Project Manager Quality Assurance
Resume:
Patrick F. Rhodes
Benicia, CA 94510
*******@*****.***
NDT Inspector – Level III Consultant - CWI
Experience – 23 YEARS EXPERIENCE CONSTRUCTION AND IN-SERVICE INSPECTION
Bridges, Retrofits and New Construction – Caltrans $4.2 Billion Toll Bridge Seismic
Retrofit Program.
Municipal Water Transmission Piping Upgrades – SFPUC / EBMUD
TV, Radio, and Loran Transmitting Tower Consulting and Inspection.
Buildings, Structural Steel.
Chemical, Petro-Chemical, Fossil and Nuclear Power
Mechanical Integrity Implementation / Project Manager.
Inspection QA/QC: AWS / ASTM Structural Steel Buildings/Bridges, ASME / ANSI
Pressure Vessels and Piping, ABS Ship Surveys, AWWA Municipal W ater Piping
Project Manager: Advanced Ultrasonics, Mechanical Integrity Development - OSHA 29
CFR 1910, Training and Implementation.
Nondestructive Testing: Phased Array Testing, High Proficiency in Ultrasonics Angle
Beam Testing, EMAT ultrasonics, Magnetic Particle, Liquid Penetrant, Radiography, and
Eddy Current for: buildings, nuclear, fossil fuel, petroleum, chemical, ships, aircraft,
composites, and pipelines.
Education / Certifications
80 Hours Phased Array Ultrasonic Training, University of Ultrasonics
Certificates of Achievement Nondestructive Testing and Surveillance Inspection, Contra
Costa College / over 90 units completed.
Certified AWS / CWI QC-1 # 04041681
Certified ASNT III Ultrasonics # 50294
Certified ASNT Level II / UT, MT, RT, PT, ET
CalTrans Qualified Ultrasonic Technician.
Summary
I have a broad background in quality control, inspection, and nondestructive testing.
Certified Welding Inspector/Level III. Extensive experience in quality control for bridge
seismic retrofits on several San Francisco Bay Area CalTrans projects (i.e., Bay Bridge,
Richmond/San Rafael, Carquinez, etc.). Development of inspection and testing
procedures for compliance with various codes and manufacturing specifications.
Development of welding quality assurance programs. Extensive experience in project
management of mechanical integrity programs in compliance with OSHA 29 CFR
1910 Process Safety Management including corrosion/erosion computer based
monitoring programs. Marketing and business development of various NDT and
inspection services. Excellent communication and interpersonal relationship skills.
Patrick F. Rhodes - Continued
Employment History
Present Independent Consultant
7/11 – 3/13 Summit Associates Oakland, CA
Level III / CWI – Advanced Ultrasonic Development
8/10 – 5/11 Hanna Group / SFPUC Fremont, CA
Quality Assurance Inspector – Municipal water transmission piping upgrade
5/10 – 8/10 c2pm / SFPUC San Francisco, CA
Quality Assurance Inspector – Municipal water transmission piping upgrade
4/10 – 5/10 Power Aviation / Florida Power & Light Tampa, FL
Phased Array testing of boiler tudes
11/09 – 4/10 TUV Rheinland Edison, NJ
Lead QA Supervisor – 1 W orld Trade Center NYC, Shop fabrication of structural
steel members
4/08 – 2/09 East Bay Municipality District Oakland, CA
Quality Assurance Contractor – Mokelumne River to Mokelumne Aqueducts
2/08 – 4/08 QC Laboratories, Inc / Port of Miami, Hollywood, FL
Level II/III Consultant – Structural Condition Assessment of port container cranes
6/07 – 7/07 Consolidated Engineers / Port Clarence, Alaska Oakland, CA
Level III Consultant – Ultrasonic Testing of Loran Tower for USCG/Homeland
Security
9/06 - 11/06 Power Aviation, Inc / Prudhoe Bay, Alaska Orlando, FL
Automated Ultrasonic Operator Emergency Testing of crude oil transfer piping
for BP Chemical
6/00 - 9/06 Consolidated Engineers Oakland, CA
Senior Inspector - CWI / Level III Quality Control for various bridge seismic
retro-fits. NDT procedure development. Training of NDT personnel.
1/00 - 6/00 Testing Engineers Oakland, CA
Inspector/Technician/CWI Testing and inspection of port container cranes,
structural steel, and pipelines.
9/99 - 12/00 General Electric Nuclear Fuels Wilmington, NC
System technician for automatic ultrasonic inspection of nuclear fuel rod tubing.
8/97 - 1/00 Business Owner, Contract Technician & Consultant
Condition assessment of port cranes, NDT consulting, testing and inspection of
process piping and equipment.
Patrick F. Rhodes - Continued
6/96 - 8/97 Continental Testing & Inspection Benicia, CA
Business Development and Technical Support Manager project management
of Mechanical Integrity Programs in petroleum and chemical plants, new test
development, corrosion monitoring.
3/95 - 6/96 SGS Industrial Services San Leandro, CA
Project management, marketing, shutdown coordinator, mechanical integrity
implementation, computer based corrosion monitoring, inspection program
development.
6/92 - 3/95 Industrial Testing International Lincoln, CA
Branch office manager for the San Francisco Bay Area Pittsburg, CA
2/90 - 6/92 E. Elliott & Associates, Inc. Martinez, CA
Certified Level II in magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, and ultrasonic testing, in
accordance with ASME, AWS D1.1, D1.5, API, and MIL-STANDARD 271E.
Various inspection and test methods in the marine industry.
Developed and marketed computer based ultrasonic corrosion monitoring
programs. Successfully implemented these programs in fossil fuel power,
petroleum, and chemical plants.
Prepared personnel qualification and certification procedures in accordance with
ASNT-TC-1A; various test methods procedures as per ASME and MIL
STANDARD 271E .
6/88 - 12/89 Contra Costa College
Joint projects with Contra Costa College and local industry;
Developmental work for a 3D X-Ray imaging system; Digiray Corp. - San
Ramon, CA.
R&D work with an Infometrics TestPro PC based ultrasonic system; General
Electric - San Jose, CA.
High proficiency in the following software programs:
W indows
Excel
Microsoft Word
Auto CAD
Krautkramer Ultrapipe
Publications
“CAD-Interfaced Ultrasonic Corrosion Monitoring”
P/PM TECHNOLOGY - Nov-Dec 1991
Societies
American Society of Nondestructive Testing Member
American Society of Metals Committee Member
American Welding Society Member
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