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Midlothian, Va, Us

Chester, Virginia, Us

Chester, Virginia, Us

Performs, directs, and coordinates the activities necessary to develop value propositions and negotiate contracts for engineering, design, construction, and related projects and services. Industries served includes specialty chemicals, polymer and fiber, pulp and paper, life sciences, steel, food, beverage, and tobacco.Assesses industry and customer business conditions in the development of business cases for new engineering, design, and construction products, projects, and services. Receives and handles customer complaints, inspecting internal business processes and procedures for gaps and deficiencies. Recommends preventative and corrective actions.

Chester, Virginia, Us

Chester, Virginia, Us

Managed multiple projects for clients in a wide range of process industries including wastewater treatment, chemicals, paper, and human and animal nutrition. Identified opportunities in resource and engineering management while acting as consultant on a $50 million cutting-edge incinerator - power generation project. Oversaw the development and design of the largest lined chemical storage tank of its kind in the world.

Richmond, Va, Us

Improved first-time pass 15% and delivery performance 33% by transforming a multinational $75MM polymer chemical operation into an ISO 9001 performance-oriented business. Performed gap analysis, uncovering hidden processes. Developed training programs and competency criteria. Instituted metrics. Cut salaried personnel turnover 70% after restructuring and simplifying organization. Performed job analyses of all personnel, evaluating duties, tasks, methods, tools, techniques, skills, knowledge, and abilities in light of product requirements. Created personnel productivity model to compare and adjust staff levels against contract order levels and production technical complexities. Interviewed, selected, trained, and evaluated employees.Developed strategy for reducing annual E&I maintenance costs by 50%. Calculated future annuity streams of asset replacement alternatives and implemented a 3-year multi-site program to define and upgrade process control systems.Oversaw Information Technology projects and activities. Facilitated SAP conversion. Developed strategies to effect improvements in manufacturing through systematic expansion of ERP-MES communications, automation of recurring tasks, and transaction customizations. Collaborated with Corporate IT team.

Richmond, Va, Us

Produced sellable product on the first start-up of a state-of-the-art continuous polyurethane foam processing line. Managed project with responsibilities including building expansion, rail unload, liquid CO2 and other bulk chemical storage systems, ASME B31.3-compliant high pressure metering streams, utilities and fire prevention systems, and material handling conveyors. Prepared budget. Negotiated consultant, contractor, and supply agreements. Wrote and led start-up protocol of all systems. Managed multiple new and retrofit process improvements, implementing green technologies. Applied principles of OSHA Process Safety Management in leading multi-disciplined engineering teams. Co-authored next-generation Rockwell-based SCADA system architecture. Designed HMI screen layouts. Wrote detailed control and alarm programming logic for coding by team programmers.Reduced downtime of existing systems and errors in designing new systems by developing a hybrid analytical database that models the hydraulic performance of chemical processes.Developed corporate equipment design standards, contractor administration standards, maintenance procedures, and preventive maintenance schedules.

Directed the architecture, engineering design, and construction of a joint venture Greenfield manufacturing plant and its 200-ton utility bridge, working with 17 public and private organizations to install the bridge across U.S. Route 258, a major multi-state highway.Facilitated cultural change in the mill through stewardship and team building activities as a member of the Mill Reorganization Process Team.Guided Mill Engineering’s Project Management Team toward development of a standardized project management system with emphases on work breakdown structures, communication systems, and cost controls.

Bsme, Mechanical Engineering

Imba, International Business Administration