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Project Manager Engineer

Location:
Lincoln, NE
Posted:
March 31, 2014

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WILSON D. ROHAN

360-***-****, *********@*****.***

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Lincoln, NE 68504-1313

Engineering Project Manager

I offer twenty-six years of engineering including eighteen years of project

management and mechanical engineering, four years of pharmaceutical project

engineering and scheduling, four years of automotive product planning, and

three years of maintenance engineering and inspection.

Professional Experience

Environmental Projects

. Successfully completed an Amine Unit and a LoCAT Sulfur Removal Unit

for Northern Natural Gas on time and on budget

. Coordinated the construction of a gasoline treater unit for Wynnewood

Refinery; completed on budget and ahead of schedule.

Alternative Energy

. Familiar with Ethanol distillation from corn dextrose and corn

refining (Cargill in Blair, Nebraska). Successfully maintained the

project schedule.

. Designed & styled several solar-electric hybrid cars.

Soybean Oil Refining

. Successfully completed a cooling water balance for AMG in St. Joseph,

MO

Petroleum Refining (including a dozen major refinery turnarounds)

. ARCO Refinery in Wilmington, CA (7 years), completed many projects

. Koch Refineries in St. Paul, MN and Corpus Christi, TX, completed oily

water sewer project

. Western Refinery in El Paso, TX, contributed to two hydro-treaters

. Shell Refinery in Anacortes, WA, completed Alkylation Unit

improvements

. Crown Refinery in Pasadena, TX, set up vibration analysis and

maintenance plan

Project Engineering and Management

. Substantial applicable background in managing engineering projects

(valued from several thousand to thirty-five million).

. Construction supervision, facilities/maintenance management,

coordination of automation projects (repeatedly setting and meeting

timelines and budgets).

Special Skills: Artist with 51 awards (including technical illustrations

and renderings)

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering (minor in Chemical

Engineering) at the University of Houston, TX.

Graduate school courses in parallel processing and graphics programming:

U.C. Irvine

Employment History

Husky Lima, Ohio refinery (contract for RDS, inc.) from January 2014 to

present

Work with the new Amine, Sulfur and Tail Gas Units.s contractpermanent

position.

Wynnewood Refinery Direct (Wynnewood, Oklahoma) July 2009 - August 2013

Project engineering and reliability. Various projects from a few thousand

dollars to several million. Installation of a new gasoline treater unit.

Turnaround work and turnaround planning.

Aerotek Contract Feb. 2008 - Mar. 2009

Successfully completed turn-key design and installation of an Amine Unit,

Gas Contactor, and LoCAT Sulfur Removal Unit for Northern Natural Gas in

Redfield, Iowa.

Oxford International Contract Jan. 2007 - Feb. 2008

Successful completion of one-year contract with Oxford International for

Shell Refinery in Washington and Western Refinery in El Paso, TX (reference

letter available upon request). Engineering projects in several processing

units (including Fluid Cat Cracker, Alkylation, Cat Polymerization, Boiler

house. Scheduling, budgeting, process safety management.

Self-employed as a consulting engineer in Lincoln, NE: Sep. 2005 - Dec.

2006 Including maintaining project schedule for Cargill in Blair, Nebraska.

1st Street Northwest for HEI, Inc. Contract Nov. 2004 - September 9, 2005

Validation and Verification engineer and scheduler. Successfully completed

medical device equipment manufacturing validation for ISO 13485

requirements (writing protocols and reports). Awarded two outstanding

achievement certificates by my customer HEI, Inc. of Victoria, MN.

Insight Technical Solutions Scheduler Direct Nov. 2002 - Sep. 2004

Automation Coordinator/project manager using Microsoft Project for Pfizer

in Kalamazoo, MI and Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, IN.

Marathon Ashland Refinery Contract (St. Paul, MN): Fall turnaround

supervision and pre-turnaround work - August thru October 2002: Managed

Fluid Cat Cracker - Gas Compression & Frac. unit on time and on budget.

Utilized a 50 - employee strong team of welders, pipe-fitters, millwrights,

boiler makers, electricians, etc. Also completed some work in civil and

structural repairs and upgrades.

Aerotek (Milwaukee, WI): Completion of bulk saline heparinization project

for BD Medical, March 2002 - May 2002. Successfully completed project in

three months. Including upgrading, validating, and commissioning clean

room. The work included HEPA filtration, increasing HVAC air changes, and

humidity control system upgrades.

Oxford International (Corpus Christi and Pine Bend) July 2000 - Sep. 2001.

Contract Engineering Project Manager. Completed $35 million oily water

sewer project (Pine Bend, MN). Successfully managed Coker heater re-tube

during Corpus Christi plant Fall turnaround in 2000, plus several small

projects (including rotating equipment).

Pfizer (Lincoln, NE) Contract Pharmaceutical Project Manager (through

Aerotek of Omaha) Sep. 1998 - Mar. 2000. Successfully completed over fifty

projects. This work included conversion of office and warehouse space into

clean room laboratories. I also upgraded existing laboratory HVAC, and

brought two old labs up to specifications.

Nabisco Bakery (Buena Park, CA) Temporary Contract Project Engineer: Feb -

July 1998.

I completed twelve projects to improve bakery operations (refrigeration,

trash disposal, packaging, and compliance).

ARCO Refinery (Los Angeles, CA) Contract Project Engineer and Manager from

Jan. 1991 - Feb. 1998 Completed many projects and coordinated work during

five major turnarounds (including scheduling using Project and P-3). Worked

as construction superintendent building a large propane system.

JATO Dynamics Automotive Software Researcher. (Pinner, England) Jan. 1990 -

Jan. 1991. While working from home in Los Angeles, California, I completed

a one year contract to gather and enter data into the JATO Automotive

Comparison Database. In addition, I served as a West Coast USA customer

service representative.

Subaru Technical Center (Westminster, California) Sep. 1986 - Dec. 1989.

Originally hired as an Automotive Accessory Development Engineer, I moved

to the Product Planning Department immediately after accepting the

position. Successfully completed the Product Plan (model lineup and

marketing strategy) for the Subaru Justy, Legacy, and Leone.

Aurora Pump Company (City of Industry, California) Nov. 1984 - Aug. 1986

(when the company closed down). I worked as an API vertical pump design

engineer standardizing parts and introducing CAD until the plant closed.

Crown Refinery (Pasadena, TX) June 1981 - Nov. 1984. I started as an intern

with Crown until December 1982 when I graduated from the University of

Houston with a Mechanical Engineering degree and became a full-fledged

Maintenance Engineer. I worked on a variety of multi-craft small

construction projects until the plant-wide layoff in 1984.



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