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Contact: Daniel M. Walsh

Address: **** ***** **** ***

Corpus Christi, TX 78414

Cell: 310-***-**** Home Phone: 361-***-****

Email: acqqkr@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

Employment where I can fully utilize my experience and skills to contribute significantly to the company and fellow employees.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

Thirty-six years of experience in the Chemical, Refinery and Power industries, twenty-three as a project manager, thirteen as a piping designer.

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering obtained from Texas A&M University upon returning to school after working thirteen years as a piping designer.

Worked all aspects of project work, from draftsman, designer, construction support, discipline project engineer and project manager. Thirty-four of these years were in operating plants or plants under construction.

Well rounded experience results in complete understanding of what is necessary to take an idea and turn it into an operating system.

Communication ability is strong due to my successful experience in directly dealing with all disciplines, from the pipe fitter to the corporate manager and all in between.

Experience in developing PSM and various other work procedures.

Three years of experience as a Root Cause Analysis Facilitator

Experience at developing and running a technical design department.

Project Management Duties:

Lead Mechanical project engineer responsible for managing teams of multiple discipline engineers and designers in the development and completion of capital projects and large maintenance work orders

Manage multiple projects simultaneously

Responsible for completing projects on schedule and budget us

Work closely with Operations and Process Engineers to develop scopes and designs for plant modifications and additions

Prepare documentation to request capital funds for projects. This includes preparing scopes, estimates, justifications, executive summaries, and supporting drawings and sketches.

Prepare and issue bid packages for equipment purchases and construction services, select vendors and contractors.

Select and manage engineering consultants

Supervise the engineering, drafting and design necessary to produce construction drawings, construction scopes of work and construction work packages

Coordinate field installation by developing shut down and tie-in schedules with Operations, walking the job out with construction supervisors, and coordinating all inspections and testing required before turning the systems over to Operations

Root Cause Analysis Facilitator Duties:

Acted as Facilitator in approximately thirty root cause analysis meetings, leading the teams through the process to identify causes and suggest solutions for various plant problems. These include equipment failures, production failures, environmental releases, recordable injuries, and near misses for all of the above.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Project Manager

October 15, 2012 – June 15, 2015 – Flint Hill Resources – Corpus Christi, TX - 300,000 BPD Oil Refinery (combined east/west refineries)

Major Accomplishments:

Largest accomplishment to date at this job was leading a team in the successful engineering, design, construction and start-up of an $18MM storm water metals removal project using a design/build process required because of a late project start date and a looming environmental compliance deadline. Work was completed in 18 months from the point of no idea of what kind of treatment system could work and be constructed to meet the operation deadline through the installation and successful testing of metals removal from storm water.

Led project team to scope a capital turn-around project proposal to redesign the DCU Main Fractionator Filter system forecasted to cost a half a million dollars to a fifty thousand dollar maintenance expense.

Lead Project Engineer

April 2008 to October 2012 - Tesoro Refining and Marketing – Wilmington, CA

97,000 BPD Oil Refinery

Major Accomplishments:

Successfully completed or have in progress over twenty capital projects totaling over $50MM in capital funds with no unplanned supplemental funds required. The majority of these are high profile, quick hit, income improvement projects.

Completed approximately fifteen maintenance funded projects with total spend of over four million dollars.

Recommended the formation of an in-house design group and successfully implemented my suggestion, currently acting as Tesoro manager. It has greatly reduced Tesoro project and maintenance engineering design costs.

I have been referred to as a “go to guy” for urgent work. My leadership in the piping redesign to bypass the DCU Stripper due to fire damage and the subsequent rebuild is an example of the time critical work for which I am selected.

Working closely with Operations and Field Construction, we have been able to reduce the costs of the complex wide UG Piping project (reroute all underground hydrocarbon pipelines above the ground) from the original $73MM approved funding to less than $34MM. Successful progress on this project has helped reduce environmental liabilities.

Managed successful cleaning of Vapor Recovery piping systems in the north tank farm while implementing design changes to facilitate ease in effective future cleanings. This has helped to eliminate environmental releases.

I assisted in rewrite of inspection procedures to eliminate excessive inspection, thereby allowing reduction in contract inspector headcount.

Identified as primary project manager for high profile quick hit income improvement projects - currently managing five such projects.

Special Assignments:

Document Control/Design Drafting Supervisor

MOC Subject Matter Expert

Principal Project Engineer/Root Cause Analysis Facilitator

Dec 1990 to April 2008 - Lake Charles, LA

PPG Industries - Chlor/Alkali and Derivatives Chemical Plant

Major Accomplishments:

Developed scope and designed a reliable aboveground gravity-flow sewer system for effluent collection and treatment. This eliminated an underground sewer that required an annual LDEQ mandated inspection and subsequent repairs which had historically cost about $200,000 for each event. For less than $280,000 approximately 1500 of 20" fiberglass pipe was installed, the old sewer filled with light weight concrete, and recurring inspection/repair costs, along with written reports to the LDEQ were eliminated. I developed this scope despite warnings that gravity flow would not work and sumps with pumps would be required.

Saved two projects approximately $180,000 by evaluating six API 650 tanks to establish that they could be modified and rerated to API 620 tanks at ten pounds pressure rating. A scope had been developed by an outside engineering company to demolish and replace the tanks with new. Worked with contractors to get the tanks and vent systems modified. This allowed direct venting to incinerators rather than a scrubber, thereby reducing emissions in the plant.

Saved PPG approximately $150,000 dollars by solving a hydraulics problem in a vent system. Chemical engineers had instructed that pressure drop difficulties could be resolved by replacing a vent condenser with one of larger diameter. I was assigned the task. Instead, by use of a laser thermometer, I was able to ascertain that the existing condenser was running flooded due to poor drainage and physical location. By raising it a few feet and enlarging the drain piping the flow and heat transfer performances were improved.

Provided mechanical design for solvents vent recovery system that received Louisiana Governor’s Outstanding Pollution Reduction Award.

Special Assignments:

PPG corporate discipline representative for corporate piping standards and practices, reviewing and administrating all submitted revisions and additions.

Member of team that developed PPG Lake Charles’ Process Safety Management Mechanical Integrity Procedure

Member of Team that developed Hot Tap Safety and Engineering Procedures.

Member of Quality Action Team that developed a streamlined method of producing mechanical construction drawings.

Auditor of Process Safety Management procedures.

Tarleton State/Texas A&M Mechanical Engineering Student

Jan. 1987 to Dec. 1990 Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M College Station, TX

Senior Piping Designer/Draftsman

March 1974 to Jan. I987 -- Contract Employee to several companies throughout the U. S. A. Engineering/Consulting:

Work with engineers to develop and draft process flow diagrams and P& ID’s.

Design and build scale plastic models. Draft piping drawings made from models, and check drawings made from models.

Produce equipment and piping layout drawings.

B. Operating Plants:

Work with chemical and mechanical engineers to develop P&ID’s for plant modifications and additions.

Design equipment and piping layout drawings for approval by engineers.

Work with maintenance crews through construction of designs.

C. Plants under Construction:

Keep piping fabrication and installation crews working by resolving all delays. This included resolving field interferences, drawing errors and omissions, and quality control issues.

Design and approve change authorization documents to allow craft to continue working.

Disposition quality non-conformance reports.

Special assignment: For six years, in addition to my regular duties, I was the contractor liaison to the client at the construction of the Comanche Peak Steam Electrical Station (Nuclear). As Lead Man for over two hundred contract engineers and designers, my job included resolving client/contractor issues, new employee orientation, handling problems between our field and office personnel, issuing paychecks and termination notices, and disseminating policy.

EDUCATION: Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas- B.S.M.E. December 1990

CONTINUING EDUCATION:

American Society Quality Control - Passed Certified Quality Engineer Exam June 1992 Concepts of Chemical Engineering for Non-Chemical Engineers October 1995

IMPA’s Economic Analysis/Evaluation and Project Management March 1996

Codewest AP1510, 570, & 653 Inspection, Engineering and Fitness for Service July 1998 Heat Exchangers in the Process Industry September 1998

Karassik’s Applied Centrifugal Pump Technology October 1998

Centrifugal Pumps: Solution, Operation and Maintenance September 2000

Apollo Root Cause Analysis May 2006

PMP Project Management Academy Exam August 2014

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