Renewable Energy Technical Sales
Resume:
Darren Jesse Hedrick
USA: *** Oakwood Drive, Wofford Heights, California, United States of America, PC 93285 USA Phone: +1-661-***-**** USA Message / Fax: +1-760-***-**** E-mail: *******@*********.***
Summary of Qualifications:
· 40 years working on Domestic and International, multi million and billion US dollar project contracts for many of the world’s premier companies and EPCM’s in the Oil & Gas, Petrol Chemical, Power Generation, Renewable Energy, Semiconductor, Pharmaceutical, Water & Waste industries.
· 30 years international project experience with 19 years based in China/Asia as Field Service Consultant, Owners representative or on the EPCM side as Project Director, PM, CM, Commissioning Manager, or Senior Lead Engineer.
· More than 30 years’ experience designing, building and commissioning conventional and modern state of the art water and waste treatment systems utilizing: Clarification, Filtration, Anaerobic, and Aerobic digestion, Membranes, Ion-exchange, and EDI.
· 10 years Owner/Managing Director and Senior Design Engineer for an ASME code fabrication job shop that specialized in manufacturing pressure vessels, reactors, columns, boiler and steam generating equipment, piping systems and automated process equipment
· More than 30 years of Automation and Controls skills, including design of architecture, networks, interfaces, security access, trends, and reports. PLC, HMI, and DCS, Programming, debugging, and problem resolution for many types of process and utility equipment and systems.
· More than 40 years of project safety. Working single-handed or managing large teams for many types of project disciplines performing design, contracts and procurement, HSE, Hazop, Hazmat, welding & fabrication, heavy and technical lifting, construction, start-up commissioning, operations training, and client turn over.
· 1977 Naval Schools: Hull Maintenance Technician phase1 & 2. Maintenance and battle damage emergency repairs, Basic Electricity & Electronics, Welding & Fabrication, including underwater, Repairs, Demolitions, Tactics and Communications. Ship board Boiler, Power Generation, Damage Control, Operations, Repairs and Maintenance. Ship board Water & Waste Treatment Systems. Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons, effects and counter measures. Language Skills:
Native English speaker, also conversational in Mandarin Chinese. Engineering and Fabrication:
Design, Engineer and QA/QC in accordance with ASME code, including WCR and NBIC Repairs and alterations. Create and implement Job safety analysis (JHA) with method statements and risk analysis
(MSRA) to eliminate or safely control risks while work is fabricated, erected or performed. Work with other types of country standards GB (Chinese), JIS (Japanese), DIN (Germany), EUS (European), BS
(British) and ISO standards. Designs using High technology materials, Alloys, Plastics, and Composites. Safety and QA/QC inspection procedures for welding, fabrication, machining, and finished surfaces. Piping systems for corrosive, toxic, radioactive, chemical, water, waste, sanitary, high purity, and ultra pure service. High temperature, cryogenic, pressure and jacketed piping systems, Continuous and batch, reactors, columns, vessels and tanks. Solids handling with vibrating, classifying, rotating, conveying, and storage equipment. Pneumatic conveying and storage equipment. Air handling with special chemical or Bio hazard isolation areas or clean rooms. Aerobic and anaerobic waste treatment or DJH CV Page 2 of 5
waste to energy systems. Separation, clarification, filtration, ion exchange, membrane and Electrodeionization systems. Catalyzed and non-catalyzed reduction and oxidation process systems. Electricity and Electronics:
Generation, phase transformation, switch gear and substations, service installation and distribution. Motor control centers, and control panels. Protection and controls such as breakers, overloads, soft starts, AC, and DC variable frequency drives. Solar, Battery, and Generator power systems. Off the shelf optics, photonics, digital and analog integrated circuits, New and retro fitted microprocessor systems, as well as custom built circuits and architectures.
Controls and Automation:
Design, engineer, fabricate, program, debug, calibrate, commission, and retrofit of PLC and DCS control systems. Automation of equipment, valves, instruments, analyzers, and sensors for process and utility systems. Heart smarts, Foundation Field Bus, Genius I/0, Modbus, Profibus, DH+ and Ethernet networks. PLC, HMI, and DCS interfaces using cabled, fiber optic, or wireless communications. Special HMI work stations, Remote and web based programming and monitoring. Computer Programs and Programming Software:
Windows, HTML, MS Office, MS Project, Primavera, WinPCS, Chemcad, Pro II simulation, Wonderware, Citec, GE Fanuc, GE Cimplicity, Allen Bradley / Rockwell Automation, 6200, RS Logics RS Studio 5000 and RS View, Siemens Step7 and Pro Tools, Westinghouse, AEG Modicon, ABB/Bailey Infra, Emersions Delta V, AutoCad, SketchUp Pro and other CADD 3D simulation models such as, AVEVA PDMS, Bentley Microstation, Intergraph Smart Plant, and SolidWorks. Employment Experience
Consulting & Engineering Services
9/1995 to Present
On a contract basis performing project management, audits, inspections, start-up commissioning, and problem resolutions for various domestic and international projects. See last page for more clarification. Jacobs Projects Shanghai, Idea Soda Ash & Calcium Chloride Project. 4/2015 to 9/2015 Interim PMC Project Manager
ISACC is a 600,000 MTA Soda Ash and Calcium Chloride production plant with Technology licenses supplied form China and Germany. On behalf of the project owner the Jacobs’s office in Saudi Arabia, Shanghai, and Belgium are supporting the project. I was based at the EPC contractor’s office in Chengdu, China a coordinated, supported, managed, and directed daily project needs and decisions for the Basic Engineering Design (BED) package. The design, engineering and procurement is perform in China and the plant was built in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia.
Jacobs Engineering Shanghai Chevron, CDB Gas Project in Sichuan, China 6/2011 to 2/2015 Lead Process Commissioning Engineer / Project Completions Manager Create and finalize commissioning plans and turn over procedures. Moved to the job site to assist construction and engineering for process and utility equipment packages. Set up offsite facilities and built 2-35 ton per hour gas fired water tube boilers. Design, establish and oversee problem resolutions and DJH CV Page 3 of 5
refurbishment plans for TEG Dehydration, Sulfur Removal and Sulfur Recovery and Tail Gas process equipment. Prepare detailed procedures and oversee work for chemical cleaning, column tray and packing installation, catalyst loading, also temporary and permanent fuel gas, refractory installation and dry outs. Sub-systemized Utilities P&ID drawings for prioritized Construction turnover to Commissioning. Foster Wheeler Engineering & Construction Design (Shanghai) Co Ltd. DSM Anti Invectives Project. / DSM Relo Project. 11/2010 – 5/2011 Senior Project Utilities Engineer / Commissioning and Turnover Plan Consultant. I was in charge of the steam generation utilities: CFB Boilers, Coal, Ash, and Lime handling as well as the water plant and other utilities for this pharmaceutical project being built in a very cold area of northern China. Duties include supporting detailed design, technical scope of work contracts, procurement, vendor selections, clarifications, and overseeing, and inspecting vendor’s fabrication and scope of supply work. I managed a team of discipline engineers, and draftsmen to produce all equipment and material specifications, requisitions, P&ID’s, 3D model, and automation including the DCS architecture and control philosophy. I report to the Project and Engineering Manger and interface directly with the client and the local Chinese Design Institute for the FEED, and Detailed Engineering and Government required approvals. Impress Ethanol Project Co Ltd. Bangkok Thailand (FE Clean Energy Group) 1/2010 to 11/2010 Project Director
This was a Green Energy, 200,000 lpd Bio Ethanol Fuel Project. The plant uses cassava (tapioca) chips as feedstock to produce Fuel grade Ethanol that is sold domestically and exported. As Project Director I was in charge of the EPC and technology provider contracts, approvals with local government authorities, hiring and developing the owner’s team, and overall project execution, including budgets, schedules and commissioning plans. This included detailed design, engineering and construction approvals as well as strategies and training for operations. Shell Houdini (MEG) Project. Singapore, Jurong Island Foster Wheeler Energy – UK
5/2008 – 11/2009 Senior Project Commissioning Engineer This was a 4.2 billion USD investment by Shell Oil and is the largest Mono Ethylene Glycol production facility in the world (750 K Ton / Year). This also incorporates the largest and heaviest EO Reactors ever fabricated and erected. My responsibilities included the procedures, strategy and sequence for construction, commissioning, and turnover of all utilities, the EO Reactors, main process feed stocks, thermal oxidizer and Flair. Including: UHP, HP, and LP Steam and condensate systems. Deionized water, BFW, Cooling Tower system and all HP/LP cooling water users, the LIBR adsorption chiller systems and Potable, Sanitary and Fire Water Systems. Site Drains and Waste water systems. Plant Air, IA, N2, O2, CO2, CH4, and C2H4 equipment, systems. Other responsibilities included writing technical scopes of work for requisitions and bid tenders. Review and selection of specialized contractors such as chemical cleaning, chemical dosing, and Catalyst loading. I liaised directly with the Client and assigned and managed workloads for a team of commissioning engineers supplied by Foster Wheeler, the Contractors and the Client operations team.
Bayer Technology and Engineering Services / Bayer, Shanghai Integrated Sciences Site 5/2006 – 5/2008 Construction Project Manager SPC2 / LOG2 This was an expansion project for a new optical electronics grade polycarbonate production and logistics facility. 80 % of detailed engineering was performed in Germany and the reminder finalized on site. I was in charge of CSA, Mechanical Equipment Installation, Heavy & Technical lifting, Piping, E&I, Tracing and insulation contracts. This includes detailed engineering by the Chinese Design Institute, DJH CV Page 4 of 5
writing bid tender technical scopes of work, execution strategies, work flows, test specifications, ITP’s and system turn over requirements along with China Government Authority requirements, and inspections. I was in charge of the contractor evaluations, selection, construction schedules, onshore / offshore procurement, site temporary facilities and warehouse, materials management system. Finalizing many project design, engineering, PDS model, equipment and piping issues during construction. I was also responsible for helping to establishing and approve the site security, permit to work, and many HSE plans and procedures.
BSF/ CSPC Nanhai and Shell Petrochemical Plant/ Guangdong, China 8/2005-3/2006 Bechtel Project Engineer/ Foster Wheeler Senior Commissioning Engineer This consisted of catalyst loading of EO reactors and commission of the largest EO Cracker in China. Along with commissioning of the low olefins plant (LOP) including 9 meter diameter Ethylene, Propylene and LPG spheres and their transfer pumps, piping, fire, and safety protection systems, also vent gas piping system to the site flair. After completion of the LOP section, I moved to the Slops area that handled all waste water and waste oil form the site. The Slops had several problems that required design, and construction changes and modifications prior to commissioning. My duties included working with engineering and system suppliers to recommend, finalize and execute design changes and repair deviations. I worked with the Chinese subcontractors to commission the drain systems, CPI separator system, Slop tanks including N2 blanket system, Waste water transfer to the WWT system, Slop Oil transfer system, Truck loading and unloading systems, Hydrocarbon transfer to the Solid Waste Incinerator system and Vent Gas compressors systems. Toxic, combustible gas and fire safety systems. Also included for both plant locations was the commissioning of utilities from battery limits to the individual systems. Utilities consisted of Cooling Water, Nitrogen, High and Low pressure Steam, Plant and Instrument air, Plant and DI water, Fire steam snuff, and Fire water and foam systems. I inherited from engineers that left the project early the continuous contaminated drain system (CCD), the Rain water and Sanitary lift station systems.
We use the WinPCS software project control system to schedule, track, document and complete work for the entire project. This included completion check sheets and certificates, walk downs, inspection hold points and punch lists, and final subsystem and system turnover to the client. As the lead commission engineer in charge of my systems, I was responsible for scheduling subcontractor work and equipment, vendor work, overseeing, and approving all works, verifying punch list items were cleared and signing check sheets of completed works and final ready for service system turn over to the client. Zenon Environmental Corporation/ Global Hub Material & Supply Sourcing 8/2004 – 8/2005 China/Asia Supply Chain Director
Contract position was established to help the Zenon corporation decrees costs but maintain or increase profits by qualifying China material suppliers and fabricators. Note: GE purchased Zenon. CEEDI a Government owned Chinese Design Instituted (CDI) 2/2004 – 8/2004 Project Director
I was a consultant and interim Project Director for the formation of a new Environmental Division. I helped the CDI form and employ new technologies and modern methods of project organization and management. Projects included modern automated Water and Waste treatment and Waste Gas Treatment technologies for the Oil & Gas, Electronics and Semiconductor industries. GE Power Systems & GE Water Technologies some of the projects are below: 4-2001 – 2/2004 Project Manager / Technical Advisor / Senior Commissioning Engineer GE/ Pfizer Pharmaceuticals / FDA Plant / Singapore
(Senior Project and Commissioning Engineer / Technical Advisor and Client Consultant) GE/MSD Pharmaceuticals/ FDA Plant / Singapore
(Senior Project and Commissioning Engineer / Technical Advisor and Client Consultant) DJH CV Page 5 of 5
GE/ABB Lumus Global / Oil Refinery / Sines, Portugal
(Technical Advisor and Project Problem and Financial Resolution Engineer) GE Hsin Tao / Combined Cycle Power Plant / Taiwan
(Senior Commissioning Engineer)
GE/CANDU Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant / Haiyan, China
(Senior Commissioning Engineer)
Motorola / MOS-17, BAT-3 Semiconductor Fab / Tianjin, China 9/1999 – 3/2001 UPW Loops,Water and Waste Systems. Project Director / Single Point Client Contract Bechtel / Power Plant / Meizhouwan, China
3/1999 - 9/1999 Commissioning Engineer / Problem Solver Graver, Hua Yang Power / Zhangzhou Houshi Power Plant /Xiamen, China 1/1999 - 3/1999 Senior Commissioning Engineer
Raytheon UEI / Power Plant / Zhuhai, China
6/1998 - 1/1999 Senior Site Construction and Commissioning Engineer Black & Veach / Power Plant / Nantong, China
8/1997 - 6/1998 Senior Site Construction & Commissioning Engineer Mektron / Ion -Exchange Waste System / Kashima, Japan 5/1997 - 8/1997 Commissioning Engineer
Wrigleys Gum / Automated Gum Base Filter System/ Edison, New Jersey 7/1996 – 4/1997 Turnkey EPCC Project Manager / Engineer Chevron USA / Waste Treatment Plant /Lost Hills, CA 1/1996 – 7/1996 Turnkey EPCC Project Manager
Samsung / Semiconductor Fab / Austin, Texas
7/1995 - 1/1996 Senior Commissioning Engineer
Glegg Water/ Bechtel / Calama, Chile
12/1994 - 5/1995 Commissioning Engineer
Self Employed
5/83 - 6/90 Hedrick Portable Welding and Structural Design. 2/85 - 6/90 Formed Hedrick Chemical
In 1993 Merged both companies into one, called Water Treatment Equipment. Duties: Sell, quote, design, engineer, fabricate, and install automated process equipment, and industrial water and waste treatment systems.
In 1994 - Present Consulting & Engineering Services After selling the previous business in 1994, I have been traveling the world working as a Consultant, Technical Advisor, Project / Construction / Commissioning Manager, or Project Engineer. I also perform short term project inspections and problem resolutions. I specialize in safety, problem solving strategies, contract negotiations, keeping work on schedule, accomplishing work as per project specifications, and obtaining sign offs. I also have a talent for automation and identifying special project needs, and opportunities, Please contact me any time!
Best regards,
Darren Hedrick
*******@*********.***
Date of Birth April 1st, 1960
USA Citizen and Passport
Web: www.darrenh2o.com
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