SUMMARY:

• Thirteen years of experience in the field of non - destructive testing
• Dimensional/Mechanical inspection of close tolerance military components
• QC/QA inspector of two major pharmaceutical projects as well as the US Naval Nuclear Submarine & Surface Program.
• Represented hundreds of union welders, fitters, foreman and superintendents in a shop & field environment
• Worked with wide variety of codes, standards, specifications, procedures, contract documents, and prints.
• Inspection techniques successfully audited by Electric Boat, BPMI, Defense Contract Management Association (DCMA), Northrop Grumman, Newport News, Jacobs Construction Management
• Extensive code application of numerous industrial standards: AWS D1.1, ASME B31.1, ASME B31.3, ASME BPE, ASME V & VIII-Div. 1, API 1104, API 653, NAVSEA & MIL-STD'S (Level I material, surface acceptance, markings, NDE, welded joint design, geometric tolerance and dimensioning)
• Contract review, inspection plans, and procedures to assure adherence to quality management systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook, Visual, Access Database, Adobe, Acrobat reader, Citrix Network, Travel itineraries, production realization, record & document organization, Customer conferencing, contract review, product representation & planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, West Chester, PA

NDT Examiner & Inspection Manager

• Contract review in order to establish a product inspection plan that satisfies customer-imposed precedents as well as code compliance.
• Assist process engineers with establishing the latest stage of manufacture, which is conducive to testing and define geometrical requirements of test calibration blocks to establish sensitivity requirements.
• Train, test, and document all personnel’s non-destructive testing experience.
• Attend weekly meetings to aide in production goals and milestones.
• Meet with requisitioning & purchasing department to maintain departmental needs and consumables.
• Geometric and dimensional tolerancing of products.
• Final product acceptance, rejection, reporting.
• Government and or customer surveillance and auditing.
• Flaw sizing, locating, and classification in order to determine if subsequent operations will remove defect from final product.
• Maintain adherence to company’s quality management systems ISO: 9001 / AS9100
• Preliminary evaluation of ingots through ultrasonic A-scan to locate potential defects in order to part material in such a manner as to remove them from final product, in an effort to minimize machining and maximize overall quality.
• Travel to various customer locations to perform subsequent NDT after final machining to assure there were no inherent defects associated with the operation i.e.. machining tears (PT).

Confidential, Florence, NJ

Quality Operations Inspector

• Fit-up inspections per drawing requirement and military joint design (MIL-STD 22)
• Welding surveillance inspection & audits (root, back-grind, final, and repair)
• Hydro-Static & Pneumatic testing of unfired pressure vessels and piping
• In-process and final inspections of dimensional drawing requirements with various mechanical tools: inside-outside-wall and pole micrometers, vernier calipers, pie tapes, elliot/snap gauges, ligament gauges, thread gauges, profilometers, dial depth gauges, transits
• Non-destructive testing (PT, VT, UT) and support documentation
• Cleanroom certification and cleanliness inspections
• Water purity testing, weight reports, customer inspection and sign-off

Confidential, Gibbsboro, NJ

NDT Inspector

• Operation of Magnetic Flux Exclusion (MFE) in order to evaluate floors in bulk storage tanks (API 653) for soil side corrosion
• Ultrasonic B-Scan operator (TMI-150) in order to size severity of nominal wall loss
• Flaw detection of welded moment connections in structural steel I-beam construction of buildings utilizing UT shear wave (USN-50, USN-58L scope)
• Penetrant Testing (solvent removable and water washable)
• Barcol Hardness testing of fiberglass reinforced plastic and cross linked polyethylene storage tanks
• Magnetic Particle testing of field production welds (all passes)

Confidential, West Orange, NJ

QC/QA Inspector

• Management of 115 union welders of various processes (GTAW, GMAW, SMAW, and Semi-Automatic Orbital)
• Hydro/Pneumatic Test Packages, non-destructive testing (VT, MT, PT)
• System turnover documentation and sample packages
• Non-conformance tracking & drawing revision tracking
• Weld travelers / qualified welders matrix
• Piping hanger and support verification
• Raw material and consumable tracking
• Construction management system sign off, weekly meetings, and audits
• AS-Builts, isometric pipe drawings, piping and instrumentation drawings
• Assure that all piping systems where compliant to the service specification

Confidential, Beachwood, NJ

QC/QA Inspector

• Oversee installation of buffalo air handling units and associated hydronic piping and instrumentation
• Witness and inspect all welders testing out their performance qualification coupons: 1G-6GR small & large bore pipe, plate-flat/vertical/over-head, and horizontal (PQR & WPS)
• All administrative duties needed to insure sufficient documentation
• Non-destructive testing (PT, MT, UT, VT, LT)
• AS-Builts, isometric pipe drawings, piping and instrumentation drawings
• Hydro/Pneumatic Test Packages, non-destructive testing (VT, MT, PT, LT)
• Construction management system sign off, weekly meetings, and audits
• Assure that all piping systems where compliant to the service specification