Date: October **, ****

David A. Hughes Cover Letter:

To help you learn more about my track record, I have enclosed my resume. While I illustrate my experience and training, what it cannot communicate is my dedication to my craft. My professional creed includes:

Pride in the quality of my work, and a willingness to personally perform even the most menial tasks to remove project obstacles and get the job done.

Ability to envision how specific parts of the project should look and flow, and communicate those ideas to engineers, vendor contractors, designers, and upper management, always with positive results.

Expertise in engineering prints assessment and collaborating with engineers throughout the course of a job to point out oversights that would unnecessarily cost the company time and money.

Skilled in building lasting relationships with vendors, who frequently request project advice. Excellent skills in guiding, motivating, training and mentoring other project assistants assigned to me.

Based on my experience and strong commitment to my craft, I know I will add significant value to your team. As a Project Manager with your organization I would bring my skill, experience, knowledge and leadership to every project focusing on satisfying our customer. As a former business owner, I understand the importance of a satisfied customer and the benefit of customer referrals. Furthermore, I work well with others, and feel my experience owning and operating my own business has provided me a unique working understanding of all areas of business operations and how they interact with each other. I look forward to discussing my capabilities in more detail, and am available for a personal interview at your convenience. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

David A. Hughes

David A. Hughes Resume

Home Address: 11424 San Rafael Avenue NE, Albuquerque, NM 87122

Currently working as a consultant for West Peak Energy, Aurora, Colorado

Cellular: 505-***-**** Email: davidhughesafrica @gmail.com

OBJECTIVE:

I am a results-oriented, hands-on construction and development professional with years of expertise in all facets of the construction and power industry. I have verifiable track record for the successful completion of multi-million dollar projects through coordinating trades, developing partnerships and building positive rapport with outside contractors, engineers, native based officials, vendors and clients while maintaining costs. The bottom line for me is meeting all Safety requirements and understanding fully the relationship between paying attention to detail and the end results. Strong and effective skills in: interpersonal communication, motivating the team, organizational efforts, execution of work, and leadership. Maintained working knowledge of all Power Plant Systems, Industrial Construction, Administration of Contracts, Finance disciplines from long range forecasting through project close out, Proficient in Word, Excel, Maximo, MLIS, Power Advocate, People Soft, and Microsoft Projects. I am also a very good high pressure welder, equipped to make all gas welds, stick welds, and heli-arc welds, along with a strong background in layout. I understand all facet of construction from surveying, to civil work, to structural steel work, piping, boilers, conveyors, pumps, fans, layout, water chemistry, and air compressors. I believe strongly in Integrity, strong work ethics, team work, and can-do work attitudes. Important goal in my career is to help any organization achieve their goals in being safe, productive, cost effective, environmentally compliant, and reliable.

Areas of Expertise lie in:

Team Building & Leadership Organization & Time Management

Quality Control Management Vendor & Material Management

Short/Long Term Construction Planning & Scheduling Estimating & Job Costing

Critical Path Project Management Implementing Design Modifications

Budget analyst Document Preparation

Safety & Compliance Management Fabrication Management

EXPERIENCE:

2016 - Consultant over a 2-unit, $630 Million, SCR( Selective Catalytic Reduction) project at 4 Corners power station, Waterflow, New Mexico working for West Peak Energy Consulting. Responsiblilities to be the coordinator of activities between the project and the station’s normal routine maintenance, capital projects, and all outage work. In addition I worked directly with AECOM and SUNDT contractors on all aspects of the project’s scope of work. Develop equipment replacement scope of work, budget, materials list,

2014 – 2016 Boiler Superintendent 4 at Kusile Power Station, Pretoria, Witbank, South Africa working for Black and Veatch Engineering.

Responsible for all pressure parts component installation on boilers 1, 2, and 3.

Responsible (As the lead person for Boiler 1) for leading main contractors and subcontractors in all Boiler Hydrostatic Pressure Test activites.(4 Month Process) Ensure all original scope complete, all repair or rework complete, all inspections, workfiles, and databooks are complete, ensure all non-conformance engineering issues are complete, and all signoff test certificates are signed off.

2012 – 2014 Lead Project Manager for all Capital Projects, Arizona Public Service – Four Corners Generating Station

PROJECTS: Value:

Start up Auxiliary Boiler $13 M

10” Natural Gas Pipeline and Regulating Stations $ 4 M

General Service Transformer Replacement $ 4 M

Reserve Breaker Switchyard $ 2 M

Intake Pump Cable Replacement $360K

Ash flush Pump valve and Piping $ 2 M

Bag-House Bag Replacement $ 1 M

2nd Point Heater Valve and Piping $ 2 M

HVAC Turbine Exciter $ 1 M

Coal Dust suppression $ 6 M

Surge Bin and Sampler modifications $ 4 M

Primary Air Fan rotor Replacement $600K

Water Treatment Upgrade $ 1 M

Cyber Security Upgrade- Video camera installations $ 8 M

2011-2012 – Boiler System Engineer & Outage Manager.

1998 – 2011 Project and Routine Reliability Planner / Boiler Inspector during forced outages at APS

Four Corners Generation Station

RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Safety is # 1 responsibility in all personal and contractor activities. Safety starts with me and is included in all my planning and managing activities.

Planner / Inspector - Responsible for over 50 plus planned outages and hundreds of Forced outages during career. Prepared schedule (Microsoft Project convert to P-6) for Boiler inspections and overhauls. Prepared budget for Boiler inspections and overhauls from $1.5M to $40M projects.

Planner / Inspector - Provided technical and schedule direction to specialty contractors, in-house maintenance staff, and building trades crafts people. In addition acquire materials, services, and rentals for the work group, provide repair and schedule recommendations to management, and provide written and verbal interface with other in-house technical staff and management. Provided technical analysis and direction to repair high pressure boiler tubes and high pressure headers according to the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.

Planner / Inspector - Directed and managed daily activities for the labor force. Responsible and accountable for all aspect of the overhauls; safety, budget, schedule and Q.C. Provided daily planning for Boiler system areas throughout the year. Prepared detailed outage reports included unit condition, repairs and recommendations.

Project Manager – Developed, Executed, and Oversaw all Capital projects – average 25 projects per year totaling $40 million. I developed capital budget items, scope, budget, schedule, contracts, coordinated all activities, facility needs, materials, punch lists and manpower, clean up, and documentation close out.

1994 – 1998 – Maintenance Foreman over the operating Supercritical Units – 750 MW each.

1998 -2011 – Routine Reliability Planning for Boiler and Feed water Systems

1998-2011 – Boiler inspector for Drum units and Supercritical Units during forced outages.

1998 – 2011 – Boiler System Overhaul Outages Units 1 thru 5

1999 & 2001 - Unit 1 & 2 Secondary Air Preheater Rebuild

2002 – Control valve replacement, Bottom Ash repair, High Energy Piping

2003 & 2004 – Boiler, Safety vvs., FD Fans, Burners, Chemical clean

2005 – Lower Rear Wall, Superheat Header, Expansion Joint Replacements

2006 –Lower, Upper, and High Temp Reheats

1998 & 2007 –Bull nose, Lower Rear Wall, Flash tank

2009 – Planner for Reliability outages ( Total of 3 )

2008 – $100M - Lower V-Bottom Firebox, Superheat Bundles, Reheat Header Replacement.

2010 - $80 M – Superheat and Reheat bundles, SH and RH Headers, and High pressure pipe replacements.

EDUCATION:

High School Diploma, fully trained Fire Brigade Lead,

Crane Operator License, Planning and Project Development Training

Level 1 - NDE testing – Mag. Particle, PT, RT, UT training certification

Asbestos AHERA Contractor / Supervisor Certification

Certified Welding Inspector Training – in progress

Project Management Professional Training (PMP) – In progress

Achievements:

Presidents award from my company as a result of performing and emergency reliability outage to ensure environmental compliance. Project was put together in 3 days, with a budget of $5M, and 15 day scope of work.

Idealine award for the best idea during first 10 years of the program, saving the company $2.5 M.

Best performance of the year award out of all the power stations for saving the company $19 M over the year due to cost savings during Power Station outages.

References:

Vince Cimino – 505-***-**** – SCR - Project Consultant Lead

Werner Buccholz - 505-***-**** – Burns and Mcdonald engineering - Project Coordinator

Debbie Tenbrink – 505-***-**** – Supply Chain Senior Lead

Rick Zint – 775-***-**** – SCR – Project Consultant Electrical

Brendan Lemiuex – 602-***-**** – Project Manager for Burns and Mcdonald Engineering Firm

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