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Midlothian, Virginia

Supported regional sales and engineering teams in developing customized repair solutions for the customers.Collaborated within different internal teams like Sales, Engineering and Service Shop to define and execute repair projects from the bidding phase till execution phase.• Captured incoming inspection technical scopes till emergent and growth work within the steam turbine repair cycle to establish cost-effective, quality focused repair processes and designs to address customer needs for repair projects.• Oversee and recommend non-standard shop repair solutions for shop issues by collaborating with shop and engineering personal to maintain product quality and delivery schedule.• Provided hands-on technical support to prevent shop schedule delays.• Provide technical outage scope for field service proposals.• Provided technical repair recommendations on 13 major components simultaneously.• Supported various North American Repair Facilities during the execution phase and assess project repair status.• Dispositioned product/ process non-conformances and supported implementation of corrective/ preventive actions and shared best practices internally.• Supported development and implementation of growth initiatives for steam turbine product line.• Facilitated configuration updates in the Engineering tools to reflect as-maintained structure of the repaired components.• Supported the business on critical repair issues by working weekends and holidays, and was recognized with Above and Beyond Award within the business.

Midlothian Va

• Provided the technical inspection and repair scopes and won the Grand River Dam Authority contract for 11 steam turbine components worth $35 million and expanded the contract to $41 million with emergent work. • Provided the estimating team with technical inspection and repair scopes and won two $1 million steam turbine rotor weld repair contract.• Received Achievement Award for winning 2 steam turbine rotor weld repairs.• Standardized inspection and repair processes to streamline the technical repair scopes and speed up the quoting process to support the on-time delivery of proposals to customers.• Collaborated with the shop to standardize shop inspections and repair scopes for proposals. • Provided approximately 150 technical scopes of work per year.• Provide technical inspection and repair scopes for service shop repair proposals.• Provide technical inspection and repair scopes for field service outage proposals.• Provided emergent work technical repair scopes to assist in growth work proposals.• Won numerous Inspection and Repair contracts on rotating and stationary steam turbine components. • Won approximately 40 Outage contracts per year at an average of $1.1 Million Dollars per contract.• Chaired Technical Tendering Risk Review meetings on proposals.

Midlothian, Va

Provide technical supervision and engineering support for steam turbine repair projects.• Lead Design Engineer for numerous steam turbine inspection and weld repairs • Steam Turbine Design Engineer For workshop inspections and repairs• Learned and drafted shop repair drawings with Solid Edge 3D CAD software

Midlothian, Va

Provide shop work instructions, drawing packs, update shop schedules and provide shop cost estimates for proposals.• Developed and issued shop work instructions for inspections and repair projects• Collaborated with shop design engineers on repair processes• Provide inspection and repair scopes and shop cost estimates for shop repair proposals.• Support engineering on inspection findings and repairs.• Support NCR disposition on shop work.• Support shop in cost reduction by providing hands on machining support.• Provide shop drawings and dimensions for machining support.• Continuous Improvement Process team member for Test Facility Cycle Time Reduction Time• Overhauled Cardan Shaft to reduce bed plate moves, 3 shift savings (90 m/hrs.)• Rebuilt hydraulic nuts used for securing bed plates, eliminates use of thermally stretching of bolts, 2 shift savings (60 m/hrs.)• Purchased slip fit piping for bearing pedestal oil drain lines, 1 shift savings (30 m/hrs.)• Purchased adjustable oil drain line supports, 1 shift savings (30 m/hrs.)• Continuous Improvement Process lead project engineer for Cortec VpCi Water Soluble Corrosion Inhibitor/Protection• Purchased concentrated spray VpCi (Vapor Corrosion Inhibitor) for steam turbines and generators to eliminate the use of rust ban corrosion inhibitor. Also eliminates the use of cosmoline corrosion protection use and extensive clean-up on site.• Purchased blue shrink wrap, blue corrugated panels and blue bags for small part corrosion protection.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Supervised the manufacturing and repair of Alstom (Asea Brown Boveri), General Electric and Westinghouse large steam turbine rotors and casings.

Richmond, Virginia Area

Maintained contact with customers for spare parts sales, modifications and invoicing for overhauls of large combustion turbines