H. Sal Farrag
Houston, TX *****
Overview:
●Senior Piping Designer for Nuclear Power, Oil & Gas projects including Pumps, Re-boilers and Heat Exchangers with slope piping. Create Piping Drawings with Drawing Manager and MicroStation.
●Capable of applying appropriate design criteria and technical manuals to assigned work. Familiar with ASME, Codes B31;1; 2, and 3 of piping. Area Lead of more than 3 designers.
●Fluent with various design equipment, piping oil & gas systems including PDS and PDMS MicroStation, as well as Autodesk Software Systems and AutoCAD.
●Engineering analysis, 3D Modeling using Plant Design System (PDS) “Piping and Equipment” checking and revising drawing with SP3D software smart plan view.
●CADWorx/Navisworks and proficient using scan and going into the field.
Education:
●4 Years Northeastern University
●Houston Community College, Houston, TX
PDS, PDMS piping, equipment modeling and structure modeling classes
●PDS Modeling, Design of Equipment, Piping Layout and Piping Drawings with MicroStation 2D PDS program.
Employment History:
Allied engineering
Swedesboro New Jersey
Plant 3D Piping Checker
Checking Pipe Plant CADWorx/Navisworks/proficient using scan&going to the field.
IDWTGROUP – Cairo, EG July 2017 to Dec. 2021
Piping Engineering Manager
Primary responsibilities include:
●Leading a team of engineers for layout and design for water desalination plant for the purpose of irrigation and municipal water.
●Overseer of demineralization process to be used for pharmaceutical, power generation, and oil and gas industries
CB&I – Baton Rouge, LA July 2015 to Jan. 2016
Senior Piping Designer
Primary responsibilities include:
●Engineering analysis, 3D Modeling using Plant Design System (PDS) “Piping and Equipment” checking and revising drawing with SP3D software smart plan view.
●Design development and generation of design output documents.
●Prepare, review and approve design change forms, disposition nonconformance reports, review vendor documents and incorporate into 3D models, and resolve construction issues.
Foster Wheeler – Houston, TX April 2014 to Oct. 2014
Senior Piping Designer
●PDS Modeling and Piping Design, equipment layout of area including Flare Stack Systems, Residue Compressors, Air Compressors and K.O Drums.
●Run slope piping for flare & steam lines. Model equipment and piping for CWS & CWR for Cooling Tower.
●Create piping plans and section drawings though OrthoGen. Issued for field constructions with MicroStation 2D PDS System.
URS Energy Inc. - Houston TX Oct. 2012 – Oct. 2013
Senior Piping Designer
●Work as PDS Piping Designer for UAN and UREA process of fertilizer plant 7 on feed reforming furnaces (UREA conversion 140 - 175 bar)
CB&I INC. – Beaumont / Houston, TX Aug. 2011-Oct. 2012
Senior Piping Designer
PDS Modeling and Design of LNG Project in Australia
●PDS piping design for equipment layout of area include recoiled Heat Exchangers. Run slope piping for flare & steam lines. Model equipment and piping for CWS & CWR for cooling towers. Create piping plan and sections drawings thru OrthoGen and MicroStation issued for field constructions.
Southwest Shipyard - Channelview, TX May 2011 - Aug. 2011
Project Coordinator
Ship and barge application and construction.
●Scheduling and scope analysis in coordinating barge repair and new construction projects from purging and cleaning systems to pipe and steel sheet metal welding, sand blasting, and painting.
●Administered material safety data sheets for hazardous material plus by-products from construction as per EPA requirements.
●Material and equipment procurement according to client requisition in support systems needed to complete assigned tasks.
National Company for Environmental Projects - Cairo, Egypt 2009-2010
Piping Designer/ Checker
●Designed and checked all valves and instrumentation. Modified piping layout area and conceptual design of difficult and complex problems. Checked and interfaced with other disciplines.
Technip U.S.A. – Houston, TX 2007-2009
PDS Piping Designer
Designed layout, piping and equipment with PDS as required per P&ID for LNG Project
at Freeport TX.
●Checked all piping and equipment such as compressor and steam drum. Worked at a Valero Project in the field. Established tie-ins and created packages for construction with changes of piping routes and new supports.
Foster Wheeler - Houston, TX 2006-2007
Piping Designer
●PDS modeling and piping design, equipment layout of compressor area including heat exchangers, and steam drum layouts. Routed all piping connecting to column.
Bayer Technology - Baytown, TX 2005-2006
PDS Piping Designer
PDS modeling and piping design. Route new piping locating tie-ins.
CBI/TPA - Dallas, TX 2005
PDS Piping and Layout Designer
Designed large piping skids and offsite designs; routing of piping and equipment with PDS.
●Cryogenic, high steam includes all utility and condensate piping; extracting and modify checked ISO's for final IFC.
Technip U.S.A. - Houston, TX 2004-2005
PDS Designer
●Skid design of compressors, fuel gas and heat exchanger units for "H" Plant, Refinery, Petro Chemical Units for Air Products, Chemical and Refinery Plant.
●Checked piping, equipment layout and extract ISO's to analyze issued ISO's and piping drawings through IsoGens and OrthoGen piping for construction.
Parsons Energy – Aiken, SC 2003-2004
Piping Designer
Savannah River Project
●Nuclear Salt Project underground and above ground piping. Checked PDS isometrics against models, vendor drawings and P&ID for Co-Gen 600 MW Power Plant Technology. Sloped pipe with hanifer connections and all supports required.
●Made modifications and tie-in to existing pipe valves boxes and interference check to produce installation packages. Update and revised PFD, P & ID with Micro Station for final issue.
●Laid out and routed HP steam, cold reheat, hot reheat, and LP Steam for 550 MW power plant. Checked access operation for instrument and steam-shut-off valves.
ABB Lummis - Houston, TX 2002
Piping Designer
●Existing 3-D Models generated for project to match exact requirements for SACCO PDS Model built equipment in PDS model from new and referenced models.
Black & Veatch - Kansas City, MO 2001-2002
Piping Designer
Taiwan Nuclear Project:
●Cooling systems development, pipe routing and equipment layout design & modeling using PDS systems tools.
Kvaerner Metals Energy & Controls – San Ramon, CA 2000-2002
Piping Designer
●Laid out and design equipment & piping, attached according to P&ID's. Used Intelligent P&ID to develop PDS model for piping of Tantai Project in Peru Mining Company
Stone & Webster – Houston, TX 1998-2000
PDS Piping Designer
●Lead supported night shift of 300 tradesmen as Coordinator for pipe and pipe supports. Resolved interference's, pipe supports, re-routed all necessary pipes for DCN and field changes. Updated all files according to new changes.
●Used all changes according to DCN, and processed changes for the Copa sol Project, at the job site in Porto Alegre, Brazil using PDS 2-D Intelligent to update P&ID 2-D drawings for closing projects and made sure all DCS and instrument systems had correct valves and symbols. Worked for Long Island Light Company (LILCO)
ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc. – Pittsburgh, PA 1998
PDS Piping Designer
●Ran PDS interference clashes for models designed and laid out piping routes in PDS models. Checked pipe routing according to P&ID and GA drawings. Cleaned up for final construction issues.
Halliburton, Brown & Root - Houston, TX 1997-1998
PDS Piping Designer
●Lay out and routed piping above/below decks of offshore platforms. Designed pipe for drain systems, condensate and steam piping
Bayer Corporation – Baytown, TX & Pittsburgh, PA 1996-1997
PDS Pipe Designer
●Equipment modeling and piping layout and routing of the project on 3-D PDS. Helped PDS instructors teach PDS to pipers and start PDS jobs. Extracted ISO through ISO-Gen and helped solve problems with ISO-GEN Package.
Jacobs Engineering – Cincinnati, OH 1995-1996
PDS Piping Designer
Raytheon, Inc. – Houston, TX 1994-1995
PDS Piping Designer
Air Products – Allen Town, PA 1992-1994
PDS Pipe Designer
●Solved problems of non-extracted isometrics ISO-GEN trough creation of model file final drawings; worked with hit file to locate disconnected Sigma.
Bechtel – Houston, TX 1981-1983
Piping Designer
South Texas Nuclear Project:
●Lead designer for fuel handling building. Redesign of the IVC building to relocate dump valve between the IVC and the containment building.
●Relocation of steam line on steam generation after revising 4 steam generation systems.
Stone & Webster – Boston, MA 1972-1974
Piping Designer
West Virginia Project:
●Cooling systems development, pipe routing and equipment layout design & modeling other location in Seabrook, NH.
Foreign Experience:
Engineer supporting the construction effort for Philips Petroleum Projects at Sweeney, Texas Overseas experience includes Copa sol, Brazil and Nova Project, Canada Pelican forge pipe -support experience. Work as PDS Piping Designer for UAN and UREA process of fertilizer plant 7 on feed reforming furnaces (UREA conversion 140 - 175 bar)