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Boston, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Waltham, Ma, Us

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

● Oversaw strategic plans, financial forecasts, and supply chain operations for PBF East Coast refineries.● Implemented work process changes including operating plans, KPIs, financial forecasts, and leadership communications to manage the two East Coast plants as one, following a management restructuring across the two sites. Integrated the Economics and Planning teams at each site into one comprehensive team.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

● Oversaw plant’s strategic plans, financial forecasts, production plans, scheduling, & inventory management.● Improved collaboration with other PBF Energy refineries and logistics assets to expand optimization opportunities by looking at the “big picture” for regional asset utilization, including shutting down the fuels plant at the Paulsboro, NJ facility and processing intermediates at the Delaware facility.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

● Led operations for the Fluid Catalytic Cracking unit and Alkylation and Polymerization units, with a combined production capability of roughly 100 thousand barrels per day and an organization of 3 supervisors and 50 union-represented employees and an annual operating expense budget of $73M. ● Improved safety culture and asset reliability by motivating team to avoid taking shortcuts.● Drove profitability increase of $15M/year by upgrading products into higher priced sales and reducing costs.● Negotiated with United Steel Workers Union on the local collective bargaining agreement for 2019-2022, covering approximately 350 represented employees.● Developed and implemented comprehensive preparations for contingency operations in the event of a union work stoppage at the expiration of the collective bargaining agreement in 2019.

Parsippany, New Jersey, Us

● Uncovered $40M per month in sunk costs tied up in uneconomic cascading contracts. Worked with senior executives on a 5-7 year strategy to exit the contracts. ● Collaborated on business development activities, including the acquisition of the Chalmette Refinery for $322M and the construction of a $100M green field Hydrogen Plant in partnership with Linde.● Coordinated the development of the annual refinery business plan with EBITDA of $200M per year.● Oversaw the refinery’s transition to EPA Tier 3 Gasoline Sulfur standards.● Orchestrated a centralized response with supply and distribution channels and commercial organization to manage through the aftermath of major operational upsets and outages.

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● Developed and communicated short-term operating strategy to all levels of the refinery organization.● Acted as primary communication conduit for refinery operations, technical and maintenance support, refinery management, ExxonMobil midstream organizations, and major third-party suppliers and customers.

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● Managed inventory and product movements for diesel, chemicals, intermediate products, and natural gas.● Led a cross-functional regional team (U.S. & Canada) to reduce cash expenditures on finished fuels additives by leveraging global procurement and minimizing product quality giveaway at the sites.● Constructed planning tools to maximize distillate and chemicals production for benefit of $20MM+/yr.

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● Optimized production on 7 different process units by improving energy efficiency, reducing non-energy costs, increasing flexibility, and creeping unit capacity.● Managed technical interface with major third-party suppliers & customers and many equipment vendors.● Identified and scoped a project to maintain feasible operations during a 40 day outage of 6 refinery units. Technical lead for the project development and execution. Saved $2.6MM in lost opportunity. ● Conducted technical incident investigations, determined root causes, and developed corrective actions for product quality events, environmental events, and process upsets.

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● Created valuation models for all refinery process units and used models to assist in the development of both short-term and long-term operating strategy.● Improved refinery raw material flexibility: --Implemented a new management of change process for new grades of crude oil, improving efficiency of crude approval process and improving refinery’s response time to opportunities ($5MM/yr benefit). --Conducted comprehensive multidisciplinary risk assessment for processing crude containing mercury, expanding crude selection for benefit of $24MM+/year.● Conducted refinery raw material valuations and purchase recommendations.

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● Drove alignment between offline optimization models (Aspen PIMS) and advanced process control systems, incl. RTO. Supported process control applications for refinery Crude Distillation Units (SimSci ROMeo, Aspen DMC, & Honeywell TDC 2000).● Streamlined pricing input to refinery Real-time Optimization (RTO Models).

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

● Developed a new protocol to check photoresist thicknesses on semiconductors at a lower frequency as part of a lean manufacturing initiative. Increased batch process productivity while maintaining product quality control.

M.B.A., Strategic Management & Leadership, Finance

B.S., Chemical Engineering