Principal Materials Engineer

Meisam Jafari, PhD

Houston, TX ***** 412-***-****

www.linkedin.com/in/meisamjafari ****.******@*****.***

MATERIALS ENGINEER SCIENTIST METALLURGIST

Design Product and Develop Production Processes

Enthusiastic about new ideas with strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills. Demonstrate ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization and active leadership to establish direction and achieve results. Operate under tight timelines and aggressive schedules.

Experience with multiple stages in the product life cycle, materials selection design manufacturing, product development, design of experiment, DOE, statistical analyses, developing processing parameters, sound understanding of the interaction between process variables and material performance. Hands-on experience related to highly regulated industries, oil & gas, automotive, aerospace, steel Industries.

Areas of expertise:

Heat Treatment, Thermomechanical Processing, Forming, Welding and fabrication, Corrosion, Powder Metallurgy.

Failure and Forensic Analysis, Mechanical Test, Fracture Mechanics, Microstructural Characterization

Engineering knowledge of Aluminum alloys, AISI 3xx Austenitic Stainless steels, AISI 4140 High Strength steels, Weldable Wear-resistant High Manganese steels, 3rd generation Advanced High Strength (AHS) steels, automotive application, API steels, oil and gas application.

Powder Composite Materials: WC-Co, W-Cu for wear resistant and high temperature applications, respectively.

EWI Welding Certificate, ASME Sec IX, VIII, AWS 1.1, 1.5, 5.1, NACE 0175, API 5L, 6A, 17D, 1104, 571 standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Mechanical Testing: Tensile, Compression, Hardness, Impact Charpy, Fracture Toughness, Wear Test, cross-sectioning

Non-Destructive Evaluation: (NDE): RT UT MT PT

Manufacturing Processes: Caliber-Rolling, Plate Rolling

Electron Microscopy: SEM 3D-SEM EDS WDS EPMA EBSD FIB TEM

Optical Microscopy (OM) – DIC Microscopy Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES)

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

X-ray XRF: Dislocation Density and Texture Measurement, Phase Identification, Analytical Chemistry

Training: Process Engineering, Corrosion Engineering, Commercial Overview, Economic Analysis, Minitab

WORK EXPERIENCE

LUCIUS PITKIN INC (LPI), New York, NY 2018

Conduct failure analysis, materials characterization, and development and processing of metals and composites for a wide range of clients in the energy, automotive, aeronautical, marine, petrochemical, construction, electronics, fire protection, green technology, consumer products, and medical device industries.

WEBSITEDIRECTIONS SAVEEXXONMOBIL – UPSTREAM RESEARCH COMPANY, Houston, TX 2015 – 2017

Senior Welding Engineer

Worked with commercial and operation teams in North America and Asia to develop pipeline with enhanced wear resistance for oil sands operation. Developed and implemented welding PQR & WPS and line pipe specification for the slurry pipeline. Ensured quality control QA/QC and developed inspection programs. Played leadership roles in coordinating several welding training programs in corporation.

Pipeline Integrity / Reliability: Developed and implemented weldable wear-resistant high manganese steel, improved product quality, extending life-time of the slurry pipeline. Increased productivity by decreasing maintenance time. Saved $1-2B in oil sands operation costs.

oDesigned and fabricated high manganese steel welding consumables for manual / automatic welding.

oConducted root-cause failure analysis (RCFA), identifying factors that cause failure in oil sands and sour service pipelines and subsea flexible pipes. Provided guidelines for pipeline operation, inspection, maintenance, and repair to implement corrective and preventative actions in compliance with procedures and regulations.

oMonitored wear and corrosion in pipelines that influence reliability of pipeline.

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Pipeline Database: Led a cross-functional effort to build a sour service pipeline materials database, a data analysis tool, record and organize pipeline project documents. Improved design / qualification of steels for sour service pipelines. Ensured information flow across the corporation.

Equipment Inspection / Optimization: Took initiative to inspect, calibrate, and optimize lab equipment and experimental automation to improve outputs of experiment. Developed processes, procedures, test plans for novel research applications.

MMFX TECHNOLOGIES, Irvine, CA 2013 – 2014

Materials Scientist

Developed corrosion resistant high strength ASTM A1035 steel rebar at cascade steel rolling mill for structural applications. Participated in several ASTM, NACE, and AWS standard committees for steel rebar, conducted quality control, and helped intellectual properties (IP) team to patent the company products.

Provided welding protocol for ASTM A1035 steel rebar according to AWS D1.1 & D1.4.

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, Pittsburgh, PA 2012 – 2013

Research Associate

Defined relationship between mechanical properties and microstructure of 3rd generation advanced high strength (AHS) steels. Characterized multi-phase microstructure (ferritic, austenitic, martensitic) with electron microscopy techniques.

Developed AHSS, in collaboration with US STEEL with high strength-ductility balance by microstructural engineering for automotive industry.

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan 2008 – 2012

Junior Researcher

Enhanced strength-toughness balance in AISI4140 and 4340 high strength steels in collaboration with JFE Steel through thermomechanical processing- warm calibre bar rolling- and microstructural engineering. Conducted extensive microstructural characterization with XRD, SEM, EBSD, TEM. Investigated fracture mechanic by 3D-SEM, EBSD, Auger Microscopy.

Fabricated 2GPa strength bolt and fastener with 150J impact toughness and resistant to hydrogen embrittlement.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science Engineering, Toughening of the High Strength Steels through Thermomechanical Processing, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, GPA: 4.0/4.0

Master of Science (MSc), Materials Engineering, Evaluation of Mechanical Properties with Microstructure in the AISI 316 Stainless Steel during Hot Rolling, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

Bachelor of Science (BSc), Industrial Metallurgy, Effect of Metallurgical Parameters on Failure in Drilling Pipes, Shahid Chamran University, Khouzestan, Iran

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Research Fellowship (Supported by NSF): Carnegie Mellon University

Graduate Fellowship (CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency): National Institute for Materials Science

Student Grant THERMEC’2011: Member of student committee

Poster Award Iron & Steel Institute of Japan (ISIJ): Spring 2010 and Fall 2010

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Journal Reviewer, Springer Science and Business Media Taylor & Francis Group Elsevier Publishing Company

Applied sever plastic deformation, Accumulative Roll-Bonding (ARB) and Equal Channel Angular Extrusion (ECAE), on aluminum and copper alloys, developing nano-crystalline structure. Enhanced strength and ductility of alloys. Isfahan University of Technology, Iran.

Developed WC-Co / W-Cu composites by powder metallurgy (ball milling, Cold Isostatic Pressing (CIP), sintering). Meisam Jafari, PhD ****.******@*****.*** Page Three

ADDENDUM

PUBLICATIONS

M. Jafari, W. M. Garrison, and K. Tsuzaki, “Effect of Initial Microstructure on Impact Toughness of 1200 MPa- Class High Strength Steel with Ultrafine Elongated Grain Structure”, Metall. Mater. Trans. A 45 (2014) 647-653.

M. Jafari and K. Tsuzaki, “Transition in fracture mode from ductile to intergranular and cleavage in 0.05 %P doped high strength steel”, J. Alloys compd. 577 (2013) S 636– 641.

M. Jafari and K. Tsuzaki, “Toughening by the addition of Phosphorus to a High-Strength Steel with Ultrafine Elongated Grain Structures”, Phil. Mag. Letters 9 (2012) 1-7.

M. Jafari, Y. Kimura, and K. Tsuzaki, “Enhanced Upper Shelf Energy by Ultrafine Elongated Grain Structures in 1100 MPa High Strength Steel”, Mater. Sci. Eng. A 532 (2012) 420-429.

M. Jafari, Y. Kimura, and K. Tsuzaki, “Remarkable Enhancement in Upper Shelf Energy through Delamination Fracture in 0.05% P Doped High Strength Steel”, Metall. Mater. Trans. A 43-201*-****-****.

M. Jafari, Y. Kimura, Y. Nie, and K. Tsuzaki, “Enhancement of Impact Toughness of 0.05% P Doped High Strength Steel Through Formation of an Ultrafine Elongated Grain Structure”, ISIJ Int’l 50-201*-****-****.

M. Jafari and A. Najafizadeh, “Correlation between Zener-Hollomon parameter and Necklace DRX during Hot Deformation of 316 Stainless Steel”, Mater. Sci. & Eng. A 501 (2009) 16-25.

M. Jafari and A. Najafizadeh, “Comparison between the Methods of Determining the Critical Stress for Initiation of Dynamic Recrystallization in 316 Stainless Steel”, J. Mater. Sci. Tech. 24 (2008) 840-844.

F. Salimyanfard, M. R. Toroghinejad, F. Ashrafizadeh, and M. Jafari, “EBSD Analysis of Nano-Structured Copper Processed by ECAP”, Mater. Sci. & Eng. A 528 (201*-****-****.

PRESENTATIONS

M. Jafari, W. M. Garrison, and K. Tsuzaki, AISTech 2013, USA – Pittsburgh PA, May 2013.

M. Jafari, W. M. Garrison, and K. Tsuzaki, TMS 2013, USA – San Antonio TX, March 2013.

M. Jafari and K. Tsuzaki. THERMEC 2011, CANADA – Quebec City QC, August 2011.

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