The Becht Team
Darren York
Darren York has 23 years of Supply Chain Optimization and Industrial Engineering experience in the Refining and Chemical industry. Darren’s experience includes roles with KBC Advanced Technologies as a Principal Consultant and Global Product Manager for Strategic and Supply Chain Services working with international clients in all regions including the US, Canada, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Uruguay, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Russia, EAU, Oman, South Africa, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, China and Japan. Prior to KBC, Darren held multiple positions, including management roles, at Flint Hills Resources Corpus Christi refinery in business development, economics and planning, production accounting, compliance and performance management. In these roles he has focused on business success and margin capture through applied optimization, project leadership, planning, coaching and technical development of an integrated hydrocarbon supply chain.
Darren has expertise in refinery and petrochemicals planning (operations, annual, long term, and strategic), refinery scheduling, crude evaluation/selection, product blending, logistics, commercials/trading, economics and business analysis, LP modelling (PIMS, RPMS, GRTMPS, Petro and Spiral), Scheduling and Blending modelling, compliance and Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) management, performance management with KPIs and scorecards, business analytics and data visualization, process mapping, stochastic modelling/simulation, and discrete event simulation.
Darren holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University – Kingsville.
Darren has built and led multi-functional teams to build single and multi-plant, multi-period as well as country wide circuit LP models, integrated refinery and petrochemical scheduling models, multi-blend optimization models, participated in multi-discipline feasibility, configuration, profit improvement, strategic, investment and due diligence studies, detailed opportunity crude evaluations, supply chain optimization work process and tools assessments, economic evaluations for oil producer for pricing and marketing decisions, as well as improvement and integration of hydrocarbon supply chain optimization functions and tools with clients around the world.
Darren’s passion is to help Becht clients succeed through hydrocarbon supply chain optimization that results in greater margin capture at all levels and stages from strategic feasibility to operational production.
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