Frank Shiyu Chen, P.E.

***** * **** *** ******

Katy, TX 77494

Phone: 713-***-****

E-mail: qokusr@r.postjobfree.com

Objective: Reliability Engineer - Rotating Equipment position.

Summary: Strong background in mechanical design and drilling equipment design, metal structure design, drilling rig design, structure analysis/stress analysis, FEA/Finite Element Methods, Strength of Materials, Fracture Mechanics, Design of Experiment (DOE), Offshore Platform & Offshore Structure Design, shipbuilding and marine structure design, Structure Dynamics, CFD fluid dynamics analysis and testing, vibration reduction and noise control.

18 years broad experience in various engineering field (such as machine and steel/aluminum parts design, sheet metal design & manufacture, plastic parts design, consumable products design, ship design and construction, ocean engineering/offshore platform design, drilling rig design including mask/derrick and substructure, proficient in major heavy industrial equipment manufacturing processes).

15+ years comprehensive experience in mechanical design, detail design, FEA/CFD, vibration analysis and control, o-ring and quick disconnect design, low noise bearing assembly design, hydraulic system design, stress analysis, thermal and airflow/steam analysis.

Proficient in AutoCAD/Mechanical Desktop, Pro/ENGINEER, Solidworks, Catia, ANSYS, Pro/Mechanica, Pro/Thermal, Cosmos, Fluent, StruCAD, SACS, STAAD.Pro, HyperMesh, ISO 9001, API Q1, Six Sigma, CNC programming, Visual C++, Visual Basic, UNIX, CADKEY, MathCAD.

Familiar with ZC, and ABS rule, API 4F, API spec 2C for crane design.

12+US Patents related to torch, consumables, quick disconnect, & food equipment

Experience:

11/2008 – Now Sr. Structural Engineer/Project Engineer

Loadmaster Engineering, Inc.

Designed the derrick, DES/Drill Floor, skidbase and skid rail for the Sakhalin-1 offshore platform project. Did general arrangement of equipment & drawing review. Did drilling study and analysis review. Performed FEA of skid rail and skidding shoes using COSMOS. Created weight control report, clash report/resolving clash. Created weekly progress report.

Pedestal mounted offshore crane design. Structural Analysis of the Casing complex of Doyon Drilling Rig using StruCAD.

2/2008 – 11/2008 Sr. Structural Engineer

LeTourneau Technologies, Inc.

Performed Structural Analysis of 1000K hook load lightning land rig using STAAD.Pro to meet API 4F. Performed Stress analysis/FEA of parts using ANSYS. Re-designed substructure with narrow bottom boxes for 3 rigs. Redesigned mast dolly system and structural analysis.

Solved manufacturing problem for rig steel structure. Performed FEA/structure analysis for structure modification.

4/2004 – 2/2008 Sr. Mechanical Engineer

ITW FEG/Hobart Corporation, Richmond Hill, GA

Designed manual and automated 3000 series slicer, including: parts and assembly design, zero exposure safety ring guard design, removable sharpener design, tray and carriage interlock system design, index cam system design, removable ring guard cover, ANSYS analysis of structure stress and stiffness, design optimization

Did slicing test and slicer structure/stiffness test, reliability and life test, slicer cleaning test and made slicer easier to clean, Solved problems such as the brake failure of HCM450 Cutter Mixer (using pressed-in bushing), and the scale problem of 2812PS slicer (using better plastic material to reduce warpage)

2/2003-10/2003 Contract Project Engineer

Roper Corporation/GE Appliances, LaFayette, GA

Designed and tested GE Profile ovens with Trivection Technology (Heat, convection, and microwave)

Solved problems such as glass door breakage during operation (using soft mounting instead of screw clamping) and microwave leakage. Did FMEA/microwave leakage test for production

8/2001-11/2002 Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Thermal Dynamics Co., West Lebanon, NH

Designed and developed HV/LV plasma cutting torch (hand operated and mechanized), including: leads design, consumables design, start cartridge design, molded plastic parts design, threaded quick disconnect design, spring and snap ring design, BOM and ECO.

Designed and Tested quick disconnect (threaded). Did post-testing assessment. Did the analysis of results. Wrote test reports. Wrote test plan based on DOE.

Performed fluid dynamics analysis with Fluent and stress analysis/FEA with Cosmos. Did pressure drop analysis and test for leads, torch head, and consumables. Did restart time analysis/test and found a way to reduce restart time. Did thermal analysis of the electrode and increased both electrode life and tip life (double the life to above the spec.) by designing a start cartridge with vent cooling flow.

Solved assemble problem by checking interference from assembly, tolerance stack-up; Solved torch misfire problem with a new tip design; Reduced cost by searching and testing different high performance plastics, and replaced the Vespel rod for cartridge with PEEK blanks; Wrote test plan and do some performance tests.

8/1999-7/2001 Sr. Product Engineer

Stanley Fastening Systems, East Greenwich, RI

Designed battery operated cordless roofing nailer (including casting parts and plastic parts design, cylinder and piston design, O-ring test and selection.). Did performance test and life test for the cordless roofing nailer.

Performed stress analysis/FEA with Pro/Mechanica; Did parts failure analysis & modification based on stress analysis; Did thermal analysis of the tool and engine using Pro/Thermal; Designed venting hole design to reduce temperature.

Solved assemble problem by checking interference from assembly, tolerance stack-up & motion analysis (Pro/Motion);

Wrote test request for test engineers/technicians to do some parts/tool performance or strength test.

Dec. 1997-7/1999 Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Howtek, Inc, 21 Park Ave., Hudson, NH 03051

Designed of desktop drum scanners, flatbed scanners, and medical film digitizers; Balanced the drum system statically & dynamically to reduce vibration & noise level of drum scanners and bearing assembly; Developed high intensity illuminator. Designed and Released of electric cables, sensors, and connectors.

Improved image and motion quality. Increased the stiffness of headstock with pressed-in angular contact bearings. Changed encoder and coupling to improve image quality; Improved firmware and test suit. Solved design and/or manufacturing problem.

May 1989-Aug. 1994 Project Manager/Sr. Mechanical Engineer

Dongfang Electric Corporation Nanjing Company, Nanjing, China Designed and built Power Plants.

Did the preliminary design for the Chinese “Yuan Wan #3” ship for satellite survey and control; Calculated and reduced ship vibration caused by the diesel engine, and planed to reduce rolling and pitching for the ship

Aug. 1983-Aug. 1986 Design/Manufacturing Engineer

Jiangzhou Shipyard, Jiujiang, Jiangxi, China

Designed and built various kinds of ships (including: a passenger ship “Shen Wen #1” with double bodies, which can take 1500 passengers and sail in the sea between Shanghai and Wenzhou; a light boat that can carry 30 persons; a tanker that can carry 5000 tons of oil; barges that can carry 300 tons of sand and stone; a floating wharf about 90 meters in length; a special type of boat-bridge; a heating-box used for the machining and welding of a new type of heavy-duty frame bridge.). Did ship structure detail design. Created drawings. Calculated ship’s center of gravity/stability/rolling and pitching. Built Special boat bridge manufacturing.

Did ship launching calculation; Did ship test and solved manufacturing problems. Did ship structure design and stress analysis.

Education: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Major GPA: 4.00, GPA:3.93 Worcester, MA

Master of Mechanical Engineering (Research Assistant) From Aug. 1994

Major: Nonlinear Random Vibration of Offshore Floating Platforms to Nov. 1997

Southeast University (Formerly: Nanjing Institute of Technology) Nanjing

Master of Mechanical Engineering Feb. 1989

Major: Finite Element Analysis/Stress Analysis and Structural Dynamic

Optimization.

Jiao Tong University, Shanghai (Chinese ‘MIT’) Shanghai

Bachelor of Engineering July 1983

Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering

Special Training:

ANSYS, Cosmos, AutoCAD, Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerance, DOE, Strength of Materials, Pro/Engineer, Ship design, Submarine design, Offshore Floating Platform design, Structure Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Fluid Dynamics, Structure Dynamics and Vibration

Professional Associations:

Professional Engineer, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Society of Sigma Xi, Chinese Society of Ship Building, Chinese Society of Vibration Engineering Cambridge Who’s Who, Stanford Who’s Who.

U.S. Citizen

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