Resume of Professional and Technical Capabilities

 

 

Fredric G. Salmen                                                                                                           August 2004

 

 

Fields of Competence

·         Process operations, planning, scheduling, stock & yield accounting, marginal cost economics, tank-farm movements, and product blending.

·         Mathematical modeling, solution analysis and results interpretation; application to operations, planning and yield accounting decisions; performance management with plan vs. actual analysis.

·         Information system functional and detailed designs; personnel training; project management and reporting.

 

Aspen Technology, Inc.

Houston, Texas                                                                                                   
Senior Advisor

 
January 1996 - July 2004

 

·         Provided technical design and commissioning support for unusual daily yield accounting applications: sending reconciled results to rigorous process design model to support joint-venture business needs, and clients wanting reconciliation with quadratic programming as well as expert system.  Defined functionality needed for future use in batch-based operations, e.g. specialty chemicals and minerals.

·         Acted as technical lead or team member for many projects integrating Advisor yield accounting software with various legacy systems.  These included: two large multi-refinery projects (5 and 8 refineries respectively); a Gulf Coast ethylene producer; European two-country refiner; large grass-roots refinery in Asia-Pacific; North America natural gas producer-processor with 9 geographical locations and two-tier daily information integration; new SE Asia petrochemical plant.   Experience with uploading material balance results to SAP using BOM format and supporting FTZ reporting.

·         Provided technical assistance for development of a plan vs. actual product to complement PIMS and Advisor.  Conducted PIMS LP planning system educational classes.  Developed a “white-paper” on LP Backcasting and outlined the different resources required for the effort to be done successfully.

·         Assisted several large Information System Planning programs: Gulf Coast refiner-marketer; SE Asia grassroots lube plant and headquarters; South African refiner; Pacific Rim petrochemical producer; UK refiner. 

·         Aspen Technology acquired Setpoint in January 1996.

Setpoint, Inc.

Houston, Texas                                                                                                                                
Senior Staff Engineer

 
October 1994 - January 1996

·         Worked with client and software developers of plant and pipeline scheduling system (ProSked) to establish reasonable balance between user ‘wants vs. needs’ in a cost-and-time constrained environment.  Application used G2 and involved crude blend optimization using GAMS.

Bonner & Moore Associates 

Houston, Texas                                                                                                                                
Senior Associate

 
May 1985 - October 1994

·         Installed many LP planning (RPMS), crude oil evaluation (ASSAY) and production accounting systems (APPLY) for different clients worldwide.  Conducted associated personnel training, project management and system documentation responsibilities.  Some work involved specialized multi-period and multi-plant models with recognition of transport modes; also, some experience using integer optimization.

·         EPA certified primary analyst.  Assisted refiners in the preparation of a Baseline document for future production of ‘conventional’ gasoline and later participated in a review of other Baseline documents submitted to the EPA.  Assisted in development of a commercial gasoline quality tracking and EPA reporting system for reformulated gasoline.

·         Developed and used LP models of PADD refining capacity for many government and industry sponsored projects to investigate economic impact associated with change, e.g. process technology analysis, capital spending programs, heavy crude oil processing, gasoline volatility reduction, reduced levels of diesel fuel sulfur and aromatics, and reformulated gasoline.

Amoco Oil Co.

Texas City, Texas                                                                                                                                
Senior  Project Engineer

Process Superintendent
April 1983 - May 1985
October 1979 – April 1983

·         Conducted monthly operations planning activities using large multi-period LP and small gasoline blending LP.  Evaluated reasonableness of process unit LP yield vectors.  Reconciled operational and financial plant performance vs. plan.

·         Managed line operations for two naphtha desulfurizers, two high severity reformers and two small crude distillation process units; responsibility for 65 hourly, supervisory and technical personnel. Extensive experience with on-stream problem diagnosis and mechanical work, scheduled turn-around planning, and facility lay-away and start-up.  Worked as process operator during 4-month OCAW work stoppage.

Amoco Oil Co.

Chicago, Illinois

 
Product Manager – Petroleum Coke

Specialist – Aromatics Supply

Specialist – Operations Planning
July 1978 – October 1979

May 1977 – July 1978

October 1975 – May 1977

·         Individual responsibility for moving and marketing petroleum coke, both fuel and metallurgical grades, from four refineries.  Transport modes involved truck, rail, barge and ocean vessels.

·         Assisted corporate manager with buy-sell-trade decisions to maintain desired aromatics supply balance between refining (as octane supplement) and chemicals.

·         Headquarters team member to provide coordinated and economical fuels supply planning in 10-refinery system; primary work was in areas of petrochemicals, residual fuels and asphalts.

Amoco Oil Co.

Texas City, Texas                                                                                                                                
Staff Engineer

 
December 1970 - October 1975

·         Conducted operations planning, scheduling and yield analysis for world-scale Gulf Coast petrochemical refinery.  Used large multi-period LP and deterministic yield balance program; conducted detailed incremental economic analyses on buy-sell opportunities.  Worked as oil movements and product blending operator during 3-month OCAW work stoppage.

·         Process engineer for naphtha desulfurization and catalytic reforming.   Calibrate rigorous process models to generate LP yield vectors.  Upgrade daily material balance methodology.

US Army

Fort Bliss, Texas                                                                                                                                
Specialist Five

 
November 1968 - December 1970

·         Military leave of absence.  Chaparral missile system mechanic for training battalion.  Honorable discharge.

 

Amoco Oil Co.

Yorktown, Texas                                                                                                                                
Assistant Staff Engineer

 
June 1967 - November 1968

·         Provided technical support for different refining technologies; experience with saltwater cooling.  

 

 

Educational Background

·         B. S. Chemical Engineering from the University of Nebraska in June 1967.