Gary Lenormand Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

Greater Houston

Implementation of API RP 581 RBI on various platforms. Review, develop and implement Mechanical Integrity standards and best practices. Quality control, training, and guidance for assorted projects.

United States

Implement API RP 581 RBI programs for assorted customers. Provide quality control and guidance to team members for various projects including but not limited to MI data migration, data clean up, circuitization, DM assignments, and settings within 581 RBI software modules.

United States

Consulting and Implementation of RBI (Risk Based Inspection) principals and other Mechanical Integrity related efforts such as Inspection Task Assignment, DMR data mining and DM assignment, NDT results management, data migration from system to system, etc....

Shell Deer Park Manufacturing Complex

Pasadena, Tx

La Porte, Tx

As Senior Unit Inspector my primary responsibility is the ongoing validation and planning of inspection task for the units I presided over. In order to achieve that goal my role was required to execute or engage in:• Mechanical integrity program validation• RBI analysis/validation• Failure analysis and root cause identification• API Inspections• Compliance Inspections• Turnaround and outage planning • Procedural Review and Implementation• Work Flow review and… Show more As Senior Unit Inspector my primary responsibility is the ongoing validation and planning of inspection task for the units I presided over. In order to achieve that goal my role was required to execute or engage in:• Mechanical integrity program validation• RBI analysis/validation• Failure analysis and root cause identification• API Inspections• Compliance Inspections• Turnaround and outage planning • Procedural Review and Implementation• Work Flow review and validation• Pressure protection work flow and management for planning, inspecting, and interval changes of PRDs• Exotic alloy identification and their limitations• Damaged mechanisms identification• Jurisdictional inspections• Team leadership of both inspection teams and construction execution teams Show less

La Porte/Deer Park

Leadership:• Site manager from 2008 through 11/2014, at LyondellBasell site.• Site safety lead and trainer for Petrochem Inspection employees on site.• PRD program improvement team member 2008-2011.• PMI program development management from 2009 through 11/2014.• SPEC safety team member from 2009-2011.• Team leadership of inspection teams.• Assist in updating and improving site Pressure Protection Maintenance and Inspection procedure and Site PMI… Show more Leadership:• Site manager from 2008 through 11/2014, at LyondellBasell site.• Site safety lead and trainer for Petrochem Inspection employees on site.• PRD program improvement team member 2008-2011.• PMI program development management from 2009 through 11/2014.• SPEC safety team member from 2009-2011.• Team leadership of inspection teams.• Assist in updating and improving site Pressure Protection Maintenance and Inspection procedure and Site PMI procedure.Inspection:• API 510 and 570 external inspections.• Internal inspections of various types of pressure vessels.• Pressure Protection Inspection (PRDs), failure analysis, and evaluation of past histories to ensure functional reliability and possibility for interval changes.• Vendor surveillance of multiple repair/construction facilities. Related components include but are not limited to: Exchangers, vessels, PRDs, Control Valves, piping, Oxygen clean components, food grade clean components, block valves, quarter turn valves), site glasses, and process specific valves.• Weld Procedure and welder qualification review and evaluation of offsite repair vendors.• Inspection of furnace tube repairs and re-tubes• Piping circuit review and update. Walk down packages, UT and PT of circuit components as needed.• Turnaround support for various units and sites including but not limited to: olefins (ethylene), polyethylene (LDPE, LLDPE, and HDPE), acetic acid, tank farms, vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), EO (BCO), PO & TBA (BLO), CAT Cracker & Coking units (HRO), and Turnaround vendor surveillance support.Engineering Support• Integral member of incident investigation teams for root cause and failure analysis.• Generate and/or facilitate the generation of technical drawings to serve as an improvement on future inspection.• Locate and evaluate potential vendors for component specific repairs.• Research technical details and assist in interpretations for reliability and process engineering. Show less

La Porte, Tx

Leadership Experience• Site supervisor and QC Inspector - Rhodia Houston (Sulfuric Acid) • Shop lead and QC Inspector - CCC Fabrication shop• Pipe Foremen and QC rep for multiple turnarounds and projects.Inspection Experience• Weld Procedure and Welder qualification review.• Radiographic film review and interpretation.• Weld quality inspections.• Pipe and vessel fit up inspections.• Hydrostatic and pneumatic pressure test witness and acceptance.• Review… Show more Leadership Experience• Site supervisor and QC Inspector - Rhodia Houston (Sulfuric Acid) • Shop lead and QC Inspector - CCC Fabrication shop• Pipe Foremen and QC rep for multiple turnarounds and projects.Inspection Experience• Weld Procedure and Welder qualification review.• Radiographic film review and interpretation.• Weld quality inspections.• Pipe and vessel fit up inspections.• Hydrostatic and pneumatic pressure test witness and acceptance.• Review and walk down of various packages for completion and compliance verification.• Review of NDT and API 653 inspection findings for tank repairs.• Create, manage, and track weld maps in weld data base.• Follow and track RFIs (revised field ISOs).Craft Experience• Journeyman Pipe Fitter• Journeyman Pipe Fabricator• Vessel Fabrication Show less

Education record

Diploma