Koh Murai
(H) 503.662.3000 (M)
503.781.0534
Ltakoh@msn.com
EXPERIENCE
2005-Current
Celerity, Inc.
{Design and manufacture of chemical and slurry supply tools for
semiconductor wafer fabrication industry as well as solar cell industry}
Position:
Chem. Systems Engineering New Product Introduction Manager, Manufacturing
Engineer
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Led team that introduced first new product line for slurries and nanoslurries in
four years. Modularized designs of
electrical, controls, mechanical and software to permit faster response to
customer and market demands. Now
flagship product line for division.
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Team member in movement of slurry/chemical testing laboratory from
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Manage manufacturing engineering group (5) as well as NPI design group (13).
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Created formal, detailed engineering design standards, as well as improvements
in testing and patent documentation methods for NPI.
2000-2005
Global Solutions for Science and
Learning, Inc.
{Small firm that designs, constructs, tests, flies high altitude scientific
balloons and inflatables for a variety of government customers including NASA,
DoD, NOAA, NSF, INEL}
Position:
Engineering Manager
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Project management for 100% expansion of manufacturing area and addition of
administrative offices.
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Created the document control, engineering change control, and test protocol
systems for the company.
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Provided management of design and production engineering, modeling and testing
for components and systems. This
was a hands on management style including engineering tasks and project
management.
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Versed in NASA and DoD standards
for payload design, ASTM standards for film, fiber, fabric testing and
evaluation. Utilized Solidworks for
3D modeling work.
1990-2000
The Clarkson Company/ Tyco Valves & Controls
{Manufacturer of valve and control products for slurry application,
specializing in abrasive-corrosive slurries}
Positions: Engineering Manager, Engineering Services Project Manager, Sales
Application Engineer
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Design and project management for elastomer/polymer QA laboratory construction.
Provided design and owner construction management for 110,000 ft2
manufacturing facility.
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Provided on site and remote technical service, training, and consulting.
Most often to assist customer with poor piping system design and stream
characterization in order to obtain proper function and life out of the valve or
control product. The most common of
these situations were reduced into a series of Technical Bulletins, which I
wrote. The sizing related
situations were addressed by a series of order and selection guides for valves,
hydraulic power units, and control systems.
These guides were a cross functional effort.
In similar cross functional effort all of the installation and operations
documents were grouped by product, graphic documentation added and published in
a customer friendly format.
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As engineer and manager in conjunction with R&D department brought 2 new
successful valve product lines to market.
Also introduced 6 new auxiliary support products to the market.
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Provide department management for design engineering, including CAD
documentation, test lab, field service, custom auxiliaries design (hydraulic
power units, electric generators, portable power solutions).
Staff varied from 10 – 22.
This was also a hands on situation where I did all the functions as well.
2D CAD work done in H-P ME-10, 3D CAD in H-P Mechanical Designer and
ANVIL, analysis work done with ALGOR.
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Instituted processes and training to achieve improved customer (internal and
external) service response:
RMA evaluations – reduced from 5 days to <8 hours total time including reports
Customer Drawings – eliminated missed due dates, reduced completion times by 35%
Engineering design on customer special configuration – reduced from 1-3 weeks to
<1 week depending complexity.
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A wide variety of management type activities were routinely accomplished
including: strategic and tactical planning, SWOT analysis, sunset reviews,
budgeting, cost control/tracking, financial statement (company and department)
analysis, recruiting, training and personnel activities.
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After integrating engineering functions (BOM, ECO/ECN,RMA) into new ERP system
and reducing customer lead time, the engineering group was the lead force in
moving the company to achieving ISO 9001 certification (which they still hold).
Subsequently via continuous improvement, implementation of the 5S
philosophy, the department maintained a leading role in implementing Six Sigma.
I was one of the 4 instructors in the 5S program training cross
functional teams (all departments) in the techniques and following up on the
performance of the various groups.
1987-1990
Free-Flow Packaging Corporation
{Manufacturer of loose fill packaging and foam sheet materials}
Position:
Project Engineer
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Design & construction engineering and project management for one grass roots
polymer extrusion facility installation (
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Key member of R&D and engineering effort that brought a new polyethylene “bubble
wrap” line to market. Used
different technology to effect significant cost reductions over normal vacuum
forming method.
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Using statistical process analysis, made improvements in polystyrene and
polyethylene extrusion line operations.
Also completed safety analysis and implemented changes for these
extrusion lines.
1986-1987
Webb, Murray & Associates
{Consulting firm specializing in fire protection systems, systems safety and
safety analysis}
Position:
Senior Engineer
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Performed Failure Modes and Effects (FMEA) analysis on north shore oil platform
blowout preventor.
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Performed chemical and mechanical safety analysis and fire prevention analysis
for NASA,
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Performed Fault Tree (FTA) and Hazards Analysis (HA) at Morton Thiokol for NASA
on selected areas of Space Shuttle SRB manufacture.
Headed up engineering team (5) on this project.
Based on quality of work, timeliness, and cost of this initial effort a
contract extension ($250,000) was awarded.
1977-1986
Stauffer Chemical Company
Houston/Greens Bayou/Baytown,
{Heavy and specialty chemical manufacturer, Co-generation owner/operator}
Positions: Sr.
Corporate Energy Engineer, Plant Manager, Plant Supt., Production Supt., Process
Engineer
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Provided construction engineering and management for industrial chemical
operation units including hazardous chemicals (liquid hydrogen sulfide, liquid
sulfur trioxide), lethal chemicals (liquid sulfur dioxide), storage system vent
gas control, and hydrocarbon incineration systems. Also for: control room
conversions to electric and PLC based controls, water treatment and
demineralization plants.
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Managed commissioning operations and de-bottlenecking of a fully EPA permitted,
closed loop, pilot plant for organic cleaning of chemical transport containers
(truck and ship). Designed and
installed a solvent recovery system upgrade that increased overall solvent
recovery by 30%).
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Reviewed and stamped a test plan submitted to EPA for a test burn of hazardous
wastes in a thermal incineration system.
Plan approved and I coordinated the test burn which demonstrated 99.9999%
DRE. A successful business unit
resulted along with successful permit applications in 3 EPA regions.
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For the division, created and wrote the energy conservation manual for operating
plants with sulfuric acid, phosphoric acid and nitric acid facilities including
all support utilities (air, steam, gas, electricity).
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Designed and completed many process and cost improvements in chemical and
utility areas. Participated in new
technology implementation startups at local plant and other plants around the
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Designed and installed a 1MW induction motor generator and switchgear.
Unit reduced plant electricity purchased by 50-80% depending on
production rates.
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Provided construction engineering and supervision for a 5 MW co-generation
facility installation including 2.4KV switchgear and controls.
Revised plant operation scheme to utilize this unit with existing 1.5 MW
unit to allow generation of 100% of required electricity for the plant and sell
excess back to local utility for additional revenue.
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Designed and provided construction engineering for 2.4 KV power distribution
system in chemical plant. Included
5 sub-stations designs, capacitor banks, transfer switches, with appropriate
safety and environmental controls.
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In my capacity as production/plant superintendent and plant manager, was
responsible to daily plant/unit operation in union and non-union environments.
Financial, personnel, safety, environmental, issues dealt with along with
routine and emergency operations.
EDUCATION:
B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1977,
REGISTRATION:
Registered Professional Engineer in
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:
A.I.Ch.E.-Sr. Member, A.I.A.A. – Sr. Member, A.C.S. Rubber Division-Member