• Independent consultant engaging and providing transformational business evaluations and due diligence for oil, gas, and petrochemical industries. Evaluating energy efficiency, process efficiency, yield improvements, planning and optimization, economic analysis, maintenance, reliability, turnaround support, capital projects, organizational design and management effectiveness empowering client success.• 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.

Advisory Cloud Board Member

Advisory Cloud Board Member

Advisory Cloud Board Member

• 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.

• 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 project excellence, and turnaround management.• 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 to the complex problem.• Synergized Ignitions Systems engineering resources and nitrogen manufacturing resources into one cohesive North American SERI group. • Providing governance compliance leadership of policy, standards, and corporate strategy for America’s Panel and Nitrogen Manufacturing Capital Investment Review Panels. • Proactively sponsored production uptime task forces to evaluate risk to 96% uptime ambition. • Directed management of North American annual, 5-year, 10-year capital investment portfolio.• Established vision for North American SERI and leveraged key resources to achieve strategic ambitions.• Developed and coached high potential engineering resources .• Maintained and owned executive relationship of insurer.

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 state of the art Emerson Delta V of an Ammonia, Urea, Nitric Acid, and Ammonia Nitrate facility. • Successfully managed 2012 Turnaround Critical Path Project, $3.4M Absorber Tower Project, including a 650Tn crane critical lift. Project was completed early, below budget, and exceeded operational improvement commitments.

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 Turnarounds. • 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.

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

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

• 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 earlier than schedule expectations. • 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 were completed within 14 months of initiation, 9% under program targeted budget. • Streamlined and managed business and tactical planning process and management reporting for $35 million solvent coating machine design and installation. Negotiated 10% volume discounts for sole provider contract to better manage and reduce $2 million spent on chemical mixing facility implementations.• Designed risk-share parameters with vendors, focusing on targeted deliverables, resulting in an advancement of project schedule of 4 months, 22% reduction of project length, which enabled additional corporate revenue of $45 million for six months of additional product production in 2005.