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Greensboro, NC, US

Initiate and implement projects to improve manufacturing capability/infrastructure. Provide process improvement support as needed to generate production cost savings.

Oak Brook, Illinois, US

• Toll manufacturing of customer specialty chemical products through process development and scale-up from pilot to commercial level. Provided process technical support to Operations for established core processes.
• Reduced average cycle time on established core process from 18 to 16 hours, resulting in $500,000 increase in available sales.
• Reached desired cycle time milestone for herbicide process by optimizing initial 50% sodium hydroxide charge.
• Improved new product yield from 60% to 83% through process adjustments in collaboration with customer.

Mayfield Heights, OH, US

• Provided daily process issue troubleshooting services for flux furnace, glass, and pigment unit operations. Implemented lean initiatives to improve process cost savings and equipment uptime.
• Increased flux scrubber uptime 100% by developing operation guide for operators to use without supervision.
• Increased pigment product yield by 4.8% by switching over to cheaper PTFE-membrane cloths with improved permeability.
• Saved $35,000 in annual production cost by optimizing batch processing for wet grind mill.

Wilmington, DE, US

• Applied critical thinking skills to troubleshoot process performance and make improvements in the areas of product quality, capacity, yield, energy consumption, and process safety. Provided project process design and.
• Prepared comprehensive quality sample plan, isolating Glypure® 70 process iron contamination by identifying and successfully eliminating root cause.
• Identified annual energy cost savings of $100-200K by reducing boiler condensate blowdown and initiated test to validate.
• Financed formaldehyde injection system safety project under major capital threshold limit of $500K and eliminated overhead associated with major capital projects while serving as lead process engineer.

Boise, Idaho, US

• Provided daily technical support for Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) department. Assisted technicians with polishing tool consumable change out and slurry preparation. Monitored polishing tool process.
• Achieved 55% reduction in out-of-spec wafer products by supporting process improvement team and helping develop methods of stabilizing oxide polish rate for shallow trench isolation (STI) process.
• Reduced human-related silicon wafer scrap events by 40% over 6-month time frame by developing comprehensive reaction-mechanism procedure for shift operators.