Belgium
SUD Digital Command Center Program Manager & Technical Readiness Leader Europe
Fabric Care Engineering | EMEA SUD Making Initiatives & Global Equipment Project Manager
Central Engineer for Heavy Duty Liquids production in E-IMEA
• Managed the building process, start-up, maintenance and improvement of a reactor for solvent extraction processes (Project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy) • Designed and carried out experiments using the reactor to study the kinetics and hydrodynamics of solvent extractions • Analyzed the resulting data to improve the efficiency of industrial processes, such as Spent Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing and Radioactive Waste Recycling • Completed the UCI’s Nuclear Plant Trainee Reactor Operator Course
• Designed and managed trials to test vehicle quality after design modifications • Improved documentation to assure product quality across a wide range of processes • Conducted and followed up internal audits of body and paint processes
PROJECTS LED: 1) Developed cost effective solutions to optimize a manufacturing process for Fabric & Home Care (F&HC) products and achieve potential savings of $800.000 per year globally by minimizing the waste generated: • Defined the objectives, requirements and budget of the project • Engaged and coordinated a team of 6 experts from Engineering, Research & Development, Modelling & Simulation and Manufacturing • Analyzed the critical parameters of the process and benchmarked to identify potential standard solutions for a wide range of F&HC products • Identified a solution to reduce the waste up to an 85 % and the process duration up to a 30 %: designed and ran experiments on a pilot plant scale to optimize the process sequence 2) Studied the alternatives to automatize the final quality check of Air Care products: • Identified potential technologies and contacted suppliers • Conducted a best value option analysis considering regulatory requirements, technology capabilities, complexity of installation in the current lines, cost and potential savings • Identified a potential solution that would allow savings of $64.000 per year
• Evaluated an innovative technology based on Membrane Aerated Biofilm Reactors (MABRs) for wastewater treatment from a pharmaceutical plant • Managed the installation, start up, operation and maintenance of a 6 m3 pilot plant of MABRs • Identified the operational parameters to reduce the energy consumption up to a 75 % while achieving the desired performance