Design Engineer

Cynthia Hickson

NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO - WLY Houston, TX 77041

Mechanical Designer February 21 2011 – October 5, 2015

Work on the BOP Stacks using Creo - 2, PDMLink, Wildfire, AutoCAD 2010 TeamCenter - 10, Excel, MS Outlook.

Selection of the components and the design details, requested in a project or product design. Layout and design specific areas as assigned per the customers’ procedures and standards.

Create engineering change requests, updated BOM, assemblies and drawing.

Scale design dimensions to resizing dimensions specified for subsequent production processes.

Designs general arrangements or base systems based on customer needs and requirements.

GE Oil & Gas @ VETCO GRAY Houston, TX

Lead Designer Jun. 21, 2010 to Oct. 20, 2011

Work on the Surface Wellhead Equipment using Pro-E Wildfire 3, PDMLink, Excel, WebEx, MS Outlook.

Duties included; Scanning engineering markups CAD drawings in color, send them to GEIQ Pro-E design team in Mexico, relay question & answers between them.

Create work packets and track progress. Periodically doing changes in-house of drawings, piece parts, assembly and layouts using Pro-E. Attending meetings.

AEROTECH INC, contract at Lockheed Martin Houston, TX

Designer October 19, 2009 to April 9, 2010

Worked on the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle Mock-Up using Pro-E.

Duties included; 3D design, models and assemblies of piece parts, assembly and layouts using Pro-E to build lower tier versions of high tier concepts for Astronauts training.

Attending tele-conference meetings, assist Lab Techs with assemblies and interacting with vendors.

SCHLUMBERGER - IPC – Conveyance Sugar Land, TX

Sr. Designer May 1, 2007 to April 23, 2009

Concept, design and development for new/reworked Downhole Tractor and related items. Duties included; 3D models and assemblies, 2D drawings of piece parts, assembly and layouts using Pro-E. Create files, input data and attach the files in GeMS (Matrix One). GeMS cleanup work prior to promotion. LPT (Safety) Support for department.

Pro-E Modeling and drawings for documentation of vendor products for surface equipment sustaining documentation.

Designed test fixture parts and helped assembly and test downhole equipment.

Designed a modular tubular multi ID tractor test track using Pro-E.

SCHLUMBERGER - SRC - Perforating Gun Systems Rosharon, TX

Sr. Designer January 17, 2000 to April 30, 2007

New Product Development (NPD) concept, design and development of Gun Systems and related items.

Duties included; 3D models and assemblies, 2D drawings of piece parts, assembly and layouts using Pro-E. Create files, input da ta and attach the files in SPDM.

Implemented an Intralinks pilot test program in one department for two months and supported the handful of designer with file uploads and Pro-E software upgrades. Intralinks was replaced with GeMS & MX Pro (Matrix One products) companywide Starting 2002.

GeMS Support for Perforating Dept. hounding the GeMS Dept. for 1 year and 9 months to create the ECO3 Report. The report captured all the related items and documents to a part or document number.

LPT (Safety) Support for department.

Designed, Assembled and loaded NPD Concept Perforating Guns for our gun shop and field location.

Additional Pro-E experience August 1994 – January 2000 on request.

Patents and Patent Applications

US Patent # 6,588,508 B2, "Method and Apparatus to Reduce Trapped Pressure in a Downhole Tool" July, 2003

US Patent # 7,000,699, "Method and Apparatus for Orienting Perforating Devices" February, 2006

US Patent # 7,114,564, "Method and Apparatus for Orienting Perforating Devices"

US Patent # 7,159,657, "Shaped Charge Loading Tube for a Perforating Gun"

US Patent # 8,439,114, "Method and Apparatus for Orienting Perforating Devices"

Professional Achievements

Performed by Schlumberger, Silver level, for 2002 for "Productivity Optimization in the North Sea with OrientXact".

SLB Inventor Award - U.S. Serial No. 10/708,777 "Shaped Charge Loading Tube for a Perforating Gun"

The Schlumberger Reward for Excellence - "WOW" Award for my "Tenacity", in pushing for the development of the GeMS ECO03 Report.

EDUCATION

Brazosport Community College Lake Jackson, TX

Associates of Applied Science in Engineering Graphics and Design 1997 with Honors

Other Classes

Advanced Part Design &Advanced Assembly Design

Pro/Surface and Advanced Rounds

Six Sigma Problem Solving Team training (2 day pilot program with project SLB Green Belt)

Pro-E Update Class

Pro/Mechanica Motion - Pro/Mechanica Structure + Thermal

Classes - for Super User GeMs Global Training "Train The Trainer"

Pro-E ToolKit to Automate some Design Work

CES Austin (Taylor) PTC Certified Training - Pro/Process for Assemblies

Surfacing in WildFire 2.0

WildFire 2.0.

DFM (Design for Manufacturing)

Mechanism Simulation using Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0

TeamCenter Training- NOV

PTCU Training Modules - NOV

Six Sigma White Belt – NOV

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