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Greater New Orleans Area

Covington, La

Directed the functional departments of:- Sales & Marketing- Quality Control- HSE- Technical Field Services (Commissioning & Tuning)- Procurement

Covington, Louisiana

-Was responsible for managing the operations for an ASME code steel fabrication shop, including engineering, production, sales, quality control.-Rebranded and repositioned the firm to service the petrochemical industry during the oil & gas collapse.-Reconfigured production to a cellular arrangement and modified engineering outputs to meet the demands of the individual cells.-Realized a 20% increase in gross margin.-Rehabilitated company culture, vastly improving product quality and safety habits.

Covington, Louisiana

- Managed team responsible for the design and construction management of fleet equipment for the water treatment, offshore well testing, land well testing, and pipeline service lines. Equipment included skid and trailer-mounted vessels, tanks, pumps, piping, and ancillaries.- Managed capital budgets for specific equipment builds and capital campaigns.- Completely redrafted company specifications for pressure vessels, piping, and structural skids to meet the latest client and regulatory requirements. Included was the development of individual piping class specifications for all of the various pressure and service requirements.- Developed valve and instrument specifications for the standardization of fleet equipment. - Drafted procedures for the management of fabrication projects and management of associated design drawings.- Led team to draft ISO-9001 compliant quality management system which included sales, service project design, mobilization, service project execution, post project documentation, and maintenance activities.- Led team to completely redraft water treatment service line standard operating procedures (SOP). The SOP was scoped to include kickoff meeting, mobilization, site meeting, equipment offloading, rig-up, field integrity testing, start-up, equipment operation, and post-project duties.- Completely redrafted equipment inspection and maintenance procedures based on API 572, API 574, and respective installation, operation, and maintenance manuals.- Launched API 510 inspection program to track long term and short term corrosion rates to project pressure vessel longevity utilizing INSPECT software by Codeware.- Led efforts to ensure SEMS compliance of safe work practices, mechanical integrity program, operating procedures, training, and management of change policies and procedures. - Developed and implemented a system of utilizing piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID) for service projects.

Abita Springs, La

-Started-up and managed all sales and technical aspects of boiler and pressure vessel division.-Managed all phases of sales, estimating, mechanical design, drafting, procurement, and project management of the boiler and pressure vessel division of the company.-Grew and maintained a diversified client base that served the oilfield, power generation, refining, and petrochemical industries.-Utilized Compress and AutoCAD software to prepare mechanical strength calculations and shop drawings.-Responsible for interviewing, hiring, and training all technical support staff.

Covington, Louisiana

-Responsible for complete structural and mechanical designs of steam generating plants from fuel and feedwater systems to steam and flue gas outlets.-As a project manager, oversaw design, equipment specification, subcontractor selection, procurement, and coordination of construction activities.-Developed a new business segment that manufactured pressure vessels for the refining and petrochemical industries.

Greater New Orleans Area

-Prepared detailed drawings of pressure vessels and atmospheric storage tanks for several petrochemical projects. -Visited refineries and petrochemical plants to walkdown existing equipment and to take field measurements. -Prepared P&ID, PFD, electrical wiring diagrams, instrument location plans, and piping isometrics.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Prepared structural framing plans, elevations, and details for several offshore oil & gas production facilities.- Prepared P&IDs from sketches generated by field walkdowns for compliance with Process Safety Management requirements.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Prepared P&IDs, instrument loop diagrams, and instrument location plans using AutoCAD.

Greater New Orleans Area

- Prepared topographic drawings from surveying notes for exhibits and technical reports.- Trained new drafting department employees in the use of AutoCAD.