Eric Thigpen Email & Phone Number

Spring, Texas, United States

1777 Gears Road, Houston, Texas 77067

• Oversaw the reliability program on a number of projects for major oil industry operators. Program duties included submitting cost, time, and resource estimates for project tenders, conducting reliability analyses per program and industry requirements, and submitting reliability deliverables to the customer on schedule and on budget.• Included among the reliability analyses are Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) analysis and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) on workover systems for Shell.• Conducted Failure Mode and Effects Criticality Analyses (FMECAs), Hazard and Operability (HazOp) analyses, and Hazard Identification (HazID) analyses at the system and project level for customers including BP, Chevron, and Shell.• Facilitated numerous Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) for customers including Anadarko, BP, Chevron, Shell and Tullow. In addition to leading these investigations also assumed responsibility for ensuring the closing actions and recommendations were implemented fully and drafting comprehensive reports to capture all aspects of the investigation (e.g. background, timelines, event descriptions, etc.)• Was responsible for various administrative duties such as maintaining schedules, budget tracking, and customer communications.

2450 Nasa Pkwy., Houston, Texas 77058

• Worked as a lead engineer and principal integrator for large scale Probabilistic Risk Analysis (PRA)• Performed reliability and maintenance (R&M) analysis for electrical and mechanical subsystems and components• Conducted risk trade studies for new systems and technologies• Established risk allocations for integrated system designs• Provided real-time risk analysis for electrical and mechanical systems and projects during day-to-day business operations

1300 E. Anderson Lane, Austin, Texas 78752

• Depending on the project functioned as either a member of an integrated design team and as the sole project engineer. As sole project engineer, oversaw projects from the concept phase to production. • Performed both quantitative and qualitative reliability analyses • Established product reliability requirements and designed verification and validation plans. This task entailed designing and administering test plans, calculating component test sample sizes, and utilizing accelerated life test methods • Designed distribution testing programs to establish product packaging durability and life limits• Performed damage tolerance analyses to establish component lifetimes and proof test limits for mechanical heart valve components and sub-assemblies • Developed a working relationship with the Food and Drug Administration. This task required acquiring knowledge of regulatory requirements and ensuring product compliance

1 Lockheed Blvd., Fort Worth, Texas 76108

• Established risk predictions through a number of analysis methods including fault tree analysis, stress-strength interference analysis, and hypothesis testing • Performed system level qualitative reliability analyses (i.e. FMECAs, SSHAs) on mechanical and electrical systems• Conducted administrative tasks such as preparing project bid proposals, man loading schedules, and tracking budget status