Mechanical Engineer Front End

Arnold J. Heidt III (Mechanical Engineer / Georgia Tech Graduate – EIT Certified)

**** ******* ***** ************: AEE / CEM / ASME / PMMI / ASHRAE

Riverdale, Georgia 30296 Fluent Languages: English / French

Cell # 770-***-**** Cell # 404-***-****

E-Mail ******.*****@***.*** (Certified Energy Manager - Assoc. Of Energy Engineers)

Professional Experience

General Services Administration (MLK-Building A & E Division - Region 4)

Supervisors: Greg Medert 404-***-****; Creshona Armwood 240-***-****

77 Forsyth Street (Room 840) (As Of January 2024)

Atlanta, Georgia 30303 June 7, 2010 To Present

Mechanical Engineer (GS-12 ; Step 8; Full Time 40 Hrs/Wk.) – Design & Construction

Directly responsible for designing, installing, managing the construction of,

and starting up DDC-Controlled High Energy Efficient HVAC systems in Region 4’s

176 Federally owned buildings. To successfully perform my duties, I constantly write

Scopes Of Work (SOW’s), procure Independent Government Estimates ( IGE’s),

design and install high energy efficient / reliable / and innovative HVAC systems

(Chillers, Boilers, Water Cooling Towers, Front End BAS & DDC-Controls, Energy

Management Systems (EMS), Advanced Metering Systems, Piping, Pumps, Air duct,

Delivery Systems, AHU’s, VAV’s, Heat Exchangers, Conduit, Communication Wiring,

and Variable, Frequency Drives, etc.). As a Certified Energy Manager, I constantly

find ways to make older buildings more sustainable by performing Energy Audits

that produce the Engineering Data needed to reduce Carbon Footprints, increase

LEED Ratings, increase Renewable Energy Initiatives, Go Green, and implement

SMART BUILDING TECHNOLOGIES, and produce reliable Energy Models (TRANE TRACE), produce Life Cycle Cost Analysis, Simple Paybacks and Returns On Investments that

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produce viable solutions for justifying spending Capital Funds for implementing UESC – Energy Use Reduction Projects.

NOTABLE PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS AT GSA:

1.)Designed and installed 3-new domestic water pumps and automated DDC Controls in the Atlanta Summit Federal Bldg. that provides over $75,000 in yearly economic pay back savings for electrical energy use (2012).

2.)Designed / Installed 3 – new high efficient Boilers (DDC- Controls) in 2021 for the Huntsville, Al. Federal Bldg. that reduced yearly building energy use by $ 50,000 / year.

3.)Designed and installed 4-new Condensing Boilers and two 200 Ton Glycol Cooling Towers in the Atlanta Summit Federal Building between 2010 and 2013 that provides Energy Savings of over $65,000 per year.

4.) Served as the Lead GSA Mechanical Engineer for designing and constructing a New 55,000 Square Foot ($40 Million) Federal Courthouse in Savannah, Georgia (2018 to 2020). I was responsible for designing and installing all HVAC Systems (Boilers, Chillers, Water Cooling Towers, etc.) Plumbing, Advanced Metering, and DDC Open Protocol Control Systems.

5.) Designed and supervised the installation and start-up of 2-new high efficient Magnetic Bearing Centrifugal – VFD - Chillers, a Switchgear, a new 200 Ton Water Cooling Tower, seven AHU’s (12,000 CFM’s each), Advanced Metering, and a new Front End Open Protocol Lon Mark Approved DDC-Controls (with informative graphics screens) – Huntsville, Alabama (2013 through 2014). The Energy Savings for the newly installed high efficient Chillers is $ 80,000 / year.

6.) Served as the Lead GSA Mechanical Engineer for Designing & Constructing a new $81 Million Dollar Federal Courthouse Building in Mobile, Alabama (155,600 sq. ft. – 5 stories high); Serving as the Lead GSA Mechanical Engineer For Renovating an existing $35 Million Dollar Federal Courthouse building in Pensacola, Florida (48,000 sq. ft. – 3 stories high). Responsibilities – include designing and installing all HVAC systems (Chillers, Boilers, Duct, DDC-Controls, VAV’s, Advanced Metering Systems, Instrumentation, space occupancy sensing devices, etc.), BAS –Controls (Open Protocol / Lon Mark Approved); and all Plumbing Systems (piping, drains, bathrooms, vanities, toilets, water fountains, automated domestic water pumping supply systems, etc.): Project Design / Construction “2017 through 2021.”

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Williams / Russell & Johnson Arch.-Eng. Firm January 2006 To December 2008

Supervisor: Charles Thomas 404-***-****

Project Mgr. / Process Mechanical Eng. / Project Eng. (Lay Offs – Occurred In 2008)

Directly responsible for designing, installing, and managing the construction of water treatment plant process purification systems in four City Of Atlanta Water Treatment plants; constantly designed and installed process equipment such as ground elevated 5 million gallon capacity AWWA-water storage tanks, scrubbers, pumps, process piping, automated and manual valves, instrumentation, Allen Bradley PLC-controls, controls panels, filtration systems, cathodic protection systems, chemical metering systems, pressure vessels, and heat exchangers, etc.. Other responsibilities included appropriating capital project funds, designing and installing process / packaging equipment in industrial plants (Shrink Wrappers, Case Packers, Over-wrappers, Print & Apply Labelers, Liquid Filler Machines, CO2 Laser Coding Machines, Belt Conveyors, Vibrating Conveyors, Pneumatic Conveyors, Body Labelers, centrifugal pumps / positive displacement pumps, etc); and designing and installing HVAC equipment in Dekalb and Fulton County schools (Boilers, Chillers, WCT, Vast Duct Delivery Systems, VAV’s, DDC-Controls, etc.).

Omni Consolidated Contractors, Inc. December 2001 To December 2005

Systems Integrator / Plant Automation / Machine Designer

(1803 W. Vesta Ave. East Point, Ga. 30344)

PROJECT MANAGER / PACKAGING / PROCESS ENGINEER

Duties and responsibilities included designing and installing packaging and process machinery in industrial plants. To successfully integrate new production equipment into the existing facilities, I constantly designed and installed PLC-Controls (Allen Bradley PLC-5’s; GE-PLC-90/70’s & 90/30’s) and procured drawings using AUTOCAD. Typical projects ranged from $100,000 to $70,000,000, and were executed successfully in industrial plants such as Lane Limited (Tucker, Ga.), Bronner Brothers Hair Care Products Plants (Atlanta, Ga.), and Gator Aide Plant (Atlanta, Ga.). Typical equipment designed and installed were thermo-formers, over-wrappers, shrink wrappers, print & apply labelers, bar coders, belt conveyors, vibrating conveyors, product accumulating conveyors, body labelers, VFD’s, vacuum chambers, mixers, pressure vessels, product mix tanks, agitators, HVAC-equipment, pipe supports, boilers, valves, chillers, water cooling towers, VAV’s, duct, and DDC-Controls.

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GAF Materials Corporation September 1996 To November 2001

(1361 Alps Road Wayne, New Jersey And Mobile, Alabama)

A roofing manufacturer that exclusively supplies Home Depot with all of their shingles and roll roofing products nationwide. GAF has 27 roofing manufacturing plants in the United States.

Positions: Project Mgr. / Packaging Eng. / Process Eng. / Plant Eng. / Maint. Eng.

Responsibilities included designing, installing and managing the complete construction / start-up of PLC-automated capital plant mfg. equipment (process / packaging) in ten different GAF-Roofing Manufacturing plants for Corporate Engineering (1997 – 2001). These Projects ranged in cost from $100 K to $60 million. As the Maintenance Manager and Plant Engineer at the Mobile Roofing Plant (1996 – 1998), I was responsible for managing the plant engineering / maintenance departments, appropriating yearly capital and expense funds to operate these departments, designing and installing high speed packaging and process equipment, supervising the daily activities of skill tradesmen, contractors, and engineers; repairing / trouble-shooting / and maintaining plant production equipment by using Predictive Maintenance / Vibration Analysis & Root Cause Analysis Methodologies to 6 Sigma Quality Control Standards to drive decision making for overhauling / repairing / or replacing rotating plant equipment (turbo-machinery, boilers, pressure vessels, compressors, pumps, mixers, fans, motors, conveyors(ASME Codes / Section VIII, ASHRAE 62.1 / 90.1, NEC, ANSI, API, Codes).

•Designed and installed a new variable frequency line drive system for the shingle production line that reduced down time by 1.5 hours / day. This change yielded a $1 million dollar yearly savings.

•Designed and installed an Asphalt Blending System for 10 GAF plants that earned me two promotions. Each system yielded an average savings of $2 million per year in reduced asphalt use.

NOTABLE – PLANT / PROJECT FULL TIME ENGINEERING POSITIONS:

•E2M Systems Integration Firm, Norcross, Ga. - Project Packaging Engineer

•Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., Macon, Ga. – Project / Plant Engineer (Projects Range $100,000 To $20,000,000 In Costs)

•General Motors Lakewood Assembly Plant, Atlanta, Ga. – Plant / Paint Process Engineer (Robotics, PLC-Programming Automation – Allen Bradley PLC-3’s & Pyramid Integrator / G.E. 90/30 And 90/70)

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Atlantic Richfield Oil Refinery, Houston, Texas – Plant / Maintenance / Project Engineer (Designed & Installed Huge Turbo-Machinery / Vast Pumping Systems; Catalytic Cracking Units; Water Cooling Towers; Oil Storage Tanks & Tank Farms; Heat Exchangers – Counter-Flow / Parallel Flow; Valves; Mixing Tanks, Piping, Instrumentation, etc.)

EDUCATION:

Georgia Tech / Morehouse College – Dual Degree Program (Combined GPA – 3.1)

•Bachelor Of Mechanical Engineering – Georgia Tech (1981)

•Interdisciplinary Science Degree (Physics) – Morehouse College (1981)

•2-Year Automotive Technology Degree & Certification – Houston Community College(1983)

•Georgia-Licensed Insurance Agent (Life /Health /Property /Casualty / Public Adjuster-1987)

•EIT – Certified; Licensed Contractor; Landlord

•CPE – Certified Packaging Engineer - PMMI (Since 1994 - Packaging Machinery Mfg. Institute)

•CEM – Certified Energy Manager (The Association Of Energy Engineers - 2016)

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