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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

▪ Estimated and planned integrity services for asset owners and general contractors on gas transmission and midstream oil pipelines and gathering systems.▪ Processed requests for bids, developed technical proposals, estimated labor and rental equipment costs, and provided margin based revenue guidance to management, sales and operations teams. Sized, specified, and procured temporary equipment for pipeline hydrotesting, inline inspection smart pig runs, and chemical cleaning (online and offline). Temporary equipment included air compressors, high volume water transfer pumps, high pressure 2-phase separators, filter separators, flow metering skids, liquid nitrogen pumpers and portable flaring equipment.Notable Development ▪ Consolidated multi-division estimating workflows and excel templates ▪ Leveraged Web APIs to add GPS functionality for optimizing logistics costs, equipment sizing, and material quantities ▪ Developed automated pump selection tool using a custom pump curve database ▪ Created Sales Dashboards utilizing ODBC interface with NetSuite CRM Database.

Baytown, Tx

▪ Coordinated with sales and engineering teams to compile detailed labor, material, and logistics estimates for mobile crane projects in refinery, plant, pipeline, and municipal environments. Projects consisted of DOT regulated transportation, set-up/breakdown, and on-site heavy lifts utilizing crawler, rough and all terrain cranes.Notable Development ▪ Performed Front End development of project estimating templates in MS Excel database ▪ Integrated cost lookups to ensure data integrity accounting for cost variance and equipment availability by business region ▪ Created XML code for fleet specific selection menus, pricing options, and scheduling ▪ Utilized pivot tables for detailed line item reporting and tabulation with dashboards summarizing project specific and company wide KPIs.

Corpus Christi, Tx / Houston, Tx

▪ Bid, planned, and managed FEED and detailed design projects requiring Process, Civil/Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Controls engineering teams for clients in refineries, chemical plants, pipeline terminals and tank farms.▪ Reviewed requests for proposals, developed engineering scopes, created schedules using MS Project, submitted written proposals, oversaw technical designs and AUTOCAD drawings, ensured compliance of industry and client standards, estimated total installed construction costs utilizing Aspen Capital Cost Estimator, secured bids for equipment and bulk materials, managed design budgets and prepared change orders.Notable Projects ▪ Elmendorf, TX Site pressure relief system with thermal oxidizing unit, Lubrizol Oilfield Solutions (LBZ) ▪ Latexo Plant Cooling Water System chill water conversion (LBZ) ▪ Flare System Compliance Upgrades, Calumet Specialty Products, San Antonio,TX (CAL) ▪ Feasibility studies for repairing API separator system (CAL) ▪ Metering and Terminal manifold expansion, Helena, TX, Koch Pipeline Company LP (KPL) ▪ Multi-site P&ID Development (KPL).

Corpus Christi, Texas

▪ As part of client’s Turnaround Planning Group, led a team of drafters inside the client's Refinery Site to develop engineering packages for maintenance of process/utility piping and fixed equipment.▪ Assisted with field measurements, directed design layouts and scopes, checked drawings for compliance with ASME B31.3 and site specific standards, inspected final installations. Specified specialty piping items such as spring supports, expansion joints, and vessel internals, as well as temporary equipment required for unit draining and chemical cleaning including heat exchangers, diesel pumps, and vapor “knock-out” drums.Notable Projects ▪ 2012 East Plant II Crude Tower Shutdown ▪ 2012 Unibon/SRU Shutdown ▪ 2012 Crude Heater Shutdown ▪ 2014 West Plant Refinery Shutdown including Coker, SRU, Platformer, and ULSD Units

Aransas Pass, Tx

▪ Lead Process Module Coordinator for topside fabrication of the Chevron Bigfoot TLP Project. Tracked field progress of steel structure fabrication and moderated weekly planning meetings between operations, management, and client.Notable Development ▪ Utilized and expanded Microsoft Access database to track project progress of schedule, budget, material, and labor RHICom rates ▪ Wrote custom VBA to automate color coded progress drawings.

 Performed engineering calculations to determine pipe wall thickness, system center of gravity, hydraulic pressure loss, and prover measuring section volume for multi-branch liquid and gas petroleum measurement systems designed according to ASME B31.3 process piping standards and API Manual for Petroleum Measurement. Sized and specified positive displacement, turbine, and ultrasonic meters for custody transfer metering systems. Carried out piping stress analysis and produced engineering reports including code interpretation of thermal, wind, snow, and seismic loading. Gained proficiency in performing calculations using CAESAR II modeling software for pipe stress due to pressure and thermal expansion, as well as STAAD modeling software for structural code checks. Performed material inspections to ensure pressure vessels met specified dimensions and material grade. Investigated component failures. Ensured failed metal washers met specified mechanical properties and material grades according to ASTM specifications and checked failed polyurethane, neoprene, and nitrile spheroid displacers for material compatibility with various petroleum products including arrangement of lab testing.  Developed a scheme to predict pressure loss across strainer combinations using Crane software package and a history of strainer data. Specified and priced field modifications of pneumatic valve combinations for varying signal and air failure positions

 Operated CNC Router to produce marble and granite countertops by creating and executing router control programs, and troubleshooting mechanical and programming malfunctions of cutting process.