Qualifications
Software / Other Skills
AutoCAD, CADWorx 3D Pipe; Flex CAD 2D/3D Pipe, Iso; Rebis Auto plant 3D; PDMS
Current Position - Wood Group Mustang
Senior Piping Designer Lead
Piping Design Lead for an Oil pipeline project. The team and I worked closely with the client to assure that the best quality facilities were design keeping Safety, Accessibility and Operations in mind thru the entire process. The project scope was to build a new 30 oil pipeling and booster station facilities starting from North Dakota all the wat to Needreland Texas. The sites where to include booster pump stations and launcher and receiver stations to be constructed in multiple phases. ETC
Senior Piping Designer Lead
Piping Design Lead for an Ethelyene pipeline project. The team and I worked closely with the client to assure that the best quality facilities were design keeping Safety, Accessibility and Operations in mind thru the entire process. The project scope was to take an existing Ethelyene product line and add booster stations to the line for the increased volume that was being created for there new customers. This included 4 stations and 4 mainline valve sites. The sites where to include booster pump stations and launcher and receiver stations to be constructed in multiple phases. Lyondell Basell
Senior Piping Designer Lead
Piping Design Lead for an Ethane pipeline project. The team and I worked closely with the client to assure that the best quality facilities were design keeping Safety, Accessibility and Operations in mind thru the entire process. The project scope was to take an existing oil line and convert it to an Ethane acceptable system. This included 20 stations and 30 mainline valve sites. The sites where to include booster pump stations and launcher and receiver stations to be constructed in multiple phases. Sunoco Logistics
Responsibilites
Coordinated with the client on the design of the facilities
Site visits to ensure correct fit up and assess any problematic situations
Worked with engineering group to assist with specs and D.O.T regulations
Coordinate with all disciplines on design of the facilities
Relevant Experience / Qualifications
LDH energy, Engineering Design Manager for all Texas and Louisiana facilities. Responsibilities included coordinating with engineering companies on projects for new pipelines, facilities, or maintenance. The products included Ethane, Ethylene, Propane, Isobutane, Butane, NGL, E/P mix, Diesel and Refinery Grade Butane. The Facility types included above ground storage tanks, Brine Storage, underground cavern storage and rail transportation.
Lyondell, piping designer, Ethylene blending facility that produced polyethylene.
Equistar, piping designer, Ethylene, adding line for Furnace Cracking.
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Previous Experience
Mustang (November 2011 - Present)
Senior Piping Designer
Piping Design Lead for an Ethane pipeline project. The team and I worked closely with the client to assure that the best quality facilities were design keeping Safety, Accessibility and Operations in mind thru the entire process. The project scope was to take an existing oil line and convert it to an Ethane acceptable system. This included 20 stations and 30 mainline valve sites. The sites where to include booster pump stations and launcher and receiver stations to be constructed in multiple phases.
Mustang (2000 2003)
Sr. Piping Designer
Responsibilities include helping in piping design for current projects. Projects include work on Ethane, Ethylene, Oxygen, LNG, FCCU projects, Offshore Platforms, Gas plant revamps, and many other types of detailed engineering projects with a varied amount of equipment from compressors, furnace systems, flare systems, pump stations, tower tray design, and many others. Training designers from the Wood Group Trinidad offices Romania and other countries that where sister companies to Mustang.
LDH (2010 2011)
Engineering Design Manager
Engineering Design Manager for all Texas and Louisiana facilities. Responsibilities included coordinating with engineering companies on projects for new pipelines, facilities, or maintenance. The products included Ethane, Ethylene, Propane, Isobutane, Butane, NGL, E/P mix, Diesel and Refinery Grade Butane. The Facility types included above ground storage tanks, Brine Storage, underground cavern storage and rail transportation.
In addition to coordinating with the Engineering companies for project design, was also head of the Document Control team, and the Standards Division.
H&M construction (2009 2010)
Sr. Piping Designer
Projects:
M.E.M.C. Silicon reaction unit recovery system
Sunoco Driveline C hopper relocation polypropylene and ethylene system
Bayer vapor recovery system.
Checkmate Design Solutions LLC (2008 2009)
Engineering Manager \ 3D Laser Scanning Technician
Responsible for running the HDS 6000 laser scanner in the field for data collection i.e. placing targets and reference points for registration. Responsible for registering the scans once data acquisition was completed and converting scan data into either publishing photos or creating 3d cad models from the data. Training or teaching designers in multiple disciplines. Design of facilities and petrochemical plants, platform, mostly as brown field or revamp work, plant relocations and similar type work.
Merpro Americas 2006 2008)
Engineering Design Lead/Sr. Piping Designer
Projects included, leading fabrication design for vessel internals, skid packages, facility deign for systems, full IGF system, de-oiler and hydro-cyclone packages. Clients included BP, MODEC, NPCC, MOQ, Worley Parsons, Nalco, Exterran. Traveled to Trinidad, Scotland, Dubai and several other foreign countries to oversee fabrication of engineered projects.
Commonwealth Eng. Title: (2005 2006)
Sr. Piping Designer
Projects included Leading Reciprocating compressor Valero, Sr. designer on reactor for Allon, and Sr. designer for Delak Reciprocating compressor. Goht reciprocating compressor for Valero, Responsibilities also included Cad support for 3D CADWorx, and 3D Flexcad.
ITS Eng. (2004 2005)
Sr. Piping Designer
Responsibilities included Vessel design and small skids design for Petreco, & boiler furnace for a sister owned company in Canada.
BEI Eng. (2004 2004)
Sr. Piping Designer
Responsibilities included helping in piping design for current projects. Projects included product storage, Diesel salt dryer, desander, 02 injection unit and carbon canister units Shell Houston Lubes, and Valero Texas City Refinery
FlexCad (2003 2004)
Application Engineering
Responsibilities where to answer technical phone calls on support for AutoCAD, and FlexCad products. Responsibilities also included testing the new FlexPlant product which is scheduled to be released on the first part of 2004. Responsibilities also included traveling to trade shows. Also to help mold the Flex Plant so that it was more user friendly for the user to be able to complete a model in a more timely manner, and to help add a more client friendly product. Also including programming certain modules or parts of FlexCad using Lisp and Visual basics.
Howe Baker. (1999 2000)
Sr. Piping Designer
Responsibilities include Designing and 3D piping (Rebis Autoplant) and there supports for Honeywell. The design was for a Refrigerate unit making Hydro-fluoric acids for R-1 34a coolant. Location Tyler Texas
S&B Engineers & Constructors, Ltd. (from 11/92 to 12/99)
Piping Designer & Discipline Computer Coordinator
Clients: Lyondell Petrochemical Co, Texaco, U.S. Gypsum, Texas Petrochemical Co., Enterprise Chemical Co., Lyondell Citgo Refinery, Equi-star, Goodyear, Hess. Shell
Duties included P&ID work, drawing plans, sections, and ISO's from sketches using Rebis Pro-Pipe, Rebis Pro-ISO, Rebis AutoPlant and manual drafting. He also did extensive fieldwork and data entry. He was responsible for software and hardware support that includes loading and configuring software on CAD machines, troubleshooting, plotting, and any hardware problems. While as a piping designer I worked on many different projects such as PFO Oil Burner replacement, two Caustic Wash Tower replacements, RCRA upgrade, Cogen replacement, Depentanizer Upgrade, Conveying Belt systems, Blower systems, Fire Water systems, Skid units, Pipeline replacements and upgrades, Acid unit upgrades, Flow metering stations, Experience with OLE FINS units, SMA units, Tank farms, LNG, Ethylene and many other units and systems.