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United States

US

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Tampa, Florida, US

• 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.
• 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.

San Ramon, California, US

• 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.
• 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.

Parsippany, New Jersey, US

• 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.
• Conducted root cause failure analysis for packaging equipment and leveraged solutions to nine different asphalt shingle manufacturing plants resulting in $ 100,000 annual savings,

Wilmington, DE, US

• 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.
• 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.

Midland, Michigan, US

• 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.

Washington, DC, US

• 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.