BRUCE E. FYE

*** **** ***** ******,

New Castle, PA 16101

Cell: 724-***-****

adxl2h@r.postjobfree.com

Design Skills:

3D modeling: Solidworks 2022, CATIA V4 & V5, Enovia, AutoCAD 2019 w/Shipconstructor, Navisworks Manage, Freedom & Simulate

2D: Solidworks Draftsight Enterprise 2019, AutoCAD 2013 and before, Mech-Q, CADAM

MS Office programs, Falcon DMS, AutoEDMS, Extree Gold and AutoDesk Workcenter.

Natural gas processing plants, petro-chem plants, cement plants, boiler plants, PWR plants, paper mills, steel melt shop, steel processing mills, shipbuilding HM&E and naval propulsion plants.

Rotary & moving machinery

Mechanical power transmission

Material handling - conveyors, bins, ducts & chutes

Weldments, fixtures & fabrications

Castings – pre-machining.

GDT and surface finishing

Structural steel & decking layout

Piping systems: natural gas, hydraulics, pneumatic, lubrication, fire main, sprinkling, refrigeration, chilled water, glycol, heat transfer, steam heating, potable water, drains, plumbing, fuel supply, combustion intake & exhaust, hydrochloric acid, P&ID, PFD, etc…

Materials: CRES, ASTM A53, ASTM A36, ASTM A106, Polypropylene, PVC, CNA, Copper, Ductile Iron, etc…

HVAC ducting layout

Standards: API, ASE, ASME, ANSI, ASTM, AWWA, CMAA, MHIA, AISC, ISO, MIL, FED, NAVSEA, etc…

Vendor interfacing for component info.

Design Experience:

TATA Thomas Steel Strip, Warren, OH, 11/21/23 to 6/16/23. Contracted Senior Mechanical Designer. Worked in Plant Engineering Department with Plant Engineer. Developed proposals and capital project drawings and models for steel strip web handling equipment and concrete & steel structures. Utilized Solidworks 2022 and Draftsight Enterprise 2019. Slowing sales was reason given for dismissal.

Unemployed During Covid 1/20/21 – 11/18/22, Job searching and interviewing

Gryphon Technologies, Norfolk, VA, 9/8/20 to 1/20/21. CAD Drafter IV. Checked NNSY SCD arrangements of LPD shipboard piping utilizing AutoCAD and MS Office and Acrobat programs. Contracted long Covid, and terminated from work.

Unemployed 6/27/19 – 9/8/20, Job searching and interviewing.

HII Avondale, New Orleans, LA, 3/4/19 to 6/27/19. Contracted Designer IV. 3D Modeling using AutoCAD 2019, Shipconstructor 2019, Navisworks Freedom. Checking & correcting multiple HM&E piping systems models from Change Paper Incorporation (CPI) on LPD30 US Navy Amphibious Ship. Returned home due to medical emergency and treatment.

Unemployed 10/11/17 – 3/4/19, Job searching and interviewing.

HII Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS, 1/16/17 to 10/11/17. Contracted Designer IV. 3D Modeling using AutoCAD 2017, Shipconstructor 2017, Navisworks Freedom & Simulate. Optimized multiple HM&E piping systems models from baseline on LHA-8 US Navy Amphibious Ship.

Unemployed 5/31/13 – 1/16/17, Job searching and interviewing during recessionary period. Cared for ailing mother until her death.

CSD Engineers, Pittsburgh, PA, 3/27/13 to 5/31/13. Contracted Piping Designer II. Utilized AutoCAD 2013 on piping arrangements, isometrics, P&ID’s and supports. Projects: Markwest natural gas processing plants PA, OH & WV and Sunoco Logistics’ fuel gas tank farm near Chicago.

River Consulting, Pittsburgh, PA, 7/30/12 to 2/5/13. Contracted Senior Piping Designer. Utilized AutoCAD 2012 and Falcon DMS to make piping ortho’s, field sketches, iso’s and supports. Projects: Energy Transfer Corp’s Godley, Texas natural gas processing plant, Sunoco Logistics’ fuel gas tank farm in Lawrenceville and Lafarge’s cement plant exhaust scrubber piping systems. Utilized and marked up P&ID’s for change. API standards.

ATS, Wilson, NC, 4/2/12 to 7/27/12. Reporting Technician. Hired direct by ATS, a vendor for a NDT and preventative maintenance project at the Honeywell Hopewell, VA plant. Utilized AutoCAD LT to make isometric piping drawings from field walk down sketches for NDT of chemical plant process & boiler power generation piping systems.

Gibbs & Cox, Hampton, VA, 3/7/11 to 8/22/11. Contracted Senior Piping Designer. 3D modeling using AutoCAD 2011/Shipconstructor 2011 and Navisworks Manage and MS Office programs for checking of shipboard piping, HVAC, machinery & structural systems aboard new U.S. Navy LCS surface ships.

Bath Iron Works, Brunswick, ME, 2/2/10 to 5/17/10. Contracted Senior Piping Designer. 3D modeling using CATIA V5, Enovia and MS Office programs for gas turbine power plant piping systems design, modification and validation aboard U.S. Navy DDG-1000 destroyer.

Core Furnace, Coraopolis, PA, 2/09 to 4/09. Contracted Senior Designer. Utilized AutoCAD 2009 and MS Office programs for design of steel mill meltshop furnaces, structures and equipment. Alloy material handling chutes, covered & filtered bins and conveyors. Cage protected ladders, stairways, catwalks, handrails, platforms and supporting structures.

Sheppard Engineering, Atlanta, GA., 6/15/08 to 10/27/08. Contracted Senior Piping Designer. Utilized AutoCAD 2004 & 2009 w/Mech-Q and MS Office programs for design of co-gen power plant piping, plumbing, HVAC, machinery and structure for paper mill and petro-chem plants.

Three Rivers Crane, Oakdale, PA, 11/1/07 to 1/7/08. Contracted Designer. Utilized AutoCAD 2008 and MS Office programs for overhead crane bridge & runway structural and mechanical layout and detailing.

Northrop Grumman Avondale, New Orleans, LA, 8/07 to 10/07. Contracted Senior Piping Designer.

3D modeling using CATIA V5, Enovia and MS Office programs for HM&E piping systems design, modification and validation aboard U.S. Navy DDG-1000 destroyer.

Core Furnace, Coraopolis, PA, 3/07 to 5/07. Contracted Senior Designer. Utilized AutoCAD 2005 and MS Office programs for design of steel mill meltshop furnaces, structures and equipment. Alloy material handling chutes, covered & filtered bins and conveyors. Cage protected ladders, stairways, catwalks, handrails, platforms and supporting structures.

Economy Industrial, Ambridge, PA, 11/21/06 to 2/26/07. Contracted Senior Designer. Utilized AutoCAD 2000 and MS Office programs in layout design and size calculation of machinery, equipment and structure for a continuous caster of silicone iron ingots.

Core Furnace, Coraopolis, PA, 5/15/06 to 11/10/06. Contracted Senior Designer. Utilized AutoCAD 2005 and MS Office programs for design of steel mill meltshop furnaces, structures and equipment. Alloy material handling chutes, covered & filtered bins and conveyors. Cage protected ladders, stairways, catwalks, handrails, platforms and supporting structures.

Northrop Grumman Newport News, Newport News, VA, 12/12/05 to 5/12/06. Senior Piping Designer.

3D modeling using CATIA V4 (Unix), Citrix and MS Office programs for design and checking of emergency diesel generator HM&E piping systems aboard U.S. Navy CVN-78 aircraft carrier.

Polysius, Atlanta, GA, 9/12/05 to 11/15/05. Contracted Checker. Utilized AutoCAD 2004 and MS Office programs for mechanical and structural arrangements & details of cement processing plant. These consisted of cyclones, refractory lined ducting & kilns, conveyors and other machinery.

CDI Government Services, Portsmouth, VA, 10/15/01 to 3/29/05. Senior Engineering Tech III. Designed & checked modifications and new installations of HM&E piping, machinery, HVAC and structural systems aboard NAVSEA (NNSY) & USCG ships. Also: aircraft elevator machinery and related structure; emergency diesel power generators HP starting air; steering gear and shafting machinery & related hydraulic systems and structure. Used AutoCAD 2002 and MS Office programs. Performed various ship checks at Norfolk Naval Base, Mayport NAS, and Morgan City, LA.

ADS Machinery, Warren, OH, 2/28/00 to 9/28/00. Contracted Designer. Steel coil handling & processing machinery. Related pneumatic, hydraulic and lubrication piping systems. Used AutoCAD 2000 and MS Office programs.

Danieli Wean, Youngstown, OH, 2/99 to 12/9/99. Contracted Designer. Steel coil handling & processing machinery. Related pneumatic, hydraulic and lubrication piping systems & components. Used AutoCAD 14.5 with AutoDesk Workcenter and MS Office programs.

Herr Voss, Callery, PA, 7/6/98 to 11/21/98. Contracted Designer. Steel coil handling & processing machinery. Used AutoCAD 13 with AutoEDMS and MS Office programs.

Danieli Wean, Youngstown, OH, 9/15/97 to 7/3/98. Contracted Designer. Created P&ID’s and piping arrangements. Pneumatic, hydraulic and lubrication piping systems & supports for steel coil material handling & processing machinery. Used AutoCAD 13 with AutoDesk Workcenter and MS Office programs.

MEECO, Pittsburgh, PA, 6/9/97 to 9/9/97. Contracted Designer. Steel coil processing machinery and pneumatic piping. Used AutoCAD 12 with Extree Gold.

ARUS Andritz Ruthner, Canonsburg, PA, 12/19/96 to 5/18/97. Contracted Designer. Detail drawings for steel coil processing pickling tanks and wringer roll machinery. Utilized AutoCAD 12.

Avondale Shipyard, New Orleans, LA, 6/96 to 11/20/96. Contracted Piping Designer. Propulsion power plant combustion intake and exhaust piping systems & supports for diesel generators, boilers & incinerator aboard a USCG icebreaker Healy. Used AutoCAD 12 with SoftEngineer add-on and MS Office programs.

Tippins, Etna, PA, 11/95 to 1/96. Contracted Designer. Revised and created manually drafted drawings of hot roll steel stekel mill reduction machinery.

Danieli Wean, Youngstown, OH, 10/94 to 11/95. Contracted Designer. Created arrangements & details of steel coil processing machinery and structure. Used CADAM and manual drafting methods.

Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, VA, 1/88 to 4/94. Piping Designer. Used CADAM and manual drafting methods for design of PWR nuclear propulsion power plant piping and HVAC systems aboard U.S. Navy aircraft carrier and destroyer. Shipboard inspections & measurements were conducted. Created and modified P&ID’s, arrangements and Weld Maps.

EDUCATION:

ITT Technical Institute, Graduated 1988

Associates Degree of Applied Science in Commercial Engineering Drafting Technology.

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