Cedric Franklin

• Worked directly with the Unit console operator, maintenance department and reliability & engineering department to optimize unit functionality.
• Took samples of process streams for lab analysis to ensure products meet the required specifications.
• Worked with contractors and work crew representatives for the completion of Turnaround Around packages.
• Recorded
• Currently working the role of Chief Operator of Coker 737 directing and training operators to safely perform job task, make quality rounds to ensure safe operations, equipment reliability and enter maintenance notifications to have equipment repaired.

Worked on turnover packages for Kemper County IGCC Project, activities included locating and tagging process equipment along with associated piping to be commissioned.

Performed console operations and worked closely with Unit Team Leaders, Engineers and Coordinators working on test packages to commission area equipment which included the use of steam, high velocity compressed air, and chemical circulation to clean out process equipment and associated piping for pre start-up.

Other duties as an Operations Coordinator included training new console operators for MPC(Mississippi Power Company) and working with Instrumentation technicians to resolve connectivity issues between the DCS logistic systems and unit equipment.

Worked with DCS logic technicians to analyze, troubleshoot and repair functional issues with PLC, DCS graphics and process variables.

Perform risk management and inspection for unit equipment on the gasifier system to ensure no safety hazards were present including elevated temperatures and faulty equipment that could send false information to the control systems.

Operated temporary boilers to supply 300psi steam to the plant for use as steam to the gasification process as well as supply lignite prep operations and other major steam users in the plant facility.

Working with other contractors to coordinate activities such as erecting scaffolding, test package projects, scheduling equipment maintenance and attending meetings with other coordinators and plant managers to discuss progress in our specific areas.

Worked in material handling, tracking plant inventory.

• Directed operating and maintenance activities for compressor unit to ensure efficiency and conformity to safety standards.
• Managed the development of projects to ensure acceptability of budgets and time lines, conformance to federal and state laws or adherence to approved specifications. 
• Worked to reduce unit upsets by continuing maintenance of filter cleaning to reduce differential pressure which was a major cause of unit upsets.
• Performed scheduled maintenance on a dehydration unit that used triethylene glycol to remove excess hydrocarbon liquid and impurities from the process stream. 
• Communicate with the alkylation unit to adjust the output and volume of gas the compressors moved through the pipeline to OpII at the Shell Oil Refinery in Deer Park, Tx.