Betsy Cole

Experience

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  ExxonMobil

  May 2010 - Aug 2010

  Environmental Project Management Summer Intern

  - Coordinated full-time consultants performing field work to remediate contaminated properties, achieving two cost-saving structural improvements from the efficient use of resources ($350K benefit).- Developed unique site strategies and timelines to initiate divestment processes for idle land parcels.

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  ExxonMobil

  May 2011 - Aug 2011

  Optimization Summer Intern

  - Automated the creation of pipestill models in a flowsheeting software to be used for model validation, resulting in a cost savings of two weeks of development time per model.

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  ExxonMobil

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2021

  - Supervised a global team of 12 people with diverse backgrounds across data analytics, programming, software, and optimization engineering who used an internal Python-based toolset to develop linear-regression and neural net economic models as well as visualization capabilities in Power BI and Tableau to create actionable business insights.- Actively led culture transformation with focus on inclusion and empowerment in a matrix organization. Organized job shadowing program to guide employee career development and improve organizational effectiveness.- Oversaw $75M global project portfolio to upgrade economic models. Initiated cross-functional collaborations to streamline model development and pioneered sustainable work processes to reduce model build time by 10%. Show less - Ran linear program (LP) models to determine optimal crude purchase decisions for 250 KBD refinery.- Integrated run plan signals to ensure alignment across all planning, scheduling, and online control platforms to maximize value. Consolidated data for coordinators to simplify decision making on solubility, TAN, and asphaltic quality.- Streamlined development of monthly and quarterly run plans ($100K/yr benefit), by revamping capacity exception work process for data collection from refinery-wide business teams.- Enabled more accurate predictions of as-received crude quality ($2M/yr benefit) by initiating sampling and creating new database for tracking and troubleshooting of rail cargos. Show less - Responsible for diesel hydroprocessing, naphtha hydroprocessing, and saturated gas distillation units. Primary role included daily, weekly, and monthly data analysis on unit performance, drawing on descriptive & predictive analytics to troubleshoot & resolve issues. - Proactively assumed additional duties by leading console business team meetings and mentoring engineers.- Planned and executed Turnarounds including catalyst changeouts and re-tray of towers. Drove alignment with engineering and business teams to use novel catalyst in naphtha hydroprocessing service ($7M/yr benefit).- Devised unique system to automatically generate monitoring reports to allow engineers to spend more time on analysis, not data gathering, reducing workload by 0.5 FTE. Show less - Spearheaded weekly online/offline optimization coordination meetings, by focusing on overall refinery optimization strategy and integrating process control data to ensure alignment across model signals.- Overhauled margin improvement meetings and initiated constraint busting sessions with console operators to review all process control limits, which improved uptime metrics by 50%.- Diagnosed and fixed first-principles models, including long-standing errors in pressure compensated temperature and measurement weighting strategy on flowmeters, resulting in bias reductions of 40%. Show less - Coordinated multi-disciplinary resources to develop integrated dashboard for visualizing pricing and constraint signals from online and offline models, including creation of SQL database, using agile development process.- Piloted new corrosion monitoring application through holistic approach of translating code from VBA to Fortran, hosting Cold Eyes Review with senior technical resources, single-handedly building Excel user interface to enable offline running of tool, and writing first-ever user guide for tool. Show less

  • Economic Planning Optimization Supervisor & Modeling Project Manager

    Jan 2019 - Jan 2021

  • Crude Economist

    Jan 2018 - Jan 2019

  • Process Engineer

    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

  • Real Time Optimization Engineer (RTO Engineer)

    Jan 2015 - Jan 2016

  • Optimization Engineer

    Jan 2012 - Jan 2015
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  Rigaku

  Feb 2022 - now

  - Collaborating with all departments internally to grow revenue, streamline processes, and enhance fundamental underlying business & IT infrastructure.- Revitalizing Salesforce CRM usage, designing & building new functionality using business analysis and system architecture skills, and training users. - Collaborated with all subsidiaries in Rigaku Americas to align departments, drive digital transformation, streamline internal business processes, and grow revenue. - Accountable for the Rigaku suite of X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) instruments, spanning benchtop & floor models, Wavelength Dispersive XRF (WDXRF) & Energy Dispersive XRF (EDXRF) instruments, and simultaneous & sequential instruments.- Supervised the team of XRF Application Scientists responsible for pre-sales and post-sales activities. - Led business development initiatives and developed key market strategy plans to gain further entry into industrial markets for X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) technology, including Oil & Gas and Mining among other key markets.

  • Commercial Operations Manager

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Business Transformation Manager

    Nov 2022 - Jan 2024

  • XRF Product Manager

    Jul 2022 - Nov 2022

  • Business Development Manager

    Feb 2022 - Jul 2022