Marcus T. Delgado

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Senior Process Engineer with 9 years of experience in refinery operations and pharmaceutical manufacturing, specializing in continuous process optimization and scale-up from pilot to commercial production. Reduced unit operating costs by 18% across two facilities through rigorous Six Sigma-driven root-cause analysis and equipment redesign. Holds a PMP certification and a proven record of cross-functional project delivery within FDA-regulated and OSHA PSM environments.

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Senior Process EngineerMar 2020 - Present

Vantara Refining Solutions, Pasadena, TX

Redesigned the crude distillation unit heat-exchanger network, cutting energy consumption by 22% and saving $1.4 M annually without capital expenditure beyond $180 K in retrofit hardware.
Led a cross-functional team of 12 to implement a real-time SPC monitoring system across 6 process trains, reducing off-spec product incidents by 34% within the first 8 months of deployment.
Authored and executed 14 Management of Change packages under OSHA PSM 29 CFR 1910.119, achieving zero recordable incidents over a 36-month period and maintaining full regulatory compliance through two unannounced EPA audits.

Process Engineer IIJun 2017 - Feb 2020

Meridian BioProcess Technologies, Durham, NC

Scaled a monoclonal antibody upstream fermentation process from 200 L pilot to 2,000 L commercial bioreactor, achieving 97% yield consistency across the first 18 production batches and cutting time-to-batch-release by 11 days.
Optimized CIP/SIP cycle parameters for four stainless-steel vessels, reducing cycle time by 28% and decreasing water consumption by 41,000 gallons per quarter while maintaining 21 CFR Part 211 compliance.
Developed and validated 9 process control SOPs adopted site-wide, which contributed to a successful FDA pre-approval inspection with zero Form 483 observations.

Process Engineer IAug 2015 - May 2017

Halloran Chemical Group, Baton Rouge, LA

Modeled distillation column performance in Aspen Plus for a specialty solvent product line, identifying a feed-tray relocation that improved separation efficiency by 15% and increased throughput by 8 MT per day.
Coordinated HAZOP studies for three new unit operations, documenting 47 action items and driving 100% closure within the project schedule, enabling on-time plant startup.
Tracked and reported KPIs for 5 continuous reactors using PI System historian, surfacing a feed-ratio drift that, once corrected, recovered $320 K in annual product give-away losses.

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