Project Manager Engineering

CHARLES JOSEPH BECNEL

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Education: M.S. Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La May 2004 Concentration: Thermal Fluids and Manufacturing

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La May 2001 Experience:

CDI Engineering 2012-Present

Project Manager

• Provide project leadership and coordination for project team of multiple disciplines (Process, Mechanical, Civil, Piping, Electrical, and Instrumentation) with a project team of over 50 people

• Coordinates with Project Controls for the project schedule and budget for appropriate element of project.

• Responsible for effective scope definition and change management.

• Interface with the client and works toward providing customer satisfaction with project results and deliverables. Major Project Assignment: CF’s new $2.2 billion Ammonia Plant (AM6), and a new Urea, UAN, and Nitric Acid plant (PRP3) at the existing CF Industries site in Donaldsonville, La. The new facilities will have the following production capacities: 3,300 TPD Ammonia, 3,500 TPD Urea, 4,400 TPD UAN, and 1,500 TPD Nitric Acid. Project Engineering for engineering and design of portions of the OSBL (Outside Battery Limits) processes required for this expansion. Major areas covered in this scope are Complex 4 Offsites 8,000 GPM raw water treatment through clarifier gravity filters, and clearwell, followed by 5,000 GPM demineralization system, 30,000 Ton Ammonia Tank D-600, 53,000 Ton UAN storage tank T-3 and two new side mixers for existing UAN tank T-1, AM6 Effluent Pond, two 113 TPH Regenerative Thermal Oxidizers, Offsites Switchgear / MCC Building, 2,000 GPM pH Neutralization System, 22,000 GPD Sewerage Treatment Plant, 6 mile long Unit Rail System, and 5,400 linear feet of offsites pipe racks. Mechanical Engineer

• Specification and requisition of major mechanical equipment for petrochemical applications.

• Technical coordination with all engineering disciplines

• Estimating, reporting, and technical review for petrochemical projects

• Stress analysis for piping and equipment

Mezzo Technologies 2004-2012

Director of Research/Engineering

• Developed business case to replace old heat exchanger technology with improved technology which was more economical and has higher performance

• Invented methods to easily assemble tens of thousands of tubes into a heat exchangers; methods to inexpensively make tens of thousands of holes and hermetically seal corresponding tubes into these holes

• Identified and assisted in penetrating new markets and applications for advanced heat exchangers

• Continually evaluated product and customer needs to find areas of further research and development

• Managing tasks, workload, professional development, and goals for engineers and technicians

• Directly worked with Board of Directors and President on product development, business strategies, and finances of company Project Manager

• Planning, organizing, securing, managing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals of project and company objectives for 50% of the company’s projects.

• Business Development support by developing and maintaining customer relationships, cost and time estimating, and proposal writing

• Efficient execution of government and commercial projects utilizing in house resources while monitoring and managing finances, resources, time lines, and risk management

• Key person in developing ISO plan, procedures, and documentation for project management, engineering, and manufacturing Example of Projects: HUMVEE main radiator, satellite cryocooling heat exchanger, Bradley Fighting Vehicle radiator, laser diode cooling, chip burn in cooling.

Design Engineer

• Designed Advanced heat exchangers using CAD modeling, CFD, and analytical modeling

• Created manufacturing plans and novel new processes for fabricating advanced heat exchangers

• Developed and executed test plans and testing set ups of advanced heat exchangers for environmental and performance criteria

• Successfully managed the design and construction of new office, lab, clean room, and manufacturing facilities for entire company Patents: Provisional LSU Patent for Graduate work at LSU U.S. Patent Application No. 12/663,590, Publication No. US 2010/0230081 A1 Corrugated Microtube Heat Exchanger

U.S. Patent Application No. 12/540,985, Publication No. US 2011/0024037 A1 Method for Manufacturing a Microtube Heat Exchanger

Awards: Louis Schwitzer Award for engineering innovation and excellence at the Indianapolis 500 Race Project Manager for Project which won: Army SBIR Achievement Award for outstanding government research projects (10 selected out of 650)

Publications: Ultra-deep x-ray lithography of densely packed SU-8 features: I. An SU-8 casting procedure to obtain uniform solvent content with accompanying experimental results Charles Becnel et al 2005 J. Micromech. Microeng.15 1242 Ultra-deep x-ray lithography of densely packed SU-8 features: II. Process performance as a function of dose, feature height and post exposure bake temperature Charles Becnel et al 2005 J. Micromech. Microeng. 15 1249 Micro-Jet Arrays for Cooling of Electronic Equipment. Overholt, McCandless, Kelly, Becnel, and Motakef, (2005) Proc. 3rd International Conference on Microchannels and Minichannels pp. 249-252.

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