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• Day to day Upgrader optimization, directing shift on unit rates and lineups to maximize profitability & throughput based on known constraints in Conversion, Hydroprocessing, Utilities & Environmental units • Maintenance outage coordination, ensuring multiple business teams are aligned and overlap outage windows minimize overall production losses• Minimize production impact of unplanned events. Inputs into site recovery plans include unit startup sequencing & inventory management • Product shipment profile & scheduling. Balancing site model to forecast future shipping volumes to company owners

Labrador City

• Worked with the process engineering group in IOC’s pellet plant.• Oversaw the commissioning of a new particle size monitoring instrument. Trained co-workers in operation and standard practices of the instrument.• Coordinated a project which involved converting an unused pipeline into a bleed-in line for silica control. Worked with labourers to address safety issues associated with the old pipeline. Created a standard operating procedure for manual valve changing while using the bleed-in line, and reviewed it with the operators who would be doing the work.• Worked on a collaborative project which involved evening out the pellet depth profile within the induration furnaces. Determined the mechanical and control factors that needed to be addressed and worked with the electrical engineering group to begin making changes.• Led daily quality control meetings with operational team leaders and distributed the minutes of each meeting. Utilized IOC's PI server to perform various QAQC tasks.

Halifax, Ns

• Summer research project involved testing the impact resistance of polyurea coated plates. Tested several different polyureas on aluminum and steel substrates of various thicknesses. Aluminum and polymer foams were also studied as intermediate layers between the substrate and polyurea layers.• After an initial introduction to the equipment, lab and experimental work was conducted unsupervised, complimented by routine collaboration with supervisor.• Produced one formulation of polyurea in-house.• Developed test matrices for the impact experiments. Over one hundred and thirty individual specimens were made and tested.• Developed an Excel database to easily sort through and find any specimens tested throughout the summer.

Saint John, Nb

• Design responsibilities included reviewing Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams (P&IDs) and editing Process Flow Diagrams (PFDs). Created PFDs to represent various projects in the refinery.• Aided in a LPG pipeline jumpover project. Responsibilities included developing a PFD to easily represent multiple complicated P&IDs, field walks to select key pipelines, and collecting stream composition and flow data.• Modeled data taken from refinery streams in HYSYS for accurate representation under various operating conditions.• Conducted various hydraulic calculations to size piping and in-line instrumentation.• Participated in Irving’s ‘Better Way’ program by submitting proposals for continuous improvement of refinery operation. Prepared reports outlining potential upgrades for income generating projects.• Contributed to a ‘Safe Sample Point’ project by coordinating field walks for equipment verification. Was responsible for updating and maintaining the sample point database which catalogued over five hundred refinery sample points.