Process Engineer

Permanent resident of an EU member state Czech Republic seeks challenging employment in downstream petrochemical processing, catalysis, specialty and fine chemicals. Post doctoral research associate with 5 years experience in petrochemistry.

2003 – 2007 Institute of Chemical Technology in Prague Czech Republic
Research and teaching assistant at ICT in Prague
2007 Evaluation of material colour, gloss, hardness and hydrophobicity in collaboration with Sindat Group of companies (http://www.sindat.cz/en-US/default.aspx)
2007 MChem consultant for two exchange programme students from University of Wales Bangor and University of Southampton
2006 – 2007 MSc theses consultant at ICT, Prague
2003 – 2005 Laboratory and Aspen Plus assistant in octyl amine synthesis

2001 – 2006 Chemopetrol Refinery Litvinov Czech Republic
Industrial Based Research
Performed unit operations, experience in process control, planned and executed experiments on a pilot plant, worked with catalytic tubular reactors and autoclaves, wide experience in the research and development (R&D) of amine technologies, got acquainted with the HAZOP concept in various petrochemical process units, worked with MSDS regarding Risk and Safety in industrial management, regularly held drills on OSHA.

2007 – ICT in Prague, Czech Republic: Post doctorate research in material science and nanotechnology (accelerated weathering tests using a QUV panel to simulate weather conditions on materials, application of TiO2 in self - cleaning building materials and degradation of volatile organic compounds over TiO2 nanolayers. 2003 – 2006 ICT in Prague Czech Republic PhD in organic technology and petrochemistry: Research in novel amines preparation processes over zeolites (an experimental and computational study). 1998 – 2003 ICT Prague in Czech Republic MSc in organic technology and petrochemistry: Alkylation of ammonia by ethylene, propylene and 1-hexene over zeolites. 1993 –1994 Mzingwane High School Zimbabwe GCE Cambridge "A" Levels. 1989 – 1992 Marist Brothers Secondary School Zimbabwe GCE Cambridge "O" Levels.

International English Language Testing System (IELTS) certificate at band 7.0, driver’s licence - full and clean.

Technical skills:
QUV weathering tester, Sol-Gel method, Shimadzu GC-2010 instrument, UV-VIS spectroscopy, XRF spectroscopy and AA Spectroscopy.
IT skills:
Aspen Plus design software, Matlab simulation software, Scientific database packages (SciFinder, Beilstein CrossFire and Gmelin), Chemistry software (CS Chemoffice, ISIS Draw), Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and Internet
Soft skills:
Planning and organization, leadership skills, initiative and communication team player skills
Awards and outstanding achievements
2007 – Best PhD thesis and the prize will be awarded in December by Unipetrol http://www.unipetrol.cz/html/
2003 – 2006 Research Scholarship (ICT)
1996 – 2003 Overseas University Scholarship from the Czech Ministry of Education
8 coferences and 3 publications.