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Kingsport, Tennessee, US

Providing project and program management services.

Toledo, OH, US

Led initiatives supporting the SSOE Innovation Program. Initiatives include improvement of employee engagement with internal crowdsourcing tools utilized for ideation, development of stage-gate approval process for promising ideas, development of internal and external incubators to support prototype development and testing, and exploration of enabling.

Columbus, OH, US

• Provided management and project management leadership for engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) activities supporting energy, food, and chemical industry projects.
• Managed expedited EPCM effort for the delivery of a $250 million, 200 MMSCFD greenfield natural gas facility. Oversaw design engineering, process and systems integration, procurement and commissioning activities..
• Corporate sponsor for team developing 3D CADD approach for large-scale industrial facility design. Led efforts to integrate software packages, improve CADD workflow, and close training gaps for designers and engineers.
• Supported the development of new business group focused on supporting EPCM activities in the food and pharmaceutical industry. Identified acquisition to strengthen engineering services portfolio offered to industry.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Developed and applied key innovations through internal/external teaming.
• Provided Program Management for several multi-phase, multi-year projects supporting government and commercial clients.
• Led team that developed strategic roadmap for the U.S. Army’s Rock Island Arsenal focused on improving the total product life cycle value of the Arsenal to its commercial and government clients.
• Provided leadership for chemical engineering team focused on improving existing and developing new process/product technologies for energy, water, and other markets.
• Led innovation exercise to improve the Pack H2O water backpack utilized in third-world countries to address issues associated with water collection and transport. Exercise led to an improved, more ergonomic backpack.
• Supported several of Battelle’s strategic education initiatives: Metro STEM High School and other STEM programs.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Process and materials technology strategist and innovator.
• Led effort to develop and validate building decontamination approaches (thermal and chemical) for the destruction of chemical and biological warfare agents. Performed large-scale validation tests within test grid.
• Optimized extraction process being utilized to reclaim cesium from contaminated soils.
• Aided in the optimization of the pilot-scale electrolytic process to generate potassium ferrate. Based on successful production of stable material, developed strategy to investigate usage of material in several.
• Performed market and technology assessments to define new applications for micro-channel reactor systems. Identified opportunities for modifying the baseline design to generate microemulsions, pharmaceuticals, and.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Managed implementation of critical process improvements to meet customer needs and business goals.
• Avoided facility expansion by converting a reactor system from batch to continuous operation for the production of the companies’ flagship product. Project allowed for the conversion of three existing reactor systems.
• Led $4MM capital improvement effort to replace existing reactor system with new reactor and upgraded ancillary equipment. Leveraged opportunity to develop interdisciplinary team of Marketing, Research & Development.

Boston, MA, US

• Managed all functions that supported over $50 million of annual industrial diamond production: operations, quality, and engineering.
• Demonstrated annual productivity increase of 15 percent for three consecutive years through improvements in manufacturing design, process control, process technology, and staff development.
• Devised and championed development of a hybrid (old technology-new technology) diamond process to produce ultra high-grade crystals. Success of project resulted in meeting the demands of key customers until new.

M. Eng, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering