Engineer Project Manager

Bienvenido V. Mendoza

Mechanical Engineer

**********@*********.*** 650-***-****

*** ***** *****, ****** ****, CA 94404-3538

Work Experience

Senior Engineer

Aker Advantage, Inc. - Houston, TX

February, 2011 - April, 2012

Assigned at Jacobs Engineering, a Mining and Metals consulting engineer in

Tucson, Arizona, in the Mechanical Department for local and international

Mining Installations. Most recent duties were equipment specification

writing; reviewed and analyzed vendor's quotations and submittals; prepared

equipment purchase request for project management's approval; and

preparation of Scope of Work for construction bid solicitation.

Mechanical Engineer & Owner

Ben V. Mendoza & Associates - Foster City, CA

September, 2002 - January, 2011:

An Engineering Consulting Firm, specializing in industrial refrigeration

engineering design and consulting, including heat load calculation, plan

and specification writing of major equipment, construction management of

complete systems installation and purchasing services. Duties also

included solicitation of major equipment bids from suppliers, reviewed

vendor submittals and approve for purchasing.

Most recent completed project was the design and installation of the

refrigeration system for a dairy and food processing facility in Northern

California. The facility manufacture specialty ice cream and frozen milk

bars, miscellaneous meat products, including multiple food processing

systems using quick freeze spiral freezer, various storage freezers of raw

and /or finished products and distribution warehouses

Vice President

Power Refrigeration Company, Hayward, CA

January, 1987 to August, 2002

Rejoined Power Refrigeration Co. after an absence of two years, was offered

a minority portion of the company ownership and a Vice President position

in the Engineering Department. Assumed charge of Engineering Department as

an Engineering Manager. Power Refrigeration Company functions as a design

and build engineering contractor of Industrial Refrigeration Systems,

providing its clients both consulting engineering services and turn-key

installations.

Typical projects included the following ammonia industrial refrigeration

installations:

Produce Cooling and/or Ripening

Ice Cream Manufacturing & Milk Processing

Refrigeration for Meat Processing

Refrigeration for Beverage Manufacturing

Complete Winery Refrigeration

Food Storage Freezers, Coolers and Grocery Distribution Centers

Freeze Drying System

Project Manager

McCormick - Morgan, San Francisco, CA

January, 1985 - January, 1987

Worked as a Project Manager, which was instrumental in the development of

the Preconditioned Air System for the Airline Industries. The central

cooling systems were for air conditioning multiple commercial jetliners

while loading and unloading passengers in an airport hub during passenger

flight transfer.

Major clients were; Delta Air Lines, American Air Lines, United Air Lines,

Continental Air Lines, America West Airlines, etc.

Responsibilities were for a complete system design including piping using

glycol and/or refrigerant as coolant, specification of all equipment,

design of PLC based electrical control system, approved installation

subcontracts and supervised installation of piping and electrical controls

Project Engineer

Power Refrigeration Company, Hayward, CA

January, 1972 - January, 1985

As Project Engineer, this position included complete technical

responsibility for the design that included plans and specifications of all

equipment for industrial refrigeration systems. Projects completed

included systems using both ammonia, approximately 90% of total jobs and

the remainder were halocarbon refrigerants, both systems using

reciprocating, rotary, rotary screw and centrifugal compressors. Scope of

design included development of flow diagrams, equipment selection; pipe

sizing and routing, pipe supports; electrical control diagram; heat

exchange design; cost estimating; and specification writing.

Experience included overall responsibility to the design and construction

of modular ammonia and halocarbon refrigeration equipment within the limits

of transportation requirement. Supervised shop fabrication of glycol and

water pump packages and/or ammonia recovery unit to satisfy local toxic gas

ordinances. Complete check of all electrical control wiring and complete

test of the operation of the whole package to minimize time for field

installation and commissioning.

Administrative duties include supervision of sub-contractors and suppliers,

purchasing of all major equipment, client billing and payment collection.

Application Engineer

Dunham-Bush, Inc., San Francisco, CA

January 1969 - December, 1971

In this position, provided technical sales assistance to Sales Personnel in

selecting air conditioning, heating, and ventilating equipment; provided

customer services through telephone and correspondence channels; and

coordinated these services with factory sales offices and other

departments.

Watch Engineer

Magnolia Dairy Products Plant, Manila, Philippines

March, 1965 - July, 1968

As Watch Engineer, was in charge of operation and maintenance of 680 tons

Ammonia refrigeration system for ice cream manufacturing, milk processing &

bottling line, and dry ice manufacturing.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Mapua Institute of Technology - Manila

Skills

Computer Skills: Autodesk - AutoCAD; Microsoft - Excel 2003; Microsoft -

Word 2003

Additional Information

REGISTRATION:

Professional Engineer - Mechanical

Registration Nunmber. M 016978

Issuing Agency: Board for Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and

Geologist

State of California

Date Issued: 02-12-75 Date Expires: 03-31-14

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