Senior Process Engineer

Seeking an assignment on a project team as a senior process engineer with excellent technical and leadership skills

Oct.'03 to Present
PP Expansion Process Supervisor - Saudi Polyolefins Co., Jubail, KSA.

Process supervisory responsibility as member of integrated Client-EPC project team. Licensor for Polypropylene (PP) is Novolen Technology (subsidiary of Lummus).

• As client supervisor in EPC office with reporting direct to senior management, fully responsible for the development, review, final decision and approval on process and project issues for a complex 450 to 720 kTA PP expansion and re-rate project.

 Estimated TIC for PP expansion is 211 M$
 Total Number of New Equipment is 180, 50 items to be deleted and 25 to be modified to meet the new capacity.

• Key value engineering contribution was through integration of ethylene rich process stream with Cracker facility during development of Process Design Package (PDP). Estimated savings - 3.0 M$.

• Successfully led the feasibility study of PP Expansion from 450 to 800 kTA including techno-commercial scope definition and negotiations for PDP.

• Successfully led from design of P&ID to commissioing of a 4.0 MSR Coalescer project for removal of oil from propylene rich stream. Payback was less than 6 months.

• Responsible for fulfilling and conducting ‘Guarantee Test Run’ as per Test Run Protocol. Led the efforts in resolving all issues post performance ‘Test Run’.

Dec.'97 to July ‘03

Process Engineer - Sharq (a SABIC affiliate), Jubail, KSA.
Area engineer for two gas-phase fluidized bed Unipol’s Polyethylene plants, Reaction and Catalyst Unit. Specific expertise includes trouble-shooting, cost reduction and de-bottlenecking.

• Through 36 technical reports, set-up of catalyst performance database and data analysis pursued continuous improvement in catalyst batches. Catalyst production increased 30% in 2003, and variations reduced by 32%.

April '97 to Dec. '97

Project Engineer - ICI Acrylics (subsidiary of ICI plc U.K.), India.
Prepare process section of front-end engineering design (FEED) package for acrylic cast sheet plant.

April '93 to April '97

Process Engineer - ICI India Limited, Madras, India.
Held positions at ICI India Fertilizer and Pharmaceutical plants.
Responsibilities included validation, yield improvement, preparing and executing energy savings projects from concept to commissioning.

Master of Science, Chemical Engineering, December 1992
University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA
Maintained A's in all major courses
GPA 3.88/4.0

Research Assistant - Dept. of Chemical Engg., Aug. ’90 to Dec. ’92
University of Kentucky, USA.
Thesis Title : "Heterogeneous Nucleation of Single Particle".

• For the first time demonstrated experimentally using Mie Scattering technique, condensation of supersaturated hexadecane vapor onto a single 25 micron oil droplet.

Bachelor of Technology (Hons.), Chemical Engineering, May 1990
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
GPA 8.34/10

• Advanced and Basic Courses on Process Simulation – PRO II and HEXTRAN
• “Implementation of an Integrated Loss Control System”, by DISC B.V.
• Trained in HAZOP Leadership and 'Risk Analysis and Assessment' at ICI.
• Deputed to ICI Australia, for training on Business Planning and Quality Management Systems

Award

'Special Mention' at the 'Innovation, Creativity and Excellence in Technology Award', 1997 held at ICI plc, U.K. for contributions worldwide.
Effort : "Debottlenecking Fluothane Distillation".