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John D. (Jack) Foster

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Summary:

30+ years in Piping, Plant Layout, Mechanical Design, Construction

& Field Engineering. 30 Years using AutoCAD + Rebis AutoPlant. Please see the Addendum to my resume for many Special skills. Accomplishments: Taught Plant Design and AutoCAD 3D design at Autodesk University in 2000 and 2001. A L E R T / S P E C I A L N O T I C E

Supervisor at Beloit told me “Star” contract designer drew 15 pipe routing lines in 84 hours. Told me I drew 15 equally difficult lines in less than 20 hours. Only 1/4 of the hours, means I was doing the work of 4 piping designers. I really am exceptionally good at 3D design, check out the link below. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6963585513022787584/ Experience: 5/12 to Present 3D Design Services, LLC and PRA, Anchorage + EEIS Engineering. Working for myself creating 3D models of anything a client requires. Piping, Structural, Mechanical, Equipment Layout. 4 months creating 3D building & equipment models for EEIS of two Grind & Inject sites. Created a 3D model of a new design drill rig for Hilcorp. Entire rig designed in 2D and they needed me to create a 3D model to insure it will fit on the drilling platform. Create LED light fixtures for a company in NYC. My ideas have reduced the cost of manufacturing two of their light fixtures by more than 50%. 10/11 to 5/12 AutoCAD Guru for URS, Anchorage.

Created a lot of custom parts they needed. Solved all of the many AutoCAD problems they had. Created custom symbol libraries and programs for the piping designers. 2/11 to 10/11 Present Senior AutoCAD 3D Designer, Swift on contract to Chevron, Alaska. Created conceptual models of equipment layout on drilling platforms all in 3D. Converted 2D drawings into 3D models for more detail design work and found multiple mistakes in the 2D drawings. Created flow diagrams of high pressure mud and concrete piping systems for Steelhead platform. 2/05 to 2/11: Admin + Senior AutoCAD 3D designer, ASRC Energy Services, Anchorage, Alaska. Did CAD administrator duties set up all AutoCAD operators plus solved all the various problems. Responsible for the overall site plan for ENI drill site. Created structural composite model to replace 4 separate modules saving well over 100 man-hours of work.

6/02 to 1/05: 3D Design Services, LLC 4100 Defiance Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99504. Started my own AutoCAD 3D design company with one major client, Crowley of Alaska. I converted all of the 2D cad drawings for the CATCO all terrain vehicle into a 3D model to be used for structural analysis and the design of new and improved vehicles. Unfortunately this did not get funded. See www.3ddesignservices.com 7/99 to 12/02: Senior Mechanical Piping Designer Phoenix Alaska Technology, Anchorage, Alaska. Worked exclusively in AutoCAD 3D and 3D Studio MAX animations. Doing the conceptual and final design for a new concept drilling rig for BP/AMOCO. I did all the animation’s necessary to secure the contract. 11/98 to 4/99 Senior Piping Designer AutoCAD 3D for APEL, Anchorage, AK. Drew all the structural steel and 95% of the equipment, all in 3D, for a new concept mobile drill rig. Developed 3D drawing for complete drill site on north slope. Drawing was utilized for planning, engineering, environmental permits and sharing of information with other engineering members of the construction team. 3/98 to 11/98 Senior Piping Designer @ Tosco Refining Co., Bayway Refinery, Linden, NJ. Set up catalogs and create piping specs using new Rebis AP97 program. Developed method of creating specs using MS Access that is quicker and easier than using Rebis Spec Generator. Trained piping designers in 3D and AutoPlant on a medium size expansion project. 8/97 to 10/97 and 8/96 to 11/96 Senior Piping Designer @ Howe-Baker, Tyler Texas Design piping for refinery using Rebis AutoPlant. Created menu customization and programs to assist other designers. Created a simplified P&ID drawing program to suit a specific requirement they had. 4/97 to 8/97 Senior AutoPlant Piping Designer @ Lockwood Greene, Cincinnati, Ohio Trained designers to use AutoPlant Piping and be more productive when using it. Drew all of the equipment in 3D to insert into equipment model. Routed utility piping systems for food processing plant. 11/96 to 4/97 Senior AutoPlant Piping Designer @ Raytheon, San Juan, Puerto Rico Helped train designers using AutoPlant in 3D Piping Design. Designed pipe and equipment for two tank farm modifications. Developed great new method for creating plan and section drawings. Wrote program for annotating pipe racks that saved many hours. Trained their AutoCAD people to design in 3D. 5/96 to 8/96 AutoCAD Senior Piping Designer using ProPipe 3D @ Molten Metal Tech., Oak Ridge, TN. Design pipe and equipment in 3D for hazardous material waste reduction plant. Mostly small bore pipe. Customized AutoCAD to help coworkers easily manage xref's and layers saving a lot of hours. 9/95 to 4/96 AutoCAD Senior Piping Designer using Rebis AutoPLANT Process Systems, Inc. 1790 Kirby Parkway Suite 300 Memphis, TN 38138 Designed ALL the piping for medium size expansion to chemical plant. Drew 100+ 3D pieces of equipment in only 4 weeks. 5/95 to 9/95 AutoCAD Senior Piping Designer using Rebis AutoPLANT @ Beloit Eng. Jacksonville, FL. Piping design for $850M Pulp and Paper plant to be built in Indonesia. Wrote programs to annotate pipe and add flow arrows that were always visible. Developed method of breaking down huge 3D models into small manageable models.

10/94 to 5/95 AutoCAD Senior Piping Designer using EDA AutoPLANT Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin 54143 Design various piping systems for 175' Coast Guard boat. Developed method of checking interference's that reduced checking time from several hours to usually less than one hour. 3/94 to 10/94 AutoCAD Senior Piping Designer AutoPLANT. TDC Mechanical, Rio Rancho, New Mexico, 87114 Design piping systems for Intel Pentium chip manufacturing facility using EDA AutoPLANT Designer and Isometric programs. Extensively customized menu and wrote AutoLISP programs making AutoPLANT easier to use. Also provided tech support and training on both AutoCAD and AutoPLANT. 1/87 to 3/94 AutoCAD Senior Piping and Mechanical Designer. Hoechst-Celanese Corporation, PO Box 1000 Narrows, Virginia 24124. Design & layout piping, HVAC & structural steel for plant improvements. 1984 to 1987: Field Engineer, Project Coordinator and Mechanical Designer (direct employment). Conveyor Corporation of America, PO Box 646, Crowley, Texas 76036. Design and layout conveyor components when in engineering home office.

Drafter and Designer, Mechanical and Piping @ various companies. Started with Cincinnati Milling Machine drafting apprenticeship program. Followed this with contract engineering doing anything to gain experience. Dow Chemical, Freeport, Tx and BASF Wyandotte Corp doing primarily piping and some mechanical design work. A.E. Staley Mfg. Co. piping and mechanical design. Piping Design, Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant, Page 3 Addendum to resume of John D. (Jack) Foster. I created this addendum to my resume as there are many things that I have done that are too much to describe in a normal resume style. This has been done to emphasize some of those accomplishments and things that I do that are way above a normal AutoCAD or Rebis designer. I have written hundreds of AutoLISP programs that make using AutoCAD easier for myself and my co-workers. Tracking the use of just a few of these programs in 2010 they saved over 800 man-hours. Additional programs written in VB.NET language provide unbelievable time savings. For example I created an Excel file drawing index for 240 drawings. Total time to do this index was about 2 minutes. Done manually it would have taken one CAD person about 2 days to enter all the information into the Excel file.

I have setup design projects using various disciplines 3D drawings to create 3D models using straight AutoCAD and Rebis AutoPlant software. This includes cable trays, individual pieces of equipment, HVAC ductwork, piping and structural steel. These models are then xreferenced into other design discipline drawings. This allows the designers to readily see where there is room to place their discipline’s components. The designer can also see most interference or potential interference problems. I have written many additional programs that allow attaching or overlaying these drawings as external referenced drawings into other disciplines drawings. Most of these programs use dialog boxes making all this easy to do. The ability to easily share drawings with other disciplines greatly reduces design as well as construction costs.

In Tennessee two senior designers and the lead designer had spent two months working on a project. Two weeks after I started on the project the lead designer stopped the other two designers from doing any more design work. I found so many interference's in their design work that we virtually started over. I was given the task of designing ALL of the pipe for the project, which was several million dollars in size. I was able to complete all of this design and the project stayed on schedule. Field rework was minimal due to my method of using multiple view ports and clipped views when I design. This was done using Rebis AutoPlant.

I was asked by a Rebis sales rep to go to Raytheon, Puerto Rico to help them get started using AutoPlant. Prior to my going to Puerto Rico Rebis had sent two of their instructors to Raytheon for two weeks each but the users were still having problems. A designer created a clipped view using my clipped view program that took him less than two minutes. He had previously spent nearly two days trying to create the same clipped view. The project engineer told me she overheard the designers talking amongst themselves and said "they didn't know what they would have done if I had not come to Puerto Rico to help them. I also developed a way to do final construction plan and elevation drawings that is great. Quoting the construction manager upon seeing this new type of plan and section drawings, "I could put it together with grade schoolers' using these drawings" and "this will save the field a lot of time." I stayed at Raytheon for 4 months and they were mad when I left. My supervisor at Beloit told me the “Star” designer from brand X. Engineering drew 15 pipe routing lines in 84 hours and I drew 15 equally difficult lines in less than 20 hours. I converted ALL the drawings to "color by size" for an 850 million dollar pulp and paper plant by running six computers at the same time over a weekend. I wrote a program to annotate the piping after conversion which saved many man hours. Rebis AutoPlant also.

I spent three days at Basic Systems in Cambridge, Ohio consulting with them on AutoPlant Designer and Isometric programs. I showed them how to use multiple paper space viewports for 3D design work. How to use clipped views to find interference problems. Provided some custom programs and menu customization to help their designers. The first evening we were discussing their project and I suggested they take one special area and make it one drawing instead of several. The very nice comment I heard was "do you know how many drawings that will save us?" I am sure this suggestion alone more than covered my cost.

In New Mexico on an Intel Fab project ten designers were struggling to use the AutoPLANT Isometric program. A coworker and I made many modifications that helped get the project on track. One designer reported to management "the project is a lot further along thanks to all the things Jack did with the software."

The following are quotes from a memo sent to me concerning my usage and customization of the AutoPLANT Isometric program at the Intel Fab project. "The work you have done with the EDA ISO Metrics menus to automate redundant functions through macros and lisp routines has not gone unnoticed." this work is valuable and desire to incorporate features of your menu customizations in the next release of the software." My clipped view program is so quick and easy to use and is essential for 3D design work. It does some additional features, such as creating related View's, UCS's and layers. For creating 3D final plan and elevation views it will save even more time. Of the several hundred programs I have written this one is in the top five category. I also have a method of using the 3D reps for making final plan and elevation drawings that will save literally hundreds of hours. This is one of the reasons several people have told me I am like a free employee because I save them so much time and money. I have worked with dozen’s of people using AutoCAD and I have never met anyone who was as productive as I am. I know it sounds like a bag of wind bragger but I have been told such. A combination of my general design skills along with all the customization and programs I have written is why.

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