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Summary:

I am a self starting Engineer/Project Manager who has both Experience as an Operator/Mechanic AND Experience in Technical Management that affords me the ability to identify and communicate effectively with operators, mechanics and management.

I am adept at finding effective, expedient and inexpensive solutions to technical problems.

I am looking for a Senior Level Engineering/Engineering Management Position with an upward mobile company.

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DuPont-Nylon, Victoria, Texas

POWERHOUSE AREA ENGINEER: Mechanical design, scheduling, and coordination of system Change of Design Packages and Capital Projects, evaluation of system trends to determine equipment replacement timing, coordination of post failure root cause analysis, and general maintenance management to improve production, cost and process safety. Primary area responsibility for the Hydrogen Production Plant, Boilers #7 & #8, East Water Treatment, and a Nitrous Oxide Abatement Unit (VNOx).

• Reduced hydrogen fuel costs by 15% through Redesign and Retrofit of reformer burners and air registers. (annualized savings of $300,000+). This work also greatly improved operator control and eliminated further environmental permit violations.
• Project Manager for a $550,000 Hydrogen Reformer Furnace Restoration project. The project was completed on time, within budget and with no safety incidents.
• Brought the Hydrogen Reformer Furnace into environmental permit compliance. Modeled Combustion air flows, designed and installed temporary air restriction devices to reduce burner emissions and coordinated stack testing.
• Key to identifying damaged equipment following an upset of the nitric acid production facility. Within 24 hours of involvement, identified the equipment that had curtailed production for 2 weeks.
• Cleared a backlog of Catastrophic Recommendations remaining from the 1992 and 1995 safety reviews.
• Coordinator of over 6 equipment failure investigations and reports. These investigations determined root cause, system/management modifications required to prevent similar incidents.

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Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC

HAZARDOUS WASTE DIVISION MANAGER for the final year of shipyard closure. Specifically selected to expedite Hazardous Waste Shipments to allow remediation of the 365 day storage facility.

• Obtained and trained a new staff of 6 civil servants.
• Procured abandoned computers and office equipment to modernize the waste tracking/accounting processes.
• Streamlined and reduced the cost of waste disposal characterization by eliminating duplicate data entry, excessive sampling due to poor sampling processes and record keeping.
• Designed and implemented a Local Area Network and built a entirely new warehouse tracking process that tracked over 3,000 items with a turnover rate of 600+ items per week.
• Changes to the tracking system allowed rapid characterization, inventory reporting, and shipping of all wastes, resulting in closing of the 365 day Hazardous Waste Storage Area 3 months ahead of schedule.

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ASSISTANT PROJECT MANAGER: on four ship/submarine overhauls totaling more than $266 million.Three of these projects were the US Navy's first use of project management concepts in a public shipyard.

• Monitored work progress versus cost and schedule, overtime budgets, and determined causes of cost over runs.
• Briefed Project Managers on their project financial status, identified potential trouble spots and implemented improvements. One project's financial status improved by 15%.
• Waterfront managerial trouble shooter for the "SUPERVISORS DESK (SUPDESK)" accounting and project management software program. Due to political reasons this program was forced into use while still in the "BETA" or test version in an effort to prevent closure of the shipyard.
• Worked with the Charleston Shipyard computer programmers and managers to correct numerous bugs in the SUPDESK software and it's interface with the shipyards mainframe computer.
• Worked jointly with representatives and programmers from 5 naval shipyards in a joint effort to improve the SUPDESK project management tool and the project management process, based on Charleston's first experiences.

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Ballistic Missile Submarine, USS George Bancroft

SHIFT OPERATIONS MANAGER: on a nuclear submarine. Responsible for safe and effective coordination of shift maintenance and operations personnel during daily 6 hour work shifts over 80 day continuous underwater patrols. Duties included:

• Coordination and general management of shift maintenance including safety briefings, final review approval for equipment isolation, testing, and return to normal service.
• Coordination of routine evolution's and the ship's 40 on watch personnel. Heavy emphasis on direct supervision of the ships navigational team and verification of the ships Loran, Satellite and Inertial Navigation Equipment, Communications, and Sonar Operators.
• Initial and refresher "hands on" training of shift personnel in both routine and emergency procedures.

MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE OFFICER: for 16 Trident nuclear ballistic missiles, MK-48 torpedoes, their fire control, and launch systems.

• Orchestrated the efforts of the 40 supervisors and technicians who maintained 16 Trident-I ballistic missiles, MK-48 torpedoes, their launch systems and electronic fire control systems.
• Overall responsible to the ships commanding officer for readiness training of these personnel and operating condition of the ships weapons systems.
• Received the Navy Achievement Medal for the weapons system's outstanding mechanical condition and personnel performance during two nuclear weapons readiness inspections.
• Selected for Master's Degree Program..

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US Navy Training and Operational Commands

NUCLEAR REACTOR, STEAM PLANT OPERATOR AND BOILER CHEMISTRY TECHNICIAN: progressive levels of responsibility including:

• Staff operator at 600psi Steam Laboratory in North Chicago, IL. Duties included boiler makeup water processing using a solo shell type, a flash type and basket type evaporators. Re-bricked a 600psi B&W wall fired boiler.
• Mechanical Operator and Laboratory Technician on a nuclear submarine. Duties included startup, routine, shutdown, and emergency operation of a nuclear reactor, turbine driven electrical generators, air conditioning systems, 30,000 HP steam turbines, reduction gears, lubrication and cooling water systems. Maintained nuclear reactor coolant and boiler water chemistry.
• Staff Instructor at the Nuclear Power Training Facility, Idaho Falls, ID. Duties included training of over 500 students on nuclear plant operation and mechanical maintenance. Additional duties included advanced training, of the top 3% of mechanical operators in Boiler Chemistry, and Radiological Controls.
• Selected for college degree completion and management training.

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Computer Training/ Literacy:

• Formal training in AUTOCAD version 13.
• Extensive operational use of the office programs; Microsoft Office, Paradox 5.0, Dbase, Word Perfect, MS Word, Excel, Power Point, Access, CC-mail and Banyon mail.
• Familiar with DOS, Windows 3.11, Windows 95 Operating Systems
• Knowledgeable of Local Area Networks.
• Programming experience in FORTRAN, Pascal, Basic, ADA and HTML.

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