Experience

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  Atlantic Packaging Products Ltd.

  • Whitby, Ontario, Canada

  • Manager of Research and Development, Mills

    • Jan 2023 - Present
    • Whitby, Ontario, Canada

    Technology and process development resource for the papermaking team.

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  Clearwater Paper Corporation

  • Shelby, NC

  • Ultra Tissue Technology Engineer

    • Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
    • Shelby, NC

    Supporting ultra tissue manufacturing process and quality.

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  Resolute Forest Products

  • Canada
  • Paper and Forest Product Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Special Projects Manager

    • Oct 2015 - Jul 2017

    Product development and process design for Resolute's new Tissue business unit.

  • Technical Services Manager

    • Jun 2007 - Sep 2015

    Responsibilities during the course of this tenure have included a) customer service .. newsprint pressroom runnability and printability troubleshooting b) steam plant management c) environmental system management d) ISO 9001 quality and ISO 14000 environmental system development and management e) FSC system development and management f) Effluent treatment system management. g) consulting services to many mills in North America, Europe, and Asia for deinking system optimization and trial evaluation. The past two years have involved strategic project development in energy and new product lines.

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  Public Image Photography

  • Southern Ontario

  • Business Owner

    • 2010 - 2015
    • Southern Ontario

    Provider of professional architectural photography to the architecture and construction industries.

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  Quno Corporation

  • Thorold Mill

  • Deinking Plant Superintendent

    • 1985 - 2007
    • Thorold Mill

    Responsible for conceptual design, training, startup, and operation of the first flotation deinking waste paper process for newsprint in North America, a 525 MT/day installation. Subsequent expansions to this process, plus a new 480 MT/day plant built in 2002 converted the newsprint mill to 100% waste paper furnish.

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  Ontario Paper Co.

  • Thorold, ON

  • Pulp Mill Superintendent

    • 1980 - 1987
    • Thorold, ON

    Rsponsible for startup and operation of TMP and CMP pulping processes, and the first washing deinking pulp plant for newsprint in Canada.

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  Ontario Paper Company

  • Thorold, ON

  • Process Technologist

    • 1977 - 1980
    • Thorold, ON

    Process optimization studies in vanillin and lignin production. Crystallization process study and capacity upgrade for USP vanillin production. Effluent discharge studies and control system development. Vanillin high vacuum distillation system startup with thin film evaporator and thermal oil system. Sulfur dioxide stripper column startup.