Jerome Laffont
Chemical Engineer. Project manager. (Food/Chemical/Oil/Gas)
Safely landed in Chicago...
Survived the windy city winter and up and running..
I now work for UOP LLC in Des Plaines next to O'Hare airport, as a project manager in their Modular plants division.
UOP is a major player in the Refinery industry, they're part of the Honeywell group.
Amongst UOP technologies, the modular group builds Platforming, Continuous Catalyst Regeneration plants, and gas treatment installations.
Typical projects are in the range of 10 to 30M USD. 15 to 20 people (internal resource) are involved in such projects.
I'm a L2 visa and EAD working permit holder.
I'm used to working with several nationalities, I'm fluent in English and proficient in Spanish, french being my mother tongue.
12 contacts"UOP is an international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and consulting services to the petroleum and gas industries."
www.uop.com
Sector: Pétrole - Exploration - Production - Raffinage
2005 - 2007"Petreco International is a worldwide market leader in cutting edge technology for liquid/liquid and liquid/solid separation for the oil production and refining industries, as well as gas treating and processing".
Petreco is part of Cameron process division: www.c-a-m.com , which also includes Drilling and production systems, Valves & measurement, and Compression systems departments.
Cameron is a big player in the exploration and oil&gas treatment.
As a project manager, I execute packaged installations contracts both for off-shore and in-shore fields, mainly abroad (producing countries). Projects range from 1 to 5M USD, I handle 2 to 3 projects at a time.
2000 - 2005The GEA Group, headquartered in Bochum, Germany, is a globally successful technology group with operating companies in around 50 countries. GEA stands for Global Engineering Alliance. The company now focuses on specialty mechanical engineering - especially process engineering and equipment. The GEA Group is one of the world's market and technology leaders in 90 percent of its businesses.
GEA's process division includes the two world leaders in drying and evaporating technologies: Niro (spray drying, fluidised bed, evaporation) and Barr Rosin (flash dryer, tumble dryer).
I worked for Niro in France and Barr Rosing in the UK as a project manager to execute contracts between 500 kEUR and 3M EUR, both in France and abroad.
1997 - 2000R&D project manager in product and process development. Product domain: frozen food, ice creams. Processes: freezing, secondary refrigerant and heat exchange technologies.
Achievements: product launches, several patents filed.
1995 - 1997This experience extends from engineering school internship to the end of french military service (served as a civilian)
I managed a joint research effort between Atofina Pau, France, King of Prussia, USA, and the chemical engineering department of the university of Cambridge, U.K.
This program led to the writing and filing of a patent on latex emulsions coagulation.
