Professional Resume - Randall Kooiman - February, 2009

PLANT/ENGINEERING MANAGEMENT • PROCESS SPECIALIST Detail-oriented and hands-on professional offering 20+ years of engineering, facilities management, staff leadership, and process improvement success within refining, chemical plant, and fractionation operations. Decisive problem solver and troubleshooter adept at mentoring and leading quality teams to deliver safe, efficient, and quality operations. Analytical and goal-focused leader with record of turning around underperforming units, leading divisions through major transitions, and revamping facilities. Areas of excellence: Process Improvement • Business Development/Growth • Process Evaluation • Facility Management Start-Up Operations • Consulting • Regulatory Compliance • Operations Management • Recruitment Safety Compliance • Turnarounds • Organizational Restructuring • Team Management • OSHA Cost/Benefit Analysis • Change Management • Engineering • Operational Streamlining • Troubleshooting.

--PROFESSIONAL HISTORY--

Plant Management, Inc. - Enid, Oklahoma - 2006-Present

Built firm to provide engineering designs/services, management consulting, website development, and administrative assistance to oil and gas companies. Mentor and lead small contractor business owners in management techniques. Head marketing functions to achieve business growth. Provide licensed engineering support to refineries, fractionators, and pipeline and storage facilities.

•   Played integral role in small business start-up operations, growth, and optimization.
•   Designed grass roots, capital efficient bio-diesel plant process.
•   Provided management consultation to start-up contracting company in Kansas.

ONEOK Hydrocarbon, LP - Medford, Oklahoma - 2005-2006

Administered fractionator, butamer plant, and storage operations comprised of 80 personnel. Managed 7 department heads and plant managers. Functioned as Medford Plant Manager; oversaw Manager of Mont Belvieu, Texas and Hutchinson, Kansas plants. Maintained $65M annual budget.

•   Led plant staff through transition from Koch to ONEOK ownership, ensuring smooth operations without interruption.
•   Integrated Mont Belvieu fractionator into Mid-Continent structure; assimilated staff and systems into new structure.
•   Directed successful merger of pipeline business and plant business.

Koch Hydrocarbon, LP - Medford, Oklahoma - 1996-2005

Headed fractionator, butamer plant, and storage operations. Supervised 6 department heads having 45 employees. Managed $45M annual budget. Identified and resolved major system malfunctions and compliance problems.

•   Played key role in sale of business and additional pipeline assets for $1.35B through improving facility reliability and efficiency to maximize asset value for sale and in management presentations to prospective buyers.
•   Turned around dysfunctional management structure by recruiting, hiring, and/or promoting top-performing management team to focus efforts on key drivers of operational excellence.
•   Reduced operational incidents from 6 to 1 per year, in addition to incident severity, through identifying primary cause of incidence and providing systematic upgrades as well as installing plant by-pass system, which provided operators with emergency shut-off switch.
•   Enhanced regulatory compliance by incorporating culture of compliance with staffing, awareness, incentives, and consequences; earned dramatic improvements in compliance audit scores with focus on identifying and mitigating key risks.

Murphy Oil USA, Inc. - Superior, Wisconsin - 1991-1996

Controlled refinery operations, which included 3 area supervisors, 5 shift managers, and approximately 70 union operators. Ensured regulatory and safety compliance. Acted as Process Safety Management (PSM) Coordinator. Represented company during union-related matters.

•   Implemented process safety management (PSM) rules and requirements into facility management through building PSM team out of employees and consultants, assigning leaders to each of 14 PSM elements. Trained selected operators in development of make required piping and instrumental diagrams (P&ID).
•   Revamped entire refinery by mandating successful shutdown, cleaning, repairing, and restarting; coordinated operations manpower and consultants through planning, shutdown, start-up, and operational debugging of entire refinery.
•   Incorporated new facility into refinery operations through installing new sour water stripper, writing operating procedures, training operators, and managing start-up and debugging of new facility.

Champlin Refining & Chemicals Inc. - Corpus Christi, Texas - 1989-1991

Administered refinery process engineering for hydrotreaters and sulfur plants. Provided support for organizational turnarounds as well as de-bottlenecking and optimization. Co-authored paper published in technical journal.

Also functioned as Lead Engineer for Chevron USA, Inc.

--ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS, PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, & AFFILIATIONS--

Bachelor’s Degree, Chemical Engineering
University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology

Oklahoma Professional Engineer, License #23395 • Kansas License #20251

Welding Basic Certification

Market-Based Management® Academy
Koch Industries

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association (AOPA)

Commercial Pilot’s License: Single & Multi-Engine • Flight Instructor’s License: Single Engine