ALBERT STONE
CAREER PROFILE
Contact Information: Work: 713-***-****
Cell: 312-***-****
Home: Seabrook, Texas
email:acr96e@r.postjobfree.com
Senior PDS Piping Checker extending a progressive background of 25+ years within reputable industries such as Mining and Minerals, Power, Fossil Fuel, Nuclear Power, Chemical, Petro-Chemical, Refinery, Marine and Off Shore. Active involvement within field work with Refinery, Power, Methanol Plant Layout, Nuclear projects, delivering support toward efficient construction services. Broad diversity of experience spanning from Canada, United States, Holland, UK, and India, working in piping projects that range in size and complexity. As a piping design professional demonstrating broad based competencies and proficiencies In the following areas
Mechanical Engineering
Industry Regulations/Codes
Technical (Computer) 3D PDS, LMF Scan Cloud Viewer,
Navis Works Simulator
Design Review, Smart Plant Viewer
Up-to-date Design Practices
Quality Control/Assurance
Isometric Coordination
Bid Proposal Specialist
PDS Piping Systems and Equipment Modeling
Personnel Safety
EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER/FIELD ENGINEER 2014-2015
Ascend Chemicals Chocolate
PDS Senior Piping Designer
IWPF Area Tank Area
Develop PDS Model:
Designed Piping systems for LP Steam and Condensate System, Caustic piping system, Layout temporary pipe rack in equipment modeling for the IWPF Dyke Area.
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER/FIELD ENGINEER 2013 - 2014
Bayer Corporation, Day& Zimmerman, Baytown Texas
PDS Senior Piping Designer
Designed and Layout Refrigeration Process Unit,
Designed Piping systems and associated Equipment Modeling for Pumps, Exchangers,
Steam Condensate system.
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER 2014-2014
Burns & McDonnell Chesterfield, Missouri
Design Equipment laid out piping systems, Model reviews using Smart
Plant Review, LSF Scans, for pipe rack layout, Locate control stations,
Equipment, Revise pump piping systems.
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER/Checker 09/2012 – 03/2013
AMEC Oil Sands Projects Office - Calgary, AB CANADA
Ft. McMurray
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER/CHECKER 03/2012 – 08/2012
AMEC Oil Sands Projects Office - Calgary, AB CANADA
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER/CHECKER 03/2011 – 3/2012
Kearl Plant Cold Lake
Jacobs Engineering – Calgary, AB CANADA
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER 09/2010 – 03/2011
Fluor Corporation - Vancouver, BC CANADA
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER/CHECKER 01/2009 - 08/2010
Bechtel Corporation - Frederick, MD USA
SENIOR PDS PIPING DESIGNER 09/2008 - 01/2009
CBI - Tyler, TX USA
SENIOR PDS LEAD DESIGNER 06/2008 - 09/2008
CBI - Plainfield, IL USA
SENIOR PDS CHEMICAL PLANT PIPING DESIGNER 05/2007 - 05/2008
Bechtel I Ltd. - Fredrick, MD USA
SENIOR PDS PLANT DESIGN CHECKER 01/2006 - 05/2006
Worley Parson - Arcadia, CA USA
Portfolio of employment and experience prior to 2006 can be provided upon request
TECHNICAL (ACADEMIC) QUALIFICATIONS
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PROGRAM 1971 - 1975
University of Colorado - Boulder, CO USA
3D-PDS, Smart Plant, (SPR) Intergraph - Huntsville AL USA
KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Informed professional capable of providing industry expertise and solutions-driven service to clients in the construction industry. Varied experience allowing for multi-disciplinary success with a maintained focus on optimizing production and mitigating potential industry-specific challenges.
SCOPE OF INFLUENCE / COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Support PDS design teams on modeling sanitary sewer collection and sanitary water treatment systems, high and low pressure piping systems, man hole locations, and isometric extractions
Extensive background providing project work for reputable and international clients including Imperial Oil Resources Ventures Limited, Jacobs Engineering, Syncrude, OSUM, and Imperial Oil
Conduct integrity checks on 3-D piping and equipment models completed to be delivered to site for design review meetings
Proven leadership experience and coaching skills with a background in mentoring junior staff and leading a small team of senior and intermediate piping designers
Demonstrate solid written communication and business skills shown through creating material reports, PDS specifications, nozzle reports and slide presentations Reputation as an industry leader in health, safety and environmental performance, possessing a value system that maintains a high priority in achieving the highest level of safety for the team Experience in supporting a PDS design team to re-design an offshore refining and process unit
Able to perform site supervision of P&ID checks for installations against the detail design
TECHNICAL / COMPUTER COMPETENCIES
Posses piping design experience covering aspects of 3 PDS piping systems and a wide range of equipment models including numerous sewer and related water systems as well as fuel systems (oil and gas)
Capable of providing project deliverables such as complete 3DPDS piping design systems from 3DPDS models, isometrics, and MTO reports
Conversant with Intergraph PDS software (Versions 6.0 - 7.2), Microstation II, AutoCad II (SPR) Smart Plant viewer (Version V) as well as the older Design Review and Naves work
Utilize 3D visual software packages including Navis Works and Intergraph (SPR) Smart Plant Reviewer to implement high pressure and low pressure steam systems as well as piping arrangements for centrifugal pumps, control valve stations, and utility stations
Capable of producing 3D modeling including coordinating, EE Raceway and Frameworks for structural modeling as well as all associated equipment skids and piping systems
Familiar with nuclear plant operations and construction, site engineering construction, and heavy reactor water process piping systems
Produce 3D modeling of equipment for dryer, propane, butane and refrigeration skids, storage tanks, circulating pumps, process and utility piping systems, as well as instrument air systems
FIELD ENGINEERING EXPERIENCE
Experienced in checking the overall installation and operating conditions against the relevant codes, specifications, and drawings within remote areas of the world
Check all piping systems as well as all major pieces of equipment and auxiliary equipment to ensure that they are accessible for operational safety and maintenance
Utilize a metric coordinate system, specifications, relevant codes and current practices for selecting piping materials for 2D and 3D PDS design and modeling to modify existing facilities
Set up a PDS piping design facility in charge of fifty work stations to carry out the design check of the process and mechanical flow diagrams and pipe works material management system set up
INDUSTRY SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES
Proven ability to insure that all the checking work is executed in a professional manner and the drawing packages to be checked are prepared properly by the piping designers
Operate parallel to the workflow procedure, with isometric coordination and the piping isometric check list while ensuring that quality control is maintained at the highest standards Proficient working with a wide variety of piping systems for gas treating and sulphur recovery units for the upgrade of synthetic crude oil processing systems
Maintain the quality, uniformity and accuracy consistent with good design practices
Highly experienced checking numerous isometrics in pipe rack areas, treatment plants, tank farms, water and oil systems, transfer and booster pumps as well as extraction and flare areas
Check PDS piping and equipment models associated with the Structural, Mechanical, Civil, Process and Instrumentation disciplines which included approximately 7000 isometrics for various systems
PROJECT OVERVIEW
CATLETTSBURG REFINING LLC 2012 - 2013
Responsible for the use of PDS/ SPR/ and LMF Scan Clouds Software to locate existing and new tie in for the 100 year old refinery, For the vacuum unit ejector section, Diesel Pump around, Crude pre-flash drums, Crude units columns, Crude unit flare piping systems. Locate existing PSV stations, and modify for new in PDS and tie-ins for revamp, demolition, and new configurations, walk downs for 500 tie ins. Producing, revamp isometrics, new isometrics and existing isometrics. Parallel with existing Steel, New and demo Equipment.
KEARL PLANT 1 & 2 EXPANSION PROJECT 2012
Responsible for checking approximately 750 isometrics for 2 site wide services for the central plant and the KP1 and KP2 Froth Treatment plant
NABIYA, COLD LAKE EXPANSION, PHASE 14-16, MFT 2011 - 2012
Performed column and vessel piping arrangements modifications for new design and revised loads which resulted in increased capacities and ensured that new arrangement provided access and egress to man hole and maintenance
LONG HARBOR PROCESSING PLANT, NF CANADA 2010 - 2011
Designed and developed a 3D piping and equipment model for Area (C) Copper, Impurity and Cobalt processing buildings
EDWARDS PORT/DUKE ENERGY IGCC COMBINED CYCLE POWER PLANT 2009 - 2010
Carried out the design and layout of all the underground piping systems as well as above ground HRSG blow down systems, feed water systems, natural gas systems and auxiliary steam systems
THE GOLDEN PASS PROJECT - SABINE, TX USA 2008 - 2009
Coordinated the detail design of the vaporizer and send out pump area to design piping for five different processes and suction piping systems in order to produce non corrosive gas and methanol
MOX NUCLEAR FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY 2004 - 2005
Performed the overall design and layout work for the utilities piping systems for BMP and the AP buildings as well as the pneumatic transfer piping
- From 1992 to 2004 I was involved in numerous capacities in the development of projects including but not limited to: Supervise the 2-D Conceptual Detail Design Expansion of the Mexican Premix Refinery projects, an Offshore Refinery Production Platform, a pharmaceutical project, Reliance Refinery Project within a sculpture recovery plant in India, and the Zeeland, Michigan Project supervising the design of phase 1 a single cycle power 250MW station and Phase 2 a combined cycle power station totaling 750MW, as well as the Petro-Chemical Plant for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia.