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FBR Product Handling Production Engineer @ From October 2012 to Present (3 years 3 months) Moses Lake, WashingtonAsh and Oxide Etch Process Engineer @ • Responsible for the production performance of all Pocatello ash tools including ensuring product integrity by SPC control, operator protocol, up-to-date PFMEA and supporting production staff by solving atypical problems and preventing their reoccurrence, improving line capacity, throughput and consistency, capturing maverick product and statistically verifying its customer conformance, etc. • Made several standardized VBA programs that streamlined navigation through the command prompt style production system portal and imported data into Excel for quicker SPC management and OOC pattern recognition. • Engineered several projects to statistically prove and control prevention of product yield excursions, raise the Cpk of product parameter distributions and improve tool recipes endpoint setups, reducing repetitious manual intervention. • Gained Class 1 cleanroom experience using SEMs, Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy, high powered microscopes and optical thin film measurement probes. From February 2012 to September 2012 (8 months) Pocatello, Idaho AreaSenior Plant Scheduler @  Decided to take on the temporary responsibility of scheduling a plant with the intention of further improving its complexities.  Continued to be an active resource for plant functions by supplying technical tools and support.  Served as a hub for communication and decision making between all supply chain groups, both internal (marketing, sales, operations, development) and external (suppliers and some customers).  Managed the Shelley plant schedule through one of the market’s lowest raw material supply periods, lowering inventories throughout the whole supply chain to avoid procuring high priced raw, but without shorting customers. This also occurred during BAF’s biggest retail market venture after acquiring the Smuckers label.  Recognized the need for and developed a tool to merge MRP, pull theory, and forecast to help automate the majority of the scheduler’s analyses. From April 2011 to February 2012 (11 months) Shelley, IDProcess Engineer @  Further developed the company’s pull theory and simulation. Successfully applied the theory of lead time demand to pull stock calculations. Pioneered development of the pull system process to incorporate forecast comparison/validation, seasonality, capacity planning, line rate smoothing, etc.  Created several Excel based VBA and SQL tools to significantly streamline time intensive jobs and create task and performance visibility in several departments, specifically empowering operators to schedule and monitor their lines and enable schedulers to more easily manage their complex job.  Developed and lead the implementation of pulls systems within the company warehouses to standardize, simplify and organize warehouse management.  Developed and lead the implementation of finished good pull for packaging lines. Pull systems significantly reduced inventories required companywide.  My responsibilities over Moses Lake, WA projects and Company Pull implementation overlapped between Sept 2007 and Dec 2009. From September 2007 to April 2011 (3 years 8 months) Moses Lake, WAAssociate Engineer @  Improved the efficiencies of the Pearl process line from an average of 70% of budget to a sustaining 105% average by collaborating with operators.  Engineered and implemented several profit sustaining capital projects for the Moses Lake plant including the waste water pump replacement, potato transfer pump replacement and process roof membrane installation.  Successfully engineered and implemented a profit enhancing project to install a reverse osmosis system for both electric and gas boiler systems in Moses Lake. From June 2007 to December 2009 (2 years 7 months) Blackfoot, IDR&D Intern @  Aid to a polyurethane chemist in the development of a market leading R-39 defect free foam insulation.  Gained shop experience including operating a forklift and scissor lift, welding, torch cutting, etc. From June 2006 to June 2007 (1 year 1 month) Bozeman, MTR&D Engineer Intern @  Became very familiar with PFDs and P&IDs  Created a tool that performed plant, system and unit level energy balance analyses  Developed test procedure to identify caustic reactivity levels independent of viscosity From May 2004 to August 2005 (1 year 4 months) Butte, MontanaWaiter & Buser @ From 2003 to 2004 (1 year) Butte, Montana

BS, Chemical Engineering @ Montana State University-Bozeman From 2004 to 2007 General Engineering @ Montana Tech - Butte From 2003 to 2004 Kahl Brown is skilled in: Visual Basic, AutoCAD, SQL, Microsoft Excel, Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Process Simulation, Analysis, Supply Chain Management, SPC, R&D, Continuous Improvement, Process Engineering, MathCAD, JMP