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Douglas Hernndez
Results-oriented Chemical Engineer
(Australian Permanent Resident)
Contact Info
Urbanizacin Trigal Norte, Calle
Apolo, Casa 87-121, Valencia,
Carabobo, Venezuela, 2001
+58 424 428 7925
douglashv1@gmail.com
Profile
A self-driven, results-oriented Chemical Engineer who has solid experience within manufacturing and production;
successful in bolstering performance, and improving processes and quality that contributes to enhanced business
operations and quality standards in accordance with expectations.
Seeking a dynamic role within a company who is an innovator in their field; utilising creative problem solving skills and
high level conceptual thinking to identify opportunities, troubleshoot problems, and provide valuable, technical
knowledge that yields tangible improvements and results.
Key Assets
Solid experience and knowledge of Sales, Plastics and Chemical Manufacturing processes particularly as it
relates to Water Treatment Plants and the Food & Beverage and Agriculture industries, extending to (amongst
others): blown plastic films, extrusion of plastics and raw materials (High Density Polyethilene, HDPE; Low Density
Polyethylene, LDPE; Lineal Low Density Polyethylene, LLDPE), acids (citric, sulphuric, nitric, chlorhydric, etc.), ash,
sodium hydroxide, sodium chloride, hydrogen peroxide, and sodium hypochlorite.
Comprehensive workplace skills, extending to: equipment selection and design, material requirement planning,
production planning, quality control, auditing, product assessments, sampling and analysis, ISO / HACCP systems,
material data sheets, technical sales, delivery of technical workshops, and reporting.
Proven ability to explore alternatives, understand implications, analyse root causes, and troubleshoot issues;
encouraging continuous improvement by presenting new opportunities which contribute to the organisation's working
environment and philosophies, including safety and performance.
High level communication skills; adept at presenting technical information and ideas at an understandable level and
communicating effectively with stakeholders, clients and team members to advance the pursuit of company goals.
Highly creative with the ability to grasp new ideas and integrate into desired results; combining patience, determination
and persistence to complete projects from design and development, to testing and successful delivery.
Possess a natural ability to process calculations; utilising this skill and harnessing advanced proficiency in Excel,
Visio, SAP R/3, Aspen Engineering suites, Hysys, SuperPro Designer, Shop Floor Reporting, and Minitab to provide
accurate and quantifiable data.
Qualifications
Chemical Engineering: Carabobo University, Valencia, Venezuela 2008
- Ranked 1
st
amongst 1000 candidates for the National University Entrance Exam.
- Ranked in the Top 20 of 104 graduated students.
- Thesis: Design of a grinding and drying system for a feldspar processing company that
increased capacity of the production line by 400%.
- Registered with the Venezuelan Engineers Association, License: 246736.
- Assessed by Engineers Australia as meeting the current academic requirement for standing as
a Professional Engineer in Australia, with qualification being comparable to an Australian Bachelor Degree.

International English Language Testing System (IELTS): British Council, Venezuela 2014
- Achieved an overall band score of 8.0 out of 9.0, Proficient English
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Professional Experience
TECHNICAL SALES ENGINEER Aug. 2013 to Present
Induchem Ltd, Venezuela
Manufacturers and distributors of maintenance products, raw materials and thermoplastics, and providing clients with project commissioning. Induchem
employs around 200 staff and boasts organisations such as Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Smurfit Kappa, and Nestl amongst their clientele.
Invited into the role to serve as technical support and manage pre and post-sales activities; managing a portfolio of 45
clients and prospecting new clientele for the design, planning and delivery of products and raw materials, including:
- Chemical products for industrial maintenance: disinfectants, degreaser, sanitizer, etc.
- Raw materials: sodium hydroxide, nitric acid, sulphuric acid, chlorhydric acid, isopropyl alcohol, etc.
- Thermoplastics: tanks, bombs, valves and pipes for corrosive products.
Visit clients laboratories to scope and analyse objectives for new developments and / or troubleshoot technical issues;
harnessing a strong Engineering background to perform tests, troubleshoot, and provide solutions.
Act as knowledge broker between internal manufacturing and quality teams; analysing information for the specification
of new solutions, and providing high level advice and support for the design of custom-made products.
Deliver technical presentations and product education to clients in a clear, unambiguous manner; ensuring
comprehension of concepts and providing after-sales support.
Provide client workshops; demonstrating methods of chemical storage, safe handling of products, instruction on how to
use information provided by a Material Safety Data Sheet, and recommendations on managing leaks.
Complete risk assessments to ascertain effectiveness of client implementations and identify opportunities for
improvement; communicating same to management.
Review reports and modify processes and plans as required; demonstrating adaptability and the capacity to swiftly
attend to clients requests.
Forge strong relationships with key clients; overseeing all aspects of tender / contract negotiation, quotations (up to 7
per day), and administration of accounts.

Key Achievements:
Managed a HACCAP project for a client specialising in the manufacture of mayonnaise who had an issue with high
levels of adenosine triphosphate (ATP):
- Analysed the issue of a 3.8 ATP level a result of <2.0 is good, between 2.0 and 3.0 is an alert, and >3.0 is an
indication of large quantities of microorganisms.
- Devised a sanitisation plan using Induchems chemical products; studying the clients process system and
sanitisation plan.
- Obtained samples to determine which kind of undesirable microorganism was causing a high measure of ATP; finding
it to be salmonella on their system.
- Selected and tested products specialised for the food industry; taking into consideration the clients equipment
material (stainless steel 306 L food grade) and performing several evaluations.
- Detected critical points for testing every day by the clients quality assurance team and submitted recommendations.
- Recommended a cleaning and sanitisation plan using sodium hydroxide and nitric acid as cleaners, and then using
peracetic acid as a sanitiser.
- Reduced the level of ATP on all equipment from 3.8 to a more than acceptable 1.1 / 1.4.
Charged with concept development for a new client in the dairy industry who was experiencing difficulties with a
competitors product:
- Reviewed the clients objective for an iodine product with 1% active ingredient. Client was using a product with 1.5%
active ingredient which was causing irritation (mastitis) to the cows.
- Assisted the laboratory in developing a new product (we had a current product of 3% active ingredient).
- Presented a sample of 20 litres to the client and tested the product, in the field, for several days, with the client having
the product externally tested with a positive outcome.
- Secured the clients business of 720 litres per month, as well as upselling of other products.
Investigated a clients request to lower the use of chlorhydric acid in their water treatment plant and increase the use of
aluminium sulphate as a coagulant, which also has a lower pH of 4 at 15% dissolution:
- Determined the client had a process water with a pH of 10 and used chlorhydric acid to lower this pH; addressing
clients concern that an increase in coagulant use could affect clarification of the water in their plant.
- Undertook jar tests; experimenting with different doses of chemical products (and a Nalco flocculent) to determine
the best water clarification and decrease of chlorhydric acid consumption.
- Made a determination that the clients request was unviable, as a result of the created floc not being as dense
as required at lower chlorhydric acid doses, thus directly affecting clarification of the water.
- Presented a report and findings to the client, along with suggestions.
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Recognised as a valuable escalation point for resolution of issues; on one occasion, mitigating risk for a poultry
processing plant who had an imminent production closure:
- Urgently attended the clients site who were experiencing potential union industrial action due to the supply of our
hand soap and claims of inferior quality.
- Obtained product samples and actioned analysis at our laboratory; confirming a quality issue, with the active
ingredient and viscosity being low due to an identified production error.
- Consulted with the client; taking ownership on behalf of Induchem in recognising our quality failure and replacing the
entire 1200 litres the next day.
- Overcame intense aggression by the clients workers; successfully defusing the situation via communication with
the clients management and union officials.
Renowned for strengthening commercial relationships and boosting client satisfaction; taking the time to connect
with decision makers and offer outstanding technical service and assistance.
Secured Coca-Cola (Venezuela) as a client; building a relationship over 5 months that has resulted in a contract of 31
tonnes of sodium hydroxide per month.
Developed an Excel macro to automatically total amounts in letters and eliminate manual typing when producing quotes;
subsequently adopted company-wide that has estimated a time saving of 18 minutes per person per week.
Consistently surpass company targets of 3 new clients per quarter; proving a valuable member of the team that has
increased designated zone revenues by 82% on prior year 38% above target.


Plsticos de Empaque Ltd, Venezuela Aug. 2008 to Aug. 2013
Leading Venezuelan company that specialises in the processing of polyethylene films (HDPE, LDPE, and LLDPE).
Key Roles:
RAW MATERIALS BUYER: 2012 to 2013
PRODUCTION PLANNING & CONTROL ANALYST: 2011 to 2013
QUALITY CONTROL ANALYST: 2008 to 2010
Key Activities:
Managed relationships with 85 suppliers; accountable for the planning, forecasting and purchase of raw materials,
comprising 172 codes across cardboard tubes, polyethylene, pigments, inks, packaging materials, solvents, and
additives.
Inspected materials against quality standards; instigating rectification on identified issues.
Liaised with suppliers during evaluation and design of new products; providing subject matter expertise on our
requirements and obtaining suggestions on new materials and utilisation.
Oversaw production planning and control analysis for 11 production lines producing 500 tons per month, comprising 5x
extruders, 4x sealers, 1x embossing machine and 1x slitter machine.
Undertook review, progress and traceability control; managing around 350 production orders per month.
Instigated modifications on the production plan to accommodate timely production of special / urgent orders.
Attended to all facets of daily and weekly production schedules, including correct use of raw materials and plant capacity,
as well as production reports, analysis of inventory, and material requisition requests.
Controlled on-site inspections, laboratory tests and process audits in accordance with 5S, GMP and continuous
improvement methodologies.

Key Achievements:
Promoted as Raw Materials Buyer to improve inventory levels and decrease delays to the production process;
successful in guaranteeing continuous supplies, purchase order management, and delivery control through development
of systems.
Played an instrumental role for material requirement planning during start-up of two new coextruders; providing
continuous supply for 9 months which was crucial in increasing plant capacity by 22%.
Seconded as Production Coordinator for coextrusion and extrusion areas; during this time, overseeing production
planning and control of the plant that accomplished its 2
nd
best month, reaching 1,033 ton of finished product with
an inventory difference of only 0.5%, and generating total wastage of only 8%.
Served as a key member of the team that saw the company reacquire ISO 9001:2008 Certification.
Addressed an issue with the coefficient of friction (COF) for films used in lamination; collaborating with a supplier to
provide an additive that lowered the COF by 80% (to a range of <0.20) and subsequently overseeing production tests.


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QUALITY ASSURANCE INTERN June 2007 to Mar. 2008
Colgate Palmolive Ltd, Venezuela
Charged with validation of 10x liquid plant filling lines; determining production line control limits in accordance with
intrinsic variation to meet a set weight for each bottle of disinfectant.
Analysed measures of weight proportional to the contained volume; flagging undesirable or unpredictable results to
mitigate risk of an unstable process.
Set quality control limits for several products and trained operators on use of the Shop Floor Reporting system.
Reduced specification non-conformance by 50% as a direct result of the operators being able to identify production
inconsistencies; making a significant impact on product quality and compliance with legal regulations.

THESIS ENGINEERING STUDENT Mar. 2007 to Feb. 2008
Feldespatos Procesados Ltd, Venezuela
Designed a grinding and drying system that increased mineral processing production capacity by 400%:
- Identified issues in the grinding process; partitioning the problem and determining root causes using the fishbone
diagram to assess solutions with engineering analysis and principles for all 5 manufacturing processes.
- Reviewed existing process conditions by registering the materials flow and transformation, equipment set, humidity,
granulometry, temperatures and pressures; identifying that: humidity of the material was affecting amount of material
that could be dried to the % required by the grinding process; and mechanical problems with the dryer and crusher.
- Designed a wet grinding system to replace the dryer and crusher stage, that relied on the A. Gupta and D.S. Yan
approaches for a ball mill in a closed circuit with a hydrocyclone system; producing the required granulometry of 80
Tyler mesh at the required production rate (17.29 ton/h).
- Designed a rotary dryer based on the McCabe approach within an open circuit with a rod mill, to grind the material
to required granulometry and production rate.
- Undertook an economic analysis; calculating cash flow over a 15-year economic horizon and estimating a loan
repayment of 70% of total investment with fixed interests of 12% and constant repayment instalments for 10 years.
- Addressed losses during the load-in of trucks, where material was dispersed in the air due to use of a conveyor belt
thus polluting the environment, products and equipment of neighbours that led to non-compliance with the
Environment Act. Proposed a bulk loading spout for feldspar with a density of 72PCF and loading rate of 19MTPH.
- Managed the entire project, from observations, research and design, through to a feasibility study.
Professional Development
Industrial Water Treatment Quality Analysis: Carabobo University 2014
Strategic Management of Purchases: B&D Gestin Empresarial Integral Ltd 2012
Basf Additives: Plsticos de Empaque Ltd 2012
Coextrusion Technology, Cause & Effect Analysis, Applications & Formulations: Plsticos de Empaque 2011
Flexography: Flexodana Ltd 2010
Motivation & High Performance Teams: Franiris Ltd 2010
Sanitisation in ISO 9001:2008: Plsticos de Empaque Ltd 2009
Food Manufacturing Practice: Eventos Hoy Ltd 2008
Fabrication of Multilayer Films, Coextrusion of Polymeric Materials: Coramer Ltd 2008
2
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National Conference of Natural Gas: Los Andes University 2006
New Technologies for Industrial Processes Conference: Simn Bolivar University 2006
First Integral Processes Seminar: National Experimental University 2005
Advanced Course in Excel: Carabobo University 2005
Referees
Claudia Sague, Sales Supervisor, Induchem Ltd, Venezuela
Contact: +58 414 433 4431 / csague@induchem.com.ve
Silvia Cocconcelli, Internal Sales Engineer, Rotork, Australia
Contact: +61 407 461 638 / silviacocconcelli@hotmail.com
Kamal Kanahan, Marketing Manager, Donald Trump Company, USA (character referee)
Contact: +1 305 587 7666 / kamalkanahan@hotmail.com