Engineering Project Manager
I offer twenty-seven years of engineering including nineteen years of refinery project management and mechanical engineering, four years of pharmaceutical project engineering and scheduling, four years of automotive product planning, and three years of maintenance engineering and inspection.
Professional Experience
Environmental Projects
• Successfully completed an Amine Unit and a LoCAT Sulfur Removal Unit for Northern Natural Gas on time and on budget
• Coordinated the construction of a 23 million dollar gasoline treater unit for Wynnewood Refinery; completed on budget and ahead of schedule.
Alternative Energy
• Familiar with Ethanol distillation from corn dextrose and corn refining (Cargill in Blair, Nebraska). Successfully maintained the project schedule.
• Designed & styled several solar-electric hybrid cars.
Soybean Oil Refining
• Successfully completed a cooling water balance for AMG in St. Joseph, MO
Petroleum Refining (including a dozen major refinery turnarounds)
• ARCO Refinery in Wilmington, CA (7 years), completed many projects
• Koch Refineries in St. Paul, MN and Corpus Christi, TX, completed oily water sewer project (over 20 Million dollars)
• Western Refinery in El Paso, TX, contributed to two hydro-treaters
• Shell Refinery in Anacortes, WA, completed Alkylation Unit improvements
• Crown Refinery in Pasadena, TX, set up vibration analysis and maintenance plan
Project Engineering and Management
• Substantial applicable background in managing engineering projects (valued from several thousand to thirty-five million).
• Construction supervision, facilities/maintenance management, coordination of automation projects (repeatedly setting and meeting timelines and budgets).
Special Skills: Artist with 52 awards (including technical illustrations and renderings)
Education
Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (minor in Chemical Engineering) at the University of Houston, TX.
Graduate school courses in parallel processing and graphics programming: U.C. Irvine
Employment History
Republic Paperboard, Lawton, OK November and December 2014 – Temporary contract project engineer – water reclamation project and other smaller jobs
Tessenderlo Kerley, Carlsbad, NM April - September 2014 – Temporary contract management position – Ammonium Thiosulfate manufacturing plant in Illinois
August 2013 – April 2014 – Took time off to take care of my sick wife who passed away in March, 2014.
Wynnewood Refinery Direct (Wynnewood, Oklahoma) July 2009 – August 2013
Project engineering and reliability. Various projects from a few thousand dollars to several million. Installation of a new gasoline treater unit. Turnaround work and turnaround planning.
Aerotek Contract Feb. 2008 – Mar. 2009
Successfully completed turn-key design and installation of an Amine Unit, Gas Contactor, and LoCAT Sulfur Removal Unit for Northern Natural Gas in Redfield, Iowa.
Oxford International Contract Jan. 2007 – Feb. 2008
Successful completion of one-year contract with Oxford International for Shell Refinery in Washington and Western Refinery in El Paso, TX (reference letter available upon request). Engineering projects in several processing units (including Fluid Cat Cracker, Alkylation, Cat Polymerization, Boiler house. Scheduling, budgeting, process safety management.
Self-employed as a consulting engineer in Lincoln, NE: Sep. 2005 – Dec. 2006 Including maintaining project schedule for Cargill in Blair, Nebraska.
1st Street Northwest for HEI, Inc. Contract Nov. 2004 – September 9, 2005
Validation and Verification engineer and scheduler. Successfully completed medical device equipment manufacturing validation for ISO 13485 requirements (writing protocols and reports). Awarded two outstanding achievement certificates by my customer HEI, Inc. of Victoria, MN.
Insight Technical Solutions Scheduler Direct Nov. 2002 – Sep. 2004
Automation Coordinator/project manager using Microsoft Project for Pfizer in Kalamazoo, MI and Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, IN.
Marathon Ashland Refinery Contract (St. Paul, MN): Fall turnaround supervision and pre-turnaround work – August thru October 2002: Managed Fluid Cat Cracker - Gas Compression & Frac. unit on time and on budget. Utilized a 50 – employee strong team of welders, pipe-fitters, millwrights, boiler makers, electricians, etc. Also completed some work in civil and structural repairs and upgrades.
Aerotek (Milwaukee, WI): Completion of bulk saline heparinization project for BD Medical, March 2002 - May 2002. Successfully completed project in three months. Including upgrading, validating, and commissioning clean room. The work included HEPA filtration, inc...
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