Howard Pearce 413-***-****

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Professional Profile

Results-oriented Designer with hands-on experience. Innovative, multi-task-oriented, over 10 years’ experience. Total understanding of design in Electrical, Mechanical, Fabrication, Construction, and Manufacturing processes with exceptional creativity, problem solving, and interpersonal skills.

Project management and application engineering, budget-driven, proficient in preparing cost estimates, bidding services, and working closely with vendors. Responsible for reviewing bid specifications, negotiating bids, and the completion of CADD Drafting Design Documentation.

Electro-mechanical design drafting

Architectural and Structural Steel construction design

Skilled with red-line revisions

Sheet-metal, machine design, tooling gigs and fixtures

HVAC systems and controls design

Process piping design (P&IDs)

GD&T (geometric tolerance and dimensioning), in accordance with ANSI Y14.5, Global DOD-D-1000, and DOD-STD-100 standards

Strong presentation skills

Extensive power plant, water, wastewater, oil and gas, food plant, power, biopharmaceutical, and petrochemical industries

Efficiency improvement

Creative problem solving

Ability to work both independently and on cross-functional project teams

Team player in implementation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) for Design Documentation

Professional Accomplishments

Responsible for creating detailed technical drawings and specifications for architectural construction, structural designs according to specifications for municipalities, commercial, industrial projects and manufacturing engineering.

Experience in field engineering, team leader working with contractors to supervise and coordinate projects. Additional experience in budget development, expense control, developing procedures, coordinating operations, and supervising an engineering team.

Adapt architectural and structural-based external and internal reference drawing files for HVAC, mechanical and structural revisions, and space allocation.

Application Engineer selecting required equipment per P&IDs and specifications.

Supervised project production efforts to ensure projects were completed to company standards, on time, and within budget constraints.

Supervised and trained associate designers and drafters.

Created presentation materials for sales, customer relations, and management use.

Developed Assembly Procedures manuals.

Design of test fixtures, gigs and gauges.

Laboratory design, air filtration, HEPA filtration, large-capacity central chilled water systems, and Air Handling Units (AHUs).

Computer skills include: Solid Works, Inventor, AutoCAD, CADWorks and Microsoft Office suite. This list is not all-inclusive, but does offer an example of the resources available to this candidate.

Professional Experience

Designer CHI Engineering, Portsmouth, NH December 2015 – September 2016

Civil Design using CadWorks and AutoCAD

Prepare design engineering drawings of structural steel and concrete. Detail civil site drawings and assembly drawings for shop/field fabrication for LNG, LPG, and NG industries

Field Engineering

Designer Savage Arms, Westfield, MA October 2011 – September 2014

Design using multiple software applications: Solid Works, Inventor, AutoCAD.

Development of new product line and redesign concept of existing products to be cost effective.

Develop and produce prints, and assembly plans for parts, tooling, gigs, fixtures and gauges that meet the standards of present GD&T tolerance specifications.

Prepare ECN Documentation, finalize all changes as required.

Create 3D models from sketches and verbal instructions.

Lead Designer Siemens Water Industries, Shrewsbury, MA September 2004 – October 2011

Design using Inventor and AutoCAD

Develop and retrofit facilities to meet the future demands for clean pure water, all standards meeting or exceeding all applicable codes and specifications

Prepare pipe spool/structural details and assembly drawings for shop fabrication and field erection. Design and develop process piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&ID), coordinated and reviewed engineering cost estimates.

Lead design of skids and piping drawings, air filtration, water systems, facilities building construction layouts, and site plans, with full comprehension and understanding of electrical/mechanical equipment, pumps, valves, piping, fans, blowers, furnace, AHUs, boilers and construction materials.

Develop manuals and cut sheets for all major equipment.

Prior Contract Assignments through Placement Agencies

Amgen-Greenwich, RI, AstraGenica/Phynix-Waltham, MA, Ionics-Watertown, MA, Pall Corporation- Northborough, MA, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals-Andover, MA, Northstar Industries-Methuen, MA, Arqule-Cambridge/Boston, MA, Yankee Atomic-Natick, MA.

Facilitated engineering for petrochemical, pharmaceutical, pulp and paper, gas and food industries; Applied industrial machine engineering; manufacturing engineering; architectural engineering; water purification and desalinization.

Education

Information Technology Professional

Corporate Training Center, Chicopee, MA

Certifications in CompTIA, A+, Network+, Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), and Network Security Design

Engineering Design Courses

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Electro-Mechanical Design

ITT Technical

Boston, MA

Drafting and design

United States Army

Honorable discharge as a non-commissioned officer

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