CONFIDENTIAL RESUME

FRANK W. VIRVA JR., PE

MECHANICAL ENGINEER

P. O. Box 268

Bridge City, Texas 77611

409-***-****

ablvbr@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY OF EXPIERIENCE:

Thirty years of composite mechanical engineering experience in the power generation field, environmental

compliance projects, engineering and turbine maintenance for an investor-owned utility corporation, design

engineering for a manufacturing firm and mechanical and project engineering for a number of consulting

firms.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

2008- 2009 CDI

Project Engineer

2007- 2008 Worley Parsons

Senior Mechanical Engineer

2006-2007 Palmetto Management & Engineering

Mechanical Engineer

2004-2006 CDI

Project Engineer

2003-2003 United States Navy

Utilitiesman

2002.2003 Lawrence Allison Consulting

Mechanical Engineer

1990.2002 Petrocon Engineering, Inc.

Mechanical Engineer

1989.1990 Stubbs, Overbeck & Associates

Senior Mechanical Engineer

1987.1989 Coastal Technical Services

Project Engineer

1986-1987 Triangle Engineers & Constructors

Project Engineer

1986-1986 Inland West

Mechanical Engineer

1980-1986 Gulf States Utilities Company

Turbine Maintenance Engineer/ Plant Engineer

1980.1980 Dresser Industries

Design Engineer

1977-1980 Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Field Service Engineer

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE:

CDI

Project Engineer

Project engineer at the Lanxess Orange, Texas Plant. Projects have included: heat exchangers, facility siting

blast upgrades, relief valve headers, piping modifications, and product improvement studies. Provided

technical assistance and supervision of numerous repairs required after the plant was flooded by a hurricane.

Worley Parsons

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Specified equipment, wrote scopes of work, and performed engineering design, evaluations, and

investigations for the ExxonMobil Beaumont, Texas site. Projects included fired heaters, tanks, mixers,

pumps, dock facilities, vents, relief valves, rupture discs, pressure vessels, silencers, detonation arrestors,

rupture discs, heat exchangers, filters, strainers, vessel repairs, vessel nozzles, and steam traps. Provided

engineering calculations, and technical direction for casing and refractory repairs to a fired heater during a

scheduled turn around..

Palmetto Management & Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

Provided mechanical engineering on a number of projects at the Invista Orange, Texas Plant. Project types

included: cooling tower pumps, columns, heat exchangers, pressure vessels and storage tanks. Designed

chlorine injection system for two new vertical cooling tower raw water make up pumps.

CDI

Project Engineer

Project engineering at the Firestone Polymers Plant, Orange, Texas. Projects included: pumps, relief valve

headers, heat exchangers, pressure vessels, reduction gears, line pigging systems, modification and

recommissioning of a large flare, and fire protection systems. Supervised modifications and repairs during

outages. Increased capacity of an existing spiral lift pump 50%. Upgraded bypass pumps to increase their

capacity 50% while utilizing existing motors.

United States Navy

Utilitiesman

Recalled to active duty in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Noble Eagle. Platoon

Leader for Navy Mobile Construction Battalion 28 Air Det. Maintenance Chief for Camp Covington, Guam.

Supervised utilitiesmen, construction electricians, steelworkers, and builders to repair and maintain this

Seabee forward deployment site.

Lawrence Allison Consulting

Mechanical Engineer

Provided engineering services to the JBEK Facilities Engineering Team at DuPont Sabine River Works,

Orange, Texas. Projects included: waste water cleanup, ethylene purification, extruder motor variable

frequency drive, brine chillers, exchanger replacement, and compressor and turbine repair specifications.

Designed new base plate for 2500 hp extruder motor.

Petrocon Engineering Inc.

Mechanical Engineer

Design and engineering services involving tank farm water draw off systems, tank design, hazardous waste

storage, firewater pumps, blending and packaging plant modernization, pigging systems, steel rolling mill

repairs, grass root plant design, equipment and piping system failure investigation, cooling towers, oil

heaters, chillers, hydraulic calculations, pumps, gears, process equipment specifications. Prepared pump data

sheets for hundreds of new pumps. Lead mechanical engineer for a grass roots chemical plant EPC project.

Stubbs, Overbeck & Associates

Senior Mechanical Engineer

Performed mechanical engineering work including design, installation, and maintenance of reactors, towers,

tanks, heat exchangers, compressors, pumps, and piping systems.

Coastal Technical Services

Triangle Engineers & Constructors

Project Engineer

Provided contract engineering services for two different firms assigned to Texaco Chemical Company, Port

Arthur. Handled a variety of projects encompassing piping and pressure vessel design, equipment selection

and installation in addition to secondary containment systems design for hazardous waste. Supervised piping

and steam turbine repairs after a forced outage. Designed and supervised installation of a new diesel driven

firewater pump, and deluge system for a large cooling tower.

Inland West

Mechanical Engineer

General design and maintenance services for various projects in a plastic compounding facility. Directed

design and installation phases of waste water discharge weirs. Designed new motor base plate.

Gulf States Utilities

Turbine Maintenance Engineer/

Plant Engineer

Scope of work involved supervision of outages, inspection, repair, vibration monitoring, and balancing of

turbines and generators, boiler and associated equipment at natural gas, oil, and coal fired units. Also directed

and coordinated a wide range of construction and maintenance projects throughout the plants. Responsible for

numerous capital improvement projects both mechanical and civil.

Dresser Industries

Design Engineer

Evaluated and designed oil rig equipment components, providing analysis of equipment failures, and

developed quality control procedures. Solved manufacturing problem with triplex mud pumps, that reduced

warranty issues. Identified and corrected flame hardening procedures that were causing sprocket failures in

the field.

Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Field Service Engineer

Provided technical and engineering consulting services involving planning and supervision of rotating

equipment maintenance, including vibration monitoring and balancing, of steam and gas turbines for

industrial and utility customers. Assisted commissioning team with pre-startup check out, and commissioning

of a 500 MW turbine generator at natural gas/coal fired unit.

EDUCATION:

Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas, 1977 BSME

Bridge City High School, Bridge City, Texas, 1971

PROFESSIONAL REGISTRATION:

Registered Professional Engineer, P.E. Number 57986, State of Texas

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