SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

A Leader in Engineering Management with Design, Projects, Environmental, Maintenance, Manufacturing, Operations, Reliability and Industrial Plant Production experience. Experience in managing teams and meeting safety, production, quality and environmental compliance goals, budgets, and schedules. Excellent Performance skills in Troubleshooting, Continuous Improvement, Quality Control, Work Management Controls, and Major Capital and Retrofit Projects.

Work History

1st Integrity Financial Services LLC. Birmingham, AL

Project Manager / Independent Contractor February 2016 - Present

An Independent Contractor, Licensed Insurance agent responsible for leading a team of agents in Insurance Products sales and marketing.

Tier 1 Advisors LLC. Birmingham, AL

Independent Contractor / Agent August 2015 – January 2016

An Independent Contractor, Licensed Insurance agent selling life and health Insurance in the state of Alabama

HGS Engineering Inc. Pueblo, CO

Pueblo Chemical Agent Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP)

Deputy Project Manager December 2013 – April 2015

An Independent Contractor, managing a team of Engineers, tasked with performing the Facilities Certification of Design and Construction work performed by Bechtel. This process includes Engineering Technical reviews, QA/QC reviews, Project Management and Professional Engineer stamp approval for the State of Colorado requirements. Maintained pre-established standards for safety and environmental issues.

Supervise and assess team of Engineers and Field Certifiers of post Construction packages by Bechtel.

Coordinate logistics for transportation of hazardous and non-hazardous waste from client site including profiling, scheduling, manifesting and physically loading bulk and drum loads.

Meet Government Environmental regulations as permitted by the state of Colorado per construction phase.

Provide and develop Project Management review of 200 site construction packages to meet deadline dates.

Provide weekly status reports, resolution comments to CDPHE, and technical Engineering directions to site.

URS Corporation Anniston, AL

Anniston chemical agent disposal facility (ANCDF)

Engineering Supervisor August 2010 – September 2013

An Engineering Supervisor with direct reports responsible for maintaining all Utilities systems of ANCDF, Balance of Plant operating systems. These includes Air and Water systems, (ACAMS) Air Pollution and Environmental alarm monitoring, Communications, HVAC, Fire Protection alarms system, Lighting, Chemical handling, bulk loading, Mechanical Equipment, Electrical and Power distribution. Maintenance Team LEAN manufacturing experience with CMMS systems. Also, monitoring for worker protection and Environmental requirements with Continuous Emissions Monitoring (CEMS).

Supervised and assessed all Engineering and Maintenance activities during plant Closure activities.

Met all Government Environmental regulations during plant closure for chemical agent contaminations.

Work management lead for systems engineering and contractors scheduling and assigning work.

Managed contractor activities on major capital projects, O & M repairs, outages and plant closure.

Support Chemical Demilitarization of Mustard Agent by the incineration process.

Developed and executed project plans, implemented policies and procedures and set department goals

Southern Company Birmingham, AL

December 2006 – July 2010

Environmental and Field Service in EC&S

Sr. Engineer

A Sr. Engineer responsible for maintenance, outage leads, troubleshooting and lowering Opacity Excursions for all Electrostatic Precipitators through out Southern Company power plants.

Led team of unionized contractors to perform outage inspections, for repairs and routine maintenance on Air Pollution Controls and Electrical, Mechanical and Structural Systems.

Composed reports with proficiency in AutoCAD, Visio, Windows and Microsoft applications.

Managed construction teams (Electrical and Mechanical) on rebuilds, capital projects, O & M repairs, and QA/QC of Air Pollution Controls and Equipment. Providing overall planning and construction/renovation project management.

Compose specifications for Electrostatic Precipitators projects within the Southern Company (fossil fuels and oil/gas) power plants in Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, and Mississippi Power.

EC&S Designs

Electrical Design Engineering Supervisor

An Engineering Supervisor responsible for Electrical design, Retrofit projects, New Generation, providing outstanding safety, service, and performance for power plants in the Southern Company system.

Managed, Coached, led, mentored, and motivated twenty-four direct reports and twenty-one supplemental employees, of engineers and designers.

Supervised design teams for Electrical Design for New Generations of CT, Combined Cycle and Co-Gen Plants.

Sponsored Engineering Design Training Program team developing core curriculum career developmental plans, new employee orientation and knowledge retention program.

Progress Energy Crystal River, FL

South Region Sr. Engineering

October 2002 – November 2006

Electrostatic Precipitator Lead/ Sr. Engineer

A Sr. Engineer responsible for Electrostatic Precipitators and ash-system projects for Florida plants.

Led Bartow Oil/Gas plant Unit 1 precipitator re-build and major maintenance work outage of Crystal River 2.

Supported plants with precipitator troubleshooting, work scopes and condition assessments.

Anclote Power Plant (Gas/Oil fired)

Outage Manager

An Outage Manager responsible for $25MM outage of the Cooling Towers and Waterfront plant process equipment.

Managed a team of Engineers, planners, schedulers, craft labor and contractors through a successful outage under budget, on time and zero safety and environmental compliance incidents.

Managed a Support Maintenance Crew, scheduling, procurement and plant personnel for routine activities and new projects.

Led teams maintaining Florida EPA regulation of discharge water and new Cooling Towers study and essential repairs.

Crystal River South (Fossil Fueled)

Electrical and I/C Supervisor (

A Supervisor of twenty unionized electricians and control technicians responsible for the maintenance of a 550 mega-watt unit and a 380 mega-unit, with special projects in Crystal River Nuclear Plant Unit 3.

Lowered Overtime rate by 20%.

Achieved an Excellent Safety record; zero accidents or lost time recordable for both shops.

Accomplished a 96% or higher work scheduled completion rate, during implementation of FGD- 033 and excellent performance management skills.

Alcoa Power Generating, Inc. Newburgh, IN

Warrick Power Plant (Fossil Fueled) May 1995 – September 2002

Electrostatic Precipitator Specialist/ Sr. Engineer

A Sr. Electrical Engineer responsible for Electrostatic Precipitators, lowering Opacity Excursions and EHS events. Operations Engineer and Project Manager of various Controls and Operations projects

Project lead of $1MM Flow Modification project of Units 1-3 Electrostatic Precipitators.

Utilizing ABS philosophy reduced Stack Emissions Opacity Excursions from 171 to 30 in a one-year time span.

Led installation of PLC controllers for High Temperature Water and Smelter Steam process.

VECTREN formerly, Southern Indiana Gas & Electric Co.

Warrick Power Plant

Sr. Electrical Engineer

A Project Electrical Engineer responsible for all Boiler units Electrostatic Precipitators including Washes, Inspections, and Repairs/Upgrades/Component Replacement. Instrumentation Engineer, lead of the DCS Honeywell Controls, Supervision of Contractors and Electricians during projects.

Project manager of Unit #4, 320 Megawatts unit, Honeywell DCS Control System and CO-Gas Firing Addition $8 MM Upgrade project. Project completion was under budget.

Savings of $25M day by developing two-week ESP controls replacement along with major maintenance modification for timely scheduled outage.

Engineered and led the $100k Fire/Chemical Alarm System upgrade for entire plant.

GE PLASTICS Mt. Vernon, IN

January 1993 – March 1995

Structured Products

Project Engineer (Intern Position)

An Intern Project Engineer of numerous projects such as, Engineered S1 Hopper/Blower Modification project, which achieved $50M cost savings, as well as reduction in customer complaints.

Supervised panel pre-fabrication on extrusion film line upgrade during shutdown.

Developed construction specification and scope of work on S1 Hopper/Blower modification.

Valox@ Maintenance

Electrical Engineer (Co-Op Position)

An Intern Electrical Engineer assigned to developed documentation, communication and training package for operators and electricians to manually start-up load shedding generators.

Developed power feed documentation for Motor Control Center.

Initiated training program of operators and electricians to manually start-up generators.

Safety Department

Engineering (Co-Op Position)

Using AutoCAD developed and upgraded floor plans of buildings for site alarm system and pre-fire planning for Emergency Team on site for rescue missions or training procedures

Education

Tuskegee University 1994

Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering

Additional Training

RCRA and Hazwoper Certified

Anti-Terrorism Alert Level One

FGD Fundamentals & Electrostatic Precipitator Operation & Maintenance Seminar

Electrostatic Precipitator Predictive Maintenance & Trouble Shooting Seminar

The Dale Carnegie Course

Honeywell Inc. Industrial Automation and Control

Papers and Presentations

Philosophy and Rapping 101

Strategic Installations of Sonic Air Horns in an Electrostatic Precipitator

Oil-Fired Electrostatic Precipitator Rebuild less one mechanical field

Security Clearance

National Agency Check with Law and Credit (NACLC) Anniston, AL

DOD Clearance Pueblo, CO

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