Chemical Engineering Consultant: Petroleum Process Technologies and Specialty Catalysts

Technical Consultant #1436

Sales and marketing of petroleum process technologies and specialty catalysts for refineries.
Licensing and technology transfer of engineering services and petroleum process technology.
Chemical engineering and manufacturing experience with petroleum based products such as waxes, lubricants, chemical feed stocks, plastics and specialty chemicals.
Professional engineer specializing in product development, modeling and optimization with special concentration on polyurethane business issues.
Experience with capital project economics, financial modeling, forecasting and materials resource planning.
Basic and applied research, litigation and technology transfer.

Independent Consultant, PA, 2007 - Present

Business, engineering and manufacturing consultant providing technical training services to emerging and established manufacturing companies to boost efficiency and profitability.

Undisclosed Company, VP of Manufacturing, Allentown, PA, 2001 - 2007

Intimately involved in all aspects of this family owned polyurethane business, including manufacturing, business development, product development and production schedule optimization.
Financial forecasts, materials resource planning, security, legal contracts, litigation and intellectual property.

Mobil Oil Corporation, Princeton, NJ, 1988 - 2000

Licensing Manager

Responsible for sales and marketing of process technologies and specialty catalysts to refineries on four continents.
Negotiated licensing and engineering services contracts totaling forty five million dollars.
Team leader for negotiating a unique joint venture with Chevron (Mobil's only competitor) to merge the two technology sales and licensing organizations worldwide.

Planning Associate

Responsible for budget analysis, forecasting, financial modeling and evaluating project economics.
Developed a method to analyze the economics of any research project and applied this approach to over 200 research projects to reduce expenses and headcount by 30% during two company wide restructures.

Senior Research Engineer

Leader of a cross-functional team that designed, programmed, and installed a software package to monitor and optimize refinery operations.

Senior Staff Engineer

Developed new process strategies for upgrading low value petroleum at Mobil's central research laboratory.
Conducted fundamental research on catalytic processes, reaction kinetics and coke formation and deposition.