Environmental Compliance Engineer Expert in Air Emissions and Writing Air Permits (639)

Expertise

  • Seasoned engineer with record of solving tough technical and environmental problems for DuPont and consulting clients.
  • Effective communicator across cultural, organization and skill levels.
  • Results achieved by providing technical and task leadership for cross-functional teams.
  • Diverse and successful background in manufacturing, research and business.
  • Experimental designs, lab-to-plant scaleups.
  • Plant startups and plant problem solving.
  • Reaction engineering, heat transfer.
  • Economic evaluations, project management.
  • Polymerizations, separations, mixing.
  • Physical and chemical analytical methods.
  • Chlorinations, extrusion, polymer molding.
  • Food-grade and specialty chemicals.
  • Flow sheets, simulation, statistics state-of-art literature and patent searches.
  • Waste minimization, pollution prevention.
  • Environmental permits and regulations.
  • Hands-on design, construction, startup and operation of pilot plant and commercial reactors.
  • Specification of internal mixers, seals, baffles, heating and cooling devices.
  • Synthesis and purification of monomers.
  • Reactor fouling solutions.
  • Selection of feed devices like pumps, compressors and augers for gas, liquid and solid reagents, catalysts and additives.
  • Specification of post-reaction product recovery, separation and recycle of unconverted ingredients and management of emissions.
  • Project management, including budget, time and manpower forecasts and allocations.
  • Project safety, including hazards analyses, operating procedures, OSHA conformance and Good Manufacturing Practices.
  • Environmental permits, emissions monitors and control devices and byproduct recovery and disposal.
  • Training for operators and facilities managers.

Experience

Delaware Air Quality Management Division, Wilmington, DE, 2003 - Present

US Environmental Protection Agency, Philadelphia, PA, 2000 - 2002

Process and Product Consulting, 1994-present
Clients include:
  • DuPont
  • Rhone-Poulenc
  • Velsicol
  • SPI Polyols
  • Corning Glass
  • Ciba Specialty Chemicals
E. I. DuPont De Nemours & Company, Inc. Wilmington, DE, 1966 - 1993

Education

  • MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
  • BS, Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University
  • Continuing Education and Academic Research
  • Many Professional Training Courses
  • Fluent in Spanish