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RESUME: Senior Mechanical Engineer, PE, project engineeringAuthor: Muhammad Syed
Date: 2000/06/29
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Resume # : 68799
Header : Senior Mechanical Engineer, PE, project engineering
Date : June 28 2000
Name : Muhammad Syed
Address : 201 Kalen Drive, Apt C
Saint Louis, Missouri 63114
Country : USA
Phone # : 314-***-**** Fax # :
Email : ***********@*****.***
Resume
MUHAMMAD ALI SYED
- P.E. MECHANICAL ENGINEER
201 Kalen Drive, Apt C, St. Louis, MO 63114
Tel 314-***-****, email ***********@*****.***
PROFILE:
MSME, Professional registration, 18 years experience including refineries,
power and water desalination systems, food processing and steel plants. Plot
plans and equipment arrangements. Design of Pressure vessels, heat exchangers,
storage tanks, and silos. Specifications for pumps, compressors, turbines. Bulk
storage and unloading. Pneumatic conveying, central vacuum, dust collection and
utilities systems. Layout, sizing and specifications of piping and ductwork.
Thermal stresses and flexibility analysis of piping using Caesar II. Heat and
mass transfer analysis for evaporators & condensers. P&IDs, and PFDs for plant
utilities. Used industry guidelines & codes such as ASME, API, TEMA, AWWA, &
ANSI. Supervised construction of storage tanks. Project scheduling,
coordination with the client & owner, document control, bids review, vendor
coordination, commissioning, & start-up. Proficient in AutoCAD. FEA coursework
and software usage. U.S. citizen
CAREER EXPERIENCE:
Oct 1997 - PresentMorrison Knudsen Corp., St. Louis, MO
Mechanical Engineer -
- Nestle Affton South Chewy Upgrade, Saint Louis: Area layout and
equipment specs for hoppers, vibratory feeders, conveyors, bucket elevators.
Design of dust collection system with fire hazard suppression. Scope of work
for contractor.
- National Steel Mills BOF Desulfurization Upgrade, Granite City:
Developed area layout, equipment arrangements and piping plans and sections for
a new bulk truck unloading facility, lime storage silo, and injector vessels
supplying Ca and Mg to lances.
- Borden Foods Rail Car Unloading Project, Saint Louis: Developed process
flow diagram, project specifications, area layout, and equipment and piping
arrangements for a push-pull pneumatic system for 80,000 lb/hr flour transfer
from rail cars to existing silos.
- Annheuser Busch Expansion Project, Fort Collins: Designed grain storage
area with silos and pneumatic piping. Laid out grain piping from mill tower to
mash cookers clear from structural elements. Developed spec/sketch for hops
hopper.
- Thermal stresses and flexibility analysis of piping and connected
rotary and stationary equipment (using Caesar II) for Wood River Refinery and
Annheuser Busch Fort Collins.
- C3 Treater Upgrade Projects for Shell Wood River Refinery: design,
vendor print/calcs review, and resolution of shop fabrication/installation
issues for packed columns, horizontal vessels and heat exchangers per ASME, API
and TEMA requirements. Pump and motor Specifications.
- Saturates Gas Upgrade Project Wood River Refinery: specified and
reviewed vendor drawings and data for heat exchangers, column trays and
internals, coalescers, pumps, and refrigeration chillers; to replace and
upgrade existing equipment with physical space constraints and minimum
modification in existing piping. Provided project support during equipment
installation. Resolved on-site welding, heat treatment and NDT issues for trays
and internals.
- CDU HAZOP Project Shell Wood River Refinery: vessel modification for re-
rating.
March 1995 - Oct 1997American Engineering ServicesProject Manager -
- Engineering and construction of a leachate treatment plant for Martin
County Florida utilizing iron removal filters with backwash, ultra-filtration,
and reverse osmosis systems. Control philosophy for automatic and manual
modes, P&ID, equipment specifications; engineering details for skid mounted
installation; coordination with skid fabricators; system commissioning.
- Design and construction of a multi-media filter system for skid mounted
well water treatment system installed in Batu Hijau Indonesia for a gold mining
company.
March 1994 - March 1995Raytheon Engineers & Constructors, Vessel
Design Section - Tampa, FL
Mechanical Engineer -
- GE Silicones Project: designed horizontal and vertical pressure
vessels, shell and head thickness, reinforcement rings, saddle and skirt
design, seismic and wind load analysis with moments and shear forces on
foundation, design of TEMA shell and tubes heat exchangers, shell and tube
thickness, tube sheet design, baffles and support plates, bend spacing;
prepared technical summary of vendor bids for vessels and heat exchangers.
- Rothem Fertilizer Project: designed API storage tanks, and rectangular
tanks, shell and roof thickness, wind and seismic loads. ICI Hotel Expansion
Project: checking of fabricators' prints and calculation, for vessels and heat
exchangers.
Feb 1993 - Feb 1994State Petroleum Refining & Petrochemical
CorporationProject Engineer -
- Prepared bids for skid mounted systems treating natural gas on well
field (Glycol dehydration, H2S removal with Amine treatment, & LPG
stabilization). Using UOP methods, calculated atmospheric and vacuum
distillation yields from ASTM crude oil test data; to optimize total sales
value of finished products.
Jan 1987 - Dec 1992Pacific International Center for High
Technology Research
Senior Mechanical Systems Engineer -
- A lead member of the engineering team that developed conceptual design,
P&IDs, and engineering details of a power and seawater desalination plant based
on Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) commissioned in Kailua Kona Hawaii.
Executed computer code for heat and mass transfer analysis of evaporator,
condenser, and deaerator. System analysis of variable speed five stage
intercooled centrifugal compressor system, very low pressure and high
volumetric flow (8000 cubft/min) turbine diffuser system. Analysis of pipeline
system curves with pump curves for high efficiency variable speed seawater
supply pumps operating in parallel. Designed plate-fin compact heat exchanger
for condensing OTEC steam into fresh water. Selected the heat exchanger vendor
and coordinated through the fabrication process. Documented project
specifications, performance guarantees, and testing requirements for vendors of
pumps, centrifugal compressors, and steam turbine-generator systems.
Formulated test plans, startup and shutdown procedures, for OTEC power plant.
Analyzed plant failure modes and overall system availability. Stress analysis
and installation supervision of seawater piping system.
Jan 1980 - Aug 1984Enar Petrotech ServicesProject Engineer -
- Developed and followed through the project schedule for a lube refinery
design and construction supervision project. Assignment and responsibilities
include progress reporting, solving material problems, document indexing and
control; Designed shell and tube heat exchangers for preheating feed to vacuum
distillation tower, pressure vessels for propane storage, suction heater for
storage tanks of reduced crude and vacuum bottom. Bidders' package for
fabricators of refinery piping, vessels and tanks. Coordination between sewer
and storm water networks, electrical conduit layouts, and piping layouts in
tank farm area; heat and mass balance, PFDs and P&IDs for steam distribution
and condensate recovery systems, plant air, and fuel gas systems; flexibility
analysis for steam and fuel piping systems. Pump specifications for FEU and
MEK Dewaxing feed, and product transfer/blend systems. Evaluation of existing
pump for supplying reduced crude from atmospheric distillation tower to feed
storage tanks of the lube expansion. Steam turbine specifications as pump
drives. Steam tracing and insulation details for reduced crude and heavy
oils/bitumen piping. Calcs for steam consumption requirements in steam
tracing, heat exchangers, and suction heaters.
EDUCATION:
2000, Washington University, Saint Louis Finite Element Methods (graduate
course, 3 cr. hrs).
1996-97, Programming courses, Visual Basic, C++, Unix, (15 cr. hrs.)
Hillsborough College, FL.
1985-1986, MSME, University of Hawaii, with East West Center Graduate
Scholarship. Master's thesis Optimization of Heat Exchanger Networks in
Process Industry.
1984, Diploma in Business Administration, Institute of Business Administration
Karachi.
1979, BSME, NED University of Engineering and Technology Karachi.
REGISTRATIONS:
P.E. License Registrations: Hawaii #7075, Florida #50371, Oregon #17393COMPUTER SOFTWARE SKILLS:
AutoCAD, Microstation, CodeCalc, Caesar II, Compress, Stresscheck (finite
element software), MathCad, MS Project, Excel, MS Word, MS Access.
Programming skills: FORTRAN, C++, Visual Basic, and UnixREFERENCES: available on request
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