Resume of
Ken Claybrook
Yoakum, TX 77995
Mobile Phone: 361-***-****
Secondary Phone: 830-***-****
E-mail: ********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Mr. Claybrook has 35 years of engineering design experience with an emphasis in project management/coordination, product development of machine designs, structural design, pressure vessel design and pump and piping design in the industrial and oil and gas industries. Other personal strengths include supervision, calculations, estimating and scheduling.
He has very good computer knowledge and experience in AutoCad and Microstation CAD platform applications. He also has a very good understanding of the API, ASME and AISC material and building specifications.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer: Exterran – Columbus, TX 78935
Date: July 2011 – Present
Title: Production Equipment Designer
Duties: Design, layout and draft custom equipment for various oil & gas
Producers (e.g. Anadarko, Chevron, Conoco, EnCana, GPA-Gathering,
IHSA (Mexico), Marathon Oil, Pemex, Regency Oil). Redesign of
Standard product line equipment (Blow cases, Oil Stabilizer Units, Hi-
Lo Separator Units, Regenerators and Dehydrator Units)
Employer: Victoria Technical Services – Victoria, TX 77905
Date: September 1999 – July 2011
Title: Owner/Project Manager/ Sr. Project Designer
Duties: Design, layout and draft drawbar w/load cell, specifications and layout of
Gearboxes, transfer cases and various other pieces of equipment for the
fabrication of a 200,000lbs. load car for the John Deere Tractor
Company.
Design and draft various piping schemes for the petrochemical industry
for BHP Engineering.
Design and manage project of manufacturing of a hydraulic rack and
pinion drive system for a J-lay pipe laying ship. Also designed hydraulic
“jacking system” for raising/lowering 650 MT mast for same pipe laying
ship.
Design and manage the layout, sizing and fabrication of several different
sized natural gas compressor packages for a local compressor leasing
company.
Conceptual and final design of a conveyor system for a beverage bottling
company.
Worked with Fluor Engineering in Houston, TX as a Sr. Structural
Designer, designing pipe rack systems and various petrochemical
structures.
Worked for PME (Palmetto Engineering and Management, a subsidiary of
Mustang Engineering) at Invista petrochemical facility in Victoria, TX as
a Sr. Mechanical Designer performing pressure vessel computations for
add-on nozzles on various projects to maintain integrity of ASME or other
governing codes.
Employer: Testengeer Engineering and Design Inc. – Port Lavaca, TX
Date: September 1989 – September1999
Title: Sr. Design Specialist
Duties: Managed $1.8mm maintenance budget for 2 units at ALCOA, Point
Comfort Operations (projects range from $5k to 250k).
Coordinate $117mm conversion project for ALCOA, Point Comfort
Operations
Design hydraulic actuated equipment handling vehicle.
Design various steel structures, platforms, concrete foundations, area
paving, pump and piping schemes.
Employer: Lummus Crest Engineering, Inc. – Houston, TX
Date: April 1988 – September 1989
Title: Sr. Design Checker
Duties: Design and supervise 3 civil designer for the conceptual layout and final
design of drainage and road base design for a titanium dioxide facility
for the NL Chemical Company in Sulphur, LA.
Employer: VMW, Industrials, Inc. – Victoria, TX 77905
Date: November 1984 – April 1988
Title: Sr. Mechanical Designer
Duties: Design structural and mechanical assemblies with hydraulic and
pneumatic sub-assemblies, ASME VIII pressure vessels for petrochemical
and medical industries, helicopter refueling systems for off-shore
platforms, hydraulic actuated door mechanisms for a NOAA under
water living habitat, support structure and hydraulic mechanism for a
litter hoist system for 2 US Navy hospital ships, a 28 room add-on for
an off-shore platform and a “Red Bag” waste shredder for the V.A.
hospital in Houston, TX
Employer: Sparkman Industries, Inc. – Victoria, TX 77902
Date: December 1980 – November 1984
Title: Sr. Mechanical Designer
Duties: Design gear, chain and belt systems, steering and brake system for new
product design of a hydraulic work over rig, design 6 speed hydraulic
gear box used as a draw works which ran on a rack and pinion system in
the mast, land based sub-structures, mud tanks. High pressure design
(10,000 psi) of new product mud pump unit, power and pumping packages
Employer: G and W Engineering, Inc. – Port Lavaca, TX
Date: December 1979 – November 1980
Title: Engineering Technician
Duties: Contracted to ALCOA, Point Comfort Operations for the design of
structural platforms, civil design of earth dike repairs and construction
layout and inspection.
Employer: Brown and Root Construction – Seadrift, TX
Date: October 1978 – December 1979
Title: Field Engineer
Duties: Supervisor of 2 layout crews for the construction of the LPPE #2 unit
at the Union Carbide facility in Seadrift, TX.
Employer: LAN Engineering, Inc. – Victoria, TX
Date: December 1977 – October 1978
Title: Contracted to ALCOA, Point Comfort Operations for the design of
structural access platforms, civil design of earth dike repairs and
construction layout and steel inspection.
Employer: Texas Utilities, Inc. – Mt. Pleasant, TX
Date: February 1977 – November 1977
Title: Engineering Technician
Duties: Supervisor for one survey crew for layout of strip mining operations for
the recovery of lignite coal and civil design calculations of earth removal.
Employer: United States Army – Vietnam, Korea, Germany, and USA
Date: October 1972 – October1976
Title: Rank – WO1
Duties: Pmos… 176F40... AH1g pilot (Vietnam and Korea) “Special Duty
Assignment”
Smos… 82C40… Artillery forward observer, crew chief for survey crew
EDUCATION
Took various courses towards a degree in engineering… Math(to calculus3), Physics, Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, Static and Dynamics, Strength of Materials, Metallurgy, Descriptive Geometry, Mechanical, Structural, and Piping Design and AutoCAD Design and Drafting .
SKILLS
AutoCAD Expert (+28 yrs.)
Microstation Intermediate (+20 yrs.)
CadWorx Intermediate (18 yrs.)
PASCE 3D Modeling. Beginner (2 yrs.)
PDMS 3D Modeling Beginner (2yrs.)
INTEREST
Private Pilot – Single Engine (since 1991)
Fishing
Hunting