Duane Facey
Houston TX
ad2q05@r.postjobfree.com
Respected team leader with proactive safety and quality control approach to maintaining operational standards and meeting project code related specifications. Roles include but skills not limited to project management, vendor coordination, cost control and supervision with a background in information technology.
Willing to relocate: Anywhere
Work Experience
Quality Control Manager
Brock Lyondellbasell - LaPorte, TX
January 2021 to Present
• Oversees quality control for paint department for maintenance, capital and turnaround projects.
• Monitors environmental conditions and performs daily inspection hold points in the shop and field. Prepares inspection reports for the client. (ex. Piping, Pipelines, Tanks, Towers and Vessels)
• Maintains calibration records of inspection equipment.
• Supervises paint crews to enforce job specification turns in daily crew logs.
• Provides project management and job tracking for maintenance, capital and turnaround jobs.
• Tracks and reports Volatile Organic Compounds used by paint department to upper management.
• Follows Inspection Test Plans approved by 3 rd party quality assurance and provides job reporting for all piping in shop and field.
• Serve on site safety committee. (OSHA, Safety & Permit Compliance) rd Coatings Inspector
Manon Coatings & Inspection - Fenton, IL
January 2019 to December 2021
• Traveled throughout US to provide industrial inspections on storage tanks and pipelines.
• Understand and enforce coating specifications for surface preparation and coating applications.
• Interpreted blueprints, data, and manuals to enforce specifications.
• Provided daily inspection tests during renovation process including repairs, repainting and erection projects.
• Documented daily activities of contractors along with quality inspection reports and safety audits. Industrial Coatings Specialist
Various Contract Positions
March 2016 to January 2019
Painter Blaster Operator Field Supervisor (Traveling USA)
• Contracted on multiple construction projects and earned increased responsibilities consistently.
• Provided field supervision for paint crews.
• Performed surface preparation for steel substrates such as abrasive blasting, power tooling, hand- tooling, and power washing.
• Operated Robotic Centrifugal Machinery
• Performed coatings application using Conventional Spray, Airless Spray, Thermal Spray Aluminum & Brush & Roll
• Mixing and Application of zinc, epoxy, polyurethane, silicone liner, and high heat tolerant coatings.
• Built protective containments around equipment and applied protection to sensitive equipment before coating activities.
Senior Systems Engineer
Absolute Virtual Services, LLC - Richmond, TX
January 2012 to December 2015
Contributes to and maintains system standards.
• Researches and recommends innovative, and where possible automated approaches for sys admin tasks.
• Provides Support per request from end users.
• Investigate and troubleshoot complex issues.
• Repairs/recovers from hardware and software failures; coordinate and communicate with impacted end users.
• Performs periodic performance complex reporting to support capacity planning.
• Performs ongoing performance tuning, and resource optimization as required.
• Prepares data analysis reports and presentations as requested by business or necessary within IT & customers.
Interconnect Engineer
Cricket Communications, Inc - Houston, TX
February 2010 to September 2011
• Provided network support and management of data and voice traffic routing.
• Assisted with network infrastructure design and maintenance of interconnected offices and retail locations.
• Utilized change control process to manage implementation and upgrade of new technologies.
• Worked with engineering teams to configure, troubleshoot, and improve issues with routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Utilized network monitoring tools to perform capacity analysis and reporting on data and voice traffic.
• Performed network cost savings analysis to attain annual cost savings goal.
• Supervised field and switch technicians, construction managers, and network provisioners to ensure project success.
• Worked closely with vendors to purchase networking hardware
• Generate ad hoc reports using system tools and database or data warehouse queries and scripts IT Administrator
Cricket Communications, Inc - Houston, TX
February 2007 to March 2010
• Supported Windows workstations, office VOIP phone systems, servers and provided network support for retail and corporate locations.
• Supported Exchange Server, and Active Directory and used tools in the TCP/IP protocol suite: DNS, DHCP, WINS, etc.
• Recommended network hardware and software upgrades according to growth statistics and performance data reports.
• Scheduled, planned, and performed server repairs and upgrades, including coordinating the transition from test to production environments.
• Assisted launch team with new market build-out and launch activities.
• Enforced Network and Desktop security policies
• Wrote and maintained market IT documentation.
• Managed Inventory control of all IT assets within Texas markets Desktop Support Technician
Litton Loan Servicing - Houston, TX
March 2005 to January 2007
• Responsible for supervising PC hardware departmental moves and coordinating all aspects of moves between Telephony, Facilities, Help desk, and department management.
• Wrote documentation and policies to assist in building team efficiency. Ex. VPN troubleshooting, creating departmental 2000/XP pro images, Ace Server installation (VPN administration console)
• Spearheaded various projects such as implementing the process for laptop encryption, IT Move Coordinator for Houston, trained and supported VPN users in the Detroit office as well as company-wide, was a part of the testing team for Altiris implementation and also helped manage and implement a network printer disaster recovery plan.
• Created and updated Windows 2000 and XP desktop and laptop images for company-wide use.
• Worked closely with all IT groups such as server administration, network/security, and coding/database groups in order to resolve issues that were beyond 3rd tier support. Sr. Help Desk Analyst
NextiraOne - Houston, TX
December 2000 to December 2004
• Performed daily service requests as needed from a company perspective for computer operating systems, application setup, upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance optimization. Also, diagnoses and corrects system hardware, software, and operator problems based on knowledge of system operations.
• Hardware maintenance - Installed, maintained, and configured computers and peripherals such as CPUs, memory, monitors, scanners, printers, optical and other external storage media, laptops, handheld devices, and expansion cards.
• Analyzed frequent problems and acted as liaison to different IT groups in order to address various possible preventions or resolutions.
• Assisted the IT Architecture group with testing of AT&T, Cisco, and Sprint remote access-based applications during their beta phases.
• Collected frequently asked questions and wrote formal processes to ensure accuracy of responses and consistency from Help Desk personnel.
Education
Certificate in Coatings Inspection Level 2
NACE International Institute
November 2020 to November 2020
Certificate in Cisco Network Associate
New Horizons - Houston, TX
2013 to 2013
Certificate in Project Management Professional
New Horizons - Houston, TX
February 2011 to February 2011
Certificate in Network Technologies Program
Southern Methodist University, School of Engineering and Applied Science June 2000 to June 2000
High school diploma
Hastings High School - Houston, TX
1990 to 1994
Skills
• Blueprint reading
• Construction
• ASME codes & standards
• Quality control
• Non-destructive testing
• Oil & gas
• Project management
• Quality systems
• Quality assurance
• Systems engineering
• SAP
• System administration
• Desktop support
• ISO 9001
Links
www.linkedin.com/in/duane-facey-a644b888/