Nicholas Dinkel [Nick] Halbrook

**** ***** *** ** *** 1204

Abilene, TX 79606

Cell: 910-***-****

Email: ac28s1@r.postjobfree.com

Project Engineering – Project Management

Career Summary:

Mechanical systems and projects background with extensive multi-functional business experience in support of all project phases from concept development to proposal and on through requisition including the design, procurement, installation, and startup activities for steam and gas turbine BOP equipment used in industrial and utility power, repowering, combined cycle, and cogen applications.

Known as a self-starting self-directed individual capable of building results producing team environments to effectively integrate cross-organizational work efforts with a commitment to deliver on project schedule and budgetary commitments. Excel at identifying, defining, and developing multidisciplinary project scope and schedule requirements and project execution from conceptual and feasibility studies through start-up. Superb communication skills with clients and suppliers; and, a results producing micro-expediter. Experience with EPC projects and scope creep control.

Ability to focus on details while keeping a keen eye on the big picture results in order to get the job done ahead of schedule and under budget to avoid contract LDs.

Experience:

Key Business Group & New Paradigm Institute [my companies] - President

1977- present

Retired [2015-present]

Miss working, the technical challenges, the great people, and erudite atmosphere; so, seeking to get back into the work force.

For an EPC Company based in TX [2011-2015]

Provided Rankine cycle BoP cycle design guidance for a concentrated solar power plant involving P&ID development, feedwater heater system design, CW system design, integration of turbine drains and feedwater system drains, condenser and ECT specification and vendor evaluation and selection.

Designed steam tracing systems for a refinery project.

Reviewed and updated P&IDs, valve lists, and line lists.

Developed specifications for piping fabrication and hydrotesting, piping specialties, and piping insulation.

Used Caesar software generated stress diagrams to review and as necessary modify piping ISOs.

Used 3D modeling software for O&M routing sensibility considerations, design of steam tracing systems, and to discover any pipe routing revisions needed for avoiding clashes with piping, valves, and steel.

Used CADD software for smart P&ID coordinations.

Retired, Separated, Divorced, Ran My B&B [2009-2011]

Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares! Life goes on – cooked gourmet breakfasts, did laundry, cleaned toilets, made beds, dusted and vacuumed … and happened upon an opportunity to host a perfectly charming student from Lithuania to come here on a J-1 work study visa for a summer … what a silver lining that experience was for us both as we took time off from being co-innkeepers to travel to see my daughters in NY and VA, go to a six Flags rollercoaster park, and do a whitewater raft excursion! Went to Lithuania for a couple of weeks the next summer to meet her family and tour the country with them then she returned to spend the summer with me in Abilene the summer after that … and I found my competitive match in Scrabble. I continue to correspond with her and her Dad. And she, her boyfriend, one of my daughters, and a friend here in Abilene play an email version of Balderdash weekly.

For an EPC Company based in OK [2008-2009]

Provide multi-disciplinary fast track project engineering leadership for global aero-derivative and HDGT GT projects.

Participate in project Peer Reviews involving steam turbines, gas turbines, and heavy fuel oil cleanup and waste disposal.

Projects involving used equipment re-applied to meet new plant requirements.

Prepare equipment plot plan concepts, mechanical systems P&IDs, and mechanical systems equipment specifications; locate qualified vendors; obtain and evaluate vendor quotes; and make vendor purchase recommendations.

Provide technical interface with global customers.

Authored an internal company technical whitepaper on system design and equipment needed for an HFO system for HD GTGs that would virtually eliminate all fuel washing waste streams and enable all asphaltene sludge to be burned in the gas turbines.

For Top "F- 500" Manufacturer from location based in SC [2006-2008]

Provide multi-organizational cross-cultural contract technical off base BOP liaison services between manufacturer and Japanese customer and between manufacturer and Japanese partner-suppliers for development of advanced combined cycle plant project utilizing steam cooled HD GTGs.

Coordinate design reviews for off base systems and critical piping to ensure functional design parameters meets design criteria.

Used 3D modeling software to develop optimum plant component and piping layouts.

Prepare design audits to ensure compliance with contract scopes.

Provided overview analysis and advice to control supplier costs increase claims resulting from contract disputes, overruns, errors, and scope creep.

Successfully expedited long lead items from sole source vendors on behalf of partner-suppliers to maintain first fire schedule.

Led METI Code compliance reviews and developed METI Code compliance specifications.

For Top "F- 500" Manufacturer from location based in TX [2003-2006]

Provide contract technical services for developing standardized simple cycle [SC] and combined cycle [CC] power plant configurations integrating designs for aero-derivative GTG equipment with the needed Balance of Plant [BOP] equipment to provide the proposal design bases for competitive grass roots power plant offerings. Designs involved a new high output aero-derivative product introduction.

Use suite of PC-based software products, such as General Electric’s GateCycle and Thermalflow’s GT Pro, for modeling the design, simulation, and optimization of cogeneration plants through the generation of accurate and detailed heat balances, cycle-flow schematics, equipment designs, and economic analyses.

Led liaison efforts amongst shipbuilder, customer, manufacturer, and vendors to ensure timely code compliant installation of state-of-the-art cruise ship aero-derivative combined cycle power plants.

Led mechanical BOP systems evaluation during shakedown cruise which resulted in the finding, analysis, and solution of several mechanical systems problems.

For Top "F- 500" Manufacturer from locations based in Europe, Asia, and South America [1998-2003]

On site contract global sourcing services involving vendor migration from US to European suppliers and development of local sources for new aero-derivative GTG set packaging plant in Europe. Used existing corporate resources in US and Europe to locate in excess of 60 new potential supply sources during a wonderful summer in Budapest.

Provide on site contract vendor expediting services for combined cycle [CC] HRSGs being manufactured in South Korea and The Netherlands. On-site “micro-expediting” got projects back on schedule to avoid millions of dollars in late delivery LDs.

Provide on-site proposal engineering and partnering evaluations.

For Top "F- 500" Manufacturer from locations based in NY and GA [1995-1998]

Provide technical services for proposals to install heavy duty GTG power plants in North and South America.

Lead technical service provider in coordinating multi-organization liaison and preparation of installation, startup, test, and breakdown plan outline for initial stage of new enhanced output heavy duty gas turbine generator [HD GTG] program.

Provide contract technical services for developing standardized combined cycle power plant configurations integrating designs for new state of the art HD GTG equipment with the needed CC Balance of Plant [BOP] equipment to provide the proposal design bases for competitive grass roots power plant offerings. Designs involved new 60% efficiency steam cooled HD GTGs and binary cycle plants for both 50Hz and 60Hz applications.

Managed multidisciplinary technical teams involved in international projects from proposal engineering, to plant design, to installation and startup of power plant and waste treatment plant equipment.

Led project E&D efforts for electric power plants [steam, gas, and combined cycle], gas compressor pumping stations, steel rolling mills, and waste treatment plants involving plant design, equipment specification and selection, preparation of flow diagrams and plant/equipment arrangement drawings, and preparation of plant startup and performance test procedures and system O&M manuals.

Preparation of technical specifications involving equipment for heat transfer and fluid flow systems, pumps, tanks, heat exchangers, Evaporative cooling towers [ECTs] and circ water systems, valves, piping, and instrumentation and controls. Evaluation and selection of this equipment.

For a North Carolina Nuclear Utility [1992-1995]

Provide contract project management & technical services to ensure compliance with federal regulatory requirements relative to the NRC GL89-10 MOV [motor operated valve] programs at the utility nuclear plants.

Initiated the creation of managerial status & planning reports for regulatory interfaces that were very favorably received by the NRC audit team.

Led contract technical efforts in developing computer based spreadsheet applications resulting in an 90% reduction in time required to perform plant MOV analyses.

For Top "F- 500" Manufacturer from location based in NC [1988-1992]

Contract project and construction management liaison for the inter/intra-organizational interfaces to install a multimillion-dollar advanced manufacturing engineering process involving state-of-the-art computer process control technology at a nuclear components manufacturing facility. Implemented pivotal materials and design modification changes during conceptual design and bid evaluation stages, which significantly reduced project cost and cycle time as well as greatly improve process reliability and availability. Responsible for monitoring daily work progress, QC walkthroughs and on-the-fly design changes to keep project moving. Used 3D modeling software to layout process equipment. Contract administration, tracking and control efforts got project into production under budget and ahead of schedule.

Prepare startup, operation, and shutdown procedures; system operation and maintenance manuals; and performance test plan for this state-of-the-art process.

Perform product inspections at vendor plants. At our suggestion, company bought for our use a sophisticated laser alignment system to perform critical dimensional checks in the field using unique fixturing designed by our company.

Developed and implemented lockout/tagout OSHA safety program for over 700 nuclear fuels and components manufacturing workstations plant wide.

Provide contract construction management services for planning, scheduling, and implementing a 30,000sf nuclear components manufacturing plant physical facilities equipment and material handling rearrangement involving over 70 pieces of production equipment. Computerized budget tracking and project scheduling kept project ahead of schedule and under budget. All equipment was moved, re-painted, and made production ready and all overhead cranes were relocated and replaced during the two week annual shutdown.

Managed specification development, competitive bidding, vendor evaluation & selection, and purchasing of over $30 MM of state-of-the-art machine tools and machine tool centers for manufacture of nuclear reactor components for a new standard plant design. Negotiated express deliveries of this normally long lead time equipment as needed to support project delivery schedules.

Responsible for developing and implementing a plan that resulted in the sale and removal of unused and obsolete equipment parts inventory and more than 40 pieces of unused equipment from storage and manufacturing lines to a used equipment vendors and scrap yards thereby saving taxes and storage fees and freeing up much needed and valuable manufacturing floor space.

For an Upstate NY Cartographer [1985-1988]

Provided this small cartographer with new product marketing services to broaden product lines and regional customer base to include new product offerings and customers throughout NY, New England, and into the Midwest.

Within 10 months developed new business to account for 20% of total sales.

Created and implemented the strategy that resulted in this company's winning the NY state tourism map contract in competition with the major cartographic supplier in the national road atlas and maps business.

For a NY Capitol District Manufacturer [1977-1985]

Put together a silent partnership to purchase via a leveraged buyout the largest heavy sheet, light plate, and light structural steel fabrication job shop in upstate NY then served as the President-Operating Partner.

Successfully turned around this struggling contract industrial metal fabrication and manufacturing company to include industrial equipment service and distribution, E&D services, and design & build services for manufacturing and prototype equipment.

Designed unique manufacturing equipment and prepared all drawings, O&M manuals, and initial equipment startup and performance test procedures.

Built business from 4 to 40 people, produced a 20-fold increase in customer base, and increased the annual sales rate from less than $100,000 to over $3 million inside of a 3 year time period.

Slashed break-even volume, all levels of inventory, and manufacturing turnaround time to make company profitable within a year's time.

Ours was first capitol district shop with plasma cutting capability.

Became largest area consumer of welding supplies and steel sheet, plate, and shapes.

Became largest supplier of top covers for area Top “F-500” manufacturer of large ac motors.

Were only metal fab shop in area capable of designing and making cone shapes.

Had largest roll, shear, and press brake in upstate NY.

Developed a team of code qualified welders for MIG, TIG, and stick welding processes for steel, alloys, and aluminum.

General Electric – Schenectady, NY

1966-1977

Mechanical project engineering on domestic and international projects involving: steam and gas turbine [simple and combined cycle] power plants, SS bright annealing mills, pipeline pumping, low BTU gas production for HD GTGs from fluidized bed coal combustion, and industrial waste treatment from proposal through requisition engineering stages.

Designed, specified, sourced all equipment, and oversaw installation, testing, and startup for a combined sanitary and industrial process waste water treatment plant for a residential transformer manufacturing facility.

Mechanical equipment specification development, vendor evaluations and selections.

Classified mechanical fluid systems engineering design and reactor compartment bulkhead FEA for reactor applications associated with the nuclear navy.

Developed and led proposal engineering group: created a standardized proposal format and a reference plant configuration that enabled 3 day turnarounds for simple cycle HD GTG proposals.

Global Work Experience

I have worked in the following countries:

Netherlands [expediting a major HRSG manufacturer] and from there in:

oPoland [expediting and logistics planning for a major boiler drum manufacturer]

oBelgium [expediting a major HRSG high alloy finned tube manufacturer]

oEngland [expediting a control panel manufacturer]

oGermany [expediting a high alloy valve manufacturer]

Hungary [developing new EU supply chain in preparation for developing an aeroderivative GT packaging plant to Hungary] and from there in:

oNorway [pre-planning a shutdown of an aeroderivative GT packaging company]

On my recommendation this facility was retained and the facility in Hungary was shut down

oSlovakia [pre-qualification of a partner for designing aeroderivative GT power plant designs]

Italy [steam plant fuel system design]

Germany [steam plant BOP design]

Japan [BOP design for a new state-of-the-art high efficiency heavy duty GT]

South Korea [expediting a major HRSG manufacturer]

Mexico [steam plant BOP design]

Canada [steam plant BOP design]

Brazil [HD GT sales]

Zambia [training for a new piece of mobile mining equipment that I designed for GE]

Education and Professional Membership & Training:

MS Engineering Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 1974

BS Chemical Engineering, Purdue University 1966

NC Professional Engineer, License #: 030448

GE: Kepner-Tregoe Potential Problem Analysis, Effective Presentation / Effective, Six Sigma program

Accomplished user of GTPro, Thermoflex, and GateCycle software for optimized CC Plant design

Accomplished user of Adobe & office suites using word processor, spreadsheet, database, presentation, and project applications.

Other Interests:

Co-founder of not-for-profit organization focused on promoting older child adoptions: active in successful lobbying and statute drafting efforts to get legislation to facilitate older child adoptions passed in the NY state legislature, edited the organization newsletter, officer in this organization.

Co-founder of not-for-profit organization focused on getting fathers into hospital delivery rooms and providing natural childbirth training: produced several films of childbirths for use in natural childbirth classes organized and run by this organization, officer in this organization.

Trained mediator: served as a mediator in the Wake County NC civil court system.

Co-founder of a divorce mediation services organization in Wake County NC.

Obtained state grant to fund the first mediation center in Duplin County NC.

Owner of the historic Graham House Inn in Kenansville, NC.

Awards, Nominations, & Recognitions

Received a nomination for the prestigious GE Gerald L Philippe award for public service involvement.

ASME Federal Fellows program candidate

Contact this candidate