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Tommy R. “Rick” Christian

Telephone: 865-***-**** (home); 865-***-**** (cell)

E-mail: abnmjg@r.postjobfree.com

Over Twenty-Eight Years Total Experience in the engineering, management, and administration of projects

for nuclear facilities, refineries, chemical plants, marine facilities, pipelines, onshore and offshore oil/gas

production facilities, and skid-mounted/ modularized oil/gas process systems (total experience includes over

25 years with Bechtel; educational leave of absence August 2004 – 2005)

Over Three Years Experience in teaching mathematics in public schools in Tennessee (one year in middle

school and over two years in high school).

Education:

2005: Master of Arts in Teaching; East Tennessee State University, TN; GPA: 3.995

1976: B. Sc., Electrical Engineering Technology, Louisiana Tech University; Magna Cum Laude

Licenses: State of Texas Professional Engineer Registration (currently inactive)

Tennessee Professional Teaching License; endorsements in Mathematics 7-12 (413) and Elementary

K-8 (402)

Engineering and Project Management Work Experience:

Bechtel Work History: Major responsibilities have included:

• Project Manager for BWXT Y-12, L.L.C. at the Y-12 facilities in Oak Ridge, TN; Responsible for project

management on various projects within the Y-12 facilities. (12/2002 – Summer 2006)

Office Manager/Alliance Manager for the Eastman/Bechtel Alliance and the Bechtel office in Kingsport,

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TN, with a site team at Eastman’s facilities in Columbia, SC; Responsible for overall planning, office

management, project management, project execution, customer and community relations, and financial

performance to ensure customer and Bechtel requirements are met. Work included revamp and grass roots

projects varying from less than $1 million TIC (Total Installed Cost) to $40 million TIC and larger. Work

was performed under an incentive-based contract. Bechtel’s staff ranged between 130 and 400 as workload

varied. (7/1999 - 12/2002)

Alliance Manager for the Phillips/Bechtel Alliance; Responsible for overall planning, management, project

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execution, customer relations, and financial performance to ensure customer and Bechtel requirements were

met. The Alliance included project teams at Bechtel’s Houston offices and Phillips facilities in Sweeny, TX

and Borger, TX that executed revamp and grass roots projects. Site team executed projects were typically

less than $1 million TIC. Houston executed projects typically ranged from $1 million to $10 million TIC,

with occasional projects as large as $75 million TIC. (1/1999 - 7/1999)

Project Engineering Manager and Deputy Alliance Manager for the Phillips/Bechtel Alliance;

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Responsible for managing the Houston engineering and project management activities for revamp and

grass roots projects ranging up to $75 million TIC at the Phillips facilities at Sweeny, TX, and Borger,

TX. (9/1997 - 1/1999)

Area Project Engineering for the Phillips/Bechtel Alliance; Responsible for managing the engineering

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effort, including interface with procurement, construction, and the customer for various small, revamp

projects at the Phillips facilities at Sweeny, TX. (4/1997 - 9/1997)

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Area Project Engineering for the development of a Lump Sum Turn Key proposal for the engineering,

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procurement, and construction of the Petrozuata VEHOP Downstream Facilities in Jose’, Venezuela.

(1/1997 - 4/1997)

Project Engineering Manager for the OxyChem VCM Expansion Project at Ingleside, TX; Responsible for

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managing and leading the preliminary engineering, detail engineering, and procurement interface to increase

the capacity of the existing OxyChem VCM (Vinyl Chloride Monomer) Plant by 50%. Estimated TIC of

the project was approximately $150 million. (1/1995 - 6/1995)

Project Manager for three projects to add EDC (Ethylene Dichloride) storage capacity and debottleneck the

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OxyChem EDC Plant at Convent, LA, and to debottleneck the OxyChem EDC Plant at Ingleside, TX;

Overall responsible for engineering, procurement, development of construction scopes of work, and

technical support during construction. Combined TIC of the projects was approximately $17 million.

(5/1994 - 6/1995)

Chief of Project Engineering and Machinery for the Houston Regional Office of Bechtel Corp; Responsible

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for management of the Project Engineering Group with the average strength of 220 engineers and 30

computer aided design and drafting personnel and the Machinery Group with the average strength of 40

engineers. Responsible for personnel administration and the technical performance of these groups

including establishment and maintenance of technical standards, training, automation plan, and technical

guidance. (5/1993 - 5/1994)

Project Engineering Manager and Projects Manager for the Shell/Bechtel WRMC Program; Responsible for

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managing and leading engineers and project managers in executing revamp projects ranging in size up to

$25 million TIC for the Shell Wood River Manufacturing Complex, Wood River, IL. (1/1991 - 5/1993)

Project Manager and Project Engineering for refinery revamp projects on the Shell/Bechtel WRMC

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Program for the Shell Wood River Manufacturing Complex, Wood River, IL. (1988 - 1/1991)

Electrical Engineering for refinery revamp projects on the Shell/Bechtel WRMC Program for the Shell

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Wood River Manufacturing Complex, Wood River, IL. (1987 - 1988)

Project Engineering in an integrated Client and Project Services Contractor Team in Norway for the

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STATOIL Gullfaks A Production/Drilling/Quarters Offshore Platform Project; Responsible for the topsides

and gravity base structure interface and the tie-in of five satellite subsea wells to the platform. (1983 - 1987)

Engineering Administration and Procedures Coordinator working in Norway for the STATOIL Gullfaks A

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Production/Drilling/Quarters Offshore Platform Project. (1981 - 1983)

Electrical, Instrumentation, and Mechanical Engineering for the ECOPETROL Project to upgrade a marine

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loading terminal and an offshore multi-buoy mooring facility in Columbia, South America. (1980 - 1981)

Electrical Engineering for the PEMEX Pressure Maintenance and Water Injection Study for development of

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the Cantrell Field, Mexico. (1980)

Electrical & Instrumentation Engineering for the Dubai Offshore Production Facility Project closeout.

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(1980)

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Information Center Coordinator for the LAGOVEN Oil Field Development Study (Venezuela). (1980)

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Instrumentation Engineering for the ARAMCO Gas Metering Project. (1981)

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Electrical, Instrumentation, and Mechanical Engineering for the ARAMCO East/West NGL Pipeline and

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Gas and NGL Pipeline Projects. (1977 - 1979)

Non-Bechtel Work History: Major responsibilities have included:

• NATCO, a Division of National Tank Company - Sr. Project Manager responsible for various projects to

design, procure equipment and materials, and fabricate skid mounted and modularized oil and gas process

systems on a lump sum basis. Projects included offshore oil and gas systems for floating production

systems (FPSOs) and wellhead platforms for POGO Producing in Thailand; onshore oil and gas systems for

AMOCO/ECOPETROL and BP/Techint in Colombia; and onshore molecular sieve gas dehydration units

and separation systems for Anadarko and Sonatrach in Algeria. (12/1995 - 1/1997)

Paragon Engineering Services, Inc. - Project Manager responsible for the development of proposals, process

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design packages, cost estimates, execution plans, and the management of oil and gas industry related

projects. Projects included a vapor control system for an existing gasoline barge loading facility for

Western Gas Resources near New Orleans, Louisiana; development of a deep gas field in Wyoming for

ENRON Oil and Gas Corporation; procurement support for an Acrylonitrile Plant in Daqing, China;

development of the Amangeldy Field in Kazakhstan; and development of the Cupiagua/Cusiana Field in

Colombia. (7/1995 - 12/1995)

United Gas Pipeline Company - electrical, instrumentation, and mechanical engineering for design of two

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natural gas compressor stations. (1976 - 1977)

Education Work Experience

• Mathematics teacher, Knox County Schools, Knoxville, TN; Duties have included teaching mathematics

classes; after school tutoring; proctoring after school test makeup sessions; and teaching a reading

intervention class at Central High School (2007 – Present); Also, taught high school and middle school

summer mathematics classes for Knox County Schools (Summer, 2009 and Summer, 2008)

Middle school teacher; Rogersville City School (TN); Duties included teaching 6th grade mathematics, an

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after school mathematics class, and one language arts/spelling class; private tutor for high school

mathematics students (2006 – 2007)

Substitute teacher for Kingsport City Schools (TN) (Spring, 2006)

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Teacher, Hawkins County Schools; Duties included interim 7th grade social studies teacher at Church Hill

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Middle School (TN) (01/2006) and substitute teacher (12/2005)

Graduate assistant in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, College of Education at East Tennessee

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State University (08/2004 – 08/2005)

References: Available upon request

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