Responsible for the operations of the aerobic waste water treatment facility, low pressure boiler and all chemical applications. Also responsible for maintaining all environmental permits which include air emissions, storm water, pressure vessels, by- product waste and industrial wastewater discharge.

Responsible for the optimization of oil and gas field equipment. Projects included:* Consolidating gas gathering fields to reduce compression cost* Changing compressors to increase run time and eliminate out of specification sales gas due to high water content* Moving compressor location to increase produced gas volume by 30%* Implementing a preventative maintenance schedule for triplex plunger pumps which eliminated high cost rebuilds.Also utilized as vacation coverage for the field foreman and operations superintendent.

Site Manager responsible for sales and service of process chemicals to paper industry accounts in Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. Most recent accomplishments: • Improved customer’s effluent discharge to zero out of compliance episodes while reducing treatment cost by $0.60/ton.• Eliminated expensive solvent cleaning by recommending and establishing the use of felt passivation chemistry to the paper machine felt. Overall treatment cost was reduced by $200,000 per year.• Decreased defoamer cost of a paper machine producing wet strength grades by $2/ton utilizing a highly charge structured polymer.• Reduced winder breaks by more than 50% implementing a new wet end boil out procedure and biocide application program.• Solved ongoing deposit/slime sheet break issue gaining 23 min/day of paper machine runtime and reducing fresh water usage by $20K/yr.

Process Engineer for the printing and plate forming departments. Projects include increasing 100# James River board usage from 80% to 100%; Web preheater-treater for Webtron flexo printing press increasing winter speeds from 600 to 900 ft/min.Increased plate stiffness by 50% while reducing basis weight by 5-10%;Eliminated one hourly position and increased production by 5% with use of control charting and eliminating viscosity problem with a chemical additive; Decreased plate lacquer coating cost by 31%.Plant coordinator for Corporation’s Statistical Resource team; Plant SPC Trainer; DOE Coordinator and cover as Shift Supervisor of 35 personnel for the Plate and Printing Departments. Assumed Quality Manager duties in 8/94 implementing TQM and supervising 20 employees. Promoted to Senior Process Engineer 11/95.

Process Engineer for the Tissue Machine Department. Responsible for implementing new process equipment; Adjustments to the doctor blade alignment, angle, and pressure; Setting condensate removal siphon straws and sealing steam leaks of yankee dryers; and optimization of wet end additives. Projects resulted in savings of$100,000 per year in defoamer costs; $60,000 per year in wire cleaning solvent usage; and 400 fpm machine speed gain with improvements to the Devronizer steam shower.Crossett’s representative for the Corporation’s Yankee Dryer Safety Committee; SPC Coordinator for the Tissue Machine Department.

Designed and supervised heat recovery and energy management systems. Created computer program reducing engineering time from 40 hours to 4 hours. Provided technical support during sales presentations. Company filed for bankruptcy Nov 1985.

Internship at a gas processing plant. Performed maintenance of equipment, measured and mapped new lines, collect and analyze data.