Responsible for Becht’s seven engineering divisions: Mechanical, Process Technology, Materials & Corrosion, Strategic Business Planning, Engineering Standards, Machinery, and Instrumentation, Electrical & Analyzers

Becht delivers world class solutions to industry clients across a diversity of technologies in the oil refining & petrochemical sector. As Senior Process Engineer, I provide client facing project management and process engineering support in the Process Technology & PSM division. I also support Becht's central engineering software platform "BechtCONNECT" that allows direct access to our network of experts at an hourly rate. Becht's Process Technology & PSM division partners with the foremost subject matter experts in various process technologies to provide unit cold eye reviews, root cause failure analysis, design revamps, and more. We specialize in a technology neutral, owner's engineer perspective because we also have been refinery process engineers. We also offer long term on site support to assist with turnaround scoping and execution, turnaround training and mentoring of younger engineers, start up commissioning, and process design. For Process Safety Management we perform programmatic gap analysis and training, blast zone calculations, and incident investigation support. Contact me for any questions or further details.Example projects I've managed:* Led 4-5 onsite process engineer team to assist with start-up/commissioning efforts for a completely revamped refinery (I spent two months providing support onsite; remote support ongoing)* Led multidiscipline team to scope out and design new vacuum tower internals to increase run from <2 years to 5+ years* Managed detailed project to assess operational/design causes for poor coke morphology and recommendations to improve* Oversaw refinery wide assessment of pyrophoric material generation and methods to mitigate risk

Responsible for day-to-day optimization, troubleshooting, planning, scoping and performance of a jet hydrotreater, new advanced sulfur recovery unit, and sour water stripper.Led PE support for first major turnaround on new advanced sulfur recovery unit.

Led a 12 person crew of Operators on a rotating 12hr shift schedule. Supporting Isomax division with hydrocrackers, hydrotreaters, a continuous catalytic reformer, amine plant, ammonia plant, distillation, etc. Responsible for meeting 7-day area operating plan, safe work practices, ensuring equipment release for maintenance, incident investigation, and fostering a culture of high performance according to the Chevron Way.Rolled out post job debrief among crew that inspired refinery wide roll out shifting from a blame culture to a learning culture.

Refinery subject matter expert for incident investigation and reporting; consulted on downstream and corporate wide initiatives.Responsible for loss and near loss incident reporting and investigation process across refinery. I steward the quality of investigations, organize monthly updates for refinery leadership team, and analyze root causes for potential refinery-wide trends. Member of Process Safety Management team.Proficient in interpreting and ensuring compliance with CalOSHA 5189.1 & CalARP Program 4 regulations

Leveraging my background in mechanical repairs, I discover and prioritize reliability threats to our equipment. I drive asset strategy implementation, risk ranking, and incident investigations, among other projects.

I design repairs to piping, valves, pumps, heat exchangers, pressure vessels and boilers according to Chevron engineering standards and industry codes. My team supports two crude units, several hydrotreaters & hydroprocessing plants, two amine plants, and a hydrogen production unit. Day to day work includes managing emergency repairs, routine work and long term small capital projects. I liason with maintenance, operations, inspections, process engineering, HES and management to ensure satisfaction.I've developed working knowledge of various codes and standards, including:ASME B31.3 Process PipingASME B31.1 Power PipingASME Section I Boiler CodeASME Section II Material PropertiesASME Section VIII Div I Pressure VesselAPI 510 Pressure Vessel Inspection CodeASME B16.5 Flanges and Fittings

Hired into Engineering Development Program (EDP) at a Yoplait yogurt food manufacturing facility with 6 month project engineering, packaging systems engineering, and reliability engineering rotations.• Managed $260k in capital projects, including sump pump and facility upgrades• Coordinated plant-wide GS-1 barcode tracking directive from sales for our customers; trained over 100 operators for support and overall project success was recognized by supply chain executive management• Discovered and implemented barcode printing solution to avoid costly print & apply labels• Restored priority unit operations to basic conditions through continuous improvement, thereby increasing reliability and system performance• Delivered project executables on time, safely and within scope as Construction Manager• Provided daily troubleshooting support to two packaging lines & technical support to Operations• Collaborated with packaging system team of operations, maintenance, and engineering to drive improvements, such as adding additional programming to increase throughput• Led breakdown elimination studies to determine root cause of component failure and implemented permanent solutions to prevent future failure• Improved loss tracking tools by rigorously eliminating unknown stops and validating results• Initiated new plant lubrication management system to increase equipment reliability, reduce inventory costs and increase mechanics’ skill• Drove new LOTO standard and practices for plant in conjugation with renewed high risk mitigation focus

Process Engineering Intern in Coker unit at Pascagoula Refinery• Evaluated hydraulic capacity for processing additional sour water flow to reduce expensive on-site storage• Designed/coordinated field pressure survey for a system of valves, pumps and heat exchangers to determine bottlenecks and recommended potential modifications increase capacity• Created spreadsheet to relate crude oil types to Coker operational issues for better reliability and oils planning• Worked closely with Accounting/Planning to troubleshoot erroneous data imported by process datalink and completely redesigned Accounting’s tracking system• Investigated and drafted troubleshooting test procedure for optimizing Pall Filter performance

Process and Reliability Engineering Intern at Polyphenylene Sulfide plant Fortron Industries, part of Ticona polymer division• Calculated/reconfigured corrosion data from all 43 fixed equipment for improved reliability monitoring• Coordinated $1700 addition of 186 valves into the UltraPIPE database for better reliability tracking• Designed (redlined P&IDs, instrument list) staged caustic addition to new line• Created formal training presentation on new management of change policies• Organized May safety investigation for Maintenance team and prepared a multi-media report