Metallurgical and Welding Engineer

METALLURGICAL & WELDING ENGINEER

Respected Metallurgical & Welding Engineering Consultant for Oil & Gas manufacturers and transporters, aerospace, and steel manufacture. This includes refining and petrochemical plants, marine platforms and hardware, down-hole applications, NASA support, and helicopter manufacture.

Core competencies include:

Specification review and recommendations * Welding procedure (WPS) qualification * Directing

Welder performance testing * Third-party survey and evaluations * Material selections *

Corrosion testing matrix * Fitness-for-Service * Failure analysis * Statistical process control

Major consulting clients include: Eaton, Saudi Aramco, Jacobs Eng., ExxonMobil, Oil States Industries, Red Sea Refining, National Pipe Co. Saudi Arabia, BP, Trinity Industries, Litton Precision Gear, Panhandle Energy, Technip USA, and others.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

Developed comprehensive qualification plans for welding and performance.

Designated Welding Representative (DWR) for Saudi Aramco Consulting Services Dept supporting Out-Of-Kingdom Offshore Fabrication.

Primary Welding Engineer for ExxonMobil for the Hebron Platform Construction.

Developed and published International qualification method for ERW/HFI Manufactured Pipe for Wet, Sour Crude and Gas Services – NACE MECC10.

Performed Fitness-For-Service assessment for Rabigh Refining Company for piping for ethylene and propylene service.

Earned the NASA Manned Flight Awareness Award while a member of failure investigation team for leaking Space Shuttle high pressure helium tanks.

Optimized Electron Beam Welding (EBW) at approved vendors for fabrication of rotor drive transmission helical gear (carburized E9310).

Developed a forgeable, heat treatable, NACE accepted (MR0175), high strength, high toughness (-50 F) weld wire.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Greg Stark Consultancy LLC (Owner), Denton, TX 9/08 - Present

METALLURGICAL & WELDING ENGINEERING CONSULTANT

Consultation for various Oil & Gas manufacturers and transporters. This includes refining and petrochemical plants, marine platforms, hardware, and down-hole. Specification review and recommendations, welding procedure (WPS) qualification, WPS review, welder performance testing, third-party survey and evaluations, material selections, corrosion testing matrix, Fitness-for-Service, and failure analysis. Major clients include: Eaton, Saudi Aramco, Jacobs Eng., ExxonMobil, Oil States, BP, Panhandle, Technip, and others.

Saudi Aramco Oil, Dhahran, Eastern Prov., Saudi Arabia 8/96 - 9/07

METALLURGICAL & WELDING ENGINEER

Member of Consulting Services Dept., Materials Engineering & Corrosion Control Div. Responsible Specifying Authority (RSA) for structural commodities, and fasteners, for buildings and alternate applications such as space frames and scaffolding.

Raytheon Engineers and Constructors, EBASCO Div., NASA/JSC Houston, TX 3/90 – 8/96

PRINCIPLE ENGINEER

Metallurgical, Welding, and Quality Engineer in Special Processes Group providing technical support to NASA directorates and contractors. Developed and implemented framework for Space Center-wide welding program formally endorsed by NASA Engineering for all hardware built by or for Johnson Space Center.

McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. (now Boeing), Mesa, AZ 12/84 – 2/90

MEMBER TECHNICAL STAFF Ill

Welding engineer responsible for metallurgical and welding engineering for AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter and MD50 Commercial Helicopter. Conducted material selection and regulations for Design, Manufacturing, and product support. Member Conceptual Design Team for MD50 NOTAR (No Tail Rotor) patented design.

CAREER NOTE

Additional tenure at Armco Steel, Inc. (now AK Holding) Research Center and Kansas City Works, Details available upon request.

EDUCATION

COLORADO SCHOOL OF MINES, BS in Metallurgical Engineering

Lyons Township Junior College, transfer to CSM

Raytown Vocational School, Welder Certification

AFFILIATIONS

REGISTRATIONS

Professional Engineer (Metallurgical Engineering) Missouri, No. 15896 (Inactive)

- Ohio, No. 046577 (Inactive)

- Texas (Pending)

CERTIFICATIONS

ASQC Certified Quality Engineer - No. 31523 (inactive)

AWS Certified Welding Inspector- No. 91040411 (ASME Sec. VIII & API 1104) (inactive)

ASNT - Certified Level II UT inspector per SNT-TC-1A (inactive)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Society for Metals - Member, Secretary

American Welding Society - General Member and previous Committee (C7B & D17) member

American Society for Quality Control - General member

SKILLS

Metallurgy (Alloys include Steels, Stainless, Nickel Alloy, Titanium, Aluminum, & Copper), Welding Engineering, Quality Engineering, Welding, Failure Analysis, Heat treating, Specification Development, National & International Specifications.

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