Piping Designer Houston Tx
Resume:
JOHN F. BLANKENSHIP II
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PROFILE:
Senior Piping Designer/Checker with experience in all design phases of upstream, midstream, downstream, pipeline, metering stations, compressor stations, subsea, skid mounted equipment etc. Particularly effective in providing design solutions for complex systems. Known for the ability to meet tight deadlines within budget while working efficiently with clients, engineers and designers.
Software:
Autocad / NavisWorks / CadWorx / I-Configure / Autocad Plant 3D / Bluebeam / Bricscad Professional Experience:
SWDS, Houston Tx - (2025)
Piping Designer & Checker. Used Navisworks to check & advise on equipment layout during feed phase of an Amine plant. Checked Cadworx specs, valve specs & P&id’s for errors. Global Welding Inc/SLB Capturi, Houston Tx - (2023-2025) Piping Designer & Checker. Consulted and designed multiple container sized units for a Co2 capture, multi-level, portable system. Built cadworx specs. Created custom user shapes. Customized isometric style. Modeled vessels, multi-level skids, custom supports and piping. Checked and scrubbed P@id’s. Created model review comments. Used Revu to store documents and share comments.
Audubon Engineering, Houston, Tx - (2022-2023)
Piping Designer & Checker/CadWorx/NavisWorks/I-Config. Created 3D models, plans and sections for traps and meter skids. Changed line sizes and spec. Squad checked other designer’s work. Checked iso's for gas plants. Ran piping for high temp pumps, compressors, coolers. Oriented vessel nozzles, loaded pipe racks etc. Trouble shot busted isometrics. Streamlined iso creation for different styles.
Independent Contractor, Houston, Tx - (2015-2019)
Piping Designer & Checker/CadWorx/I-Config/NavisWorks. Created proposal using existing piping created from a laser scan to add flanges for breakout spools to be fabricated off site and shipped in a container to a drilling rig. Used laser scan to identify wall and floor penetrations and support locations. Created custom specs. Created custom isometric title blocks enabled to accept all line number info. Worked with inventors to create and visualize final products. Consulted on best manufacturing practices. Designed, manufactured and 3d printed various Inventions. Cameron, Houston, Tx – (Contract 2013-2014)
Piping Designer & Checker/CadWorx/I-Config . Used PDMS to check iso’s & coordinate all piping layouts of pumps, storage tanks, coolers, surge drums and separator, used for oil dehydration. Checked layouts of media filters and de-aerator pumps for seawater filtration systems located on offshore platforms. Created directory structure and model naming for all 3d models, checked and modified specs and oversaw progress of all disciplines within group of designers at different locations to create a standard CRYO plant using Cadworx. Checked drawings. Mustang Engineering, Houston, Tx – (Contract 2011-1013) Piping Designer & Checker/CadWorx/I-Config/NavisWorks . Designed multiple CO2/water injection manifolds and Production sites at various locations along with booster pump stations and meter stations using Cadworx. Presented 3d area models for 30,60,90 percent reviews using Navisworks. Documented all review comments, created and distributed progress reports. Simultaneously modeled all piping and equipment for a string of (15) different pump stations consisting of pumps/traps /provers/meters and strainers. Generated all iso’s with isogen. Assigned to lead piping designers for many different DOW chemical projects consisting of new mainline valve sites, meter skids and pump stations. Checked drawings. Universal Pegasus Corp, Houston, Tx – (Contract 2011) Piping Designer & Checker/CadWorx/I-Config. Designed several oil and gas gathering/processing and load out stations located in the Eagle ford shale formation. Designed ladders, platforms, stairs for storage tanks. Generated all deliverables as needed. Worked in Cadworx admin department building and maintaining specs, creating custom user shapes and pipe supports along with custom skey's for isogen in the 2012 and 2013 format. Supported designers in all aspects of CadWorx & Autocad throughout the project life cycle. Supported project leads correcting 3d modeling errors created during project execution. Checked drawings.
ElPaso Corp, Houston, Tx – (Contract 2010-2011)
Pipeline Designer/CadWorx. Modeled and detailed pig launchers and receivers for a pipeline integrity program on the SNG pipeline. Used surveys, alignment sheets, field notes, pictures and legacy drawings to locate the new launcher/receivers and tie-in points. Established workspace and temporary workspace areas for construction. Checked drawings. Mustang Engineering Houston,Tx – (Contract 2008-2009) Designer & Checker/ Admin/CadWorx/I-Config/NavisWorks . Created specs and custom components. Collaborated on creating training manuals and project/modeling procedures related to Cadworx/Autocad. Identified and corrected any modeling/Isogen output problems. Advised on project execution. Converted multiple projects from 2d to 3d models. Created DWF files for client viewing and collaboration online. Created models from laser scans using Cloudworx and Fieldpro. Created Autocad animations with terrain extracted from Google Earth. Placed 3d models in Google Earth. Checked drawings.
GIE Houston,Tx – (Contract 2007-2008)
Designer/CadWorx. Collaborated with engineers and client during front end design of multiple gas pipeline compressor stations. Identified existing tie-ins using field notes and site surveys. Located inlet separators, unit fuel gas skid, pilot/ power skid, gas turbine compressor, compressor building, etc. Created compressor model including all skid connections, inlet/outlet air ducts and auxiliary equipment. Routed entire piping system underground and above. Created key Plan. Cut plan and section views. Generated isogen isometrics. Checked drawings. Independent Contractor, Houston Tx - (2004-2007)
Designer/CadWorx/I-Config/NavisWorks . Worked with customers laying out all equipment and pipe rack for a gas plant and several compressor stations. Created 3d models and all detailed dwg’s for Reverse Osmosis and Electrodeionization skid mounted water treatment units consisting of both PVC and S.S. pipe. Extracted iso’s and detailed skids. In charge of all drafting & design duties associated with subsea equipment. Equipment consited of UTA’S, armor pots, lock off collar, terminations, bend restrictors, Mooray’s, stab plates, emergency quick connect’s, deployment frames, reels, mud mats, chutes, reel pallets for Cameron, BP, KOP, Exxon, SS7, Caldive to name a few. All while coordinating efforts by interfacing with project management, engineering, on site customer rep’s, inspectors and fab shop. Natco Group, Houston Tx – (Contract 2001-2003)
Designer/Autocad. Routed piping, generated Iso's and located steel frame & pipe supports for a production platform. Equipped with test, production & low-pressure Separators, Heaters, Hydrocyclones, Dehydrators, Coolers, Flare Scrubbers, etc. Generated demo & installation dwgs for replacement of separation units on offshore platforms from field notes & pictures. Checked & scrubbed vessel
dwg's against calculations for proper drafting practices. Checked Iso's generatedfrom the PDMS model against the Autocad G.A.to ensure proper layout of F.R.P. & Victaulic piping. Designed and drafted all vessel details, structural details and piping dwgs for cartridge filter, media filter and membrane filter skids on the kizomba F.P.S.O. Checked drawings. Omex Engineering & Construction, Houston, Tx – (1997-2000) Designer/Autocad. Created shop drawings for the manufacture of steel skid mounted CPI and IGF oil and water separation units fuel storage and transfer skids for on & offshore installations. Generated one line-study, rack loading and conceptual layout for piping estimates of grass roots project. Supervised all drafting activities for the revamping, expansion and relocation of existing petrochemical and processing units. Checked drawings. Neuman & Esser USA, Houston, Tx – (Independent Contractor 1995-1997) Designer/Checker/Autocad. Designed process piping, lube oil piping, cooling water piping systems for structural steel skid & foundation mounted reciprocating compressor units. Conducted field trips to packagers to insure quality and accuracy of each package. Attended meetings with customers. Checked drawings.
Joy Environmental Technologies, Inc., Houston, Tx. (1993-1995) Designer/Autocad. Used Sun Sparc Unix systems running Microstation to generate P&ID’s, structural arrangements & details, isometrics, etc. for ash handling systems, Niro piping atomizer absorption systems, reverse airbag systems, SCR DeNOx systems, and flue gas desulfurization systems, which were designed to filter unacceptable pollutants produced by chemical plants. Blankenship Industries, Inc., Houston, Tx. (1983-1992 Designer/Checker/Owner/Autocad. Designed, reverse engineered and manufactured investment cast molds, tooling and fixturing for the manufacture of highpressure gates, seats, stems, packing etc. for API 6A wellhead valves such as McEvoy, Cameron &WKM
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