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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Holly Springs, North Carolina, United States

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Clayton, North Carolina, United States

Clayton, North Carolina, United States

System Owner - Hazardous (formic acid, modification, ethanol bleed-off, salt water) and GMO WasteProcess expert for major capital projects including storage expansion and upgrading pipe metallurgy.GMO waste inactivation skid operational troubleshootingAdding pressure protection to meet ASME code; re-designing entire system to eliminate environmental releases

El Paso, Texas, United States

• Refinery Planning and Gasoline Blending; Economics and Planning Group o Develop refinery operational plans to maximize profitability during normal operation and during planned/unplanned shutdowns  Collaboration with Operations and Technical Service to understand refinery unit constraints  Feedback with refinery forecaster to ensure plan is feasible and achievable  Communication to Corporate audience on execution of the plan o Develop gasoline blends to minimize specification giveaway while ensuring appropriate product quality  Reduced gasoline octane and volatility giveaway by over $4MM in 2019 (~$2MM YTD in 2020)

Texas City, Texas

• Sulfur Recovery Unit, Technical Service Engineero Post-TAR tail gas unit rate test upon completion of project work.o Initiated process re-design kick-off to eliminate new unit constraints upon completion of project work.o Developed closer relationship between Reliability and Process Project Engineers to align priorities for long-term unit debottlenecking and operational improvement.

Texas City, Texas

• Sulfur Recovery Unit, Technical Service Engineero Increased sulfur treating capacity without a major train from 800 LTPD to 900 LTPD solely by optimizing unit operation and increasing operator comfortability of operating up to a limit. Resulted in $3MM reduced lost opportunity during a 2017 Sulfur Shed event.• South Houston Green Power, Technical Service Engineero Daily process monitoring, troubleshooting and project work for SHGP. Cold lime softeners, dynasand filters, gravity filters, ultrafilters, reverse osmosis membranes, mixed bed and two bed demineralizers, deaerators, Cogeneration units.o Optimized routine water wash outages with newly built Compressor and Turbine fouling monitoring tool.o Maximum unit throughput tests to increase overall water treatment capacity• Refinery Operator for Work Continuationo Outside and Board Operator at WTP1. Equipment included cold lime softeners, dynasand filters, zeolite softeners, reverse osmosis membranes, and mixed bed demineralizers. o Outside Operator on Waste Water Treatment Plant’s Oily Water Separators and Lift Stations. Issued confined space entry permits to contractor personnel each night for Turnaround work ongoing on the Storm Water Tank. o No process safety or personal safety incidents, environmental releases, or production losses during this time.• Distillate Desulfurization Unit (DDU) and Sulfur Recovery Unit Turnaround, Lead Process Engineero Sulfur Recovery Unit (SRU)Major project work including replacement of trays for packing in tail gas absorber tower and quench tower, thermal reactor replacement, amine regenerator replacement, and three catalytic reactor replacements.o Distillate Desulfurization Unit (DDU) Major equipment inspection including product stripper distillation towers, amine contactor tower, five separate hydrotreating reactors in distillate and kerosene service, and drums including separators, surge drums, and knockout drums.

Texas City, Texas

o Served as the Technical Service Engineer for the utilities unit. Optimized the Inlet Water Clarification Plant (IWCP) to attain a more pure service water in the refinery. Completed performance updates for various pieces of equipment in the unit. Ran computer based unit simulations to solve refinery process issues.o Completed 2014 Mid-Year Utilities Budget Update. Found the cost for nitrogen, oxygen, and water for the year 2014. Used historical flow and worked with procurement to get historical pricing of each utility to each unit in the refinery. o Completed numerous environmental release calculations. Determined the beginning and end to the event and to also determine temperature, pressure, composition, etc. to determine amount of each material released to atmosphere.o Assisted in a major refinery turnaround. Helped inspect a reactor tower, an H2S stripper tower, and the vacuum tower. Also completed a final inspection on a knockout pot.

Garyville, Louisiana

o Developed chronic leaker packages for LDAR. Determined valves in the refinery that had been found leaking by multiple times. Handed these packages off to maintenance to get valves repaired.o Created a new Cooling Water Tower sampling procedure to be used in the refinery. This procedure used the El Paso Method and was based off of TCEQ's sampling manual.

Detroit, Michigan

o Completed environmental audits during refinery turnaround. Primarily identified any minor oil spills in the refinery and ensured that both hazardous and non-hazardous waste was placed in the proper location and was properly identified.o Developed drawings for all equipment applicable to Benzene NESHAPS.o Investigated one hydrocarbon leak to the flares. Audited towers throughout the refinery known to be high in H2S.o Completed H2S sampling every two hours on a barge to ensure H2S emissions were in compliance.

Toledo, Ohio

• Support management in day-to-day operations of the theater• Work in teams of three to four to serve customers• Highest seller behind concession stand three times during summer promotional period (tied for most individually)