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Houston, TX
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May 17, 2016

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David T. Damasauskas

P.O. Box ******

Houston, TX 77242

612-***-****

acut04@r.postjobfree.com

May, 2016

Employment Goal: The position of a mechanical-metallurgical-materials engineer-manager dealing and working with the process engineering, welding engineering, metallurgical engineering, quality assurance and management in the application, design and engineering, and manufacture of chemical-metal products from raw material selection to delivering a finished good.

Industrial and Professional Success Experiences:

Program metallurgist for the design, manufacture, and build of aerospace product from conception to delivering a finished product with repair and spares provisions with emphasis on anodic and cathodic protection of the product.

Engineering (corrosion protection) design and reliability responsibility for manufacturing and production equipment for the manufacture of high-pressure valves, manifolds, and pumps.

As staff process metallurgist, worked design constraints for cooling staves, solar coolers, tuyeres, gas systems, from conception, alloy and grade selection, manufacturing methods and specification requirements, (ASTM, ANSI, AWS, ASME.)

Product metallurgist for Armor and Structural plate and sheet products for military, aerospace, and transportation, (Mil-Spec. FAA, and FRA).

Provided industry oversight to API committee 16, working groups, and subcommittees, in the design and implementation of oil field operating equipment requirements.

Engineered and designed new heat-treat furnaces and systems for the processing of aerospace product.

Designed custom steel grades for specific applications, value added, and proprietary with considerations to surface finishes, coatings, and anodic and cathodic protection.

FEMA coordinator and systems organizer for slab caster and steel shop, which translated to the aerospace industry as cross training.

Established, designed, and engineered, product family and line of pumping systems, (powering, drivers, and operating controls), conformance to EPA emission standards for diesel power plants.

Senior heat treat engineer, technical-operations team manager-leader responsible for the team success in executing practices, quality assurance, conformance and compliance to engineering and customer’s requirements.

Contract negotiator for company-professional engineering organization, wage and benefits, scope of work, and responsibilities.

Converted and completed a six-stand rolling mill to a seven-stand operation, designed rolling parameter, product mix, and grade chemistries to optimize the steel mill's product line.

Evaluated and redesigned operating parameters of a pulverized coal fuel injection facility for improvement in versatility in coal purchase and use.

Compiled, managed and disposition daily quality, production and order compliance production controls and reports for the operating division and company.

Managed, planned, and executed maintenance outages on blast furnace systems, dealing with fuel, materials handling, pressure and cooling systems; directed staff engineers, pipe fitters, welders, tradesmen, and general labor during repair outages.

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Industrial and Professional Success Experiences (continued):

Managed Process Observers and Quality Inspectors for steel slab casters, automated data gathering and report system, designed translation tables for disposition of product, and redeployed sixty-four employees due to position elimination.

Engineering and Technical Employment Experience:

Houston Precision Fasteners, Houston, Texas (12/15 to 05/16)

Corporate and Staff Metallurgical Engineer, (Materials, Process/Procedures, and Standards)

Primary Responsibility: Corporate metallurgical engineer overseeing the metallurgical engineering and manufacturing of aerospace fasteners for private, commercial, and military aircraft and private and public satellites. Secondary Responsibility: Physical and Chemical Testing Laboratory Manager. Tertiary Responsibility: General management of the facility, infrastructure design and maintenance, operations, and customer service.

Honeywell Process Solutions, Houston, Texas (10/14 to 09/15).

Research Engineer (Senior), (Honeywell Corrosion Solutions)

Primary Responsibility: The design, engineering, failure analysis, and applied research dealing with material corrosion for petrochemical, transportation, and aerospace industries. Secondary Responsibility: The design of corrosion and execution of experiments for testing and of oil field and service materials with concentration of cathodic protection system requirements. Tertiary Responsibility: Maintain personal and professional relationships in regards to company visibility with customers, industry oversight societies, and government agency.

Oil States Industries, Inc., (OSI), Houston, Texas (6/13 to 9/14).

Metallurgical Engineer (Senior), (Global Materials Welding Group)

Primary Responsibility: The review and acceptance of bids, designs, and material selections for OSI product lines dealing with land and subsea equipment. The application and actualization of customer, oil industry, and company requirements and specifications (including corrosion protection requirements: cathodic, surface finish, and coatings) into manufacturing and workable designs for use in the production of crude and refined petroleum products.

Secondary Responsibility: The support of corporate and sub tier manufacturing facilities in regards to material sourcing, production, quality, manufacturing methods and quality assurance conformance issues via product review; auditing and training of personnel and facilities; metallurgical engineering (materials application and failure analysis), and corporate liaison with customers and industry organizations.

Spirit Aerosystems, Wichita, Kansas (12/05 to 6/13).

Metallurgical Engineer, (Materials, Process and Standards)

Primary Responsibility: The researching, developing, designing, and testing of aerospace products using metallurgical engineering and scientific principles. The translation of engineering and scientific concepts from conception through product life cycle via the analysis and verification of product design and performance for adequacy and reliability. Program authority and responsibility for anti-corrosion requirements and protection (anodic and cathodic) for electrical systems, lavatory and galley, passenger, hold, and operating environments.

Secondary Responsibility: The application of engineering and scientific methods and tools to the definition and characterization of behavior of products, services, and processes while integrating engineering, cost, value, and safety considerations into the product definition to comply with

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Spirit Aerosystems, Wichita, Kansas Continued:

customer, regulatory, and company requirements and documenting such results in drawings, data sets, reports, specifications, and supporting data while interfacing with other members of project or program teams, management, and technical staff to define and implement engineering solutions to meet group, organization, and company objectives. Tertiary Responsibility: Spirit Aerosystem’s NADCAP Heat Treat Task Team representative.

NLB Corporation, Wixom, Michigan (11/03 to 11/05).

Project Manager and Project Engineer

Primary Responsibility: The management and engineering of projects and product manufacture in regards to the needs of the corporation and its customers. Secondary Responsibility: The design, improvement, and manufacture of high-pressure systems for industrial applications from conception to delivering a finished product/system. (The selection and levying the requirements for finishes coatings and corrosion prevention techniques in regards to operating environments.) The systems consist of diesel or electric power units, drive systems, pumps, and accessories with passive or active controls for all aspects of the system. Tertiary Responsibility: Provide oversight to EPA compliance requirements for diesel engine exhausts.

McCook (Aluminum) Metals, LLC., McCook, Illinois, (06/01 to 01/02).

Casthouse Metallurgist and Supervisor (06/01 to 01/02) Primary Responsibility: Metallurgy, Quality Assurance and Engineering, Process Control, Operations and Plant Engineering of aluminum ingot production from melt to producing a finished scalped ingot. Secondary Responsibility: Research, Development, and Process Improvement of the casting process for common and exotic aluminum alloys used in plate, sheet, and aerospace applications. Concurrent Responsibility: Customer and Technical Service for product applications and development for ballistic, naval, structural, and aerospace customers and applications.

Physical Testing Laboratory Metallurgist and Supervisor

(06/01 to 10/01) Primary Responsibility: Managing, Engineering, Developing, and the Applications of Physical, Chemical, and Metallurgical (Metallography) Testing parameters and procedures to the aluminum product, the recording and reporting of the results to the proper end users. Secondary Responsibility: Administrating and Managing off site and contract testing facilities that tested our product for research and development, production, and compliance.

Steel Dynamics Inc., Butler, Indiana, (2/99 to 3/01).

Hot Rolling Process Metallurgist Hot Mill, (2/99 to 3/01) Process Engineer and Process Metallurgist. Primary Responsibility: Manage daily production and the disposition (Quality Assurance and Engineering) of hot mill product (coil steel) according to product metallurgy requirements (ASTM, SAE, ISO, and QS requirements). Secondary Responsibility: Product development in conjunction with our customer applications and needs by product, procedures, grade, and rolling practice development. Concurrent Responsibility: Manage physical (metallurgical) testing laboratory and hot mill operations engineer dealing with equipment purchases, maintenance, and operations.

U. S. Steel, Gary Works, Gary, Indiana, (02/96 to 02/99).

Ironmaking Process Engineer Iron Producing, (9/98-2/99) Process Engineer #13 Blast Furnace. Primary Responsibility: Provide process engineering support and guidance in the operations of a high productivity blast furnace with a concentration in metallurgical processes, operations

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U. S. Steel, Gary Works, Gary, Indiana, Continued:

management, and fuel and raw materials optimization. Secondary Responsibility: Quality and Raw Materials Engineer dealing with the handling, selection, purchasing, use, and management of raw materials. Concurrent Responsibility: Managing and maintaining the Quality Assurance of the finished product and operations engineer dealing with the operations, maintenance, and purchase of equipment and its application to the process.

Ironmaking Process (Raw Materials) Engineer (10/96-9/98). Primary Responsibility: Provide support to blast furnace operations in metallurgical processes, raw materials, and fuels (Coke and Pulverized Coal use and selection). Secondary Responsibility: Quality Engineer maintaining Quality Assurance operations, procedures, and product quality.

Quality and Process Engineer #1 Continuous Caster, (04/96-10/96). Primary Responsibility: Quality control and process tracking (SPC and Metallurgy) of critical cast slabs for exposed automotive, food and beverage (can stock) applications (Maintain ISO Certification). Secondary Responsibility: Operations Engineer: Participating in projects to reduce product failure, increase quality, and lower operations and maintenance costs.

Management Associate and Quality Engineer Trainee #2 Continuous Caster,

(02/96-04/96). Extensive training in the management and operations of an Integrated Steel Mill with a concentration in the daily operations and engineering needs of casters.

Education: Master of Science

Metallurgical Engineering, December, 1995

South Dakota School of Mines

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701

Bachelor of Science Bachelor of Arts

Metallurgical Engineering, May, 1993 Physics, May, 1987

South Dakota School of Mines Benedictine College

Rapid City, South Dakota 57701 Atchison, Kansas 66002

Professional Achievements: Passed EIT Exam, June 10, 1993, Registration #E-6728

Relevant Industrial Course Work:

Greenbelt Certification, January 2015 Honeywell Training, Houston, Texas, Six Sigma training in the method, means, and mode of application and theory of process improvement.

Oil & Gas 101, September, 2013, PESA, Houston, Texas, An Industrial course in the production of oil and gas in its entirety, from upstream activities to midstream and downstream refining.

ALSCAN Application and Use, Winter 2002, ABB Bomem Inc., McCook, Illinois,

An industrial course in the theory, application and use of the ALSCAN Hydrogen

Content Testing Equipment for hot metal.

Internal Quality Auditor Training, Fall 2001, S.D. Notter & Associates, Inc. McCook, Illinois. A course in the means and methods of doing successful system, process and quality audits of a facility.

Brimacombe Continuous Casting Course, Spring 2000, tCMPE, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. Canada. A course in the continuous casting of steel in either billets or slabs and the associated metallurgy to make prime steel.

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Relevant Industrial Course Work Continued:

Metallographic Interpretation, Fall 1999, ASM International MEI Course, Metals Park, Ohio. A course in the preparation, interpretation, and use of metallography to identify and correct manufacturing defects.

Ironmaking, Summer 1997, U.S. Steel Research, Monroeville, Pennsylvania. A course in the operation of blast furnaces and ancillary operations.

Cokemaking, Spring 1997, U.S. Steel Research, Monroeville, Pennsylvania. A course in the manufacture, process and product engineering, and technology of coke production.

Coal Petrography, Spring 1997, UEC, USX, Monroeville, Pennsylvania. A course in the use of coal petrography, coke manufacturing, and blast furnace requirements of coke.

Steel Technology Process Overview, Fall 1996, U.S. Steel Research, Monroeville, Pennsylvania. A general study of the operations of an integrated steel manufacture from raw materials to finished product.

Relevant Engineering Course Work:

Electronics and Instrumentation, Transport Phenomenon,

Thermodynamics, Thermodynamics of Solids

Analytical and Physical Chemistry, Scanning Electron Microscopy, Strengthening Mechanisms, Optimization and Process Control, Engineering Economics, Applied Math. Statistics,

Composites and Ceramics, Hydrometallurgy I and II, Metals Processing (Casting, Forging and Rolling), Physical Metallurgy I, II, and III, Smelting and Reduction, Steel Making,

Corrosion, Interfacial Phenomenon, Kinetics of Metallurgical Systems, Surface Chemistry.

Academic Research Projects:

Graduate Project: Corrosion of Integrated Circuits, a research and design project concerning the manufacture and failure of integrated circuits due to corrosion.

Senior Design I and II: Substitution Material for Asbestos, a research and design project concerning the substitution and the manufacture of an asbestos replacement product.

Computer Skills:

FORTRAN

Windows and Windows Based Software (Word, Excel, and Power Point).

Academic Achievements:

Fr. Pascal Pretz Physics Award, Benedictine College.

Baltic Summer Institute Fellowship, 1994, Washington University, Seattle, Washington.

Sigma Pi Sigma, National Physics Honor Society, American Institute of Physics

Professional Affiliations.

ASM International, Metals Park, Ohio.

Association of Iron and Steel Engineers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Iron and Steel Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania.

The Minerals, Metal, and Materials Society, Warrendale, Pennsylvania

Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Littleton, Colorado.

References upon request.



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