Design Training

THUHA DUONG

***** ****** **. ****** *****, CA ***44 Phone: 714-***-****

E-mail: **********@*****.***

STRENGTHS:

Extensive work experience as a piping designer at well respected organizations.

Thorough knowledge of design procedures and general drawing conventions.

I am well organized, have a strong work ethic, capable of setting priorities and can

manage time effectively in order to meet deadlines.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

Intergraph PDS-3D, Smart Plant 3-D, AutoCAD, CADWorx, MicroStation, Pro-Engineer,

Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

WPM: 50 and 10 key.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Technip, Claremont, California

Senior Mechanical Designer 11/2011 - Current

Develop detailed 2D drawings and 3D models using MicroStation, PDS and

AutoCAD. Modeling equipment such as I.D Fans, F.D Fans, Vessels, Exchangers,

Pumps, Air Coolers, Compressors, Primary, Secondary, Teriary TLEs and such.

Duties include design coordination between Piping and Civil/Structural groups. Also

verifying and checking projects against vendor information and industry & company

design standards.

Primary clients consist of the gas & oil industries.

SpinTek Filtration, Los Alamitos, California

Senior Piping Designer 06/2010 - 10/2011

Develop detailed drawings using AutoCAD, of skid mounted vessels and piping

systems for client proposals and in house shop fabrication of industrial filtration

systems. Including plans, sections, details and isometrics.

Duties also include the generation of materials list for the purchasing department.

Also required is coordination with engineering, in house manufacturing and field trips

to off-site manufacturing facilities for project oversight and reviews.

Primary clients consist of gas & oil refiners, mining industry as well as clients

worldwide seeking clean water solutions.

Fluor Corporation, Aliso Viejo, California

Senior Piping Designer 10/2005 - 03/2010

Developed Piping Layout and Detail Design drawings for various projects primarily

utilizing Intergraph PDS, SmartPlant 3-D, MicroStation & AutoCAD.

Generated Equipment Models for the following areas: Sulfur Area, Sulfur Pit, KNHT

Unit, Coker Unit…

Generated Fabrication Isometrics, Stress and MTO Sketches, as well as checked

Tie-In Packages to assist field construction.

Assigned work to people, coordinated with engineers in different departments

to complete a variety of assignments.

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Performed Isometric checking and Equipment, Structure Squad checks on different

projects for clients such as Valero, Tesoro, Total and Marathon.

Piping Designer 11/1996 - 05/2002

Designer & Squad Checker for Level 3 Telecom Networks.

Created Engineering and Fiber-optic AutoCAD drawings for various clients: Cities,

Counties, Caltrans…

Created Civil Routing Plans and Lateral Plans from blueprints, field information and

E-Tak maps.

Created Site Maps, Key Plans, and Trench & Bore Profiles.

Created refinery related equipment models including fired heater, fractionation

columns, pumps, air coolers and heat exchangers using PDS –3D Plant Design.

Manual Drafting, AutoCAD and MicroStation.

Designed & drafted Piping Plan drawings and Detail drawings for items such as the

following: Fractionation columns, horizontal accumulators, pumps, air coolers, heat

exchangers, and pump turbines.

Drafted Piping Isometrics (spool drawings) from Piping Plans.

Drafted Petrochemical Refinery Plot Plans.

Familiarized myself with specifications for General Refinery Piping Design Layout

drawings, fabrication & materials.

Created drawings of major structure foundations, steel structure items for vessels,

exchanger foundations, modified pipe-ways and pipe support details.

Marmac Field Services, Costa Mesa, California

Mapping Designer 06/2004 - 10/2005

Produced Mapping/Pipeline drawings using AutoCAD & AutoCAD Overlay. Projects

consisted of routing new and or relocating existing pipelines through large areas

such as city streets and desert to refinery’s pump stations and holding facilities.

Services included oil, gas and water.

William Simpson & Associates, Inc., Newport Beach, California

Drafter 08/2003 - 06/2004

Created Architectural & Structural drawings and details using AutoCAD.

Wessex Industry, Inc., Santa Fe Spring, California

Drafter 05/2002 - 06/2003

Created Piping Layout, Isometric and Detail drawings for in-house fabrication.

Created Parts Lists for procurement of materials.

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

Technip USA – Claremont, CA: Smart Plant 3-D Training.

Fluor Corporation - Long Beach, CA: Piping Design Phase III Training and Plot Plan

Lay-out Training.

Fluor Corporation - Aliso Viejo, CA: PDS (Plant Design System) Piping and

Equipment Training.

MTI College - Orange, CA: Piping Design Degree (Fluor Piping Design Phase I & II

Training).

Santa Ana College - Santa Ana, CA: Completed Survey & Mapping Civil Technology

Certificate.

Associated Technical College - Anaheim, CA: Micro-Computer Technology Degree.

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