Senior Project Engineer/Industry Marketing Manager

Eighteen years experience in Project Management in chemicals, paint, glass, refining.  Two years experience Global Industry Marketing Manager; refining.  Led high profile projects to successful completion with no abnormal shutdowns/environmental releases.  Commendations for outstanding performance.  Provided oversight on construction, union maintenance employees, and engineering firms.  Managed project teams, contract engineers, and designers.

Accomplished instrumentation, automation, and process control project manager/engineer, multi‑million dollar projects.  Results driven for ROI, meeting deadlines and budgets.  Focused on development of human resources and improving capital equipment and processes.

Core Skills:
Instrumentation · Process Control · Automation · Statistical Process Control · Lean Manufacturing · OSHA 1910/MOC · Process Hazard Analysis · Total Quality Management · Foxboro I/A · Emerson DeltaV  · Allen-Bradley SLC 500 · P&IDs, Loop Sheets, Electrical · Verbal/Written Communication Skills · Presentations/Training · Project Management · Management/Engineering Consulting · Analytical Equipment · Microsoft Office

Professional Engineer, Electrical:
Louisiana · Pennsylvania · Colorado

Professional Experience: 

Emerson Electric Co. – Micro Motion, Inc.,Boulder, CO
$31.7 B Publicly Held (NYSE:  EMR) Industrial Equipment & Components

Global Industry Marketing Manager, Refining 
Represent the refining industry within Micro Motion, Inc. to champion products and services to refining industry.  Strategic planning.  Market research.  Global technical sales support and project pursuit.  Evaluate refining industry performance and trends against bookings in refining.  Communicate company capabilities and performance to external customers through presentations, papers, and consulting services.

Key Accomplishments: Published:  “Practice Makes Perfect,” January 2008, Hydrocarbon Engineering.  Record sales year.  Championed next generation Coriolis meter for SIS.

Marathon Oil Corp. - Marathon Petroleum Company, LLC – Canton, OH
$22.43 B Publicly Held (NYSE:  MRO) Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing

Refining Engineer III, Instrument Coordinator
Hired to update instrumentation and controls equipment and project processes; improve relations with I & E Construction.  Recruited internally and externally to achieve goals.  Managed six contract engineers and one contract designer.

Key Accomplishments:  Instituted Micro Motion Coriolis meters, temperature transmitters, tiered vendor list, standardized instrument packages, and DeltaV.  Improved relations with Process Engineering and I & E Construction.  Reduced time to get instrument and control packages to construction.  ULSD Project:  $180MM.  Gasoline Blender Project:  $22MM.

PPG Industries, Inc. – Pittsburgh, PA
$10.08 B Publicly Held (NYSE:  PPG)  Conglomerates

Electrical Engineer, I&C to Senior Engineering Associate
Sixteen year career with increasing responsibility.  Progressed from entry level electrical engineering position in chemicals to corporate engineering in flat glass acting as measurement, controls, and systems expert and consultant for Flat Glass SBU.  Positions in $2.5 B chemical plant, coatings and resins plant, windshield fabrication plant, and flat glass business unit.

Key Accomplishments:  27-33% ROI on chemical projects.  300% ROI Silica Dryer Project in chemical plant.  Yield increases in clear glass at Mt. Zion, IL of 20-25%.  Increases in Sungate and SunClean coated glass at Mt. Zion, IL, 14-1, of 25-30%.  Tank throughput increase of 8% on 14-1 at Mt. Zion, IL.  Reduced Dirty Glass Rejects from 0.36% to 0.12% at Creighton Fabrication Plant.  Reduced Average Daily Pin Hole Rejects by 70.5% at Creighton Fabrication Plant.  Reduced Average Daily Paint Void Rejects by 39.2% at Creighton Fabrication Plant.

Education & Activities: 

M.S., Mfg. Systems Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, GPA:  3.5.
Emphasis on Statistical Process Control, Control Theory, Manufacturing Excellence.

B.S., Electrical Engineering, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA, GPA:  3.64.
Emphasis on traditional electrical engineering curriculum. 

Professional Affiliations:  International Society of Automation, Society of Women Engineers

Honors & Awards:  Dean’s List, Phi Kappa Phi (Collegiate Honor Society), American Petroleum Institute Scholarship, Society of Petroleum Engineers Scholarship, Pi Mu Epsilon (Honorary National Mathematics Society)