Jaime A. Erazo
Sr. Structural Design Engineer
U.S. Citizen
Cell 520-***-****
Email address ************@*****.***
Tucson, AZ
EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree, Civil Engineering, University of El Salvador, 1980
Summary:
Over thirty years of diversified experience in heavy structural steel and
reinforced concrete for Petrochemical, Oil & Gas refinery, Mining, Cement Plants,
Heavy industrial buildings design, LNG Plants Terminals, Coal plants, well-head
gas facilities, truck loading terminals, Chemical Plants Domestic and international
experience. Proficient with STAAD-Pro, RISA 3D, Enercalc, Smart Plan View Software
and other office software products.
Familiarity
ASCE 7-05 and International Building Code.
Experience:
SAI Engineering - Sr. Structural Design Engineer
Edmond, OK
Design Commercial Buildings Wood and Light gage Structures
IHI E&C International Corp. - Sr. Structural Design Engineer
2014 - 2015
Dominion Cove Point LNG Liquefaction Expansion – Terminal EPC Project, Maryland &
Houston Tx
Design Steel Buildings and Concrete Foundations, Ships Dock, Pipe racks
Check calculations and drawings
Field Work
Technip Houston – Sr. Structural Design Engineer
Nova Chemicals Gas Phase R3 Project – Alberta & Houston
Check Calculations and Design of the Pelletizer Building
Design elevated Concrete deck floors
Equipment foundation design.
2014
Jacobs Minerals Inc – Sr. Structural Design Engineer
2009 - 2013
Magnetation Iron Ore Pelletizing Facilitiy – Reynolds, Indiana
Additive Grinding Building Design - Structural Steel and concrete Foundation
Freeport-MMoRan Copper & Gold-Metcalf Expansion – Morenci, Arizona
Cyclone 713-CYC-3380 Structural Steel and Foundation Design
Cu Regrind Mill No1 713-BGM-3350/ 3360 Foundation Design and Steel Platforms
Cu Columns Scavangers 713-FOC-3451 thru 3455 Steel supports and Foundation Design
Cu Cleaner Flotation Columns 713-FOC-3501 to 3504 Foundation and Platform Design
Rio Tinto Kennecott Utah Copper, Molybdenum Autoclave
Area 3011 Filter Building Design, steel frame and concrete foundation
Main Piperack 2000 ft long x 50 ft high x 15 ft wide Foundation Design
Conveyors Support Design
36” Cooling water pipe Steel support and foundation Design
Pumps Houses Design and Pumps foundation design
Secondary Piperacks over the entire Plant Steel and Concrete Design
Ventilators Roof access Platforms Design
Coordinate work with other disciplines
Mineral Peru Copper Toromocho Project – 1838 t/d copper and 25.7 td molybdenum oxide facility
Structural design of the Filter Building steel and concrete foundation Including the agitated
Filter Feed Tank foundation.
Tailings Thickeners Tanks Foundation Design
Copper Concentrate Thickener Tank Foundation Design
Cleaners Flotation cells
Steel support structure and Foundation design
Steel Mill Balls Receiving Foundation Design
Unloading area Bridge Crane Steel Support and Foundation design
Fluor – Sr. Structural Design Engineer
2008-2009
OAO Tatneft and OJC Taneco - Grassroots Refinery and Petrochemical Complex –
Sugar Land TX
Provide project structural services for a refinery/petrochemical complex as well
as work coordination with soil report investigation, prepare work load for engineers
and designers.
Feed Piperacks Design, Steel and Concrete foundations with precast piles using
RISA 3-D structural software.
Estimate Material Take off Sulphur Block - check Design calculations from ND
Office and coordinate work with them Sulphur Block - check structural drawings - steel
connections and foundations from ND Office
Texas Gasification Project – TX Energy - Beaumont, TX
Front-end engineering and design (FEED) and EPC for a gasification project
Prepare Structural engineering Sketches for estimate Quantities, perform preliminary
Calculations for foundation design, precast piles estimate for pumps, Boiler, Electrical
Buildings,Transformers, Water Sumps, Cable trays supports, Flare stack, Pipe Supports,
Cooling Water, Clarifier Tank, Water tanks, Super-Heater structure.
Aker Kvaerner – Civil/Structural Engineer Houston Texas
2007-2008
Responsible for structural design of piperacks, piles, pile caps foundations,
steel design grade beams using Staad Prosoftware. Also responsible for modeling
and design industrial metal buildings and foundations, coordinate work with other disciplines.
Perform wind load analysis on piping and structures, LNG concrete Piperacks Design.
Responsible for checking steel fabrication drawings for buildings, platforms
Service & Technology Corp. - Senior Civil/Structural Design Engineer Bartlesville,
Oklahoma
2001-2007
Responsible for preparing engineering man-hours estimates for new proposals, this
includes field work, design, cad drafting, the number drawings, coordination with soil engineer and
all disciplines.
Prepare field engineering structural sketches, taking measurements and shot
elevations, Use STAAD Pro structural computer software for 3D design analysis and
ENERCALC structural computer software for windows.
Performed wind and seismic analysis on structures, coordinate CAD drafting with the designers,
Squad checks coordinate work with piping, mechanical, electrical, soil engineer and project engineers.
Design reinforced concrete and heavy or light structural steel structures, prepare own structural design
sketches before going to Cad and coordinate work with the steel fabricator. Participate in
meetings with clients and coordinate work with clients.
Partial Project List: The following is a selection of some the work undertaken.
Valero energy, Ardmore, OK
Seifer Building Foundation Design. SBS Storage Building Foundation design. Power
Distribution Building Design
PDB-1. (Foundation Design, Wind and Seismic load analysis, coordinate with soil
engineer the work). V-8803
Horizontal Vessel Foundation design (operating weight 109,211 lbs). Structural
Analysis and Inspection of the existing Concrete reactor Table top for the NHT Unit.
Scrubber Skid Steel Frame Design and foundation.
New WWTP Metering House Structural Design. New Alky Change Room Building Structural
Design. Unit 500-520
Existing Piperack 800-A Structural Analysis and Evaluation. Unit 800 Control
Building - Existing retaining Wall
Structural Analysis. Crude Unit 100 - Existing Piperack Structural Analysis and
evaluation. 150 Tons of structural
Steel addition for cable tray support.
Coffeyville Resources Refinery and Marketing, Coffeyville, KS
New sub-Station #2 Building, including Transformer and firewall Foundation design.
Three Walk-Steel Bridges
Design (46 ft. long each). New FCC Blower Installation - Steel Frame Structure
Modelina and Analysis. Existing
Coker Bridge Crane Structure - 3D model - Analysis and Evaluation.
Koch Nitrogen, Beatrice, NB
New 108-D Zinc Oxide Vertical vessel – Steel Frame Support and Foundation Design.
(Dry weight 52,000 lbs
operating weight 140,000 lbs). (Dry weight 123,000 lbs operating weight 526,092
lbs). 123-C Exchanger
Replacement – Foundation Design. (Dry weight 105,000 lbs operating weight
147,000lbs).
ConocoPhillips, Borger, TX
Column 43 Overhead Accumulator – Structural Analysis – Design Steel-Concrete
Support. (Empty weight 84,000lbs operating weight 239,000lbs). Existing Gold Lines
New pipe Supports including drainage Junction Boxes, grading, and steel Pipe supports design.
Existing piperacks – Steel Modifications. LaFarge Cement Plant, Tulsa, OK
Limestone Addition to Kilns – New Steel silo Steel Frame Support Analysis – Design.
(Modeling 3D of the steel frame the weight of the silo + product = one million lbs).
New Dust Collector Support – Steel Frame and foundation design. Cut openings in existing
wall silos – Structural Design.
Syntroleum-New Slurry Pilot Plant, Tulsa, OK
Steel and Concrete Design for Air-Coolers-skid compressors, Cooling Tower skid,
Boiler Building, Steam drumskid, New Piperacks design, New reactor Tower.
Coordinate the work with the all disciplines, soil engineer, and survey.
Bravo Energy, California
Oil Dewatering Equipment Project for Argentina in South American – Steel frames
modules design. Oil Dewatering Equipment Project for Chile in South America
Steel frames modules design.
Benham Companies - Civil/Structural Design Engineer - Tulsa, OK
1996 - 2000
Riceland Foods, Inc. - Jonesboro, Stuttgart, Arkansas
Boiler foundation and Steel Platform Design. New Reactor Foundation Design.
New Cooling Tower foundation Design. New combustion tube foundation design.
New piperacks-steel and concrete design. Steel support design for heavy-duty ducts.
Allco Chemicals - Pittsburg, Kansas
New process building, 3D modeling of the steel frame that support two reactors and several
exchangers, including the foundation design, coordinate work with all disciplines and field work.
North Americas, Inc., Pryor, OK
Dryer Replacement, includes new dryer Foundation design, Steel frame support
modeling analysis, new pipe bridge steel design including foundations, coordinate work with
all disciplines and field work. SAC (Storage Building, responsible for the foundation design of the new metal frame building (170 ft long X 60 ft wide) coordinate work with soil engineer and the client.
Dyneon-3M, Decatur, AL
New building 061 part of the engineering team to perform the structural design
including steel frames and
foundations for this new industrial building which the dimension are 200 ft X 300
ft X 40 ft high.
Vulcan Chemicals, Wichita, KA
900 Tons Condenser Replacement Project. Performed the structural design to install
a new condenser inside the existing refrigerant building, mist eliminator tank. Performed the
structural analysis to determine if the existing steel structure will support the new eliminator tank
with a specific gravity liquid of 1, 3. Lifting devices rating. Performed the structural analysis.
Farmland Industries, Coffeyville, KA
Amine Unit #2 Relocation. Performed the civil-structural design for the following:
VO-430 horizontal vessel foundation, amine stripper tower TO-122 foundation design,
Amine contactor tower TO-121 foundation design, several exchangers foundation,
new piperack steel design and foundations, create a 3D model of the existing Amine
#2 unit steel frame.
Alky Feed Treated Project, responsible for the following: VO-463 Horizontal easel
Foundation Design (220,000 lbs weight), several Heater-Exchangers Foundation design,
5 new process Skids Steel Frame design and foundations.
AGC Technical Services, Inc. - Civil/Structural Engineer - Broken Arrow, OK
1995 - 1996
Responsible for civil-structural installation of the MCU unites (Mobil Cogeneration
Unit 200,000 labs. Weight) on several locations in the USA and also in Mexico, Colombia,
and Dominican Republic.
EDECO Engineers - Civil/Structural Engineer - Tulsa, OK
1990 - 1994
Responsible for Conoco Refinery. Flare line replacement. Foundation design for the
new 225 ft tall flare and steel pipe supports. Fuel Gas Mine treatment system, performed
the structural design for several heater-exchangers and pump foundations.
Chevron, Hilo, HA. Truck Loading Terminal – Responsible for the new metal building
foundation design and specifications. New concrete paving, new piperack steel and
foundation design.
Arco Pipeline, Houston, TX. Houston Galena Park Station. Performed the structural design
for 300,000bbl tank (210ft dia. X 51 ft high). Ring wall foundation and for an 80,000bbl tank.
Clients:
Phillips petroleum, Augusta, NC, and Selma, NC.
Truck Loading Terminal. Responsible for the structural design of the new Metal Canopy Building
Foundation.
Fluor - Structural Design Engineer
1988 - 1989
Amoco Oil Company Revamp of Ultraformer Unit #2 Texas City, Texas, United States
Conversion of an idle ultraformer unit to a 15,000-BPD aromatics unit
Dock lines pipe supports replacement. Assisted in the structural design of 450
large pipe supports, including pipebridges, steel and foundations design. Coordinate work with soil engineer and the survey company.
Georgia A. Wilson & Associates - Civil/Structural Engineer - Houston, TX
1984 - 1987
Assisted in the inspection of 300 bridges for BRINSAP program on Texas Highway.
Houston TX Public Work Department Storm Sewer Design for Subdivisions, perform
Hydraulic analysis for culverts under freeways. Sometimes ink drafting plan and profiles, Coordinates work with survey.
Palomar Engineering - Civil/Structural Engineer - Houston, TX
1981 - 1984
Design concrete and steel structures for the well-head gas industry, projects site
was in Louisiana
Including piperacks, heat exchangers, stacks, pumps, skids, vertical vessels .
Perform engineering design and drafting
LANGUAGES; Fluent in speaking, reading and writing both English and Spanish
ORGANIZATIONS; American Concrete Institute ACI
American Institute of Steel Construction AISC
Seminars;
Soil Mechanics, Hilti Bolts, Pile Foundation - Edeco Engineers - Tulsa Oklahoma
Design of Storm Sewer Systems - Georgia Wilson - Houston, Texas
Steel Shop Fabrication – STC - Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Staad Pro – Risa 3D - Benham Group - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Safety Training
Oil & Gas Refinery * Chemical Plants * Cement Plants * 3M Plants * Food Processing