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Houston, Texas Area

• Lead Ascend's internal and external Business Development Strategies at functional level by providing optimum grass root investment plans. Brought in more than $50M of grass root capital investment at site.• Lead site Distribution, Traffic, Environmental Control, and Utilities Infrastructure plus Energy Optimization ($100M business. Delivered $5M productivity improvement over 2 years)• Delivered $10M of productivity improvement optimizing site during exit of one of the key tenants at… Show more • Lead Ascend's internal and external Business Development Strategies at functional level by providing optimum grass root investment plans. Brought in more than $50M of grass root capital investment at site.• Lead site Distribution, Traffic, Environmental Control, and Utilities Infrastructure plus Energy Optimization ($100M business. Delivered $5M productivity improvement over 2 years)• Delivered $10M of productivity improvement optimizing site during exit of one of the key tenants at the site• Received first Ascend Champion of Champions award for making six-sigma part of the culture • Interim Site Manager - Managed 2 Billion Pounds per year production site with 800 company plus contract employees. Products include Di-phenyl oxide (Heat transfer fluid), Formaldehyde, Acrylonitrile (Nylon-66 building block), Chelate, Surfactant, Cyanide derivatives, and Methionine. Show less

Houston, Texas Area

• Overall Safety, Reliability, Maintenance, Quality, Production, Logistics, and People responsibilities ($5M Productivity improvement, and 25% non-capital capacity debottlenecking)• Plants owned by Novus, Monsanto and Ascend. • Realized multi-year tenant contract extensions• Interim site maintenance and reliability organizations lead - reduced schedule breakdown by 50%, implemented operator assisted maintenance saving $1M.

Houston, Texas Area

• Overall Safety, Reliability, Maintenance, Quality, Production, and People responsibilities (Delivered > $10M EBITDA) for this Plant owned by Huntsman and operated by Ascend. • Plant trials leading to new breakthrough product (multi-million $ business)• Received Billy D. Forbes award for ESH and energy optimization (20% usage reduction; >$2M/yr energy savings)

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed optimum utilization of $30M annual operating budget.• Implemented merger of two on site organizations to leverage synergy between the two – one consumed product manufactured by the other.• Implemented Lean Manufacturing principles, and six sigma concepts to streamline the work processes of the combined organization.• Implemented Lean principles to reduce demurrage ($1M/yr)• Managed large tank farm (100 storage tanks), loading unloading of barges (5 barge docks), rail… Show more • Managed optimum utilization of $30M annual operating budget.• Implemented merger of two on site organizations to leverage synergy between the two – one consumed product manufactured by the other.• Implemented Lean Manufacturing principles, and six sigma concepts to streamline the work processes of the combined organization.• Implemented Lean principles to reduce demurrage ($1M/yr)• Managed large tank farm (100 storage tanks), loading unloading of barges (5 barge docks), rail (300 fleet), trucks (and isotainers plus IBCs), and movement via cross country pipelines (4 pipelines)• Implemented SAP, and year 2000 contingency plans.• Assisted in the development, implementation, and improvement of Supplier Managed Inventory systems with largest customer in North America. • Assisted Sales on calls to North American customers during Union Pacific railroad crisis in order to ensure optimum delivery timing and volumes.• Analyzed buy vs. swap finished product arrangements in order to maximize business profitability. Show less

Houston, Texas Area

• Utilized complex mathematical models and deep process knowledge to improve process yields and debottleneck plant capacities at Hydrogen, Desulfurization, Ultraformer, facilities ($500K Savings). • Implemented Refinery Control System Modernization project including from pre-appropriation planning and study to post installation evaluation. It was first TDC3000 system at the refinery and resulted in 33% increase in the de-sulfurization Unit capacity.

Ms, Chemical Engineering

Taught Thermodynamics to undergraduate classes

Mba, Finance

Dean's Award (GPA: 4.0)

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Merit Scholarship and University Honors