James Kisielewski

Provided support to soda ash refinery over 25 year career, with

job titles of Process Engineer, Senior Process Engineer, Production Engineer, Production Superintendent, Project Engineer.

Project Engineer projects including filteraid slurry conversion, soda ash crystallizer quick wash system, soda ash Argo expansion tie-ins and commissioning, new pressure leaf filter installation.

Process Engineer projects including sodium bicarbonate plant tails recovery crystallizer, soda ash cz foaming improvements, soda ash feed liquor preheaters, Management of Change co-ordinator, sodium bicarbonate S300 plant startup. Various proejcts for soda ash, sodium bicarbonate, caustic, sodium sulfite, sodium metabisulfite, tailings ponds operations. Process safety HAZOP and PHA program contributions.

Production Superintendent for Specialty Products department, Direct reports of Production Specialist and Operating Foremen. Sodium sulfite capacity improvements via sulfur burner and feed liquor de-gassing projects. $900K REBIDTA in 2006.

Production Engineer day to day management of soda ash liquor preparation. Unit ops including calcining, liquor clarification, pressure leaf filtration, sodium bicarbonate chemical calcination.

Provided Project and Process engineering for site. Completed colloidal silica consolidation project, which closed two smaller sites and constructed new equipment at main site. Process support for colloidal silica, Metam sodium pesticide, defoamer formulation batch processes.

Production Engineer and supervisor for defoamer batch formulation processes. Direct reports of 2 operating positions, 8 operators total.

Process engineering support for acrylic polymerization batch processes.

Production engineer for soda ash refinery, process support including soda ash pipeline de-scaling operations, filter area de-bottlenecking.

Site HSEA,QC Manager for pesticide formulation and packing plant, 40 employees, 15 contract employees. 3 direct reports-lab techs and site trainer. Manage site safety programs, Environmental reporting and co-ordination with government agencies. New product permitting. Process support for spray dryer, milling, packaging operations. Management of plant evacuation during Great Mississippi flood of 1993.

Day to day operations management of naphthalene hydrogenation unit and Phenyl-a-naphthyl-amine batch reaction/distillation process for SEVIN pesticide process.Process support for crude naphthol unit troubleshooting and debottlenecking. OSHA Process Safety Management implementation.