As a Reliability Director / Sr. Manager, I oversee overall plant reliability functions to enhance equipment asset performance for 26 world scale integrated petrochemical plants with an asset investment of $20 B. I lead the development and execution of asset strategies to support site business objectives and plant production targets. I manage all aspects of the MRO materials warehouse, including over 170,000 catalogued items, $200MM inventory, and 90 employees. I provided leadership to a site integrity steering team of Sadara ensuring the mechanical integrity of fixed equipment and performance and compliance of safety instrumented systems. During commissioning I was Sadara’s advocate to mediate between engineering EPC companies and various departments to develop timely and cost-effective solutions and resolve equipment performance issues to avoid or mitigate startup delays. I have enabled and led my team to develop best industry practices to optimize the reliability of critical equipment. I oversee the analysis of processes and equipment to mitigate potential risks and streamline manufacturing operations ensuring safe production of over 80 MMSCFD Ethane and more than 230 tons per hour of natural gas for consumption of more than 20 downstream production plants.• Met creditor's reliability test requirements for market-facing plants by maintaining continuous operating rates exceeding 90% capacity for 60 consecutive days and peak rates for 5 days.• Attained 95% asset availability in the first year and 97% in the second year for $20B operational assets • Increased multinational department's reliability contribution by originating engagement and advanced technology development activities for vibration, metallurgy, and rotating equipment experts.• Instilled passion and purpose in the Reliability team as a guest speaker at MAINTCON in Manama, Bahrain (2016); IMVAC in Dubai, UAE; and ReliabilityX in Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

• Leading the Reliability Department in developing innovative asset strategies that support site business objectives, plant production targets and equipment asset performance for the 26 world scale integrated petrochemical plants.• Achieved quarterly availability greater than 95% for the $20 billion worth of operational assets within the first year, by developing and implementing sustainable solutions that eliminated root causes of production loss. • Supporting the VP of Manufacturing and Engineering by identifying and mitigating risks to manufacturing operations in alignment with M&E annual goals and objectives for the site, which processes over 80 MMSCFD Ethane, and more than 230 tons per hour of Natural Gas supplying raw materials for 25 downstream production plants. • Maximized Reliability’s diverse multinational department's contribution by initiating engagement activities and by supporting advanced technical development of experts in vibration, metallurgy, rotating equipment, etc, within the department's $ 25MM budget.• Configured and implemented Sadara's Improve Reliability Work Process by developing policies and procedures, established software specifications for Meridium, SAP-PM, and led training, • Spear-headed technical development, resulting in the first two patent applications for Sadara.• Initiated collaboration and problem solving with 26 engineering procurement and construction (EPC) companies and Sadara Operations and Maintenance departments to ensure best practices for critical equipment installation to resolve equipment performance issues during commissioning and startup.• Sadara Site Integrity Steering Team Leader for two years with oversite for mechanical integrity and safety instrumented systems.

• Evaluated chemical manufacturing process, equipment, and operating changes for three sulfuric acid, two phosphoric acid and two granulation plants ensuring that all safety risks associated with design changes were accurately assessed and corrected according to OSHA 1910 standards.• Developed OSHA 1910 Change Management training materials and trained 150 participants and evaluated learning effectiveness through audits of design change requests.• Generated monthly and quarterly Change Process performance metrics to prioritize and manage the rate of change requests and the effectiveness and efficiency of the Change Process,• Analyzed the Asset Utilization of the fertilizer granulation plants to identify opportunities to minimize production losses of 35%. • Developed proactive strategies to optimize equipment performance and cost.• Performed Root Cause Analysis for process equipment functional and physical failures.• Developed reliability models for process equipment demonstrating 50% improvement in availability.

• Consulted with Fortune 500 companies to analyze management systems and work processes to develop specifications to configure Meridium applications to optimize asset productivity and mitigate risk.• Performed value opportunity assessments to identify specific opportunities for improved asset performance to maximize ROI through the implementation of Meridium applications i.e. Production Loss Accounting, PROACT Root Cause Analysis, Calibration Management, etc.• Performed User Acceptance Testing and Facility Acceptance Testing for software applications configured to client specifications.• Facilitated the implementation of Meridium Metrics, Fixed Equipment Inspection, API-RBI, at the 5th largest refinery in the world.• Led the implementation of Meridium's PROACT root cause analysis process for Saudi Arabia Basic Industry Chemicals in 19 plants and taught the Advanced Reliability Course.

• Managed Asphalt Shingle Production with five Production Supervisors and 65 Operators covering continuous manufacturing 24/7.• Led the implementation of Standardized Process Specifications for six interdependent asphalt shingle manufacturing process functions which improved product quality performance by reducing defects by 25%.• Established new shift production records for the three primary products increasing maximum production by 3%.• Managed the Process Reliability at three separate manufacturing sites. in Florida, Alabama and North Carolina.• Utilized Process Reliability Modeling to reduce the cost of a new $ 1.7 MM corporate wide project by 40% while increasing the overall process reliability from 60% to over 99%. Developed the control description, P&ID's, FMEA and spare parts strategy leveraged across seven plants.• Conducted root cause failure analysis for packaging equipment and leveraged solutions to nine different asphalt shingle manufacturing plants resulting in $ 100,000 annual savings,

• Responsible for the implementation of reliability improvement processes and asset mechanical availability as a site key performance indicator and achieved a 5% percent increase in equipment availability within the first 12 twelve months.• Led implementation of Meridium software tools and SAP computerized maintenance management system, SAP-R3.• Performed as technical expert for the use of Reliability Engineering Tools: Root Cause Failure Analysis, FMEA, Life Cycle Cost, and Reliability Centered Maintenance.• Completed Six Sigma Green Belt training and utilized the methods to develop a project that reduced the impact of regularly scheduled maintenance events by $260,000/yr.

• Contributed operational support for total powerhouse efficiency modeling and optimization to achieve the next lowest cost megawatt.• Received a Special Recognition Award for developing a new boiler cleaning procedure that increased overall equipment effectiveness by reducing cleaning time by 75% and reducing the hazardous waste generated by 50%.• Developed facility reliability strategies based on asset utilization targets, historical availability performance and inventory management strategy to avoid $ 1,2 mm in overseas air freight. • Provided leadership and coaching to increase engagement of operation personnel in equipment and process troubleshooting and independent decision making. • Led a cross-functional team in developing process technology for an ethylene hyper-compressor increasing the mean time between failures 400% and reducing the impact of hyper-compressor failure cost by $1 MM per year. • Selected by the Polyethylene Technology Center to Chair the Global Autoclave Reactor Motor Reliability Improvement Team.

• Organized the development timeline for draft, preliminary and final versions of 18 crew flight procedure books.• Coordinated the revision and review process for all crew procedure books and flight specific payload deployment procedures. • Converted payload requirements into astronaut procedures to deploy spacecraft from the space shuttle utilizing the remote manipulator system (RMS) including the Hubble Space Telescope.• Maintained the most current information for the book of maps for contingency landing sites and navigational charts for shuttle navigation.