October 21, 2010 – Present KPAQ Industries, LLC St. Francisville, LAMaintenance Manager Pulp and Utilities  Manage and Drive the continual improvement of the facilities maintenance departments to maximize equipment availability for quality and optimum cost. (Mechanical) Manage compliance with all regulatory items for Safety, Environmental, Human Resource, and Insurance Agencies. Maximize profitability of the facility through development of maintenance processes in areas of people, methods, materials, and machinery. Establish and operate within an aggressive maintenance budget for material, labor and contractor spending. Communicating with management and crews the results of costs, productivity, and other Key Performance Indicators. Maintain an effective and qualified workforce to support departmental needs and spirit of teamwork.July 1, 2009 – October 21, 2010 West Feliciana Acquisition/KPAQ Maintenance Superintendent St. Francisville, LA Responsible for the management of safety, daily, preventative, predictive and long term maintenance planning in the following departments: Steam Power and Recovery, Pulp Mill, Lime Kiln, and the Wood Yard. Managed meetings between operation and maintenance to communicate short and long term equipment failures. Successful start up of the Pulp zone area after being shut down for two years with minimum cost. Manage Budget, Safety, Environmental Impact and Contractors used in all monthly and annual outages in the pulp zone area. Set goals and performance standards and safety expectation for the planners and supervisors in the pulp zone area. Set up reliability routes and manage the thermography solution in all area of the pulp zone.