Engineer Safety

Bryan P. Vieages U.S. Citizen

***** **** ********** **** 985-***-****

Bush, Louisiana 70431 *********@*****.***

Objective

To succeed in a company where I can leverage my extensive system safety engineering, industrial safety engineering, leadership, and management skills.

Experience

System Safety Engineer, Jacobs Technology April 2011-December 2011

• Provided system safety engineering services at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility.

• Prepared Michoud’s Facility System Safety Management Plan, conducted safety audits, inspections, investigations, and provide daily safety support for two facility maintenance teams.

Manager, Safety and Mission Assurance, Jacobs Technology August 2004-April 2011

• Managed a staff of 15 safety and quality personnel at both Stennis Space Center and Marshall Space Flight Center in support of Jacob’s test operations contract for NASA.

• Supported propulsion testing, including corrective and preventative maintenance of rocket test stands, propellant and pressurization systems management, cryogenic fluids transfer, high pressure industrial water distribution, and power generation.

• Interfaced daily with NASA, SSC and MSFC Operations, and Jacobs corporate office to resolve safety, quality and environmental issues.

• Combined, streamlined and updated all safety programs and procedures such as lock out/tag out and confined space management into one document.

• Conducted facility inspections to ensure compliance with federal, state and local requirements.

• Responsible for accident and incident investigations including developing an implementing corrective action plans.

• Responsible for employee safety-related training courses, hazard analyses, risk assessments and trade studies.

• Supported NASA’s successful ISO 9001 certification effort.

• Established OSHA’s Voluntary Protection Program and Process Safety Management for the test operations contract and achieved an OSHA Star Certification.

• Achieved a Lost Time Incident Rate of 0.19 and halved the OSHA Recordable Incident Rate from 1.84 to 0.91.

System Safety Engineer, Hernandez Engineering May 1999-August 2004

• Performed hazard analyses and independent investigations at NASA’s Stennis Space Center to determine test program and facility modifications risk levels.

• Established requirements and worked with an imagery company to produce a desktop tool using NASA Explosive Safety Standard 1740.12 and a spatial database to calculate quantity-distance arcs and display them over satellite or aerial imagery.

• Supported safety and design reviews for assigned projects.

System Safety Engineer, Lockheed Martin June 1997-May 1999

• In charge of industrial and systems safety for a rocket motor test complex consisting of three separate engine test stands at the Stennis Space Center.

• Performed hazard analyses for both facility and test programs with results used by NASA as part of the “approval to test” process.

• Created and maintained a process safety management program in accordance with OSHA 1910.119 supporting the first use of hydrogen peroxide at the center.

• Participated in design reviews, test readiness reviews and conducted safety training.

System Safety Engineer, Hughes Missile Systems January 1995-October 1996

• Contract Engineer providing system safety engineering services for the Tomahawk cruise missile.

• Performed hazard analyses for a redesign effort consisted of converting a switching module from relays to a solid-state design.

• Participated in design reviews, generation of specifications, qualification test plans and assembled the data package for the Weapons System Engineering Safety Review Board (WSESRB).

Licensed Journeyman Electrician, Beau’s Electric Company 1992-1995

• Performed residential and commercial wiring and repairs for both new construction and renovations in the New Orleans area.

System Safety/Nuclear Surety Engineer, General Dynamics, Convair 1986-1992

• Supported Convair’s MIL-STD-882B System Safety Engineering Program for the Tomahawk Cruise Missile Program.

• Conducted analysis of various missile subsystems including the explosive systems and payload analyses.

• Participated in the creation of Convair’s component failure analysis laboratory.

Education

• Bachelor Of Engineering Technology, Louisiana State University, awarded in 1979.

• Certificate in Safety and Health Management from Georgia Institute of Technology, awarded in 2010.

Skills

Successfully completed classes in:

• Thirty Hour training in Occupational Safety and Health Standards for General Industry

• Advanced Safety Management Principles and Programs

• Cryogenic Safety

• HAZMAT/HAZWOPER (Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response)

• Explosive Handling

• System Safety Engineering (MIL-STD-882)

• ASME 31.3 Process Piping

• OSHA Construction Safety Standards

• Fundamentals of Rocket Propulsion

Additional Information

• Previously held Department of Defense secret security clearance.

• Member American Society of Safety Engineers.

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