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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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)

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.
• 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.
• 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.

 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.