my experience in a chronological order
- assistant professor, Faculty of chemical engineering, University of Zagreb: conducting students exercises in the fields of mathematical modeling and computer programming. I introduced matlab as a standard modelling tool instead of qbasic.
- assistant quality manager, Calucem Pula: organizing work for 10 lab technician 24/7, introducing mineralogical measurement of cement, designing and setting up computer database for lab and process data and analyzing software. Introducing iso 9000 and 14000 system in the plant.
- process engineer, Calucem Pula: developing, organizing, and leading tests on cement kilns and mills. conducting constant improving system on the cement manufacturing process. leading capex project connected to process improvement.
- production manager, Calucem Pula: managing 60 workers 24/7, clinker and cement production. I started regular improvement meetings among production, quality and maintenance departments to improve fuel consumption and refractory usage on kiln. Within 3 years fuel consumption decreased 30% and refractory usage per ton of cement dropped 3 times.
- plant manager and executive Board member , Calucem Pula: Managing raw material supply along with negotiation and contracting. supervising maintenance and purchasing processes. Codeveloping company strategic decisions, and executing decisions in fields of raw materials, production, maintenance, process improvement, purchasing, capex projects and partially in HR. Managing 160 people on site. I was responsible for a budget of 15 m/y.
- co-owner, B4 Control Solutions Karlovac: emission soft sensor development and installation in process industries (stonewool and glass production). Optimisation of complex control loops in pharmaceutical industry. Due diligence of cement plants.
My formal education:
Master in chemical engineering , University of Zagreb
My skills:
- mathematical modelling of chemical processes from basic material/energy balance to final application
- automatic process data cMore...