Engineer- Reliability, or Project engineer / manager

David Simmons, II

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Email Address: **************@*****.*** Mobile Phone: 757-***-****

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

-Ingalls Shipbuilding Pascagoula, Ms.

-Facilities Engineer June 2019 – Present

Manage medium size capital projects, including maintenance repairs that exceed a total value of $50,000 and any equipment purchases and/or installations exceeding $5,000

Engineering technical expert for all cranes in the shipyard including portal / offshore cranes, bridge cranes, gantry cranes, and mobile cranes

Execute incoming crane’s factory acceptance tests, analyze crane railway surveys, evaluate and improve crane preventive maintenance plans compared to the OEM manuals and specifications, validate cranes’ load tests and accurately calibrate cranes’ initial indication / warning signals

Communicate and assist with maintenance crews to diagnose and resolve failures that arise on the different cranes amongst the shipyard

Liaison between Ingalls shipbuilding and multiple vendors and contractors involving ordering equipment, installing equipment, and repairing equipment from an initial failure diagnosis

-Mattie T. Blount High School Mobile Co., Al (Eight Mile)

-Math Teacher / Basketball Coach August 2018 – May 2019

Instruct and manage four different classes daily of roughly 30 students per class in various subjects including Algebra 1, Algebra 2 / Trigonometry, and ACT Prep

Teach students of diverse backgrounds and different walks of life within the same classroom including students that are considered gifted, special education, as well as transfer students where English is their second language (ESL)

Head junior varsity (JV) basketball coach and assistant coach to varsity and freshman teams

Organize and facilitate JV basketball players in all practices, games, and basketball related activities as well as currently manage all team’s budget and player’s fees

-BASF Corp. McIntosh, Al

-Project Engineer / Manager (PDP, 3rd rotation) January 2018 – August 2018

Managed 10+ projects at the BASF McIntosh site ranging from infrastructure projects, piping projects, a pump installation project, and a security access control system project that had budgets ranging from the amount of $50K to $500K

Liaison between the BASF McIntosh site and the engineering firms Schenck Process LLC and Hargrove Engineers + Constructors for the conduction of engineering studies in the expertise of dust collection and pipe anchoring / stabilization

Collaborated with multiple personnel departments and levels of the company, from site management, procurement, engineering colleagues, as well as the contracting construction supervisors and crew utilizing various forms of communication in order to efficiently execute projects from their initial to closure phases

Developed the project scope, led project meetings, conducted EHS step reviews, accurately estimated project budgets and timelines, as well as created projects within the SAP platform to effectively execute a capital project within BASF

- BASF Corp. RTP, NC

- Manufacturing Services Eng. (PDP, 2nd rotation) May 2017 – January 2018

Utilized Microsoft Windows platforms (Excel, PowerPoint, with the synchronization of Think-Cell) to document the entire APN product portfolio in charts, graphs, pivot tables, and presentation format

Identified production lines at specific sites that will be at capacity due to the future demand of products which led to collaboration between colleagues to present solutions for prevention of production lines exceeding capacity

Conducted virtual and in-person meetings for the launch of multiple new products with various functional groups with Agricultural Solutions across multiple BASF sites

Navigated through multiple databases (different transaction codes on SAP and BAS Code database) to produce a product “tree” for the foundation of performing an APN database consistency check

- BASF Corp. Attapulgus, Ga

- Reliability Engineer (PDP, 1st rotation) September 2016 – May 2017

Conducted multiple technical field assessments and walk downs of different pump / piping arrangements within the chemical plant

Contributed to long-term solutions in the plant with various input on design for reliability projects including work instructions and extensive job plans, blueprint drawings, and suggestive re-work to produce solutions for various equipment failures and other plant modifications

Reported the root cause of failures as well as their recommended solutions for various equipment and their multiple components including pumps, transfer hoses, gearboxes, bearings, and drums in official RCFA documents that was distributed to key personnel at BASF Attapulgus

Utilized predictive maintenance practices, such as vibration and thermography analysis, to retrieve valuable technical data to determine key faults with specific equipment components

Communicated with all levels of personnel within the BASF Attapulgus site, as well as vendors and technical specialists, to come to technical solutions for various machines and plant equipment

Provided hands-on assistance with the rebuilds of a Drum Filter’s worm gear system and blower’s spur gear system

INTERNSHIPS

- BASF Corp. Pasadena, Tx

- Project Manager May 2015 - August 2015

Interned in the Professional Development Program (PDP) with the role as a project manager, in specific with the Regional Service Center (RSC) Texas / West team

●Managed a project that included implementing a booster pump and additional piping to increase water pressure from the detailed engineering phase all the way to the end of the execution phase

●Interacted with multiple contractors and vendors to engineer, order, buy, and construct the implementation of the booster pump and additional piping

●Collaborated with team members and others within the business on various expansion projects during the conceptual phase, including activities such as steering committee meeting minutes, as well as technical bid evaluations of various contracting companies

- Caterpillar Inc. Sanford, NC

- Design Engineer May 2014 - August 2014

●Interned throughout the summer as a design engineer on the compact construction equipment structures team within the Building Construction Products division

●Developed a solution to a failure with skid steer loaders during demolition applications by using the software Creo Pro-Engineer to design and detail an innovative new part

●Analyzed and selected the most efficient part out of several parts tested using Finite Element Analysis with the software Creo Pro-Mechanica

EDUCATION

North Carolina A&T State University Greensboro, NC

Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering

Summa Cum Laude Class of 2016

Senior Project, Boeing LuxAir 2040 (Fall 2015 - May 2016) - Collaborated with a team of classmates and Iowa State seniors to create a full fledged 50 passenger model cruise line airship to be released by 2040

Undergraduate Research, Composite Material Study (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015) Utilized the program ABAQUS to develop finite element analysis results to better understand the behavior of different composite materials after various stress situations

North Carolina A&T State University Alumni Scholar (Fall 2012 – Spring 2016)

Dean’s List each semester (Fall 2012 – Spring 2016)

Pi Tau Sigma NC Delta Epsilon Chapter (Mechanical Engineering Honor Society)

Dr. Ethel F. Taylor English Composition Colloquium and Scholarship - 2nd Place

Supplemental Instructor (College Algebra) (Fall 2013 – Spring 2016)

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (Fall 2012 – Spring 2016)

Alpha Lambda Delta, Freshman Honor Society (Fall 2012 – Spring 2013)

VOLUNTEERING / EXTRA-CURRICULARS

BASF Teens Lab – McIntosh site (Washington County High Schools)

Youth Basketball Coach – Port City Stars (AAU)

Math Tutor – Math Counts (Tutoring Business)

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