Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

I am a highly driven individual fighting the dueling tendencies between my family upbringing and my GenX/GenY desires.

I have been a loyal servant to Corporate Society throughout my career (how my parents raised me to be), but continue to test my entrepreneurship spirit with dibbling and dabbling along the way.

I thoroughly enjoy my "real job", but really want to impact the world in ways that corporate life cannot enable.

Work History

• ExxonMobil
• Joliet Refinery
• August 2001 to March 2006

• Business Analysis and Reporting Supervisor:
  Supervised financial and business analysts in a group that conducted business reporting activities to refinery and corporate management. Monthly stewardship activities included operating expense and gross margin reporting. Annual activities included refinery business plan development and industry benchmarking analysis.

  Economics and Planning Analyst:
  Crude and Products Economist, Business Plan development, Product pipeline scheduling, LP engineer, Refinery Run Plan development, Gross Margin Analyst

  Process Engineer:
  CCR Reforming, Hydroprocessing, HF Alkylation, Sulfur Recovery/Amine

• ExxonMobil
• Chalmette Refinery
• March 2006 to April 2008

• Economics & Planning Supervisor:
  Supervised group of short range planners and LP engineers that developed weekly, monthly, and yearly refinery optimization plans. Key focus areas involved crude & intermediate feedstock optimization, refinery configuration & process unit optimization, and product supply chain optimization.

• Chevron
• El Segundo Refinery
• April 2009 to March 2010

• Planning Analyst:
  Conduct hindsight analysis of refinery run plan execution quality.
  Mentored economics & planning group.

• Chevron
• Richmond Refinery

• Global Network Lead for Operating Gross Margin & Performance Stewardship:
  Support and Drive improved methodologies for analyzing refinery run plan execution for Global Refinery System. Developed new work process that integrates corporate specialists into global task force teams to drive business improvements at each facility.

  Planning Analyst:
  Conduct hindsight analysis of refinery run plan execution quality.
  Mentor economics & planning group.

Education

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Chemical Engineering
• 1997 - 2001