General Manager (93498) Petrochem, Chemical, Refinery, Master Black Belt, Masters ChemE

Chemical Engineering, Operations, Technology Leader, Capital Project Manager, and Plant Manager with over 25 years of Petrochemical and Chemical manufacturing experience. He is a graduate of the prestigious Center for Creative Leadership, is a Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt and has a Master’s in Chemical Engineering.

He has multiple plant experience and maintenance leadership. As a Master Black Belt, he has trained 70+ black belts. He improves everything that he touches improves and this extreme Chemical Operations leader has delivered millions of dollars through reliability improvements, upgrades, and cost savings for his employers. He is currently employed with but is interested in confidentially exploring a Senior Role in chemical, specialty chemical, or refinery sectors.

• Led improvement teams to transform Business performance in less than one year and deliver a value of over $50M over the life of the contract. This improvement project also won the Global Reliability Award given to one out of 70+ facilities worldwide.
• Led global business development that delivered over $2M of additional revenue
• Created over $4M additional revenue growth
• Turned around a 40-year-old facility through organizational and digital transformation creating an additional revenue growth opportunity of $30M in revenue.
• Created over $36M in additional revenue growth and cost reductions
• Drove step changes and improvements in safety performance Incident Rates reduction by over 100% from baseline through change.
o Launched the product line and currently delivering the product with an initial revenue of close to $700K.
• Created an additional revenue stream of over $1M for existing Asia product lines.
• Created over $15M revenue opportunity by successfully turning around the performance of the raw materials manufacturing plant for soda ash and boron products.
• Successfully led change management in a 45-year-old facility.
• Spearheaded multi-million-dollar capital expansion plans.
• Achieved over $1M reduction in TAR costs.
• Delivered business improvement results worth ~ $50M over a 5-year period.
• Reduced Title V deviations by more than 100%.
• Directed over $20M worth of Capital projects on Schedule and within Budget
• Generated over $2M in cost reductions.
• Responsible for production and maintenance for Hydrogen Sulfide plant, Methyl Mercaptan plant, Acro plant, and MMP plant with $300M budget.
• Created a new Turnaround organization to help meet annual Turnaround objectives.
• Both efforts have met with significant, measurable success (no safety recordable injuries, no environmental events, on schedule and under budget for a multimillion-dollar effort.
• Successful project delivered results valued at $50 million and was awarded Global Arkema Arena Corporate Award for reliability improvement.
• Led projects to improve several of OSHA and PSM elements, including MI, PSSRs, PHAs/HAZOPs, MOCs, Operator Procedures, and Training/Certification.
• Led implementation of Six Sigma initiatives at different petrochemical and specialty chemical facilities in Europe and the USA.
• Generated audited bottom-line savings of over $35 million.
• Trained over 70 Black Belts and Green Belts across business functions.

• MS, Chemical Engineering
• Certified internal ISO auditor
• Certified Lean
• Six Sigma Master Black Belt
• Trained DCS and PLC Implementation Engineer
• Chemicals and Specialty Chemicals
• Maintenance and TAR
• Managing Multiple Plant Facilities
• Chemical Process Design
• Chemical Plant Operations Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Managing Multiple Projects
• Economic planning
• Specialty Chemical Manufacturing
• Managing Multiple Chemical Plants
• Technology Leadership
• International Leadership
• Lean Six Sigma
• P&L Responsibility
• Sales and Marketing
• Operations Management
• Innovation
• Petrochemical Manufacturing
• Polymers
• Olefins
• Leading Black Belts
• Quality Control
• Change Management
• Improving Safety Performance
• Developing Revenue Opportunities
• CAPEX and Expansion Projects
• Delivering Millions in Cost Reduction

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• Masters and Bachelors in Chemical Engineering
• Certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
• Certified internal ISO auditor
• Trained DCS and PLC implementation Engineer
• Trained in Allied Signal Leadership Training School in Phoenix, AZ
• Leadership training by the Conference Board at NASA, Houston, TX
• Leadership Training @ Center for Creative Leadership