Mechanical Engineer Project Manager

John J. Merle, P.E.

St. Louis, MO *****

(C) 314-***-**** or (H) 314-***-**** or e-mail: *********@***.***

SUMMARY

A Professional Engineer with over 20 years of Mechanical Engineering experience in HVAC and/or Pharmaceutical design. Able to run loads, perform equipment sizing, equipment layout using auto-cad skills, develop job scope and cost estimating, and overseeing project construction. Have done inside sales and worked closely with the outside sales teams.

EDUCATION:

B.S. Mechanical Engineering

University of Missouri Rolla, May 1983

WORK EXPERIENCE:

CDG – Engineers, Architects & Planners, St. Louis, MO 01/18/16 – 05/27/17

Project Based Building Systems Design and Engineering for HVAC, Plumbing and other considerations.

Layout and Site confirmation for HVAC systems at Mallinckrodt

Chiller and Tower Design and Sizing for Brown Shoe

Equipment layout for Ameren-UE

Client studies for equipment replacement at Elementis corp

Behrmann Company –St. Louis, MO 63123 04/16/13 to 12/16/15

Inside Sales Engineer

Select the right size equipment based on the equipment scheduled.

Select and price air handling units, water and air cooled chillers, fan coil units, air terminal boxes, heat pumps and cabinet heaters.

Write up a proposal and issue the bids to the contractors.

Upon bid acceptance, I developed the shop drawing for submittal and get approvals.

Heideman & Assoc., - St. Louis, MO 63021 03/15/12 – 06/20/12

Contract Engineer

Worked on a variety of small hospital remodeling projects from medical office buildings to small hospitals, which involved running loads, sizing ductwork, selecting equipment, running medical gases and then cad up the finished product. Several projects were then placed on hold which resulted in the no design work and my exit from the company.

CxE Group LLC, Edwardsville, IL 62025 10/15/10 – 03/10/12

Mechanical Engineer

I assisted in commissioning the Clayton High School Addition, retro-commissioning the air handling units for the main U.S Post Office in downtown St. Louis and an energy audit for SIU-Edwardsville.

Middough Corp, St. Louis, MO 63102 06/25/10 – 09/30/10

Mechanical Engineer - HVAC

As the only member of the mechanical department, I worked on projects for Anheuser-Busch, Coviden and Olin Brass. My duties included designing HVAC systems, retrofitting existing HVAC systems and providing some plumbing design for remodeling on office spaces. St. Louis satellite office was closed. Had offer to move to Chicago but declined.

Hospital Building and Equipment Co, St. Louis, MO 63141 09/99 – 04/10

Mechanical Engineer

Managed the design of hospital and medical office buildings utilizing staff and my computer skills. My responsibilities consisted of running load programs, performing duct layouts using Auto-CAD 2007, equipment selection software, scheduling equipment and creating specifications. I also performed field surveys, reports, review shop drawings, mentored the inexperienced engineers and resolved coordination issues during design and construction.

Campbell Design Group, St. Louis, MO 03/91 - 09/99

Mechanical Engineer

My first assignment was to assist in the design and specification of the St. Louis Convention Center 3000 Ton Chiller Plant Expansion. I was then loaned to Mallinckrodt Chemical Co. where I performed various engineering tasks such as preliminary design layouts, writing up cost estimates and project scopes. Once the project was approved I sized the equipment; generated drawings and plant specifications; solicited bids for material and labor; issued purchase orders; oversaw construction and job costs; issued change orders, project close notices and would trouble shoot problems in the field. On certain projects developed and implemented Installation Qualification / Operational Qualification Documentation (IQ/OQ) per Mallinckrodt & FDA standards.

M. K. Ferguson Corp., St. Louis, MO 63102 09/89 - 03/91

Mechanical Engineer - HVAC

My assignment was to design HVAC systems for Anheuser-Busch Bud Dry Projects and Brew house mini-expansions. Duties involved duct layout, equipment sizing and coordinating design with existing production line conveyors and equipment. Also, worked for 3-months as a field engineer doing construction start-up at Williamsburg, VA Brewery and one week site inspection of the Houston and Columbus Brewery.

Hospital Building & Equipment Co., St. Louis, MO 05/87 - 09/89

Mechanical Engineer

Completed HVAC and Hydronic system design for institutional and commercial buildings. Responsibilities included heating and cooling load calculations, sizing equipment, mechanical room layout, ductwork and piping layout, supervision of draftsmen, selection and scheduling of mechanical equipment, writing mechanical and control specifications, shop drawing reviews, coordinating mechanical design with architectural and other engineering disciplines.

Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc., St. Louis, MO 07/85 - 05/87

Mechanical Engineer

Responsibilities include heating and cooling load calculations, ductwork layouts, equipment sizing and selection and mechanical room layout.

OTHER SKILLS:

I possess working knowledge of the following software programs:

Carrier E20-II and

Trane Trace 700 building load programs,

Trane System Analyzer,

Auto-Cad 2016 MEP,

Trane, Carrier and York equipment selection programs,

Comcheck,

MS Excel & Office Suite

PERSONAL DATA:

I am a member of ASHRAE, and available to travel.

MECHANICAL PROJECT LISTINGS WITH PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS:

HOSPITAL & HOTEL PROJECTS INVOLVED IN:

Adam’s Mark Hotel – Daytona Beach, FL – Replaced the Make-up Air Handling DX Unit at 19000 CFM serving the guest room corridors with a new unit of the same size using a chilled water coil. Also, I assisted in the design of the 12-story addition. Laid out the HVAC system serving the ballroom and kitchen addition. By laying out the mechanical room and sizing and configuring the ductwork and piping systems to the spaces.

Adam’s Mark Hotel – Northbrook, IL – Remodeled a six story hotel into an Adam’s Mark Hotel removed thru the wall units for the guest rooms and replaced with tri-water heat pump system. Replace and reworked the ductwork and equipment for meeting rooms and lobby area using AutoCAD 14. Ran loads using Carrier E20-II program, sized equipment with Trane Topps program and sized piping and ductwork systems. I laid out the mechanical room for the boiler, pumps, and the fluid cooler. I edited the specification and reviewed the shop drawings. Performed the initial field survey and inspected project during construction.

Clara Barton Hospital, Hoisington, KS – Addition to the hospital consisting of four operating room, recovery / prep area, 25 patient rooms and some remodel work to the existing hospital from the new HVAC equipment. I ran the building loads using the Carrier load program, sized the ductwork system and piping which consisted of a constant volume system with hydronic reheat system. The equipment consisted of one hospital grade York roof top unit sized at 42,000 CFM, one air cooled chiller and one 120 BHP steam boiler which was parallel to an existing boiler. Performed all the CAD work and scheduled all the equipment. I performed the field survey of job and coordinated duct and pipe routings to existing equipment. I reported to a project manager Eric Thompson.

Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital - MOB – Glenwood, IA – A new one story structure using 5 DX package roof top units with gas heat and ductwork system using Carrier by-pass boxes. I ran loads using Carrier E20-II to size the equipment, boxes and ductwork. Also, I used the Comcheck program to assist the architect’s decision on roof insulation thickness and glass requirements to meet energy code requirements.

Parkview Noble Hospital - Kendallville, IN – A new 2-story hospital working under another designer, I ran building loads, sized and designed the medium pressure ductwork with VAV boxes for the OR’s, recovery, prep area and X-ray rooms using AutoCAD 14.

Beebe Medical Center - Lewes, DE – A new 1-story outpatient hospital in Delaware, working under a project manager. I sized the constant volume ductwork system with reheat coils for the OR’s, CAT Scan, X-Ray and MRI areas. Building loads and CAD work were performed by other individuals. I also sized the two York roof top units using the York Works selection program.

Hanford Community Medical Center – Hanford, CA - A new 4-story hospital utilizing a constant volume with hydronic reheat system for the hospital and a VAV with hydronic reheat system for the business center of the hospital. I sized the six air handling units and assisted in laying out the mechanical equipment room. Also, sized the ductwork and reheat coils for the patient floors and the X-Ray, CT Scan, Nuclear Med, and lobby area. I reported to a project manager John Peterson.

St. Josephs Hospital – Buckhannon, WV – A 1-story addition with some remodeling which required the hospital lab area to be relocated and that area became the OR prep and recovery area. I ran the loads using Carrier E20-II and I sized the constant volume ductwork system and gave it to a new engineer to CAD the work up. I sized and selected the 2 new roof top units which were York units. I edited the specifications and schedule all equipment. Reviewed all shop drawings,

Ingram Regional Medical Center – Lansing, MI – A new 3-story cardiac rehab addition with an optional future 4th and 5th floor, plus some remodeling. I ran the building loads using the Trane Trace 700 load program, sized the VAV ductwork system and the hydronic reheat coils and piping for 12 operating rooms, prep/recovery area, the ICU floor, the patient room floor and 6 X-Ray rooms, 16 nuclear med rooms, the CT Scan room, the future MRI and the lobby entrance area on the first floor. Most of the CAD work was done by me with an assist from one other person. Once the OR were relocated to the new addition, the remodeling phase called for 6 new Cath Labs to be relocated into were the old OR’s were located and bring the existing mechanical room equipment up to code requirements. Required gutting all supply and exhaust ductwork from the second floor plus all the equipment from the mechanical room. I then designed new Trane equipment that would fit in the existing mechanical room parameters and provide a new VAV duct system with hydronic reheat plus added a new return air system that would not interfere with existing 3rd floor plumbing drains. I assisted in the design of the chiller plant and some of the ground floor mechanical rooms. I made several field trips to the job site during the design and construction phase. The fuel oil system and the emergency generator were designed by others. I also edited the specifications and reviewed the shop drawings. I reported to a project manager.

Great Lakes Cancer Institute MOB – Flint, MI - A new 2-story addition and a total remodel of the existing one story structure. The HVAC system consisted of a 26000 cfm air handling unit with a DX-coil and VAV system with a ducted return per the owner’s request. The condensing unit was located on grade and the hot water boiler was in the mechanical room. My co-worker ran building loads while I ran single line ductwork and laid out the mechanical room. I then did the CAD work for the addition and assisted him in the remodeling work. I edited the specifications, sized the equipment and scheduled it on the drawings

Jersey Shore Community Hospital – Jersey Shore, PA - A new 2-story hospital with 3 operating rooms, an MRI, CAT Scan, X-ray, ICU, new central sterile room, and a new patient room floor. The HVAC system consisted of two roof top air handling units, a low pressure supply duct system with VAV boxes and hydronic reheat and low pressure return duct system. In addition their was a 200 ton chiller with a remote air cooled condenser unit and two hot water boilers and one medium pressure boiler with a dearator. My co-worker ran loads for the building and performed COMcheck to verify the building met the energy code. I started to work on some single line ductwork layouts. I sized the ductwork and piping for the patient floor, the emergency department, MRI room, lobby entrance and laid out the mechanical and boiler room. While my co-worker laid the ICU area, OR’s, CAT Scan, X-ray and Central sterile supply room. I sized the air handling units, chiller, condenser, boilers, pumps and reheat coils. My co-worker laid out the air balance tables with Microsoft excel and converted that data to the design drawing using the spanner program. I edited the specifications and reviewed the shop drawings. Also, I surveyed the job site prior to construction.

Montgomery General Hospital – Olney, MD – Two new additions added on to the hospital, a 3-story addition on the west side, which consisted of a new emergency department, employee cafeteria and dining area, a new physical therapy area and a 3rd floor shell space for future patient rooms. A 2-story MOB addition was provided on the east side for a cancer treatment center. Plus some remodeling on the existing patient floors and on the 1st floor radiology department. The HVAC system for the MOB consisted of a roof top air handing unit sized at 14500 CFM with chilled water and pre-heat coils, a supply and return fan serving a supply ductwork system with VAV boxes with hydronic heat and a plenum return air system. The chilled and hot water came from the central plant. The HVAC system for the 3-story addition consisted of 2 hospital grade air handling units located in two separate mechanical rooms sized at 21,000 and 28,000 CFM. The third unit was a hospital grade roof top air handling unit sized at 43,000 CFM. In addition to the air handling units a 425 ton chiller and cooling tower were added to the central plant systems. I was responsible for laying out the ductwork and piping for the MOB, the 2nd floor kitchen and dinning area, the piping layout for the new chiller and cooling tower, the routing of the chilled water piping and the house steam to the new HVAC hot water system on the 3rd floor. Also, was responsible for laying out the fuel oil tank, piping and muffler system for the 650 KW emergency generator. My other co-workers were responsible for running the building loads and laying the ductwork in the emergency department and physical therapy area. This was HBE’s first project using ABS AUTO Cad 2007 in 3D and I used it extensively to correct the CAD operator’s errors and the owner’s many changes. I made many site visits to survey the existing conditions for the design phase and observe the construction phase. I also reviewed the shop drawings and resolved issues with the owner’s commissioning agent.

Santa Ynez Cottage Valley Hospital – Solvang, CA – A one story addition which consisted of 8 patient rooms, X-Ray rooms, CT Scan room, and several other examination rooms. The remodeling phase consisted of the emergency department, lab area, administration area and the lobby. The HVAC system consisted of 5 light grade commercial package roof top units, with 3 units handling the addition and 2 units handling the remodel. The ductwork consisted of single zone constant volume and constant volume with electric reheat and a ducted return. My co-worker ran the building loads and handled the ductwork for the remodel portion of the project. I handled the ductwork layout for the addition, sized and scheduled the equipment. I also edited the specification, handled OSHPD comments and reviewed the shop drawings.

Desert Valley Hospital – Victorville, CA - A 2-story addition which include 3 new OR’s, a new ICU wing, 2 new Cath Labs, 2 new X-Ray rooms, Pharmacy area with a new IV Add room, nuclear med room and a new patient room floor. The HVAC system consisted of two roof top units serving a low pressure constant volume ductwork system with hydronic reheat coils. In addition we had two 110 ton scroll chillers, a cooling tower, two dual fueled low pressure hot water boilers, a boiler feed water system, hot water heat exchanger, combustion fans and miscellaneous pumps. My responsibilities were to create the piping schematic for the chilled water, steam & hot water and the fuel oil. I also edited the specifications, size and schedule the equipment, developed the control schematic, lay out and sized the HVAC piping, developed the air balance tables. I oversaw the building loads, duct layouts and the seismic anchorage table developed by two co-workers. In addition I handled OSHPD comments and reviewed the shop drawings.

Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura, CA – A new 6-story hospital which consisted of two floors of patient room, one floor of ICU rooms, one floor of neonatal, C-section, neonatal ICU and LDRP, one floor with ten OR’s, prep/recovery and 5 Cath Labs, one floor with emergency department, radiology, MRI, CT Scan and dining area, and finally the basement with a pharmacy, central sterile, kitchen and receiving. The project manager was relatively new to hospital design and California requirements, so I assisted him on what information was need on the drawings, the pressure relations required for certain spaces and how California OSHPD wanted information presented. I set-up room templates on the Trace 700 load program to assist the new engineers on how to run the program and interpret the data. I ran loads for the OR’s, Cath Labs, kitchen and dining area. I then laid out all ductwork and performed the CAD work in 3D using Auto CAD 2007 for the areas previously mentioned. I mentored the new engineers regarding code requirements for hospital and California jobs.

Chambersburg Hospital - Chambersburg, PA – A new 4-story hospital addition which include three new Cath labs, examination rooms, an ICU floor and two floors of patient rooms with a few rooms of Bariatric Patient rooms. Plus some remodeling was required. My portion of the project was to run the building loads for the addition, layout the constant volume ductwork with hydronic reheat plus the return ductwork for ICU floor and finish up the ground floor ductwork to the Cath Labs. I did all the CAD work for the ICU and Cath Lab areas. In addition I sketched up the piping schematics for chilled water, steam and hot water and the fuel oil piping. I laid out the roof top equipment, sized the air handling units, reheat coils and cooling tower and edited the specifications.

PHARMACEUTICAL PROJECTS INVOLVED IN AT COVIDEN’S N. BROADWAY PLANT:

Bldg 235 Process Conversion – Converted Building 235 from a Tannin manufacturing facility into a Narcotics facility meeting cGMP requirements. Project involve converting some of the existing tanks, adding two 2000 gallon glass lined tanks, pumps, heat exchangers, develop plans to indicate equipment location, new platform heights, pipe sizes and routing. I designed and replaced the ventilation systems on the existing portion of building 235 and the additions on the north and east side of Building 235. Also, I oversaw the installation of a new narcotics vault.

Bldg 200W Pan Cake Dryer Project – Project involved demolition of the existing tray dryers, partial removal of the building floor and the installation of a pan cake dryer with platform, a dust collector system and a mono-rail system for transporting product totes. A new concrete floor was provided and the interior space was painted.

Bldg 62-2 Stability Lab – Three phase project involving the conversion of the second floor meeting room into a Stability Lab. I laid out the HVAC systems for the labs and coordinated my design with the architect. I oversaw the construction and managed the outside contractors and project budget.

Bldg 67 Cooler Room – Project involved installing 40’x150’ cooler room for the storage of volatile materials i.e. 55 gallon drums and 2-litre bottles in boxes loaded on pallets. The cooler was required to be a class 1 division 1 area. I created drawings, specifications and secured the bids from the contractors. I oversaw the construction and the project budget.

Bldg 101 Replace Heating & Ventilation System & install cooler room – the project required the removal of the heating equipment from the roof and replaces it with an air turn over system located on the floor of the warehouse and some unit heaters at the dock doors. In addition the owner wanted to add cooler room in the building for storage of combustible materials.

Bldg 7-4 Replace and relocate NaOH tank - Project involved replacing the 500 gallon NaOH tank with a 750 gallon FRP tank and to relocate the tank from building 7 to 6. I generated the drawings, P&ID, ordered the tank, used plant engineering group for instrumentation. In addition some of the distribution piping was relocated for safety reasons.

Bldg 250 – Upgraded Hydrogenation Process Room – The project called for replacing one hydrogenation tank and adding a second tank to increase narcotic production. Up-grade & automate controls and provide access platforms for better product delivery. I developed equipment, piping and P&ID drawings for the process room. I ordered the 2 - 500 gallon glass lined tanks, oversaw construction and implemented the IQ/OQ documentation.

Bldg 6-4 – Replace narcotic jacketed kettles with enclosed tanks for cGMP - Replaced the 300 gallon jacketed kettles with 500 gallon jacketed enclosed tanks 264 and 263 with bottom outlet and nitrogen blanket. These tanks are used in the final step of narcotics production. The product is then pumped into a finishing room for packaging. The finishing room under this project was also painted for cGMP purposes and the ventilation system was examined to bring the room ventilation system up to a Class 10000 room but was rejected due to cost. I developed equipment, piping and P&ID drawings for the process room. I ordered the 2 - 500 gallon Carpenter 20 stainless steel tanks, oversaw construction and implemented the IQ/OQ documentation.

Bldg 6 – Replace Hot well/Coldwell Tank – The project called for replacing the Hot well / Coldwell tank, pumps, piping and surrounding shed. The tank is used as part of the process chiller system that serves the tank jackets of the narcotics facility. A temporary by-pass tank was required to keep the process in operation during construction. I laid out the drawings, P&ID, ordered the equipment, coordinated with structural designer and contactor, and worked with the in-house plant construction crew to complete the job.

Bldg X – Add new Filler Station for Stearate production – The project involved adding a second filler station, modifying some ductwork and a rotary valve to fill the new station.

Bldg 97 – Installed Heat Exchanger for VOC recovery - A new process the lab was analyzing was emitting flammable vapors that needed to be condensed and reclaimed to meet air emission standards. The project required modifying the chiller in Bldg 98 to be a low temperature chiller and then piping the low temperature water over to Bldg 97 process vapor heat exchanger. I generated the drawings, ordered the equipment and oversaw the construction using outside contractor and in-house plant crew.

Bldg 8 – Replace A/C system – The HVAC system serving the offices, break room and locker room area was in need of replacement. I order a new roof top DX package unit and modified the equipment curb and ductwork to accept the new unit.

Bldg 50 – Replace Tank – Replaced 2000 gallon stainless steel jacket tank and re-piped the process.

Bldg. 25 – Upgrade Air Handling Unit – Replaced the steam coils and also up-graded the temperature controls from pneumatic to DDC.

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