Engineering Consultant Project Manager
Resume:
Huu-Nghia VUONG
Huu-Nghia VUONG, Ph.D.
*****-* ********** **, #**** Voice: +1-408-***-**** Houston, TX 77043 E-mail: *******@*****.***
USA
OVERVIEW:
Senior Director of Programs and Operations
Over 25 years of engineering design, execution and management, and 6 years of academic research and teaching resulted in engineering achievements covering Chemical and Industrial Process engineering, optimization and operations, EDA Software Development and FPGA Verification and Validation.
Over 20 years of experience in engineering management, Project management and executive management.
Over 14 years of experience in EPC/EPCM for the chemical and industrial process industry.
Currently Senior Director of Programs and Operations for the US entity of an Offshore company based in Vietnam specialized in IT support, Software development and back- office data analysis for customers in Europe and North America. Created and managed a design engineering group in India responsible for Full Engineering Packages (Process, Design, CAD, I&E, Mechanical and Structural designs with full MCC (Motor Control Center) and PLC/DCS automation control). All designs were following US standards ASME, API, OSHA, IBC, NEC and NFPA using an ISO9001:2008 QMS.
Procured equipment internationally with onsite inspections in US, Europe, India and China.
Supervised construction and commissioning of production plants in the US and Central America, (Greenfield and Brownfield).
Managed and operated a biodiesel production plant in Spain. Experienced and efficient at managing engineering activities spread across several continents (USA, Europe, China, Vietnam and India). Created and managed engineering teams working together on several continents for two US based companies. Fluent in English, French and Spanish
Can legally work in Europe, Vietnam and the US.
Huu-Nghia VUONG
P.2/5
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE:
Officience LLC, US (June 2019 to present)
Senior Director Programs and Operations
In charge of projects for Offshore customers in North America and Europe. Negotiation with customers, specifications definitions, project management and human management of the Vietnamese staff in Ho Chi Minh City. Projects were mostly IT back-end support, Software development and back-office data analysis for large international companies.
Keywords: SaaS, Agile, Scrum, Project Management, Network Monitoring, Microsoft Project
Self employed, Houston, TX (October 2014 – May 2019) Engineering Consultant
Technical study (FEED) and contract negotiation for a turnkey wood pellet plant (capacity 20mTons/hour) in Europe and Central America.
Feasibility and Technical study (Pre-FEED and FEED 1) for an LPG storage and distribution operation in Southeast Asia
Prepared feasibility studies (FEED) and business plans for industrial projects in Central America (Mining Processing Industry), turnkey plastic and rubber pyrolysis plant. Procured equipment in China, Europe and USA from sourcing, inspection, negotiating and contracting to shipping, customs clearance and installation in Guatemala and Mexico. Used international laboratories in USA and Canada to obtain certification for end user. Logistica y Abastos, Guatemala City, Guatemala (June 2013 – September 2014) Director of Operations
I was in charge of researching, study, negotiate and sign contracts for procurement of a turn-key cement production plant to be delivered to Guatemala.
• Cement production plant: Capacity of 1,200 mTons/day. The project was approved by the investors and was ordered from a vendor in China. The cement plant was following US standards.
The project involved market study, RFQ preparations, Review of Offers, several months of work in China to inspect the vendors’ facilities and reference plants, negotiate the terms of the contracts and approve the vendors.
Bioenergetica Extremena 2020 SL, Valdetorres, Spain (January 2012 – June 2013) CEO
Managed a second-generation biodiesel production plant, the plant capacity was 250,000 mTons/year.
Huu-Nghia VUONG
P.3/5
As CEO, I was responsible for restarting the plant, complete the engineering documentation and implement an updated Health and Safety plan. I exceeded the previous production record after 6 months. I also had to work closely with the technology provider from Germany.
Keywords: Plant Operations, Plant maintenance, Rail transport Logistic. Petro Constructors Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India (January 2008-January 2012) Managing Director
Petro Constructors LLC is an EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) company based in Houston, Texas targeting the petro chemical industry. I was in charge of creating a subsidiary for detailed design engineering in Chennai, India. I created and managed an engineering company; the team of engineers covers all the specialties required to design and commission a chemical plant. This company delivered detailed engineering package to the corporate office in Texas. All designs followed US standards and I had to train the staff to different US standards: ASME, API, OSHA, IBC, NFPA and NEC.
The company had 5 departments:
1) Design: 6 chemical engineers with experience in Petro Chemical and Biodiesel processes. a. Heat and Mass Balance, PFD, P&ID
2) Mechanical: 15 engineers, ran ASME and API design calculation, created 2D and 3D drawings for vessels and plants using Autocad 3D and Cadworx. a. Fabrication drawings with BOM
3) I&E: 5 engineers, Allen Bradley and Siemens PLC design, fabrication and programming, electrical design, specs and datasheet, instrumentation selection, specs and datasheet 4) Procurement and Project manager: 3 employees, Project management and Procurement of parts and equipment.
5) QA/QC: 1 manager.
I created the legal entity and had to implement all the administrative support to run an engineering company in India (legal, accounting, payroll, registration). I supervised and coordinated activities between this engineering team in India (25+ engineers and researchers) and a fabrication and construction team in Texas (50+ employees). After only one and a half year, I had the company certified for ISO9001:2008 for its quality management system.
Achievements: Design, construction and delivery of a 250 tons/day vegetable oil refinery in Alabama in 2011. Petro constructors Private limited was in charge of the entire engineering except structural engineering and civil work engineering that were performed by PEs from Alabama and Texas.
I worked with Project managers in the US to review and approve procurements of the parts and equipment that were not procured by us in India. Site inspection, staff training and commissioning were also conducted by the Indian company. Huu-Nghia VUONG
P.4/5
Keywords: EPC, Detailed Engineering Package, International team, Osha, ASME, API, NFPA, NEC, IBC, ISO9001:2008, Project management, Commissioning, Autocad, CadWorx, MS Project.
Sonorawest Co Inc, Houston, TX (March 2007-January 2008) Director of engineering
Supervised and coordinated activities between a consulting engineering team in India
(10 engineers and researchers) and a commissioning team in Houston (3 engineers, 15 operators and management) to commission and qualify a bio-diesel production plant.
In charge of the air and emission permits for the plant. My main focus was:
- Motor Control Center: Design, Verification and Test. Using DOL, Star-Delta, Soft starters and Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)
- Process automation: Specify PLC specifications, SCADA interface, install and test DCS systems. Install remote access to PLC
- Maintain on-line documentation, redline Autocad files for modification by designers
- Supervise class 1, division1 and division2 wiring configurations and installations Actel Corporation, Mountain View, CA (1998-2007)
• 2004-2007: Verification and Validation Manager. Three years as a verification and validation manager, in charge of three teams:
Pre tape-out verification
Post fab-out Product Validation
Post fab-out manufacturing tests development.
(14 engineers, over three countries: USA, Germany and India) o Complete Programmed Chip simulation using simulation Hardware accelerator (Zycad) or verilog software simulation (Verilog). I brought state of the art solutions (co-verification, code coverage, fault coverage, formal verification and assertion verification) inside our verification flow and had the team grow from 2 engineers to 9 engineers in two years. o Product Validation: Implement designs defined from our products’ use model. This verification was done using the tools provided to Actel’s customers. This is a step that I added to our verification flow that allowed us to verify our software support through CDL simulation and silicon verification. o Manufacturing tests: The team was in charge of developing the tests programs that were run on every chip Actel shipped to customers. This involved complete routing switches verification as well as IP verification thru JTAG interface, BIST using Scan-insertion with DFT-compiler and ATPG with Tetramax. Fault coverage for customs tests were measured using Turbo-Fault.
o In my last 2 and a half years at Actel, I started the Actel Off-shoring process by creating a team of 8 engineers in India, running logical verification and manufacturing tests development under my supervision. I worked with Huu-Nghia VUONG
P.5/5
Finance, Legal and IT to create the network and process. Due to my success, other engineering teams have been following my model. o Created a Linux64 farm and implemented Sun Grid Engine to run our simulations and regressions.
o Worked with our legal and QA department for ISO certification and ITAR requirements. 2006-2007 ISO 2000 Internal Auditor for Actel.
• 2003-2004: Senior Staff Engineer. Two years in the device characterization team working on pre and post-silicon characterization and validation o Characterized our Anti-fuse and Flash products, to extract timing data to be used by our timer. This allowed our timer to be tuned to reach 5% accuracy. o Collected data by running LPE (star-RC) on our CDL netlist and using H- Spice to simulate all corners on I/O, PLL and LUT. o Collected data using bench board in our lab or developing test programs to collect data on testers.
o Member of our Failure Analysis team to support our customers. Both Spice simulation and Silicon measures were used.
• 1998-2002: Staff Engineer. Four years in the timing and power product group developing static timing analysis software (Using C/C++). Part of the Designer/Libero suite provided by Actel.
o Developed the second-generation static timing analysis tool part of Actel’s Designer suite. Was in charge of the timing graph building and path tracing. Axiomes SARL, Paris, France (1990-1991): Engineering manager. Management and development of industrial process control system for the canning industry, Paris, France.
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, "Simulation of Complex VLSI Circuits described in VHDL", Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, Paris, France, 1997. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Architecture, Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, Paris, France, 1991. Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, Université Pierre et Marie CURIE, Paris, France, 1989. REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST
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