CV

Experience

• Datasheet, P&ID and Process Specification Development
• Process commissioning and plant start up
• Project Management Small Projects
• Budget pricing of small to medium sized projects (£5K – £1.8M)
• Low pressure relief and venting
• DSEAR and ATEX compliance
• Food Safety – HACCP, pasteurisation, access control
• CIP, HAZOP, RCA
• Energy and Utility efficiency
• COMAH storage design

Career History

• Stretton Process Engineering Ltd – (July 2007 – Present)
o Process Engineering Consulting
- Pharmaceutical Design, Novartis / Jacobs Engineering. (May 2008 – Present)
• Methyl chloroformate storage facilities design
• Batch pharmaceutical process design
• P&ID and Datasheet development
• Flow, pressure, mass and energy calculations
- Bulk Chemical Design / IPPC, Brunner Mond Ltd, sodium bicarbonate. (January 2008 – May 2008)
• Flash vessel design
• IPPC tank survey
- Fine Chemical Design, Ineos Silicas / Addison Project, silica precipitate products. (June 2007 – December 2007)
• Throughput improvement and de-manning project process specification, P&IDs and datasheets
- Bulk Chemical Design, Ineos Chlor & Fluor / Addison Project, chlorine and fluorine processor. (June 2007)
• Flow and relief calculations
• Contract Process/Project Engineer (Jacobs Engineering) – (January 2006 – June 2007)
o Pharmaceutical Commissioning, Novartis Grimsby (March 2007 – June 2007)
- Commissioning
• Final installation checks and pre commissioning validation
• Control system functional commissioning
• Reactors
• Scrubber
• Distillation equipment
• PTFE, Glass lined vessels
- Commissioning Documentation - PreComm, IQ, OQ, PQ

o ATEX and DSEAR compliance and Project Engineering, Kellogg, cereal manufacturer UK. (January 2006 – March 2007)
- FEED and budget development for $1.8M silo explosion suppression system
- Implementing consultant recommendations and assisting with setting up the internal framework and procedures to ensure compliance.
- Assessing ALARP and risk assessment requirements for existing equipment including existing explosion vents on filter units. Including vent sizing calculations.
- Process Design and cost development for projects to replace explosion vents, insulation and dust extraction/vacuum system.
- Trials assessing dust extraction/suppression options.
o Heat Recovery on cereal oven – Feasibility study and budget pricing
- Budget and manage a major insulation replacement project

o Refinery FEED study, Sohar Aromatics (January 2006)
- Flare design and utility calculations


• Process Development Engineer (Fonterra (Dairy, Food), August 2002 – June 2005)
Reporting to an off-site technical team leader.
o Focus areas:
- Drier / Evaporator performance
- Pasteurisation / Food Safety
- Wet and dry ingredient addition
- Health and Safety
- Milk powder functional / physical properties
- Clean in Place systems (CIPs)
- Energy and Services
o Duties:
- Process optimisation through procedures and training operating staff
- Plant troubleshooting
- Design and manage minor capital improvement projects
- Assisting with larger capital improvement projects
- Commissioning/start-up assistance
- Factory benchmarking
- Leader of a team looking into milk powder functional properties
- HACCP and audit planning

• Energy Management Engineer (Fonterra (Dairy), December 2001 – August 2002)

- Working on a site wide energy management plan
- Mentoring students working on utilities quantification projects (water, steam, chemicals and refrigeration)
- Small plant modification projects from conception through to project management
- Optimisation projects with other engineers and operators

• Summer Placements (Kiwi Cooperative Dairies, December 1997 – February 2001)

- Studied the ammonia refrigeration and cooling water tower systems and their interactions for optimisation
- Completed a site steam balance (7 different factories processing ~15 million litres of milk per day peak season)
- Involved in commissioning a chilled water filtration system
- Re-specifying the duty on a chilled water heat exchanger
- Updating Process and Instrument Diagrams (P&IDs)

• University Design Project

- Biodiesel Plant Design from tallow

Education