• Process Design and Development of food separations, reactions, and dryer applications.• Strive for continuous improvement of each process to maximize feasibility and profitability.• Manage $1M in capital projects from start to finish while maintaining process design and project management.• Day-to-day information source for equipment operation and troubleshooting.• Work in-line with quality standards including: HARPC, FISMA, and GMP’s.• Maintain strong communications with customers through process trials and production campaigns.• Manage and assign day to day task for two process engineers• Manage and oversee maintenance department including a supervisor and 5 maintenance technicians• Oversee and manage Maintenance CMMS system

•Applied lean manufacturing skills to help improve efficiency around the plant•Tested and proposed the usage of a new handle adhesive, which resulted in the saving of $15,000 a year•Upgraded standard operation procedures plant wide and introduced them to the operators and engineers•Revamped VBA coding for production efficiency display to resolve database connection error•Updated bill of materials through in-plant testing which resolved calculated efficiency error

•Researched fast process micro-pyrolysis of zeolite catalyst with biomass•Processed data from chromatography and elemental analysis•Machine malfunction troubleshooting•Quality control of variability of catalyst/biomass mixtures