Kelsey Schaefer Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

•Optimize Power Plant and Oil and Gas customers’ maintenance strategy. -Use risk-based reliability centered maintenance principles such as Failure Modes and Effects Analysis, developing a Risk Matrix, Risk Management and Root Cause Analysis. -Led discovery workshops to help optimize customers CMMS by integrating multiple management systems, such as SAP or Maximo and PI systems, to get a full picture of the health and reliability of all assets. -Identify assets or systems that can fail and document the appropriate mitigating activities.•Brought innovation to GE Digital by orchestrating and forging partnership with disruptive Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning start-up Element Analytics. -Improved time to customer and quality by 48% and 19% respectively, by integrating their analytics with our implementation process.•Advocating continuous improvement. -Improved product quality by standardizing the implementation process for the global regions. -Developed project turnover procedures with the cross functional teams. -Led Lean Kaizen workshops for internal teams •Led customer discovery and helped architect Asset Performance Maintenance Solution on highly complex transformation projects. -Led customer migrations of on-premise solutions to cloud solutions. -Assisted in configuring customer architecture.•Bridging product development and customer voice, facilitate discussion between the two teams. -Collaborated with Product Managers on product integration improvements as well as general product improvements for the cloud platform.

Greater Chicago Area

•Implement industrial asset models and data-driven digital twins to enable quick business impact. -Lead a Scrum Team of engineers in execution of projects in 2-week sprints following the Agile method. -Execution of these projects totalled 500+ Successful Analytic Model Assets Across 30+ Customers. -Use predictive analytic software to analyze the health and performance for power generation and oil/gas production customers on cloud and premise platforms. -Developed over 30 blueprint analytics for multiple industries and customers. -Mentor partners and junior engineers to support their training and certifications in SmartSignal Analytics. -Assisted in developing and updating training content to support implementation process of SmartSignal Reliability Management in APM.

Des Plaines, Il

• Provide on-site technical support to oil and gas companies in USA, Philippines, Singapore, Chile, Brazil, Russia, India, Oman, Ecuador, South Korea, and Indonesia on UOP licensed technologies. Interact with customers, optimize unit operations that meet product yields and guarantees to 100% of design charge rate; develop mass balance, generate detailed procedures and reports for new unit commissioning, troubleshooting, unit revamp, catalyst loadings and turnarounds, to ensure safe unit startups.• Trained and mentored new FOS Technical Advisors to transition into FOS.

Des Plaines, Il

Worked for a year in the Materials Characterization research group - Used X-ray Diffraction to characterize new zeolites - Determined how different zeolites unit cell size changes based on temperature and relative humidityWorked for a year in FCC, Merox, and HF Alkylation Technical Services - Helped to redesign the Merox training guide - Went to South Korea to teach a Merox training course - Helped in troubleshooting Merox units in Texas and Michigan - Did vessel inspection and P&ID checkout of Merox unit in Indiana - Did a data review for a HF Alkylation unit - Compared data for various FCC units in data reviews

Chemical Engineering Student Independent Research under direction of Professor Enrico Martinez of International recognition. Research in Hydrogen purification as applied to created Pd plated membranes using electroless plating with osmosis.