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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS:
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Extensive management experience in the petroleum, chemical, nuclear, pharmaceutical and environmental fields. Directed engineering, manufacturing, and construction efforts, including startup and commissioning for owners and contractors alike. Repeated success is attributed to excellent communication and people skills, attention to detail and technical ability. Holder of BSME and MBA degrees from top-10 rated educational institutions.
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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004 - Present RTP Corp, Pompano Beach, FL
Business Development Manager
- Responsible for the company's sale of plant automation equipment to the USA and Canadian nuclear industry. Regularly interface with senior IT, I&C decision makers in the power industry. Support a group of independent system integrators (SI) in implementing process control and data acquisition system solutions.
2000 – 2004 PFS Investments, Boca Raton, FL
Financial Representative
- Applied broad knowledge of financial planning, investment and economic issues to determine the needs of clients and to make appropriate recommendations as to the appropriate financial products to purchase.
1998 – 2000 Xytel Corporation, Elk Grove Village, IL
Director of Operations
Managed four functional areas for an international lab and plant scale modular plant builder serving clients in the refining, chemical, foods and pharmaceutical industries. Reported directly to the President of the company. Seventy-five (75) percent of business came from Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
- Responsible for the design, fabrication and testing operations at two sites in Illinois and Texas.
- Familiar with a variety of plant process technologies.
- Assisted sales and marketing team to increase repeat order rate from key accounts by 100 percent
- Reduced fabrication overhead costs by $200K per year
- Directed the work of a cross-functional team of five managers
- Developed monthly operating plan including forecasts for labor and material costs
- Negotiated contracts for products and services
- Reviewed and approved non-disclosure, licensing, and sublicensing agreements as well as supply contracts
- Contributed to the operating strategy for Indian subsidiary and French partner
- Key participant in generating and reviewing financial statements
- Applied common codes & standards such as: OSHA, Federal CFR, NEC, B&PV, BOCA, NFPA, API, ASME, TEMA, ANSI
1995 – 1998 Safety-Kleen Corp, Elgin, IL
Project Manager
Successfully managed concurrent fast-track projects for four chemicals recycling facilities in the United States & Puerto Rico.
- Regarded as a top performer in the group. One facility manager noted, "In all my years at Safety-Kleen, I have never been so happy with the work of anyone in the corporate engineering group."
- Familiar with process and unit operations such as: truck and rail loading and unloading, laboratories & locker rooms, batch distillation, solvent recovery, drum and bulk wastewater handling, photo-waste processing, tank farm, fuels terminals, thermal oxidizers, cement kilns, flares and their associated emissions instruments, wastewater handling, and boilers.
- Extensive experience in using engineering documents such as: P&ID's; PFD; Bills of Materials; Schematics; Loop Diagrams; Piping Plans, Elevations, and Isometrics; Interlock Logic Diagram; Civil/Structural Plans and Elevations
- Working knowledge of environmental regulations related to design and permitting of hazardous waste treatment facilities
- Implemented Process Safety Management (PSM) initiatives including Hazards Analysis (HAZOP) to bring facilities into compliance with the safety regulations
1988 – 1995 Amoco Corporation, Chicago, IL
Project Engineer
Managed large capital projects ranging from $3MM to $300MM for several domestic and international petro-chemical manufacturing plants.
- Awarded the annual Special Recognition award on several occasions for outstanding project management work.
- Responsible for overall project management including supervising the work of the contractor's engineering and construction personnel.
- Led cross-functional teams utilizing staged, gated project execution process and TQM Quality techniques
- Specified process, mechanical and electrical equipment such as tanks, vessels, heat exchangers, chillers, mixers, pumps, compressors, blowers, control valves, motors, SCADA boxes. Also specified pipe, tubing, valves and fittings and other bulks.
- Selected projects include: $300 MM Aromatics Plant, Saudi Arabia (Feasibility Study Phase); $130 MM Trimellitic Anhydride Unit, Belgium (Engineered); $12 MM Paraxylene Unit Debottlenecking, Alabama (Engineering Phase); $10 MM PTA Unit, Alabama (Construction Phase)
EDUCATION
BS, Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, 1988
BA, Applied Mathematics, Queens College, CUNY, 1988
MBA, Finance & Marketing, University of Chicago, 1998
COMPUTER PROFICIENCY
Microsoft Projects, Word, Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Questimate, Intellution FIX DMACS, AutoCAD
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