Ernest Lara

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Jacksonville, Fl ***18

904-***-****

Cell 904-***-****

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HIGHLIGHTS OF QUALIFICATIONS

• Over 23 years of military education, training, and experience as a Marine Gas Turbine Plant Mechanical and Electrical Propulsion Supervisor

• Extensive troubleshooting, accurate assessment, and problem solving experience in a dynamic and ever-flexing environment

• Personable and persuasive in communicating creatively with top level management.

• US Navy Marine Gas Turbine Technician; identifying existing and potential failures, supervising repair teams and specializing in engineering analysis of gas turbines and associated support systems

• Currently hold a Department of Defense Secret clearance eligibility

EXPERIENCE

Management, Supervision, & Training

• Naval Sea Service Command certified Marine Gas Turbine Inspector responsible for over 50 mechanical and electrical readiness assessments, responded to over 100 technical assist requests and provided over 1200 hours of on-the-job training to approximately 100 junior technicians

• Supervised over 40 personnel for marine engineering plant maintenance and repairs, on site gas turbine installations and equipment alterations valued at up to $40 million

• Coordinated electrical generation and propulsion department maintenance projects tracking parts procurement, work progression and close-out for up to 250 work orders during reporting quarters

• Promulgated and maintained periodic and preventive maintenance scheduling, operational recording, personnel evaluations, training, safety, and quality assurance management programs

• Advised senior management on the resolution of a wide range of equipment repairs conflicting with operational and maintenance schedules and the timeline allotted for immediate repairs

• Accomplished liaison for Senior Administrator, Chief Operating Officer, and Training Assessment Authority for the engineering plant certification of 5 naval ships

Technical

• Accurately identified propulsion and electrical plant machinery failures as a field service technician and divisional supervisor repairing over 100 operational critical items

• Exceptional analytic skills coupled with mechanical aptitude resolved customer installation of engine mounts saving the U. S. Navy approximately $150K

• Specialization of the following equipment:

GE LM2500 Marine Turbines Electrical Governors/Control Systems

Centrifugal, Sliding, and Dual Element Pumps Dresser Rand Low Pressure Air Systems

Western and Philadelphia Reduction Gears Synchronizing Self Shifting Clutches

Stewart and Stevenson Diesel Generators CONSECO Waste Heat Boilers

Ingersoll Rand High Pressure Air Systems Electrical Switch Gear

Summary of Qualifications

• Supervisor of propulsion machinery spaces onboard five U.S Navy Destroyers/Cruisers; coordinating control and operation of engineering control systems at each ship’s Central Control Station and responsible for the performance and execution of advanced organizational and/or intermediate maintenance to the component level on GE LM2500 gas turbine main propulsion and electric generating plants mechanical systems, auxiliary support systems

• Rolls Royce 501-KB Hot Section Disassembly, Combustion Liner Change Out, and Reassembly, Engine Removals and Installations, Power Take-off Shaft Removal and Replacement, Engine to Reduction Gear Alignment and Repair of High Speed Pinion

• Marine and Aircraft Fuels Quality Assurance Program Manager

• Marine Lubricating Oil Systems Quality Assurance Program Manager

• Engineering Plant Supervisor (EOOW)

• Quality Control Inspector

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

2010-Present Marine Gas Turbine Inspector SouthEast Regional Maint. Center, Mayport, FL

2008-2010 Engineering Plant Manager USS THE SULLIVANS, Mayport, FL

2005-2008 Career Guidance Advisor Chief of Naval Personnel,Millington,TN

2003-2005 Engineering Division Supervisor USS GETTYSBURG, Mayport, FL

2000-2003 Engineering Division Supervisor USS GONZALEZ, Norfolk, VA

1996-2000 Naval Recruiting Supervisor Navy Recruiting District, Phoenix, AZ

1993-1996 Gas Turbine Technician USS GETTYSBURG, Mayport, FL

1989-1993 Plant Operator/Lab Supervisor USS STARK, Mayport, FL

1988-1989 Naval Recruit/Student Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, IL

EDUCATION

1982-1986 Cotulla High School Graduate

2006-2007 Thomas Edison State College at Trenton, NJ A.A. Degree

1995 Journeyman Power Plant Operator U.S Dept. of Labor

2008 Marine Gas Turbine Inspector Certified

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