SAHAR ELKENANI

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Plainsboro, NJ 08536

Mobile: 732-***-****

E-mail: heqd5f@r.postjobfree.com

PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Fluor Mount Laurel, New Jersey

Mechanical Engineer, Refinery Jan 2008 – Jan 2009

Coordinated the design of a new 300,000 lb/hr utility boiler that was installed in the Valero Paulsboro refinery.

• Writing specifications in accordance with client request for quotation, and finally selecting a vendor that met the refinery standards.

• Responsible for the interfacing between internal groups for various disciplines.

• Performing technical bid evaluations on all major equipment from multiple vendors and providing the client with a preferred bidder based on mechanical technical analysis.

• Analyzing bids for new utility boilers, tanks and forced draft fans with turbine driver or electric drive motors.

URS formally Washington Group International Princeton, New Jersey

Mechanical Engineer, Nuclear and Power Groups May 2002 – Jan 2008

Mechanical Engineer in Power and Nuclear Groups providing engineering services to commercial power utility clients, and commercial nuclear and fossil power plants.

Power Group

• Performed system design calculations, pump sizing and pipe selection for various systems.

• Managed material handling system design, vendor selection and analysis.

• Prepared pressure drop and gravity flow calculations to evaluate pump design and line sizing.

• Evaluation and selection of equipment vendors and installation contractors.

• Sizing and procurement of various pieces of equipment (pumps, tanks, piping, etc.)

• Interacted between the various systems as well as different disciplines (Civil/Structural Engineering, Electrical Engineering, I&C Engineering).

Nuclear Group

• Analyzed potential nuclear accidents in plants, using RADTRAD and Microsheild to assess radiation exposure.

• Support calculation deliverables for Alternative Source Term Accident (AST) Analyses for several nuclear power stations.

• Performed blast protection analyses for complex structures.

• Gave a series of presentations on the new GE Economic Simplified Boiling Water Reactor (ESBWR).

Lockheed Martin (Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory) Schenectady, New York

Mechanical Project Engineer May 1999 – July 2001

Mechanical Project Engineer, responsible for reactor design and testing.

• Determined reactor performance for future Aircraft Carrier and Submarine Reactor Plants.

• Utilized thermal design, heat transfer techniques and in-house thermal hydraulic software to determine Peak Central Temperature (PCT), Critical Heat Flux (CHF) and Oscillation Induced Flow (OIF).

• Analyzed physics models and determined reactor performance using various in-house programs.

• Generated test plans to perform design checks to validate results.

• Wrote validation and work reports containing mathematical and graphical analysis.

• Presented test and validation results to various groups within the organization.

RELATED EXPERIENCE

• Software: AFT Fathom – Models incompressible network pipe systems, Arrow – Model compressible network pipe systems, Microshield, RADTRAD, SAS, Autodesk AutoCAD, Novaview, MathCad, CadKey, Mathmatica, In house thermal analysis programs for PCT, CHF, OIF, FrameMaker, PowerPoint, UNIX (basic), MS-DOS (basic), Windows

• Training: Power Plant Engineering Training – Introductory course to Power Plant Systems and component mechanical engineering. The purpose of this course was to attain general knowledge about major plant power cycle systems with an emphasis on mechanical aspects of system design. Constructability Course – Understanding construction knowledge and experience in planning, design, procurement, and field operation to achieve overall project objective into all project efforts from conception to startup. RPDAP- Reactor Plant and Analysis Program, a five-month program that focused on the mechanical and thermal design of the Rector Plant. Studied different engineering disciplines involved in plant analysis. During the second half of the course, another five months, I studied in depth thermal hydraulic reactor performance.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Excellent organizational and leadership skills, quick learner, responsible, team player, self-motivated, able to see the global picture and flexible to work on multiple projects simultaneously and successfully.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering Graduated May 1999

Union College of Engineering, Schenectady, New York

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