Edward H. Steve, P.E.
212 Reading Road
East Earl, PA 17519
(Between Philadelphia & Harrisburg in beautiful Amish country)
Cell:
(215) 990-8945
E-mail: esteve41@comcast.net
PROFESSIONAL APPROACH
- Listen carefully first and then share ideas.
- Treat others as you want to be treated.
- Be proactive: there's ALWAYS a work-around.
- Be an indefatigable problem solver & think out of the box.
- Clearly document the solution, the basis and the reasoning.
- Understand what others need from you for them to be successful.
- Teamwork yields results greater than the sum of the parts.
GENERAL SPECIALTIES
- Operations Troubleshooting
- Process Equipment Design
- Project Management
NICHE SERVICES
- Using unsteady state heat transfer principles to determine.....
- Variable utility loads for accurate equipment design.
- Optimum cycle times for batch operations.
- Safe scale-up from lab to factory.
- Organizing project teams for.....
- Success from the start.
- Reversal from expected failure.
- Establishing equipment design basis for.....
- Thorough description of needed functionality.
- Purchases that work.
- Conceptualizing new or revamped operations with.....
- Preliminary process & utility equipment sizing.
- Cross-reference with experience in many industries.
PUBLICATIONS
- Crafted 17 technical articles to provide practical know-how. (List available upon request.)
SAMPLE PROBLEMS SOLVED
- Redirected a floundering process design team to complete 400 deliverables on time.
- Reverse-engineered equipment to identify replacements for increased capacity.
- Defined off-gas variable flow & composition as basis for selection of recovery equipment.
- Forged a team of design and construction professionals for multiple expansion projects.
- Removed solids at the source and avoided the purchase of a new clarifier.
- Provided vapor flows for & sizing of cryogenic vent condenser for VOC control.
- Remedially analyzed replacement reactor performance just before installation.
- Theorized how surface shapes determine evaporation rates from capillaries.
- Wrote standard maintenance procedures to meet FDA GMP regulations.
- Negotiated no-cost flooring replacement based on installation specification.
- Planned construction sequences & activities to maintain plant operations.
- Reduced energy cost by a million $$ with computerized simulation of refinery equipment.
- Tailored and administered site-wide OSHA safety compliance program.
- Studied hydrogenation reaction for "runaway" to provide safe reactor operation.
- Provided external heat transfer surface for oxidation reaction in existing reactor.
PROJECT EXPERIENCE:
| Alternative fuels: | ||
| *Changing World Technologies | *Pacific Ethanol Inc | |
| Biotechnology: | ||
| *CJ Corp. (Korea) *Genencor *Korean Inst. For Indus. Technology *Organogenesis *Schering Plough *Sangart *Lonza |
*Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories *Green Cross (Korea) *Aviron *SmithKline Beecham *Operon *Hanwhat (Korea) *Centocor |
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| Pharmaceutical chemicals: | ||
| *AMRI *Norac *Bristol Myers Squibb *Mallinckrodt *Burroughs Wellcome *Lonza *SmithKline |
*Noramco *Pfizer *Norwich Eaton *Hoffmann LaRoche *Merck *ACIC |
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| Oil refining: | ||
| *Getty Oil | *Sun Oil | |
| Petrochemicals: | ||
| *ARCO | *Enjay | |
| Electronics: | ||
| *Hewlett-Packard | ||
| Chemicals: | ||
| *Elf Atochem *Air Products *WR Grace |
*FMC *Millennium Indus. Chem *PPG |
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| Waste treatment: | ||
| *Solvay *Olin-Matheson *SS White |
*Exxon Chemical *Pennwalt *Rollins |
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| Masterplanning: | ||
| *Lonza *ACIC |
*FMC |
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PROVEN RESPONSIBILITY
- Department Manager of Process, Process-Mechanical, Automation & Piping Engineers
- Production Supervisor in petrochemicals & pharmaceuticals
- Process Design & Project Engineer
- Research Engineer
BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
- Cornell University, Chemical Engineering, BChE.
- 43 years industrial experience.
- Emeritus member of AIChE.
REFERENCES
- People who know me and my abilities. (List available upon request.)
RELATED KNOW-HOW
- Familiar with GMP, OSHA, NFPA, HACCP, ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards.
