Senior Piping Designer / Checker / Supervisor

MARK E. SONES

**** **** *.*.*. Dr. Houston, Texas 77013 713-***-**** Cell Email: *******@*****.***

PROFILE

Piping Designer with over 20+ years’ experience in the petroleum refining, petrochemical, chemical industries, gas plants, offshore production platforms, power plants, and oil and gas field transport systems, compressor stations, oil and gas transport and storage, pipeline manifolds, mainline valves, and GOSP. My overall background has included piping design, plant layout, piping and equipment arrangement plans, vessel and equipment details, structural steel design, piping isometrics, construction drawings, 3D models, P&ID’s and PFD’s. Experience includes senior designer, lead designer, squad leader, checker, project engineer, project manager on several multi-million dollar projects, from grass roots to expansion and upgrades. This experience provides a thorough knowledge of design and engineering procedures and practices that allow me to assume responsibilities on projects from written scope, through design, procurement, construction, start-up, and systems turnover to client.

Computer skills include AutoCAD and associated overlay programs such as CADWorx Plant Professional (10+ yrs.), Bentley AutoPlant Design (7+ yrs.), CADPipe 3D Design (2 yrs.), PRO Series (4 yrs.), AVEVA PDMS and MDS (6+ yrs.), have checked PDS, FlexCAD, AVEVA Review & ReviewShare, SmartPlant Review, NavisWorks, Point Cloud Survey programs – AVEVA LFM, Cloudworx and Autodesk ReCap, databases, spreadsheets and scheduling programs. I also have an extensive working knowledge of AutoCAD, CADWorx Administration, ISOGEN and Isogen Administrator, computers, operating systems and computer networking.

EXPERIENCE

Piping Designer / Piping Design Group Leader January 2018 to Current

Chemic Engineers / Hitchcock, Texas

Group Leader Piping Design – Managing design team, FEL and Capital Projects, Distributing work assignments, managing budgets, schedules and estimates. NDA on clients.

Piping Designer / Checker / Lead 2008 to December2017

WorleyParsons – Houston, Texas

Piping Designer/Checker/CADWorx & ISOGEN Administrator – Upstream Pipeline Department – Various Clients – Oil/Gas Process Plants and Storage Facilities

Piping Designer/Checker – ExxonMobil Offshore Sakhalin 1 Arkutum Dagi Topsides Project

Petrobras COMPERJ Project, FEED – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Project Lead – ExxonMobil Offshore Production Platform Revamp Project – Equatorial Guinea.

Piping Designer – ConocoPhillips Pre-Feed Project, Oil and Gas Reserves. Pipeline and Processing. – Iraq Re-Development Program.

Project Engineer / Lead Piping Designer, Checker 2006 to 2008

Preferred Engineering, LLP. – Naussau Bay, Texas

Project Engineer – GDU Unit, FCCU Expansion, Wet Gas Scrubber installation, Valero – Houston Refinery.

Lead Designer Piping, Civil, Structural – HF Acid Units, Valero – Texas City Refinery

Lead Designer Piping – Waste Water Treatment, FEL, Valero – Texas City Refinery

Project Manager/ Piping Designer 2002 to 2005

BEI Engineering, Inc. - Pasadena, Texas

Piping Designer - GE Power 3D models Compressors and Turbines, Offshore Platforms.

Lead Piping Designer – Environmental Compliance Upgrade Project – Dixie Chemical, Bayport.

Manager – Synthetic Lubrication Blending Expansion, Shell Lube Plant – Galena Park.

Piping Designer - Plant Utilities Upgrade – Shell, Deer Park.

Senior Piping Designer/ Checker / Lead 1996 to 2002

GDS Engineers, Inc. - Houston, Texas

Piping Designer - Butyl lithium project, on assignment from concept to start-up.

Piping Designer - Several small cap .projects Chevron, Cedar Bayou & Lubrizol, and Deer Park.

Piping Designer - Grass roots projects for clients such as Air Liquide, Exxon and Lyondell-Citgo.

Piping Designer - Checking for both Exxon (Baytown) and Lyondell-Citgo (Pasadena) Refineries.

Piping Designer 1993 to 1996

PETROCON Engineering – Houston, Texas

Piping Designer – Small capital projects on site Amoco, Cedar Bayou

Piping and Mechanical/Engineering Designer/Checker – Howell Hydrocarbon & Chemicals.

Piping Designer / Project Engineer 1988 to 1993

M.W. Kellogg – Houston Texas

Contracted to Arco, from M.W. Kellogg, POSM II project as Contracts Administrator.

Project Engineer, Supervisor of design groups Lyondell BD Recovery & Arco BDO Projects.

Project Engineer / General Manager 1980 to 1988

TransAmerica Energy Corporation - Good Hope, Louisiana, and Laredo, Texas

General Manager of Services Group, Upstream Oil and Gas Exploration and Transmission Division in Laredo, Texas.

Project Engineer, Contract Engineering Major Refinery Expansion at Good Hope Refinery, La.

Piping Designer 1976 to 1979

Brown & Root, Marine Division – Houston, Texas

Draftsman/Designer Brown-Field Work on Production Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Performed field work and design.

Brown & Root, Petro-Chemical Division – Houston, Texas

Draftsman/Designer on numerous small capital projects in the Houston area. Performed field work and preliminary design. Interfaced with engineers and management to maximize efficiency of design and construction

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