Ronald Christian Jr.
Houston, Tx. 77084
Cell 713-***-****
Email: **************@*****.***
SUMMARY
** *****’ experience in detail and design work. I have experience in designing Drilling rigs and rig equipment. This includes initial design layouts, structural, and piping drawings, bidding process, fabrication drawings, tracking fabricator’s progress, insuring timely delivery and final rig up. I am an expert with PDMS Design and Draft, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, Navis, CADWorx Plant, and several software programming languages. I am efficient with design and layout drawings through final fabrication drawings. Previous experience includes Aircraft modifications and components as well as writing Department procedures, Maintenance Manuals, Repair Specifications, and Modification Procedures.
WORK EXPERIENCE
RDS / KCA DEUTAG LLC
Houston, TX March 2011 – Current
Lead PDMS Administrator / Lead Designer
Worked on Pre-FEED, FEED, and Detail Design Phases
Setup Engineering and Design software to a fully functional integrated Engineering system
Wrote company and project procedures to maintain a consistent design department
Drafted General Arrangement drawings, Layout Drawings, and Piping Interface Drawings
Drafted Structural Detail drawings
Drafted Piping P&ID, PFD’s and UFD’s
Produced Electrical one-line schematics
Modeled 3D equipment, pipe, and steel structures
Managed Autodesk Navis model for client presentation and model reviews
Managed software licenses for Design and Engineering tools
Produced photo realistic model renders for client review and presentations
Produced video walkthroughs and fly arounds for client presentations
Maintained communications with RDS office Worldwide to share ideas and learn from other offices success and lessons learned.
Built weights database to track weight changes and material takeoffs from PDMS exports
Utilized personal 3D Printer to print the 3D Model for display
Created Visual Basic and C# programs
Trained Co-Workers
SBM Atlantia (GustoMSC)
Houston, TX Jun 2007 – Mar 2011
Sr. Structural Designer
Modeled 3D Steel Structures (Skid Base, Drill Floor, Derrick Equipment Set, Derrick and Pipe Barn)
Drafted fabrication and layout drawings
Utilized 3D model to identifying design issues and submitting solutions for these issues
Modeled 2 Semi-submersibles rigs with CadWorx and 1 designed with Aveva PDMS.
Worked closely with other designers, Engineers, Weight control, Electrical department.
Nabors Drilling
Houston, TX May 2000 - Jun 2007
CAD Designer
Designing structural and piping fabrication drawings for drilling rigs and rig equipment (office and field experience)
Flying offshore for rig ups, rig modifications and platform surveys
Worked in the fabrication yard for rig assembly
Designing Structures in Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD
Traveled overseas for rig refurbs and yard rig ups
Handling quotation and fabrication of designed structures
Built databases to track quoted timeline’s and prices from multiple fabricators
Built databases to track project status
Performing field surveys and drawing equipment asbuilts
Drafting Layouts and organizing drilling rig rig-up and rig downs. This includes boat load-outs, platform surveys, rig-up and rig-down procedures, detailed equipment lists and more
Creating and Maintaining database filing system for drawings and project management
Communicating with rig engineers, project managers, superintendents, tool pushers, welders, mechanics, etc.
Future Aerospace Services and Technology,
Montgomery, TX
Draftsman June 1999 - May 2000
Drafting mechanical and cosmetic aircraft components
Writing and Revising Maintenance Manuals, Repair Specifications and Modifications Procedures
Customer relations and services
Logistics of finished products.
Traveling out of state to meet remote fabrications shops to insure the understanding of repairs and practices used to make repairs
EDUCATION
ITT Technical Institute June 1998 - June 2000
Associates Degree in Computer Aided Drafting (CAD) in Applied Science
Training Courses
PDMS Basic & Advanced Admin/Global v12
PDMS Piping Catalogue and Specifications
PDMS Basic and Advanced Project Administration
Aveva Clash Manager
Management Training
Technical Skills
PDMS 11.6 - 12.1 System Admin
PDMS 11.6 - 12.1 Design
PDMS 11.6 - 12.1 Draft
Aveva Engineering 12.1
PDMS PML
VB.net Language
C# Programing Language
SQL
Auto CAD 12 – 2012
Auto CAD 3d drawings
Autodesk CADWorx Plant 2007
Autodesk Inventor
Autodesk Navis Simulate 2011
Initial design layout drawings
Structural Drawings
Engineering drawings
Platform Arrangements
Loading Diagrams
Piping and Equipment layouts
Auto lisp programming
Script programming
Auto Hot Key (AHK) programming
PML programming
NFM & Adept Data Base managers
General E-mail and Internet applications
Proficient in Microsoft Office