Mid-Level Mechanical Design

Summary

Highly motivated team player with a vast skill set and strong work ethic. Experience

with 2D & 3D software. Proven ability to efficiently support electrical and mechanical groups with drafting, modeling, electrical, mechanical design skills in a multi-industry environment. My attention to detail enables a strong understanding of any project requirements which ensures a direct result of accurate data and detail on all drawing creations.

Accomplishments

Resolved Duke Energy process and production issues by correcting the utilization of a bill of materials program to its full potential. Simplified the revision process enabling users to utilize the software without manually forcing in revised quantities and allowing the program to process the changes by calculating the correct quantities.

Created Tri-Mont new electrical details and updated the quality of the existing ones. Established a new electrical layer system for the electrical group. Created a multitude of new electrical WBlocks including but not limited to, terminal blocks, I/O modules, breakers, din rail, power panels, power supplies, junction boxes, lights, symbols used on legends and electrical diagrams.

Have a proven history of 2D and 3D CAD work and mid-level physical layout of electrical equipment, including but not limited to conduit and cable tray, pipe modeling. Mid-level design experience in the oil & gas, Pharmaceutical, chemical, energy, nuclear and construction fields. Work Experience

Tri-Mont Engineering – Electrical/Mechanical CAD Designer 06/2021 – Present (Direct) Plymouth, MA

Create electrical ladder logic diagrams utilizing AutoCAD Electrical software. CAD drafter creating AutoCAD drawings for gas energy projects. Layout conduit, instrument locations, fire alarm systems, FACP, power panels, receptacles, lighting, junction boxes, electrical panels, motor control centers, sections and details, area classification, grounding. Draft inner RTU electrical panel layouts. Create details of electrical panels utilizing Hoffman online panel downloads. 3D model electrical rooms, DAC rooms, electrical equipment in heater rooms per NEC requirements. Model piping for meter fit projects, create sections and details, material call out drawings, bill of materials.

Remote work – Accenture Flex LLC (Direct)

Bank of America Renovations Designer 12/2020 – 03/2021 Revise project existing drawings of banks to incorporate new layouts and designs. Perform presentations to clients regarding technology changes with companies involved in the design and build process such as Verizon, contractors, and architectural firms. Prepare drawings for technical review and approval by clients.

Problem solving tenacity

Multidisciplinary exposure

Follow process & procedures

Apply principals & NEC standards

REVIT course experience

3D layout spatial awareness

Utilize software tools efficiently

Multi-discipline 2D & 3D support

Electrical equipment location design

Create plans, sections & details

Route conduit, cable tray & piping

Produce assigned tasks within budget

Strong electrical & mechanical aptitude

Education

Wentworth Institute of Technology

Drafting & Industrial Design Courses

Two Certificate Associates equivalent

1986 to 1987

Central Piedmont Community

1995 to 1997 Matriculated course work

• Electrical circuits and controls courses

• Engineering Technology

• Introduction to Technology

• Algebra I, II

• Calculus

• General Physics

• Computer Applications

• Applied Mathematics

MicroCAD Training & Consultants

Three 8 hours per day REVIT course, 2019

• Covering basic to advanced functions

involving 3D modeling and documentation

of architectural, structural, and MEP

system concepts throughout a project’s

lifecycle, from concept to completion.

Create 3D parametric models of electrical

systems from engineering design through

construction documentation.

Gary Melino

5 Lakershore Center, Unit#1326, Bridgewater, MA 02324 Cell#774-***-**** ********@*****.***

Framatome – Artech (Contract)

Draft electrical diagrams and panel layouts. Collaborate with engineers and managers to receive instructions and resolve design issues. Correspond with panel shop builders to clarify design details and receive feedback for improvements. Provide completed and approved wiring and connection diagrams to shop to wire panels. Provide quality control to shop and make sure all assemblies comply with codes such as UL 508A for industrial applications as well as other code standards if applicable. Support physical building of cabinets, installing brackets, supports, din rail and Panduit. ORANO – (Direct)

Route conduit and attach required fittings in the 3D model using PDS. Gather required information for conduit sizing utilizing various SRNS databases and programs. Design cost effective conduit routes by system following NEC standards and guidelines. Create instrument, equipment, and lighting location drawings. Model unistrut supports, and add tube steel where needed for conduit with Support Modeler software. Walk down assigned rooms and collect data relevant to the design and layout, verifying that equipment locations, conduit and cable tray are installed per approved drawing parameters. KCI Technologies – (Contract)

Assigned projects to go out and field electrical design changes and updates on power company utility poles. Layout all new field changes from written data and create bill of materials for assigned projects. As-built drawings once the utility company notifies us of completed field changes.

AE Solutions – Godshall Staffing (Contract)

Create oil well site layouts and site plans from field notes from various projects with assistance from Google Earth. Create various details of process enclosed buildings and details of equipment on the pump well sites involving PPU’s, PPF’s, pit flares, tank farms, Class I, Div. II Area Classifications, Vertical and Horizontal treaters, MCC’s, pump units.

URS/AECOM – (Direct)

Nuclear facility large scale project for the DOE (Department of Energy). Responsible for the physical layout of electrical equipment, power and distribution panels, miscellaneous devices, motors, cable trays, conduit, motor control centers, switchgear, fire alarm pull stations and HAZMAT layouts, alarm horns, and other various design tasks as needed. Attend weekly model reviews to coordinate interferences with other disciplines. Update 2D drawings from 3D modeling changes.

DUKE ENERGY - (Contract)

Create new drawings and revise existing drawings in the hydro group small projects division. Create new construction drawings of various mechanical details and installation locations for hydro plants after field evaluations. Create and revise wiring diagrams from plant renovations. Support engineers by updating controls, equipment and bill of material drawings replacing outdated hydro equipment with current technology.

AutoCAD Drafter & Panel Builder

10/2019 – 09/2020

Mansfield, MA

Electrical Designer/3D PDS EE

Raceway Modeler

07/2017 – 05/2019

Aiken, SC

Electrical Physical Layout Designer

2D Microstation and Duke Energy Road

mapping software

11/2016 – 06/2017

Greenville, SC

Electrical/Civil Layout Designer

2D AutoCAD V2016

12/2015 – 10/2016

Greenville, SC

Mid-Level Electrical Designer

PSDS Plantspace/Autoplant/Projectwise

07/2010 – 09/2015

Knoxville, TN/Two years in Austin, TX

Electrical/Mechanical Designer

Microstation/AutoCAD/Scribe Software

02/2009 – 03/2010

Charlotte, NC

URS (Contract)

Mid-Level Electrical Designer; Oil Sands project. Responsibilities include the sizing and routing of cable tray using Autoplant 3D software to model electrical equipment and cable tray. Interface with other disciplines to insure accurate design as well as correcting interferences in the model. Create 2D electrical Site, grounding and power plans, sections and details.

FLUOR/ TRS Staffing (Contract)

Electrical designer for new pharmaceutical and Solar Panel Manufacturing Projects. Responsible for modeling lights in assigned areas. Cad drafting of various electrical plans and details. Identify interferences in the model using Smartplant Review. Interface with other disciplines to solve interferences and plan other possible locations for equipment and raceways if needed. Attend model review meetings between disciplines throughout the course of both projects. Various CAD drafting assignments for multiple groups. DUKE ENERGY (Contract)

Cad Designer to layout and draft Control Room electrical power and controls updates for, OAC project which involved the redesign of the computer systems and controls for all three units in the control room. Completed Unit 3 electronic conversion from previous contract involving bill of materials by continuing to trace the electrical wiring on the connection diagrams to confirm and check cables that are QA safety and non-safety related.

DUKE ENERGY (Contract)

Convert hard copy information for UNIT 1, 2 & 3 bill of materials to the Duke/Oconee electronic database. All equipment numbers entered into the database were QA Condition verified by continuing to trace the electrical wiring on the connection diagrams to confirm and check cables that are QA safety and non-safety related.

PARSONS-MAIN (Direct)

Update electronic files and as-built construction drawings. Perform various types of CAD support for multiple projects. Create and revise loop diagrams for oil and gas projects. Create details from sketches of underground utilities, tank farms. Used for miscellaneous electrical, instrumentation and mechanical piping CAD support.

Herzog-Hart (Direct)

Support electrical engineers in the drafting and layout of one-line diagrams, riser diagrams, general arrangements, equipment arrangements, power plans, lighting plans, instrument plans, fire alarm conduit and system plans, fire alarm control panel (FACP), fire alarm control unit (FACU), fire indicator panel

(FIP)(FAP), grounding plans, conduit and cable tray plans, symbols and legend. 3D model conduit, equipment, cable tray, junction boxes, and lighting throughout building for chemical plants. Create WBlock symbols for electrical library. Coordinate layer and line type system per project. Electrical Designer

AutoCAD/Autoplant/PDS EE

Raceway/Smartplant Review Software

04/2007 – 09/2008

Denver Tech Center, CO

Electrical Designer

AutoCAD/Microstation/PDS EE

Raceway/Smartplant Review Software

04/2002 – 10/2006

Greenville, SC

CAD Drafter/Designer/

Bill of Material Specialist

Microstation V8 Software

Oconee Nuclear Station

(Level I Security Clearance)

01/1997 – 09/2001

Seneca, SC

CAD Drafter/Designer/

Bill of Material Specialist

Microstation V8 Software

Oconee Nuclear Station

(Level I Security Clearance)

10/1993 – 10/1996

Seneca, SC

CAD Drafter

Microstation J Software

08/1991 – 09/1993

Boston, MA/Charlotte, NC

CAD Drafter/Electrical Designer

Autocad 2.5 Software

PASCE – Plant Application Systems for

Combustion Engineering

05/1984 – 07/1991

Boston, MA

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