Project Engineer

Resume: Jin Xu

Personal Information

Email: **.****@*****.*** (personal);

Tel: 760-***-**** (cell phone); 410-***-**** (home);

Strength and Advantage

1. Fluent in both English and Chinese Mandarin.

2. Accomplished with many applied mechanical design software and

technologies including Auto CAD, Pro-E, UG, Autodesk Inventor, Solid

work and Finite element analysis.

3. Six-Sigma GB certification holder and familiar with process / quality

control methodology. Experienced with statistical software tools.

4. Over 21 years working experience in manufacturing, Projects sites

worldwide and international marketing environments. Knowledgeable in

wind turbine generators, solar energy power plant and steam / gas

turbines. Experienced in product design, system integration, inspection

and testing procedure. Extensive projects management, schedule and

budget control, and commercial negotiation practices. Gain insight of

world renewable market trends and policies.

5. Experienced in wind, solar farms Engineering, Procurement, Construction

activities and multifarious civil construction practice.

6. Knowledgeable of engineering processes, change management, and

engineering metrics.

7. Strong organization and leadership skills. Ability to work independently

and in a team environment and be self-directed.

8. Able to work effectively in a cross-functional environment, with

multiple personnel to coordinate their activities, bring projects to

successful completion, and drive organizational performance and

excellence.

9. I'm a United States' green card holder.

Experience

2012/6 - Present ABEINSA EPC (Victorville, CA,USA)

Inspector

. Responsible for the equipment and material inspection activities and

cooperate vendors, procurement and project management departments with

all necessary witness inspection at workshops during Pre-award,

Prefabrication, During-production, Shop Final and Pre-Shipment.

. Support project engineer, site manager to expedite the materiel and

equipment delivery, site fabrication and testing. Ensure all products

will meet the requirement of Technical specifications, Design Drawings

and Testing procedures.

. Develop new vendors as purchasing needs. Evaluate the suppliers'

qualification and take commercial negotiations until PO be placed.

Inspection activities and experiences:

The inspections which I witnessed during the past 2 years list below:

GE Steam turbines: Routine performance test.

Generator: Insulation resistance test.

Forging and Welding Parts: Magnetic Particle testing, Ultrasonic test.

Pressure Vessels: Hydrostatic test, Welding inspection.

Heat exchangers: Tube welding& extending, Helium leak test,

Hydrostatic test.

Pumps: Performance Curves and NPSH Tests.

Valves: Hydro. and Air pressure Sealing test.

Control Valves: Functional test.

Metal surface treatment: Sand Blasting thickness check.

Transformers: Type or Routine test.

Control or Switch Cabinets: Functional and Running test.

Abeinsa EPC is the 8th largest contractor in the US.

My current project presentation: Turn-Key contract for a 280 MW (gross)

Solar Power Plant for the production of electricity through the

concentration of solar energy using parabolic trough collectors to heat a

Heat Transfer Fluid (HTF), used to transport the harnessed solar energy to

a steam generating system capable of making superheated steam that feeds a

steam turbine generator.

2011/2 - 2012/4 Tang Energy Group, Ltd (Dallas, Texas, USA)

Technical Coordinator

. Assist in the engineering and construction management of power

projects.

. Assist business development activities.

Project management

. Manage and implement the project through all phases of the project

life cycle including: scope definition, requirements, evaluation,

design and development, construction, installation, commissioning, and

O&M support.

. Plan, organize, direct, and control the execution of EPC projects to

meet safety, quality, cost, and schedule objectives.

. Coordinating meetings, scheduling updates, submitting deliverables,

and addressing outstanding client open items.

. Submitting RFIs to clients, review/monitor job costs vs. budgets,

manage/assist project layout/coordination, and oversee QA/QC programs.

. Managing scope of work, ensuring compliance with policies and

procedures, and ensuring contractual obligations are met.

. Providing guidance/direction for Estimators during estimating process.

. Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget

changes where necessary

. Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and

conduct the appropriate recruiting if necessary during project cycle

. Initiate, establish, and maintain working relationships with owner,

engineers, suppliers and subcontractors to facilitate project

activities.

. Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements

documentation and presentations

Business development

. Assist business development manager to identify new business

opportunities, develop business relationships with new client/contacts

and lead the implementation.

. Setup connection with international (China) finance support resources

based on the renewable energy projects which already have PPA

available. Schedule and preside over business negotiations with all

relevant cooperation partners include loan banks, assurance providers,

final project owners and main stock holders.

. Develop and refine project plans specifying goals, strategy, staffing,

scheduling, identification of risks, contingency plans, and allocation

of available resources.

. Execute the tasks as defined in the project plan in order to achieve

the project goals.

. Define project scope, goals and deliverables that support business

goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders

. Manage changes to the project scope, schedule, and costs using

appropriate verification techniques in order to keep the project plan

accurate, updated, and reflective of authorized project changes.

. Implement approved actions to mitigate project risk events in order to

minimize the impact of the risks on the project

. Assist in the preparation of statements of work and proposals for

vendors and potential customers in conjunction with Business

Development and Corporate Development.

Achievements:

2 projects completed:

Corpus Christi wind farm, Texas 18MW;

La Brisa wind farm, Texas 400MW.

2008 - 2010/9 enXco (San Diego, CA, United States)

Project Engineer

Wind Energy:

Project Management:

. Support development team for the LGIA (Large Generation

Interconnection Agreement) application. Cooperate with wind turbine

suppliers issuing updated turbine modeling document for grid

requirement.

. Work with consulting companies for the new projects designing. Submit

drawings and specifications of civil, collection system, substation

and O&M buildings.

. Manage EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) contractors for

the project construction, turbine installation, connection, energizing

and commissioning. Control the schedule and budget.

. Interface with, and provide direction to, turbine suppliers doing

relevant retrofits to meet customer's special needs. Ensure any change

activities do not conflict with venders warranty policy.

. Continuously building-up relationship with new suppliers, EPC

contractors and consulting services. Keep their proposals and quotes

comparable and optional.

. Modify as-built drawings after project completion and live database

updating.

Technical Support:

. Reduce faults and increases availability for fleet-wide turbines:

o Work with various internal and external groups to identify

fleet-wide priority fault list, generally based on annual lost

production

o Conduct preliminary assessments including fishbone,

impacts/affected population, and options/solutions

o Develop root cause analyses (RCA) and plans for corrective

action and preliminary implementation

o Provide support to Asset Management during implementation of

solutions.

. Increase turbine operating efficiency by working with various groups

to identify underperforming turbines and applying checklists.

. Review and coordinates all technical aspects of turbine supplier major

retrofits and upgrades to achieve high reliability and avoid reduced

service life and failures.

. Be generally responsible for all fleet-wide turbines from one or two

suppliers, and establish and implement standard processes with said

suppliers.

. Implement inter-organizational best practices and teambuilding.

. Coordinate with and influence a number of external and internal

groups, including the engineering and technical support personnel for

the turbine supplier and Major Component Reliability Engineer,

regional Reliability Engineering Specialist (RES), site operating

personnel, Asset Management team, and other internal parties.

. Manage turbine supplier technical resources as needed to ensure focus

on priorities and achieve performance improvement targets.

. Interface with, and provide direction to, turbine suppliers.

. Lead and support continued alignment and standardization of processes

with technical colleagues, including high-level Technical Project

Office activities, turbine RFP due diligence, and other cross-platform

initiatives.

. Support and coordinate operability reviews, end-of-warranty

inspections, turbine procurement, and wind and performance assessment

activities to ensure proper equipment operation, maximize facility

performance, and maintain budgets.

Solar Energy:

. Provide new projects' layout, Single line diagram, ventilation and

Photovoltaic system structure design.

. Visit project site for the inspection of construction and issue

resolution.

. Optimizing construction management plan to minimize the influence of

project cost.

Completed projects:

Shillo II wind farm, California 150MW;

Hoosier wind farm, Indiana 100MW;

Walnut wind farm, Illinois 100MW;

Grand Meadow wind farm, Iowa 200MW;

Maryhill wind farm, Oregon 150MW;

Nobel wind farm, Minnesota 100MW.

Sacramento solar farm, California 1MW;

Eagle Mountain solar farm, California 1MW;

Parking Roof solar farm, New Jersey 1MW.

2005 - 2007 GE (Shanghai, China)

Configuration Management, Mechanical Engineer

. Create bidding documents and support sales team for comical

negotiations.

. Issue checklist documents based on the signed contract for the

turbine's configuration. The checklist is an excel file that

highlights all main parts of the wind turbine in a standard table

format.

. Transfer the contract information (checklist) into existing database

(Pegasus), organizing documents and facilitating the project

implementation process.

. Release Bill of Material into DWB (Digital Work Bench) / ERP-Oracle

system in a timely and accurate manner. Initiated product

manufacturing assembly process.

. Provided technical support on all assigned projects constructions

includes foundations, tower erections, turbine installations,

commissioning, and O&M services.

. Doing R&D on new type of turbine's photo type, structure and PLM

optimize designing, assembling and testing (loads, fatigue, vibration,

dynamic model analysis and power output performance).

. Assist site technicians on turbines trouble shooting maintenance and

issue resolutions (clarify case) tasks. Take action on data collection

by SCADA (remote control) system and write root cause analysis report.

Utilize Six-Sigma statistic methodology getting problems fixed and

controlled. Undertake several additional re-design actions using Pro-

E software for the purpose of technical updating and turbine damaging.

. Lead quality control process activities. Ensure all RFI / clarify

cases from both outer and inner customers had to be solved

immediately. If there was any change needed, following a special DCI

(Design Change Instruction) process is necessary and keeping the

relevant BOM (Bill of Material), specifications, and drawings

documents being updated timely and under computer server based network

system control.

. Cooperate with downstream components suppliers on issues resolutions

or necessary design upgrades according to any complain and special

requirements from customers and project sites. For example, the blade

problems including water drainage, lighting protection and

transportation.

. Coach and help new on board employees and other coworkers on how to

correctly use company's process management systems to make their works

more efficiently. Organize internal technical trainings regularly to

keep team's knowledge in a fresh and advanced level.

. Be recommended to attend foundation of leadership training. Lead

configuration team performing Bill of Material release. Organize

relevant functional departments includes engineering design,

application, requisition, configuration, manufactory, transportation

teams to assist project managers meet the schedules and budgets of

projects world wide.

. Guide compliance team to maintain regulatory compliance with local

regulations, products certifications and associated permits, including

all applicable EHS (environmental, health and safety) regulations.

. Create Spare part list regarding off different project turbine

configurations. According to the market change, support sourcing team

to maintain supply chain system and develop new cooperators focus on

continuously cost out requirement.

Completed Projects:

Hutengxile wind farm, Inner Mongolia, China 100MW;

Shangyi wind farm, HeBei, China 100MW;

Rudong wind farm, Jiangsu, China 200MW;

Nanhui wind park, Shanghai, China 15MW;

And 67 Japan wind projects, over 1000MW

2004 - 2005 DongFang Machinery Co. Ltd (Xi'an, China)

Project manager / Mechanical Design Engineer

Lead 5 engineers directly who were responsible on a large cement brick

product line R&D program. Manage the project implementation, outline

and main components designing, drawing/specification releasing and

product manufacturing under schedule and budget.

. Complete system and components 2D/3D designing.

. Operate program 10% below budget.

. Complete Prototype system testing (loads, fatigue, vibration).

. Lead commercial negotiation for the first equipment selling contract.

. Compile specifications and instruction manual.

2003 - 2004 Jiaotong University (Xi'an, China)

Chief Administrator / Instructor

As the first employee of a new branch campus, be responsible for the

construction of the college. Take care of routine matters and hire staff.

. Organized and completed a 40 hectares area of new campus construction

layout design, site measurement and land expropriation. The whole

investment of this project was $200 millions.

. Recruited 137 students in 2 terms.

. Finished 120 hours teaching tasks.

1993 - 2003 AVIC Xi'an Aero-Engine (Xi'an, China)

Mechanical Engineer

. Responsible for the aero-engines' technical updating research /

designing and testing over 5 years. Tasks included turbine blade

production, X-ray exploration, intensity and static fatigue tests.

Supported workshop on engine's trouble shooting analysis, assembly and

repairing tasks.

. Joined a CCGT (Combined cycle gas turbine plant) program. Main tasks

included: turbine operation inspection, field installation / service

technical support, turbine blades components supplying and turbo

vibration analysis.

. Acting as a site manager in a super cloverleaf junction project.

Organized over 100 builders and several equipments (Mobil Powerful

Rammer, Bulldozer, Loader, concrete mixer, etc) completed 4 bridges

and 3 culverts constructions. And 0.6 acre foundation Dynamic

Compaction treatment.

. Involve in a super air-cleaning equipment R&D program based on the

customer's technical updating requirement.

. Joined a large sewage farm project and responsible for equipments and

pipeline system installation. With an excellent organization practice,

completed all construction (4 pools, 2 plants, 2 miles pipelines and

Filter/power equipments installation) and delivered to customer 1

month in advance. It saved an additional $80,000 cost for company.

. Acting as a senior engineer in 1997 and took charge of building a

pumping station project. This was really a challenging project because

the customer's investment wasn't enough. Re-designed and Re-organized

the project plan under budget. Successful saved 50% investment but

completed all constructions (7 Pumping Station, 3 miles pipelines, 30

miles Channels, 1 Flood control dam, 1 mile Tunnels, 2 Culverts, 3

Inverted Siphons, 6 Aqueducts and over 100 Water gates) under

schedule.

Education

University/College: Northwestern Polytechnic University, China

Degree: Bachelor

Major: Aero engine / Gas turbine Engineering

Grad Yr: 1993

Other Training

. Foundations of GE Leadership

. Advanced Training of the GE Wind Energy 1.5(2005)

. Six Sigma-Green Belt DFSS (2005)

. Six Sigma-Green Belt DMAIC (2005)

. Six Sigma-DOE for Experimenters (2005)

. Annual EHS Training

. Construction Supervision Training (2002)

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