• Lead daily operations and utilities for an organization of 70+ union operators, ensuring smooth and efficient production.• Manage an operating budget exceeding $10 million, driving financial accountability and performance.• Successfully negotiated two key memorandums of agreement with the union during restructuring and shifts in operational demand, balancing organizational needs with workforce considerations.

• Honored with the Kensing 2022 Leadership Award for outstanding contributions.• Led a team of site production engineers to ensure optimal performance and innovation.• Directed the company’s continuous improvement initiatives, overseeing tracking and execution to drive operational efficiency.• Spearheaded three expansion projects totaling $6.5 million, securing approvals and delivering successful implementation with a six-month ROI.

Continued as Technical Manager for Kensing, who purchased the BASF site.

• Led engineering, technology, and operations for sulfation/surfactant and esterification processes, ensuring peak efficiency and reliability.• Reviewed and approved all Management of Change (MoCs) for the EM Care on-site, driving safe and effective process updates.• Implemented an alarm management procedure, achieving a 75% reduction in DCS alarms.• Active participant in the Global Sulfation Technology Team and representative on the North America Safety Vision Team.• Key member of the Site Process Safety Steering Team, ensuring adherence to safety protocols.• Developed and reviewed critical production procedures for the sulfation and esterification plants, optimizing operations.

• Responsible for site utilities including steam boilers, instrument air, fire water, nitrogen, process water, storm water, process sewers, WWT and cooling towers• Holder of the site's WWT license (2016 – Current)• Daily production support for semi-continuous sulfation / surfactant and batch esterification plants• Manager for a contract engineer assigned to special projects• Manager for a new hire engineer in the sulfation process• Led a PHA style Site Water Risk Assessment for the site• Completed a review and gap assessment using BASF Explosion Protection guidelines

• Recommissioned abandoned heat recovery system back online saving $200,000 and year• Utilized DeltaV programming to meet critical demand for the blood vial market• Led efforts for calibration of falling film reactors• Engineering lead during production and site planned outages (turnaround)• Solved root cause on troublesome DI water system with minimal investment; system now reliable• Created and maintained documentation for LOTO of equipment for maintenance and vessel entry• Developed and maintained production procedures for the esterification plant

• Led project to convert a building to produce higher pressure steam saving $1.7MM per year• Directed a Six Sigma Black Belt team reducing operation alarms by 50%• Developed a process recipe on decomposition reactors that saved 7% power per kilogram• Maintained reactor production to 1% of target by recognizing and solving problems quickly• Supported safety incident investigations providing critical thinking and resolutions

• Completed a $1MM impurity mitigation project as the Start-up leader in six weeks• Managed the construction, completion and start-up of eight polysilicon reactors two weeks ahead of schedule• Trained and mentored new start-up engineer responsible for the next reactor expansions in Tennessee• Supervised construction and commissioning of a chemical feed system to a large decomposition reactor building with zero safety incidences and one week ahead of schedule• Audited 100% of construction efforts following P&IDS, ISOs and quality standards ensuring success by meeting the parts per billion quality specifications on polysilicon within the minimum two batch runs• Monitored and oversaw the traying and packing of a 100+ feet packed bed distillation column• Pressure and leak tested entire system to qualify system integrity• Developed and assisted the completion of the chemical loading plan and initial start-up• Controlled several process changes safely without incident using Operational Change Request (OCR) process• Responsible for loading, drying and conditioning of an amine resin bed reactor within weeks of hire• Electrical instrumentation start-up lead responsible for a solids quenching process• ABB controls and instrumentation check out, controller tuning, alarm point set-up, initial building functionality tests, process pump and motor verification and safety trip check coordination for Safety Instrumented Systems and Secure Process Interlocks • Engineering shift coverage for seven months of twelve hour shifts supporting start-up of a fluid bed reactor • Commissioned building header systems: deionized water, nitrogen, hydrogen and trichlorosilanes

Designed and sized process equipment for several plants throughout Dow including heat exchangers, pumps, tanks, reliefs, mixers, strainers and piping systems.Collaborated with local site engineers and operators as well as remote project teams in the US.Executed capital project work and time sensitive work to keep plants operating.Accountable for project P&IDs, equipment lists and equipment specifications.Organized a number of building hypothetical drills for building emergency response training.Managed employee network participation in local events.

CO-OP term with Kimberly-Clark in a production environmentResponsible for producing and authenticating product data in the labReduce product defects on a Scott brand production line

CO-OP term with Kimberly-Clark in the corporate headquartersImproved the effectiveness of analyzing consumer complaints for the Cottonelle brandConsulted with the Legal Department on data I collected supporting an add claim for the Scott brand