Mechanical Engineering Level Ii

Mohammed A. Samad

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Metairie, LA 70006

504-***-**** cell

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Technical Strengths & Experience

Thirty-five plus years of strong Mechanical engineering background with knowledge of Computer technology.

Extensive experience in supervising technical, non-technical personnel and managing project office

Extensive experience in Project Engineering and Project Management

Advance education and training in Mechanical Engineering.

Extensive experience in maintenance of mechanical systems

Experience in ship systems design, manufacturing, quality assurance and testing (US Navy Ships).

Experience in UNIX support, Unigraphics, LAN support System, PLC Programming and hardware support.

Experience in design, testing, coding, and supporting of data acquisition

System software, as well as broad familiarity with MS office

Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Ability to work individually and as well as team member.

DAWIA certified: 1. Test Evaluation level II 2. Engineering level II 3. COR level II

Certified ISO 9000

Experience in Six Sigma- process improvement

Tulane faculty member, teaching in computer information systems department for 25 years

Current Government clearance: Secret

Professional Experience

Depart of Commerce – NOAA Houma Louisiana: March 2024 - Present

Test and Trial Manager –responsible for test program for NOAA new ship construction for

Class A, Class B, and Class C ships. Approve test index and test plans for all ships. Work with contractor to create test procedure, review test procedures in accordance with specifications and approve test procedures. Review IMS to make sure the test schedules are in accordance with test plan.

Create a NOAA test team, hire test engineers, and other test members to support ship testing. Train test team to support testing, starting from factory test, shipboard testing, operation testing, starting of main engines and subsystems, also supporting builder’s trail and acceptance trails.

Also supporting the design and construction of Class A and Class B. Review all the design drawings, review and involve in all day-to-day construction issues. Attend weekly technical meeting with contractor and their vendors to resolve technical/non-technical issues. Attend weekly production meetings as NOAA rep. Review and approve all test procedures. Resolve ongoing test issues with the contractor and their vendors while the test is in progress. Involve in contract and writing specification for Class C new ship construction.

Support and represent as NOAA representative in program office in Houma Louisiana. Attend meeting regularly with NOAA higher officials to update of all the programs and brief other NOAA team. Attend quarterly design review, and SPPC as NOAA rep. Support program office PMR in design, construction and testing phase of all class ships

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U. S. NAVY – SUPSHIP - August 1998 to March 2024

SUPSHIP– Project Engineer - Houma Louisiana July 2018 – March 2024

Project Engineer T-ATS Program – Responsibilities include primary point of contact for project related technical matters, and responsible for the organization, coordination, and technical direction. Monitor closely engineering workload, establish and provide recommendations to the Chief Engineer and Project Office. Coordinates engineering matters within engineering department, take actions to ensure the timely resolution of technical issues. Conduct technical meetings with Govt. agencies, contractor, and venders to resolve technical issues in a timely manner

Maintain close liaison with assigned SSGC project office and program offices in NAVSEA, and MSC regarding technical issues, meetings and project related task. Maintains status of engineering issues affecting production schedule, resolves technical issues by coordinating with engineering department, NAVSEA, ship force, Contractor’s Program Office, and the Contractor’s Technical personnel. Provide management reports to Chief Engineer, project Officers, and SDM, concerning the progress and the performance of the contractor

Responsible also include technical decision making in accordance with NAVSEA Instruction, as delegated by Chief Engineer. Interpret and ensure compliance with technical requirement, standards, and policies. Working closely with engineers to resolve issue in a timely manner without affecting construction schedule. Also served as onsite primary point of contact for technical consultations in all disciplines associated with the project and resolve technical issues.

Support Project Manager to conducts program management reviews, monitors effectiveness of operations, recommends improvements in, personnel training, procedures and facilities. Also Support project Manager to prepare weekly brief to SUPSHIP and to Program Office. Support design reviews, SPPC and other project briefing

Support project office regular meetings with NAVSEA, MSC and SUPSHIP to discuss the technical and other program issues. Prepare reports and maintain records of work accomplishments and administrative information, as required and communicate with Chief Engineer, to ship design manager and Program Office. Provide technical brief and presentations to SDM, program office related to design, testing, operations, and modifications and approval of systems. Provide support to SDM in technical area, design, testing and in resolving issues and also support SDM in specification changes, and also recommend in accepting or rejecting technical issues

Working closely and develop a good communication with QA, production team and testing team to resolve issues in construction, and testing phase. Support Project Manager in managing issues of the project office. Perform as a consulting engineer to Program Manager, Ship Design Manager, Ship’s Force, and SSGC by participating to resolve problems in design, construction and testing. Support as a team lead in builder’s trial and also support INSURV Trial Board during acceptance trial.

SUPSHIP Gulf Coast – Pascagoula, Mississippi, Jan. 2017 – Jun. 2018

Mechanical Engineer - Supporting various programs LPD, LCS, LHA and DDG. Responsibilities include supervising design, construction, and testing of all class new construction ships. Responsible for main engines, generators, shafting system, all mechanical systems and subsystems. Involve in Design change in LPD 28 AF and attend quarterly program review. Review design changes, drawings, test procedures and approve test reports. Inspect all mechanical shipboard systems. Supporting all shipboard testing stage I through stage VII, including system operational testing and BT/AT

US Coast Guard – PROGC, Pascagoula, Mississippi, July 2014 – Dec. 2017

Lead Propulsion Engineer – Supporting Coast Guard National Security Cutter (NSC) program as US Navy lead main propulsion engineer responsible for design, construction, inspection and testing of all mechanical systems and subsystems related to propulsion including main diesel engines, gas turbine, diesel generators.

Serves as technical expert in design, construction and testing in the development of ship propulsion systems. Working with contractor in the preparation of plans, specifications and technical instructions for mechanical propulsion systems. Interprets and clarifies to government personnel and/or contractor personnel, Contract and Guidance Plans, Specifications, directives, change orders, cost, schedule and field changes. Performs technical reviews of purchase requisitions and procurement specifications.

Develops, prepares, or reviews change orders, witness testing, review test procedures, approve test reports and trial agenda. Support factory testing, ship board testing, and sea trial testing of all mechanical system includes main diesel engines, gas turbines, all subsystems related to engines, central fresh water system, sea water system, shafting system, control pitch propellers, fuel system, mechanical vibration and haul vibration

Develops and provides comprehensive and timely reports, briefings and presentations to the Technical Director, Water Front Director, PMR and other PROGC support personnel detailing the status of technical problems, impacts to industrial work, logistic support and cost/schedule issues. Reports, briefings and management presentations are developed by gathering and analyzing a variety of technical, cost and schedule information from numerous sources.

Serves as technical division consultant and coordinator to provide field support and is the government's on-site authority in the definition and identification of mechanical system performance and testing requirements and is responsible for initiating corrective action as required.

U. S. Navy, SUPSHIP New Orleans, Louisiana August 1998 to June 2014

Machinery IPT Lead Engineer LPD17 Project: Responsibilities include Lead Machinery team and supervising design, manufacturing, and testing of LPD17 amphibious ship. Responsible for main engines, generators, and all mechanical systems. Approves all design changes in main propulsion diesel engines, ship service diesel generators, lube oil system, central fresh water system, salt water system, intake system, exhaust system for diesel engines, shafting system, CPP system, fuel system, main reduction gear system, main reduction gear lube oil system, HVAC system and all other mechanical systems. Conducts meeting with contractor and their vendors to resolve technical issues in design and manufacturing-production phase. Manages all machinery govt. subcontractors. Resolves all technical issues while ship is in production, review and approve all mechanical systems engineering field modification for production, review defect reports, and approve repair procedures for all mechanical systems. Working with contractor and their vendor to resolve design issues, and make changes in design, manufacturing and writing AIRs and deviations to incorporate changes in ship specification. Involved with Raytheon team to develop control for all the mechanical systems. Review and approve system diagram to make sure the system diagram is in accordance with specification. Lead vibration team for LPD17 program, and witness vibration test. Review test reports and approves in accordance with ship specification and military standards. Also responsible for airborne noise program on LPD-17 as lead noise engineer- helps noise focus group in design, in manufacturing phase, and in testing to make sure that the contractor designs all the compartments in accordance with specification equipment’s are resilient mounted and correct insulation is applied to the compartments. Supports logistics team for buying spares and supporting future repair in east and west coast. Review all technical manuals for all the systems, subsystems and all the equipment for machinery. Approve all the technical manual and technical data for logistics. Reviews all test procedures related to engines, generators, all other mechanical systems. Monitors all testing from factor testing to sea trail stage. Approves all testing procedure, incorporate changes in test procedure, review test reports and approve test. Resolves technical issues in manufacturing phase and help test team(CTT) to perform ship inboard testing and sea trials. Perform quality assurance validate for all mechanical systems and subsystems.

Supporting other programs – DDG main propulsion engines LM2500 gas turbines, LCS. LHD-8, and LHA as main propulsion engineer and also responsible for vibration and airborne noise. Support as a team lead in builder’s trial and also support INSURV Trial Board during acceptance trial.

USCG Icebreaker Project: Responsibilities included as a technical director for Polar Icebreaker, lead technical team, supervising designs, construction and testing of Polar Icebreaker class ship Healy. Resolved technical issues in Mechanical, Electrical and Science with contractor and venders. Conducted weekly technical meeting with contractor and their vendors to discuss/resolve technical issues. Responsible for all technical issues in designing phase, production, testing, sea trails, and supporting ice trail testing in Artic. Supervise 10-15 US coast Guard personnel and contractors. Conducted quarterly design reviews with contractor. Wrote deviations on WAGB-20 specifications. Resolved problems and assisting technical team including engineers. Supervising testing of machinery. Reviewed and approve initial and final design drawings and test procedures. Conduct technical meetings and briefing Govt. team including USCG and Navy personnel

Avondale shipyard, New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1998 to Aug. 1998

Sr. Mechanical Engineer: Responsibilities included machinery designing for LPD-17, US Navy Ship. Designed main diesel engines exhaust and intake system. Designed exhaust system and air intake system for ship service diesel generator. Designing fixture and performing shaft alignment for Sealift Navy ship. Designed piping system for air intake and exhaust and pressure loss calculation for LPD-17 for main propulsion diesel engine and ship service diesel generator. Also involved in designing of shafting and bearing for LPD17.

EDS – GM, Dayton, Ohio, 1995 to Feb. 1998

Engineering System Engineer: -Responsibilities included supervising weld water, upgrade and maintenance of systems in GM Moraine Assembly Plant. Weld water system consists of pumps, motors, compressors, chillers, robots, and heat exchanger. Upgraded weld water system in body shop to meet the requirement of new installed machinery, PLC programming to upgrade weld water system from relay logic to PLC logic. Supported MAC system (manufacturing air bags system), installed new plant MAC system in Mexico and trained all operators and supervisors to work with new air bag system, Also responsible for data acquisition systems, testing development, programming using C and Lab Window CVI, LAN support and hardware. Supported UNIX and Unigraphics designers, data translation in GM Technical Center, Dayton and international group (Delphi Tech. Center Paris, Germany, Delphi Brazil, Delphi China, and Delphi India).

Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, 1991 to 1994 (worked 40 hrs./week)

Associate Researcher: Research included designing different type of composite and impact testing of composite material used in the manufacturing of military and commercial high speed aircraft. Utilized deplying technique to analyze the influence of fiber mismatch angle of composite on energy absorbed and delamination damage during high and low velocity impact events. Results were applied to enhance aircraft vulnerability assessment code.

International Supplier Inc. New Orleans, Louisiana, 1989 to 1991 (worked 40 hrs./week)

Facility Maintenance Engineer- responsibilities included managerial, operational administration, control and repair coordination for HVAC, boilers, pumps, and compressors. Also responsible for the budget of the department, new projects, installation of new equipment, sub-contracting, and training of new employees within the department

Education

University of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana 1991 to 1993

Master of Science (Mechanical Engineering): with specialized studies in design. Thesis on impact of composites, effect of fiber angle change on energy absorbed and delamination damage when impacted at high and low velocities.

Osmania University, India. 1981 to 1985

Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) with specialized courses in: fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, strength of materials, manufacturing technology, industrial engineering, industrial management, electrical technology and machine design.

PUBLICATIONS:

1.Delamination Damage and Energy Absorbed Due it Impact of composite panels at a range of Velocities, Air Force Journal, August 1992.

2.Effect of Mis-Match Angle on Damage and Energy Absorbed of Composites, International Composites Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1993.

3.Study of fiber Damage Morphology and Surface Area of Fiber Using SEM, and Gas Absorption Machine, Air Force Journal, June 1993.

4.Impacting Staircase Fiber Angle Changes of Composite Plates with Half Inch Steel Sphere Diameter at High and low Velocities to study the Effect of Delamination Damage, Damage Morphology, and Energy Absorbed, Air Force Journal, June 1994.

5.Plug Formation in Composite Due to Impact At High Velocity, International Composites Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana, September 1994.

References will be furnished upon request

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