Engineer Manager

Michael White

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Bixby, Oklahoma 74008 abnlj3@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

A highly effective Manufacturing Management Professional, who meets challenges head-on, creates

positive change and motivates and energizes work teams to achieve exceptional results. Proven ability to

improve productivity and profitability through process improvement, process optimization and reliability

programs.

BACKGROUND SUMMARY

More than twenty years of refining, specialty products and production management experience includes:

Business Continuity Planning Capital Expense Management Facilities Management

New Product Design Toll Processing Agreements Business Plan Development

Strategic Planning Performance Improvement Processes Asset Optimization

Supply Chain Management Hedging and Risk Mangement Process Optimization

Strategic Partnerships Manufacturing Cost Analysis SAP Implementation

Lean Manufacturing Business Decision Modeling ISO 9000 Quality Leader

Process Safety Management Mechanical Integrity Program Preventive Maintenance

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Sunoco Refining and Marketing, Tulsa, Oklahoma 2007-Present

Product Specialist

Manage technical support and product development projects for base oils and specialty product lines.

Support ISO9000 and other quality systems. Provide technical support to customers, refinery, terminals, and

engineering. Conduct plant audits and studies to improve product quality. Result: Completed eleven audits

and supported two plant trials resulting in quality improvement in base oil and specialty product lines.

Bioselect (Standard Renewable Fuels), Galveston, Texas 2007

Site Manager

Guide the startup of a biodiesel refinery from construction phase. Train operators, develop plant policies,

and acquire operating and agency permits. Result: Successful plant startup in full compliance with federal,

state, and local agencies.

Vertex Processing (Earth Biofuels), Baytown, Texas 2006-2007

Plant Manager

Direct the daily operations of the biodiesel refinery including process development, P&L responsibility, and

implementing unit expansion initiatives. Result: A 25% increase in plant capacity.

Penreco, Dickinson, Texas 1992-2006

Business Manager, Southern Manufacturing Unit (2002-2006)

Direct the daily operations of three offsite manufacturing operations and one packaging plant that support

more than 50% of company business by volume. All plants consistently meet and exceed strategic plans.

New capacity records have been set at one plant for two years.

• Managed several major capital projects including: a de-bottlenecking effort at one facility; an

equipment upgrade/process optimization effort at another plant, a 100% expansion and upgrade of

rail loading facilities, the installation of a new product drumming line at the packaging plant, and a

new barge loading system. Result: A 70% plant productivity improvement and the necessary

infrastructure for the increased output. An annual revenue improvement of $ 45MM.

• Restructured the rail shipping approach for Houston area operations. Signed a long-term lease

for private lease track to avoid demurrage charges, negotiated a switching agreement with Union

Pacific at the more favorable, Chemical Industry Rates. Result: Reduced rail transportation fees by

$700K a year and avoided a $1.5MM capital project for a rail siding.

Michael White

Updated Process Safety Management processes to current standards. Updated processes

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including Management of Change procedures to compliance with current standards. Broadened

Mechanical Integrity inspection protocols to improve equipment reliability and safety. Spearheaded

effort to update plant operating and maintenance procedures. Organized mechanical training

program. Expanded the rotating equipment Periodic Maintenance program.

Operations Support Manager (1992-2002)

• Developed new base oils, jointly, with suppliers. The new products are cheaper to produce, are

higher in quality, and offer improved reliability of supply. Led groups within Penreco to support this

three-year effort. Result: Eight new base oils were developed, netting a 4% cost reduction and

more than $1.5MM in profit improvement over the course of 3 years.

• Developed and implemented a new planning model for plant scheduling. Result: A 20%

reduction in inventories while plant output grew by 40%. .

• Directed a cost savings initiative. Result: Year-on-year savings through lower raw material costs,

renegotiated contracts, and improved operations are typically $ 500,000 to $1.0MM per year

• Participated in the ISO9000 management team, management review board, SAP enterprise

steering and implementation team. Led the Group II+/ III Base Oil Integration Team, Six Sigma

Joint Company Purchasing Synergies Team, and Feedstock Development Team.

BP Amoco Oil Refinery, Texas City, Texas 1988-1992

Crude Scheduler, Economics and Scheduling Department, Oil Movements Division (1991-1992)

• Rearranged and reformatted tankage configuration. The new configuration provided increased

storage capacity for low cost, high sulfur crude and significantly reduced the raw material costs for

the refinery. Result: Millions in cost savings while maintaining refinery operations near full

capacity of 460,000 barrels per day.

• Leveraged a new UNIX Sun workstation-based program for refinery yields and stream

properties management. Result: Allowed the refinery to better plan impacts of processing different

crude oils, making purchases of low quality, low cost crude oils manageable.

Operations Engineer, Ultraformer No.4 & DDU (1990-1991)

• Completed a successful $ 10 million turnaround.

• Implemented a product profitability program. Result: Increased profits by $40,000 per month

through yield and quality improvement.

• Set several productivity records. Result: A total of five operations records were set in eight

months, making this the largest unit of its kind within the company.

Operations Engineer, Catalytic Cracking Unit No.1 (1988-1990)

• Set new productivity record. Accomplished by trouble-shooting operating limitations in three key

areas of the plant resulting in higher capacity and better reliability. Result: Produced 19.0 million

barrels per year, beating the old record of 16.7 million barrels five years earlier.

Conoco Oil., Ponca City, Oklahoma 1982-1988

Process Engineer, Advanced Technology Section, Process Engineering Division (1985-1988)

• New Technology in gas oil filtration. Participated as a project team-member to develop a new

filtration system. Worked with a filter manufacturer to design a unique system for filtering dirty gas

oil streams.

• Design teams. I routinely worked as part of a design team to support the sale of proprietary refining

technology to other companies. Participated in eleven projects with several running concurrently.

Two were “grass roots” projects.

Chemical Engineer, Refining Section, Process Engineering Division (1982-1985)

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas

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