Engineering Manager Product Development

CHRISTOPHER J APRILE

CORONA, CA ***** 814-***-**** *****.******@*****.***

Summary

• Goal-driven and high-achieving Principal Engineer/Engineering Manager experienced with the engineering, procurement, fabrication, and erection of industrial structures found in the Power and/or Petrochemical (Oil/Gas) plants, Food processing plants, and Storage Racking used in Material Handling. Focused on meeting the needs of clients with hands-on support and forward-thinking designs. My background includes both domestic and international work that spans over a 28-year career in engineering design, product development, and training others. Proven success at providing technical knowledge, managing, and mentoring cross-disciplinary teams to complete projects under tight deadlines, and project budget constraints. Career Objective

To serve as the Senior Engineer or Manager of Engineering for a dynamic business growing company in which I work to the high point of success by setting standards, motivating teams, and creating innovative ideas for the development the of organization. I have highly effective communication and interpersonal skills that will help me in my job. I wish to be part of the company to provide quality customer service and satisfaction and I will do my best in project implementation and management.

Skills

Advanced user of Microsoft Office programs: Word, PowerPoint Excel, and MS Project.

Advanced developer of hundreds of MS Excel

custom spreadsheets for boiler proper ASME

Section (1), B31.1, and VIII design code

calculations; as well as, AISC 9th (ASD), 13th

(LRFD), 14th (LRFD), and 15th (LRFD) edition

design.

Basic knowledge of Mechanical FEA using ANSYS

Moderate knowledge of Basic and C++ code

languages.

Expert knowledge of domestic and foreign building codes and design specifications as applied to the

design of various complexities of main force

resisting systems, auxiliary structures, personnel access,

steel chimneys, and concrete foundations.

Applied product design using building codes such as: UBC 97, CBC 08 -12, IBC 2000 – 2018 (ASCE

7-98 to -16), NBCC 10, BOCA, Argentina CIRSOC

102, and 103.

Applied product design using structural and

mechanical specifications such as: AISC 360-15.,

ASTM A6, AWS D1.1. welding code, ASME Section

(1)/B31.1/VIII, ASTM STS-1-latest steel chimney

code, and ACI 310/318 concrete codes.

Excellent interpersonal communication skills.

Excellent presentation skills in front of a diverse audience comprised of project managers, engineers, and field personnel.

Experienced with new product development,

emphasis on value engineering methods.

Work Experience

Structural Engineer 01/2022 to Present

Steel King Industries, Inc. Stevens Point, WI (remote)

• Perform structural engineering calculations using spreadsheets and/or computer-aided design software in accordance with applicable codes and standards; assist sales efforts by evaluating requests for drawing proposals and determining the most cost-efficient and safe design, using standard pre-engineered or custom components.

• Ensure that structural analysis, drawings, and calculations are completed as required on engineered jobs.

• Perform duties related to being the engineering department’s RISA3D software administrator.

• Work with outside consulting engineers as required to provide the necessary documentation for building permit applications.

• Review drawings prepared by the drafting/detailing team to ensure that standards are met per SKII guidelines for quoting and manufacturing of component parts and finished goods.

• Assist Sales with developing new opportunities, as needed, to improve overall sales, market share, and profitability; attend trade shows such as MODEX and ProMat and act as a technical company representative.

• Assist with research & development activities of the engineering team.

• Ensure that Steel King products are designed to applicable building codes and design specifications.

• Monitor changes in codes and specifications and analyze the impact on the Company’s product line.

• Assist in the education of the internal and external sales force regarding engineering issues, effective

• application of engineering principles in the sales process, Steel King capabilities and procedures, product

• knowledge, and application information.

• Present R&D initiatives that are being led by me to the Director of Engineering, Executive Committee, and President.

• Led the development and implementation of Direct Analysis (second-order frame stability analysis) to be prepared in advance and to be in compliance with ANSI-RMI2021 and R-Mark approval design packages.

• Manage the requests for quotations from outside engineering parties and coordinate the final purchase orders for work performed by outside engineering consulting firms, such as Seizmic Inc, Epiq Engineering, and Munkelt & Associates. Maintain and build a good working relationship with the external customer base.

• Create Final Rack Design Calculation Packages (Design Report and Plan Review Drawings) for the submittal, review, and stamping of third-party professional engineers (Engineer of Record).

• Provide foundation load tables to outside engineering consultants for the concrete slab analysis.

• Design unique semi-rigid steel connections, and other steel connections unique to the rack industry, while still maintaining the normal AISC connection criteria. Design checks involve both ASD and LRFD limit states.

• Adhere to the latest storage rack specification guidelines per ANSI-RMI2012, in addition to following IBC 2018 (ASCE 7-16), AISC 360, and ACI 318.

HRSG Inspection Engineer 10/2021 to 01/2022

Industrial Air Flow Dynamics, Inc. Cleveland, TX (contract)

• Performed two-to-three-day visual field inspections, in combination with analytical devices such as borescopes, to provide up-to-date physical condition assessments of Heat Recovery Steam Generators.

• Provided customers with a detailed photo inspection album via PowerPoint and presented my findings prior to leaving the project site. After returning home, followed up with my industrial boiler field assessment with a detailed MSWord report that outlines my recommendations for servicing the unit during the planned/scheduled outage or future outages. Structural Project and Design Engineer 06/2021 to 10/2021 National Engineering & Consulting, Inc. Irvine, CA

• Performed structural design hand calculations and used RISA3D software to create structural models of steel and fiber-reinforced plastic telecom structures.

• Conducted site walks of existing telecom project sites to retrieve (survey) information for future installations.

• Answered Los Angeles city planning engineers’ questions on calculations and drawings submitted for approval.

• Performed concrete design hand calculations for residential and commercial structures such as masonry retaining walls and small reinforced concrete buildings.

• Utilized RISAFoundation software to model and design concrete mat foundations, grade beams, spread footings, and tilt-up walls. Additionally used RISAFoundation software to model and design concrete mat foundations, grade beams, spread footings, and tilt-up walls.

• Utilized O-Calc Pro software to create power and communication line designs, placing the structures according to real-world coordinates using standard geographic information systems (GIS) such as OpenStreet and Google Maps.

• Coordinated with general building contractors on the field installation of seismic retrofit structural frames being installed in place of soft-story apartment buildings. Acted as the structural field representative for these seismic retrofits during the project site kick-offs and when finally reviewed by the Los Angeles building inspector.

Senior Structural Design Engineer 03/2021 to 06/2021 Advance Storage Products Huntington Beach, CA

• Autonomously managed and provided all storage rack preliminary estimates to the Sales group.

• Coordinated the projects with all the departments of the company, while using project management principles to monitor the cost, schedule, and scope of each project as it related to my engineering outputs to ensure the project is in alignment with the expectations of management.

• Conducted the research and development of new products that follow Lean Engineering principles.

• Executed all capital orders by myself without help, which entailed the complete Structural Design Finite Element Analysis using either SAP2000 or RISA3D of all types of Industrial Steel Storage Racks (with or without moving conveyors/cranes) for project sites all over the United States, Canada, Mexico, and South America.

• Managed the requests for quotations from outside engineering parties and coordinated the final purchase orders for work performed by outside third-party engineering consulting firms, such as Seizmic Inc and Storage Rack Engineering Inc. Maintained and built a good working relationship with the external customer base.

• Created Final Rack Design Calculation Packages (Design Report and Plan Review Drawings) for the submittal, review, and stamping of third-party professional engineers (Engineer of Record).

• Provided concrete slab analysis checks that undergo our storage rack loads per IBC Load Combinations.

• Designed unique semi-rigid steel connections, and other steel connections unique to the rack industry, while still maintaining the normal AISC connection criteria. Design checks involved both ASD and LRFD limit states.

• Adhered to the latest storage rack specification guidelines per ANSI-RMI2012, in addition to following IBC 2018 (ASCE 7-16), AISC 360, and ACI 318.

Senior Applications Engineer 04/2020 to 02/2021

RISA Technologies Inc Lake Forest, CA

• My main responsibilities were to provide technical engineering support by answering customer emails and phone calls to professional engineers worldwide when using RISA structural software packages, such as RISA-3D FEA structural analysis, RISA Foundation, RISAFloor, RISAConnection, and RISASection.

• Supported RISA customers having data connectivity issues, assisting with troubleshooting steps involving both stand-alone and cloud-based licensing.

• Wrote software specifications that included detailed AISC-360 structural calculations to aid in the program development of new software features.

• Assisted in the testing of all new software releases prior to being available to the public.

• Collaborated with other members of the team to handle troubleshooting and debugging.

• Aided support department in creating software user manuals.

• Coached less experienced application engineers.

• Recommended improvements to facilitate team and project workflow. Senior Principal Structural Engineer 04/2016 to 04/2020 Vogt Power International Inc Louisville, KY

• Main responsibilities included performing the complete engineering design of structural and mechanical components for horizontal and vertical flow Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) projects worldwide.

• Engineered and led the research and development of two new product offerings for Vogt Power Sales to enhance the overall organization’s product portfolio. These HRSG designs are known as the Horizontally Shipped and Stackable Bundle, and the Drum-Type Vertical Flow HRSG.

• Helped train new engineers on product lines and gave them guidance on Vogt standard methods.

• Developed a customized main box frame moment connection to improve constructability and reduce field time in high union labor areas in the U.S.

• Submitted continuous improvement ideas that enhanced fabrication methods, and reduced field erection and handling during rigging/lifting module boxes.

• Coordinated and helped increased productivity with CADD modelers by transferring structural analysis models to a parametric CADD modeling platform.

• Submitted detailed reports on structural assigned schedule activities weekly to Project Engineering for coordination with supply management and transportation departments.

• Answered fabrication supplier deviation requests and requests for information from the field.

• Created and presented MS PowerPoint presentations for company meetings during lessons learned, and research and development meetings.

• Supported the Sales and Estimating Group when asked to submit quick same-day or next-day boiler steel estimates and not-to-exceed foundation load tables for customers' requests for sales quotations.

• Assisted project construction management in the writing of the project’s erection manuals.

• Upheld all local, state, and federal civil and structural design requirements and local building codes. Project Manager /HRSG SME 10/2014 to 04/2016

Kiewit Power Constructors, Power Generation (Fortune 500 Company Lenexa, KS

• As a Project Manager I worked with the construction sector and performed the following tasks while keeping the synergy between the Primary Owner, Owner's Engineer, OEM, and EPC.

• Compiled weekly action item lists dealing with the HRSG, CTG, STG, ACC, Auxiliary Boiler, and Balance of Plant

(BOP) Equipment.

• Conducted face-to-face and remote customer meetings with large clients such as GE Power in the Kiewit Kansas City office and at GE's office in Schenectady, New York.

• Created and monitored a critical delivery matrix of large and small field piping, valves, and fittings.

• Developed and enhanced future business partnerships with clients and contracting partners.

• Coordinated and facilitated technical inquiries between Kiewit's clients and Kiewit's upper management.

• Rewrote the existing 200+ page HRSG Specification used in the bidding purposes and submitted with the request of quotations (RFQs) by Kiewit's Power Division.

• Set expectations through core Kiewit fundamentals - safety, quality, productivity, and compliance.

• Monitored project schedule and ensured that the schedule was detailed enough to communicate and manage and track changes to the client, contracting partners, and internal team members.

• Managed transitions between project phases.

• Ensured minimum scheduling standards are effectively adopted by the team at all levels.

• Appointed the designated HRSG subject matter expert for Kiewit Power advising the estimating department with the HRSG equipment material quantities received during the bid phase.

• Reviewed and evaluated the HRSG designs and the complete component pricing of HRSG OEMs such as GE

(Alstom), Siemens (NEM), Nooter Eriksen, Vogt Power, CMI Energy, and IHI Korea. Manager of Structural Engineering 06/2010 to 10/2014 CMI Energy, LLC Erie, PA

• Primary responsibility was to lead and develop a medium group (8 people) of engineers and graphics designers on the on-time completion and delivery of designing all the related structural steel main frame resisting systems and auxiliary components of a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG). The projects were located domestically and internationally.

• Helped the entire CMI Energy sector business unit grow and improve by the following achievements:

Engineered, developed, and primarily lead two new product offerings to help make the entire CMI organization, which included the CMI U.S. and CMI HRS Belgium Energy Groups become more competitive in the world power market. These HRSG designs are known as the B+ and M100 C-Frame modular designs.

Created and presented PowerPoint product slides for the CMI EPTI Sales team used at pre-award customer meetings to describe all major technical aspects of the technical and constructability advantages of the HRSG design being proposed to companies such as: GE, Siemens, Mitsubishi, Black & Veatch, CB&I, Bechtel, Kiewit, Gemma, CH2M Hill, and SNC Lavalin.

Engineered the complex main force resisting frames and moment connections for a large power plant project in Lima Peru, which had the highest seismic base shear forces in the history of the company. This entire HRSG structural design was reviewed by SNC Lavalin engineering and by contract by a licensed Peruvian professional engineer.

Managed and as a working engineer-manager completed the structural design of the largest project in the history of the company in India, called Reliance Infra, Samalkot project in Andra Pradesh, India – behind a GE 9FA gas turbine.

Trained a new Chinese licensee, at their Wuxi office on the complete structural design and some mechanical design concepts of a horizontal heat recovery steam generator. Performed the F.L. Table and the main steel design to sufficiently meet their schedule concerns for their large Beijing project.

Continuously mentored and trained the graphic designers on steel connections and the standardization of prequalified AISC moment and pinned connections for every component of the HRSG.

Dramatically reduced the time it takes to create a proposal “not to exceed” foundation load table from a two- three-week duration to now produce in a two-three-day duration.

Restructured and improved the entire process of how the structural department performs the HRSG structural design reports.

Maintained and strived every day to give 110% support as the structural analysis and graphical design subject matter expert on HRSG components.

The go-to guy when it comes to an RFI or erection problem in the field.

Developed and wrote the erection narratives for the HRSG field construction.

Traveled to Belgium, Lithuania, China, or numerous states domestically to help support the technical and field personnel at the project site.

Acted as a part-time field technical assistant during the erection of two large power combined cycle plant projects in New Jersey.

Assistant Project Manager/Sr. Structural Engineer 12/2008 to 06/2010 Mitsubishi Power Systems of America Newport Beach, CA

• Main responsibilities were to guide and assist in the proposal quotations, scheduling, and estimating.

• Assisted in the development and checking of the structural design calculations related to horizontal simple cycle units associated with selective catalytic reduction systems.

• Assisted in the project management responsibilities for a large Canadian SCR system project.

• As a senior structural engineer assigned to a project developed a new and improved horizontal SCR system that resulted in a reduction of over 50% steel of a previous budgetary design without compromising the design integrity of the overall system.

• Introduced, created, and developed an inexpensive outlet stack design standard spreadsheet calculation per the latest ASME STS-1 steel chimney code that could be used for future proposal quotations.

• Developed the standard engineering SCR system design details for the training of the CAD Designers to complete both 2D and 3D design assembly and detail drawings.

• Performed field walk-downs with the customer during the installation of the SCR Catalyst blocks.

• Created field reports to present to MPSA corporate management. Lead Structural Engineer 09/2004 to 12/2008

EMPLOYER: Babcock Power Louisville, KY

• Main responsibilities included the design of structural steel main frame resisting systems for multiple (over 10) Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) projects in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

• Designed and produced engineering datasheets for other cross-functional engineering disciplines, such as the Mechanical, Piping, and CADD departments.

• Computed loads and frame reactions for the creation of a foundation load table used for the design of the concrete main mat and auxiliary foundations for all the HRSG components.

• Upheld all local, state, and federal civil and structural design requirements, as well as any applicable building codes.

• Wrote technical reports documenting project progress and specifications.

• Devised and initiated engineering solutions to a variety of project and design issues. Lead Civil/Structural Engineer 11/2003 to 09/2004

EMPLOYER: C&I Consulting Engineers Louisville, KY

• Main responsibilities including the creation of structural and concrete design calculations related to various industrial petrochemical/refinery projects in the United States.

• Project duties included but were not limited to the complete engineering design of access platforms, pipe racks, concrete slabs, concrete flagpole foundations, reinforced concrete spread footings, grading plans, and other civil work related to access roads.

• Performed in-situ walk-downs to create topographical surveys for field installations involving above-ground cable tray and underground concrete foundation supports.

• Gained an understanding of lock-out/tag-out safety procedures and received confined space training.

• Responsible for the design review and approval of project-specific drawing packages.

• Coordinated the project design additions from other engineering disciplines within the organization.

• Wrote technical reports documenting project progress and specifications.

• Resolved conflicts between clients, team members, and management in a constructive and positive manner.

• Responded to contractor RFIs for various types of operations. Structural Engineer/Proposal Engineer/Mechanical Engineer 10/1991 to 11/2003 Vogt Power International Inc. Louisville, KY

• Primary responsibility for the design of structural steel Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) of multiple

(approx. 25) projects located both domestically and internationally.

• Executed the engineering calculations that included but were not limited to the design of the main structural frames of the boiler and their moment connections. Preliminary and final foundation load tables. Access platforms and lean-to stair tower. Drum saddles/support beams and pressure vessel supports. Internal module bumpers. Module hanger support system for over 250 tons of pressure headers and tubing. A 160 ft. tall self- supported outlet stack (encased in concrete fireproofing). Pressure casing design, pipe racks, and all ductwork assemblies.

• Responsible for the structural design review of project-specific and subcontractors’ drawing packages.

• Upheld all local, state, and federal civil and structural design requirements, as well as applicable IBC model building code and ASCE 7 building specifications.

• Reviewed all main plan layouts and associated details obtained from our domestic and foreign HRSG fabrication shops for quality and accuracy.

• Responsible for preparing all structural design estimates for newly proposed projects, while helping the Sales department coordinate the entire sales proposal general arrangement CAD layouts for the client.

• Reviewed customer specifications for exceptions and clarifications that could alter the overall cost of the project.

• Performed detailed field assessments and wrote field reports for the as-built concrete foundations supporting the HRSG main structure. On more than one occasion the recommendations in my field reports saved our company potentially large monetary back-charges.

• As a Mechanical Engineer was responsible for performing ASME sections (1, B31.1, VIII) code calculations for the entire Cogeneration Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) project located in Sugar Creek, Indiana, USA. Duties encompassed the design of the following boiler components: ASME Section (1) high and low-pressure vessel steam drums. ASME Section VIII blow-down tanks (API 650 approved). ASME Section (1) module harps and headers and all related ASME B31.1 large and small-bore piping. All these design packages required an in- depth knowledge of P&ID system layout and interrelated ASME code breaks. Education and Training

Master of Engineering focused on Structural Systems and Earthquake Engineering 10/2005 UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE Louisville, KY

Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering 04/2003

UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE Louisville, KY

Additional Information

• Memberships: American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), and Honorary Kentucky Colonel (state organization for helping the mentally and physically disabled).

• Computer Capabilities: Advanced level user in the design of static and dynamic structural models and structural connections using RISA3D, StaadPro, SAP2000, Autodesk ROBOT, MathCAD, DesconWin, and EnerCalc. Advanced level user in computer-aided design drafting of structural assemblies, sub-assembly components, and connections using Bentley MicroStation. A moderate-level user of CAD and BIM software packages such as: AutoCAD, Advanced Steel, Tekla 2020 and Autodesk REVIT.

• Pursuing a Professional Engineering license and registered to take the Civil/Structural PE Exam in May 2023.

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