Shayan Karimipour, Phd, Peng, Pmp Email & Phone Number

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Lead a team to design, develop, implement, and sustain digital solutions aimed at bolstering efficiency and productivity across various domains, including manufacturing, quality assurance, testing, defect detection, and customer interactions., etc.• Function as the value stream lead, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery of digital solutions, while actively disseminating success stories and improvement opportunities across all facets of the enterprise.• Create and maintain value stream vision, strategy and roadmap, securing endorsement from all stakeholders throughout the organization. • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, understand business needs, and deliver solutions that align with business goals.• Liaise with the plant and key stakeholders to identify and implement the most fitting digital solutions for the organization.• Develop plans for management of change and end-users training to ensure widespread understanding of the benefits of digital solutions, and to guarantee that new tools are properly used, maintained and supported.

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

• Process technology subject matter expert. • Lead debottlenecking and troubleshooting efforts, technology assessments and developing solutions for current and future challenges and new product and catalysts development.• Develop methodologies and procedures to obtain highest level of manufacturing robustness and resiliency in the face of process challenges.• Prepare best practices for robust and reliable operation that enables the plants to increase production and avoid unwanted downtime. • Review and monitor relevant patents and support company’s IP advantage by seeking innovative solutions and securing new patents.• Help and mentor junior colleagues to achieve their career goals and provide feedback and support as needed.• Lead focus teams to evaluate, develop and propose new technologies in line with company’s strategy roadmap and create readiness for future challenges.

Houston, Texas Area

Supported global technology initiatives, including developing and deploying process and product technology from pilot plant to commercial scale, manufacturing sites support and troubleshooting and optimizing operations for safe and profitable production. Extensive experience with planning and execution of product and process trials, and post-commercialization and continuous improvement.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Supported BASF north American operations by developing innovative solutions for plant issues, process debottlenecking, improving methods for future developments and developing and implementing new technologies.• A wide range of chemical processes and unit operations, such as fluidized bed and stirred tank reactors, mixers/blenders, spray dryers, separators, coating, etc., were part of the portfolio.• Executed complex projects that required a high level of specialized know-how and knowledge.• Developed advance models to optimize/troubleshoot existing processes and to help commercialize new technologies/processes faster.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided technical support and conducted consulting projects to assist companies in process scale-up and technology evaluation in various areas including chemical reactors, separators, and fluid dynamic analysis:o Simulation and evaluation of partial upgrading using microwave electromagnetic radiation.o Numerical modeling and predictions of the rate of deposition and separation efficiency in a novel three-phase separator.o Evaluation of multiphase flow and pressure drop in slotted pipes at various inflow rates and composition of oil/water/solids.o Simulation of the negative effect of emulsion layer formation on the performance of three-phase separators.o Evaluation of the rate of fouling and erosion in heat exchanger systems.• Coordinated team of local and international experts and communicated with the client and different disciplines within the company on a regular basis to perform the projects on time and on budget.• Developed and executed project plans and proposals, performed follow ups with customers and acted as project manager for several projects to achieve technical goals.

Edmonton

• Reviewed the operational problems of a commercial asphaltene gasifier, including erosion, fouling and soot formation and defined research projects to tackle the issues.• Designed and constructed a gas-phase fluid bed gasifier and determined the optimum operating conditions in order to produce best syngas quality for different specialized applications.• Involved in the Energy/Water Nexus project and simulated different power plants using ASPEN PLUS and HYSYS to evaluate their GHG emissions, water usage and environmental impacts.• Developed a model for underground combustion/gasification which illustrated the effect of reserve properties, chemical reactions, injected air flow and thermal effects on the production rate.• Prepared proposals and presented the research work in regular group meetings and conferences.• Supervised five projects and reviewed the team member’s progress and encouraged them to show innovation and establish a friendly, collaborative and productive work environment.• Designed, studied and optimized a density-based solid-solid separator for hazardous minerals removal.

Saskatoon

• Performed a full review of the environmental regulations and conventions.• Contributed in producing the comprehensive GHG inventory of the U of S.• Estimated the future production of GHG by the university and its subsidiaries.

Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada

• Facilitated continuous beamline operation.• Assisted clients to efficiently conduct their experiments.• Continuously monitored safety considerations in the facility and by the users.

Saskatoon

• Designed and constructed a pilot-scale fluid catalytic cracker (FCC) reactor.• Studied gas mal-distribution and bypassing in fluid catalytic cracking units (FCCU).• Designed, build, throubleshot and calibrated advanced measurement techniques such as electrical capacitance tomography, fiber optic probes and pressure transducers. • Conducted experiments and performed advanced time series and Wavelet analysis to characterize the gas bypassing phenomenon in FCCU.• Simulated a bubbling fluidized bed using CFD and validated the results.

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering

Thesis: Study of gas maldistribution and bypassing in fluid catalytic cracking reactors (FCCU)

M.Sc., Chemical Engineering

Thesis: Design and construction of a novel fiber optic probe for measuring particles velocity and concentration in fluidized beds.

B.Sc., Chemical Engineering