• P&L responsibility and implementing successful change resulting in $500,000 to $600,000 annual benefit per facility.• Product development and production under FDA and USP standards.• Temporary Facility manager for Nebraska operations. Responsible for all aspects of operations including P&L, Operations, Boilers, Supply Chain, Technical Support. Successful leading implementation of culture change related to safety, environment and accountability.• Energy improvement practices/studies resulting in projects and change in methods resulting in 5 to 27% reduction in natural gas consumption.• Capital budgeting and tracking companywide - $4.5m to $36m annual budget.• Obtaining and completing grants, incentives, vendor and utility financing to support process trials, energy improvements and product development around primary and coproducts.• Co-Gen project integrating pollution control with electric and steam production from combined waste and natural gas.• Project Manager for restart of idled facility.• Coordinate construction, inspection and repair compliance activities related to API 510, API 650

• An industrial engineering service and products company for west coast refineries, petrochemical, power, pulp and paper, water and waste water industries.• Increased service business 25% over the previous two years and product sales at an average monthly rate of 18.5% through exemplary customer service and utilizing project labor and materials tools and techniques. • Used energy efficiency, performance and product trials for industrial businesses to develop justification for equipment and/or component modifications. Equipment types and sizes range from 30 hp to 2000 hp motors, turbines, engines and centrifuges.• Interface with industrial project managers, reliability engineers and OEM’s for specification and sizing of process equipment on a sales and technical support role in 3 western states.• Technical sales for industrial products related to mechanical reliability for API 610 and 685

• Contributed to Construction completion, commissioning and startup of green field ethanol plant - $140m project.• Support and led implementation of Process Safety Management (PSM)and Hazard Analysis.• Initiated • Energy Efficiency GAP analysis and practice change.• Responsible for a department of 10 maintenance, 4 utilities for boilers, cooling tower, power distribution and DCS/PLC Process Controls

A national building products and commercial and residential roofing manufacturer.• Managed department budgets with cost control practices including benchmarking, compliance measurement and communication to upper management, accounting and department heads.• Managed multiple projects ranging in value from $22,000 to $850,000 with activities including project justification, budgeting, scheduling, cost controls and reporting.• Led energy improvement projects which required coordinating funding, compliance with regulatory and engineering agencies and permitting requirements with government agencies.• Actively participated in the safety committee, resulting in a required culture change towards safety.• Developed and implemented a predictive maintenance and reliability program.• Coordinated environmental compliance testing, equipment modifications and reporting to government regulatory agencies.

Pulp and Paper manufacturer of specialty paper.• Effectively communicated with Production leadership to identify maintenance, reliability and safety engineering projects resulting in improving unscheduled downtime from 8% to 10% to .75% to 2.4% range.• Executed capital projects from $20,000 to $4.3 million including budgeting, tracking, variance analysis, documentation, schedule for equipment, instrumentation and electrical, drawings (PFD, PI&D, GA's), process descriptions and assisting with operating procedures.• Drove shut-down planning activities: resource coordination for various departments, disciplines and contractors. Initiated and facilitated associated meetings including post performance reviews with an objective evaluation, resulting in improved trust.• Initiated and assisted HR with executing Microsoft Project and ABB DCS training programs for process, project and maintenance engineers.

Industrial company, the first in the world to use 100% recycled wood to produce a building product.Developed an operating team in the fast paced, dynamic start-up of a $160,000,000 plant including hiring, training, and developing the operating team. • Maintained high level of communication within department on a group and individual level establishing expectations, feedback and recommended action as required going forward.• Responsible for production, finishing and steam generation, solid, liquid and gas waste stream, raw material receiving departments and procedures.• Responsible for cost projections, budgeting and review of P&L levels with respect to scheduling, raw material consumption and operating conditions.• Managed development and training of safety and operating procedures, specifications and coordinated training activities.• Raw material, ingredient and chemical sourcing and procurement

Industrial international wood based building products and pulp and paper company. • Assisted with final stages of construction, commissioning and start-up of $140 million MDF plant.• Completed projects to a value of $278,000, including budgeting, engineering, construction, commissioning, troubleshooting, training, and documenting; e.g, replacing natural gas pipeline providing service to plant without interrupting scheduled production activities.• Project management activities for turn around and capital projects, process performance trials and safety projects.• Established documents library, training manuals, maintenance procedures with vendor and in-house support.