved quality performance from 96.8% to 100%, with multiple 18 month spans without producing any out of spec material, first time in 40 years of HPC manufacturing. -Collaborated with other Albemarle facilities across the world -Featured speaker at several highly regarded conferences and forums nationally and internationally • Accomplished a record setting production month, increasing HPC North rates from 583MT to 639MT• Increased Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) from 75.7% to 79.8%• Created $200,000 in annual cost savings by creating a mass balance & batch blending program.

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Investigated and solved a plethora of I&E Maintenance issues, generating $315,000 in total annual savings. Issues included programming PLCs, PID loop tuning, flow meters, pH probes, motors, transformers, generators, control valves, weighing instruments, Distributive Control Systems, etc. • Designed and managed a capital project for replacing the FCC Continuous Emissions Monitoring System (CEMS). Completed under budget, ahead of schedule, creating $57,000 in annual savings.• Oversight responsibility for day to day I&E maintenance activities, supporting plant operations, identifying opportunities to improve reliability, creating preventative maintenance plans in SAP

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Us

• Assisted audio design engineers with the development of the StudioLive16, a 24-input digital mixing console/recorder and the R80/ R65 Studio Monitors.• Designed and programmed an automatic Audio Precision testing suite, analyzing total harmonic noise & distortion, gain, frequency response, noise, signal-to-noise ratio, and crosstalk.

Midland, Michigan, Us

• Led the Root Cause Investigation of misoperation of a transformer differential relay with percentage and harmonic restraint. • Preformed preventative maintenance on electromechanical and digital relays, variable frequency drives, oil-filled, air blast, and vacuum-sealed circuit breakers, motor starters, contactors, and transformers.

• Assisted engineers and technicians in performing quality assurance tests on bituminous materials including performance graded asphalt cements, anionic and cationic emulsified asphalt.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Science - Electrical Engineering