SUMMARY

• Dedicated and results oriented professional engineer possessing experience in project management, design analysis, and team leadership.
• Team player with decisive leadership style with proven successes in team development, strategic planning, and problem solving.
• Skilled in reviewing and evaluating designs, processes, and regulatory standards.
• Consistently work to ensure risks (cost, quality, and timeliness) are controlled and mitigated.
• Ability to provide clear guidance and mentoring on engineering requirements.
• Skilled in negotiating contract terms and conditions for equipment requisition.
• Goal oriented individual with attention to detail and time management techniques.
• Superb customer relations skills and adept to working in stressful situations.
• Skilled in conflict resolution and problem solving abilities; ability to identify significant factors, gather pertinent data, and recognize solutions.
• Excellent mentor with ability to guide, inspire, and train others and ensure timely performance and quality of work products.
• Successful team member working towards achieving desired organizational outcomes.
• Ability to manage multiple assignments and conduct meetings with teams to assure objectives are attained efficiently in a cost effective and timely manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Project management
• leadership
• mechanical design
• heavy machinery
• troubleshooting
• pump and valve installation
• servicing and diagnostics of rotating and stationary equipment
• specification development and procurement
• Codes and Standards evaluation
• Project Engineering
• Mechanical Engineering
• Power Plants
• Engineering
• Gas Turbines
• Project Planning
• HVAC
• Engineering Management
• Pumps
• Energy
• Power Generation
• Nuclear Engineering
• Factory Commissioning
• Project Management
• Hydraulic Pumps
• ASHRAE
• Shift Refueling Engineer
• Mechanical Aptitude
• Mechanical Analysis
• Mechanical Inspection
• ASME Standards
• B31.3
• Supplier Audits
• Supplier Surveillance
• Factory Acceptance Tests
• Manufacturing and Inspections

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Principal Procurement Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to resolve complex safety hardware (item) procurement situations and close confounding requirements.
• Tasked with evaluating commercial valves, piping, gaskets, flanges, gears, actuators, and agitators, for suitability in safety applications when the hardware (item) could not be sourced from a qualified, ASME NQA1, supplier.
• Appointed to develop technical/equivalency evaluations in support of dedicating commercial hardware (items) for nuclear safety applications.
• Assigned to prescribe inspection and test criteria based upon the safety application(s) and hardware (item) design characteristic(s).
• Appointed to analyze hardware (item) safety classifications and associated quality levels in support of specifying supplier/manufacture inspections.
• Assigned to support audits and surveys of suppliers of safety hardware to verify adherence to quality clauses.
• Developed subcontracts for technical engineering services and hardware purchases. Initiated, analyzed, and resolved conditions reported as adverse to quality.

Confidential

Professional Engineer - Mechanical

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to monitor and adjust (flexible condition based maintenance) Confidential ( Confidential ), a 1,200 MW boiling water reactor power plant, maintenance program service scope and service intervals based upon performance history.
• Appointed as subject matter expert for the servicing, inspection, and upgrading of Confidential pumps.
• Appointed to prepare funding requests and secure funding for pump upgrades, pump refurbishments and pump replacements.
• Supported the In Service Inspection (Surveillance Testing - ASME XI-IST) of safety system pumps (designed, tested and qualified to ANSI 4.4/API-HI under ASME NQA-1 quality assurance programs), and check valves (designed, tested and qualified to ASME B31.1/ASME BPVC III and VIII) employing advanced diagnostic tooling e.g. UltraCheck.
• Supervised field servicing and trouble shooting of: reactor feed-water, condensate, turbine lube-oil, circulating water, make up water, and fire system pumps. Facilitated resolving feed-water, refueling pool, circulating water, control rod drive, and condensate pump systems reliability issues.
• Tasked with preparing quarterly Confidential pumps health reports. Researched, proposed, and implemented enhanced techniques to improve pump to driver alignment endeavors by upgrading training, tooling, and procedures. Confidential availability and maintainability improved ~ 5-15%.

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to support equipment sizing for the DOE-ORP WTP Lab facility HVAC systems.
• Appointed responsible engineer for procuring WTP HVAC air handlers, heaters, and AC units.
• Tasked with preparing purchase requisitions, proposal evaluation, supplier survey and surveillance, and submittal review. Culminating in the awarding of $10M contracts.

Confidential

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to modify performance specifications for HVAC, controlled atmosphere (CAS), pneumatic (IA) piping, water filtration, and water treatment systems at a Confidential in Los Alamos, NM.
• Assigned to revise the performance specification for an irradiated N-reactor fuel transport packaging system, a qualified 10CFR71 DOT/NRC Type B Package.
• Tasked with preparing preliminary design of mechanical handling hardware for the unloading of irradiated fuel transported within a DOT/NRC Type B package.

Machine Design

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to support modifying, upgrading, and maintaining food processing machinery including: vacuum sealers, vacuum cleaners, conveyors - sorting/inspection/slat/pocket/, batch weigh system, fish cutting/ butchering and cleaning machines, fish splitter machine, wet pumps, compressors, chillers, brine tanks, waste grinders, screw extruders, ribbon mixers, metal detectors, gulleters, hoists, labeler, filleter, and wet pumps.
• Elected to further education by enrolling in food processing technology/food science-biology courses.

Manufacturing Engineering Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Appointed to prepare, review and obtain approval of Confidential - Kenworth capital projects totaling over $100M per year.
• Assigned to prepare supplemental capital project proposals;
• versee capital project implementation; monitor facility expansion projects;
• support tooling development, tooling upgrade, and tooling replacement;
• prepare monthly project status reports.
• Participated resolve supplier quality concerns with supplier assist visits to clarify specification interpretation.
• Production increased from 32 trucks/day to over 127 trucks/day in a 12 month period.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Appointed Project Engineer / Design Authority for the acceptance and start-up of HVAC systems, heat recovery system, instrument air system, HVAC control/DCS, and material handling systems at the Confidential,
• Receiving and Processing Facility (WRAP), a DOE-Hanford prototype radioactive Confidential treatment facility.
• Assigned to prepare, review and approve WRAP acceptance test/commissioning procedures, operating procedures, surveillance procedures, maintenance work packages, engineering modifications, operating limits, and servicing schedules/requirements. The WRAP facility was commissioned in 1998.

Confidential

Senior Mechanical Engineer

• Assigned to support develop engineering specification for the design, qualification and procurement of a transport package for shipping irradiated Fast Flux Test Facility (FFTF) fuel.
• The packaging system qualification to exceed the criteria of 10CFR71 for NRC Type B Package.
• Assigned to support operate the FFTF auxiliary systems, e.g. emergency power plants/controlled atmosphere systems/chillers/etc., an operating 400 MW prototype breeder reactor.
• Appointed to support develop, design, and procure a shipping system for the transport of Remote Thermal Generators (RTG) on public right of ways.
• Assigned to prepare the RTG transport system program management plan and the design of the
• Assigned to support fabrication and shipment of Cesium - Chloride sources for deployment in medical irradiators;
• appointed to identify feasible alternatives for the deactivation and decommission of former production facilities, e.g. PF Plant/T Plant/Bldg 324, located on the Hanford Reservation.
• Assigned to support design review and construction of the WRAP facility utilities and process equipment.
• Also assigned to validate and review piping system designs for utilities including potable water and pneumatic systems. ASME B31/ASME BPVC-VIII

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Appointed shift refuel engineer after qualifying.
• Assigned to support service, maintain, and repair refueling equipment.
• Tasked with supporting refueling evolutions, project reporting, project planning, and resolving conditions adverse to quality.
• Appointed to support two NAVSEA power plant overhauls.