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• Independent consultant engaging and providing transformational business evaluations and due diligence for oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Evaluating energy efficiency, process efficiency, yield improvements.
• Leveraging extensive business acumen in support of entrepreneurial entities as an Advisory Cloud Board Member.
• Providing Subject Matter Expert project and turnaround consulting.
• Improving life globally as a visionary community leader.

Houston, Texas, US

Advisory Cloud Board Member

Advisory Cloud Board Member

San Rafael, CA, US

Advisory Cloud Board Member

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Ensured “Zero Harm Vision” by leading improvement journey on North American Region projects and Turnarounds.
• Transformed DNA Nitrogen Manufacturing performance by ensuring adherence to Turnaround Management System and Project Management System critical work processes.
• Improved regional manufacturing capital portfolio management ($25M - $70M per annum) with renewed focus on FEL, engineering value analysis, delivery to promise, Zero Harm, Quality, Cost, and Schedule.
• Provided governance and compliance reviews for America’s Panel and Nitrogen Manufacturing Capital Investment Review Panels.
• Championed the deployment of the Lean Manufacturing Business Operating System application to projects and turnarounds in North America.
• Drove manufacturing excellence via establishment and governance of policy, standards, and corporate strategy.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Provided regional operational leadership and capital governance for 9 North American explosives and fertilizer manufacturing sites as an executive member of Global Manufacturing and America’s Leadership Teams.
• Led global collaboration within a highly matrixed global manufacturing environment leveraging “best practice” capability to all 14 major manufacturing sites.
• Sponsored and facilitated development of strategic manufacturing plans enabling DNA to meet 20% annual growth objectives in key business product lines.
• Effected a competency step change improvement in North American manufacturing plants reliable operations by building a highly cohesive, collaborative, technically competent engineering team delivering uptime, capital.
• Sponsored standardization of global project reporting, turnaround management processes, inspections management, lean manufacturing operating discipline, process safety management, and risk/reliability assessments.
• Effected a 40% OEE improvement on a key production process line by coaching, challenging, and guiding a cross functional organization to apply root cause analysis, lean manufacturing escalation and governance processes.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Managed of Nitrogen Capital Portfolio for North America including sustenance and growth capital improvement programs for ammonia, urea, nitric acid, and ammonia nitrate manufacturing facilities.
• Provided expert project management for North American Ammonia Nitrate Manufacturing Facilities.
• Coached technical resources in development of world-class FEL skills.
• Effected quality project execution via application of project management standard work and best practices for $64M annual capital improvement program.
• Strategically integrated capital engineering and turnaround resources to synergize and optimize resources during Turnaround event.
• Managed St Helens Delta V DCS Migration Project concurrently with regional manager responsibilities– Streamlined business and tactical management for $18M control system migration from pneumatic control strategy to.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Principal Engineer responsible for optimizing Turn Around procedures, preparation, and readiness
• Established first corporate Turnaround Management Standards for eight global manufacturing facilities. Instituted Navitrack as the Turnaround control process for the management of low, medium, and high complexity.
• Conducted Turnaround alignment, challenge, and readiness audits to evaluate Turnarounds. Prepared post-Turnaround evaluations and collected lessons learned.
• Engaged Cost Point Management for cost analysis, control and auditing on Turnarounds globally.
• Provided Turnaround Management for LOMO 2013 Turnaround in support of NA Turnaround and Engineering Team.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

Capital Projects Engineer for North Amerian Ammonia Nitrate Shutdown & Engineering Group

Zurich, Zurich, CH

Contract Project Engineer assigned to Dyno Nobel, Cheyenne, WY. Provided project management and engineering services.

Rochester, New York, US

• Provided project leadership and fiscal responsibility for KCD Site Utility Infrastructure and Thermal Media Manufacturing Groups.
• Managed KCD capital portfolios for Retail Printing Business Unit.
• Successfully relocated a $8,400,000 paper converting machine from China to Windsor, CO in 6 months.
• Managed design and construction teams to deliver a $35,000,000 solvent coating machine, chemical mixing facilities, building, and supporting infrastructure under budget within 14 months of project inception, 4 months.
• Simultaneously managed 20+ multiple extremely fast-track digital projects from inception to product delivery with capital budgets exceeding $12,000,000.292 Machine Project Manager 2004-2005
• Managed design build team to deliver a $6 million industrial building and infrastructure for new gravure printing operation which doubled production capacity. State environmental permitting, design, and construction.