Work Experience:
2008 - Present DSM Nutritional Products - Freeport, TX
Improve Plant Manager
 Manage engineering department for site, including capital projects, Six Sigma, and other improvement initiatives. Serve as member of site leadership team. Site produces beta-carotene for use in animal and human nutritional formulations.

2005 - 2008 Dow Chemical Company - Freeport, TX
Quality Leader - Texas Epoxy
Overall responsibility for quality for 5 Epoxy plants in Freeport, TX. Includes product quality as well as the quality systems used to ensure quality products are produced. These plants include 12 different operating units producing over 50 different products.

2002 - 2005 Dow Chemical Company - Freeport, TX
Sr. Process Specialist - Epoxy2/3
Provide technical support and coaching to department staff and operating personnel. Provide advanced process technology understanding and troubleshooting to resolve operational issues and identify improvement opportunities.

1999 - 2002 Dow Chemical Company - Freeport, TX
Sr. Improvement Specialist - Epoxy Products
Serve as Manufacturing Representative on improvement capital projects in bisphenol area. Implement non-capital improvements - programming, operating discipline.

1994 - 1999 Dow Chemical Company - Freeport, TX
Sr. Production Engineer -- Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) Plant Expansion
Served as a TDI process SME during all aspects of Dow's $120 MM expansion project in Freeport, Texas.

1990 - 1994 Dow Chemical Company - Freeport, TX
Production Engineer -- Toluene Diisocyanate (TDI) Manufacturing Plant
Responsible for safe and reliable operation of all areas of Dow's TDI Manufacturing facility in Freeport, Texas. This world-scale plant was Dow's only supplier of TDI globally and handled acutely toxic chemicals including phosgene, TDI, and chlorine.

Education:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering - Magna Cum Laude 1990
Texas A&M University College Station, TX
3.74 overall GPA out of 4.0

Woodsboro High School - 1985
Woodsboro, TX
Salutatorian

Additional Training: Six Sigma Black Belt training.

References: Available upon request.