To secure a position where my ethical leadership skills and previous experience will help to add value to the company.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Process Operator
Ineos Styrolution
Pasadena
01.2021 - 01.2023
Operated process and mechanical equipment including columns under vacuum, furnace, steam turbine, positive displacement pumps, endothermic reactors, centrifugal pumps, and isolation valves
Monitored filter and strainer differential pressure; changed filters and cleaned strainers as needed
Served on industrial emergency response teams including medical, fire, and rescue
Offloaded inhibitors to storage; conducted reading rounds of equipment using handheld device
Prepared equipment for maintenance, applied lock-out/tag-out isolations, and issued work permits.
Shift Lead
G.B. Bioscience
Houston
01.2013 - 01.2021
Provided leadership by example and decision-making to shift personnel to ensure safe and efficient operations of area by working in a team-oriented business environment
Ensured HSE standards and compliance are met including managing awareness, communicating with management, and appropriate regulatory authorities; auditing/correcting housekeeping in units, issuing confined space and hot work permits, and ensuring proper HSE documentation is completed in a timely manner during off hours
Directly supervise unit personnel during regular shifts, off hours and weekends within established guidelines, ensuring and proposed deviations outside 'mandatory action required' set-points and guidelines are properly approved; production plans are monitored; and compliance with all site, state, and federal standards is in place
Assimilate data from instrumentation, lab analysis, etc and anticipate actions to ensure safe and efficient unit processes occur and provide high degree of attention to all job details to prevent injury to self and/or others and to plant equipment.
Process Technician
G.B. Bioscience
Houston
01.2006 - 01.2013
Ability to make decisions based on in-depth understanding of unit operations and business objectives
Recommend improvements to the process, submit maintenance notifications and ensure coordination of needed maintenance preparations
Make control adjustments affecting quality and yield of product as necessary to meet standards of quality and efficiency
Monitor process equipment by observing instruments and other indicators
Operate valves or manipulate controls to maintain systems at specified temperatures, pressures or levels.
Process Technician
Syngenta
Pasadena
01.2002 - 01.2006
Accurately perform chemical process tests to maintain chemical balance and material mixtures necessary for chemical operations
Precisely mix solutions and materials under company designated safety procedures
Consistently work with high temperatures, high pressures and chemicals such as chlorine, ammonia, and pyridine
Demonstrate problem solving skills by proactively handling problems that may arise within the plant
Operate and maintain equipment used for chemical processing
Start up and shut down reactors and distillation columns for routine and emergency situations.