Expertise

• Consultant on phosphorus, organophosphorus, phosphonate, phosphite, phosphononic, phosphinic, phosphate chemistries, formulations and processes.
• Phosphorous chemical process engineering, scale-up, commercialization and industrialization
• Phosphorous process development, debottlenecking, cycle time reduction, including statistical process control.
• Technical writing, SOP, operating instructions, manuals.
• Process feasibility studies and project management and process commissioning.
• Six sigma, value stream mapping, MIFA, Kanban, FMEA, JIT
• Accident investigation, prevention

Experience

Independent Consultant 2005 - Present

Rhodia Inc., Charleston, SC (previously Albright & Wilson) 1984 - 2005

Manufacturing Development Manager: Industrialization of new products and tolling operations for the division making organohosphorus chemicals.

• Laboratory processes to full-scale manufacture involving high value pharmaceutical intermediates, reactive chemistries and hazardous reagents.
• Reformulated and re-engineered long-established processes to produce water treatment chemicals achieving 15 to 300% improvement in cycle times, eliminating the need to import products resulting in substantial annual savings.

Venture Manager for phosphorus operations

• Designed and managed facility modifications for the changeover of the business' key feedstock to use imported material.
• Directed manufacturing operations for phosphorus halide manufacturing expanding capacity by halving internal downtime and improving robustness of the manufacturing process applying total quality and six-sigma tools.

Process Engineering Manager, Charleston, SC

• Technical Manager for Site (250 employees/$100 million sales) producing phosphorus halides and derivatives.

Process Engineering Manager, Engineering Department UK

• Commissioning $10 million capital project to manufacture phosphorus oxychloride by novel technology.

Operations Manager, West Midlands, UK

• Supervised 150 operations and maintenance personnel producing water treatment, food additive and metal finishing phosphorus and phosphate chemicals.
• Applied new technology to an existing phosphate process to increase capacity by 60% on a sold-out unit.

Other Albright & Wilson

• Site Capital Project manager, West Midlands, UK
• Operations Manager, Cumbria, UK
• Chemical Engineer, Cumbria, UK

Honors & Publications

• Institution of Chemical Engineering, Member

Education

• M.S., Chemical Engineering, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England