Phosphorus Chemical Operations: Manufacturing Management Consultant (1219)
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 %u2013 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