Farm laborer for miniature & full size horses, alpacas, & miniature donkeys. Feeding, watering, administering meds & vitamins, cleaning stalls/pens/paddocks, exercising, grooming and facility maintenance.

Seasonal labor during planting and harvest season.

Workaway opportunity at a horse ranch in southern Peru. Cared for 15 horses including feeding, watering, exercising, and administering medicine. Other work included maintaining the property, building fence, shopping for supplies, guiding riding tours, and hosting equine therapy sessions for juvenile sex-trafficking survivors.

Provide project management and technical support functions to supply custom Caterpillar power generation products including diesel or natural gas engines, generators, transmissions, ATS, paralleling switchgear and flywheel UPSReview design specifications and influence revisions based on application and feasibility. Create technical data submittals for approval. Prepare and manage project scope, resources, cost estimates, budget and schedule.Develop and organize project documentation including drawings, purchasing orders, change orders, manufacturing assembly instructions, test scripts & reports, installation & commissioning checklists, O&M manuals, training modules and close-out recordsSupervise production, testing, delivery, installation, modification, and commissioning of power equipment in factory and field locations.Report project performance to internal and external teams. Evaluate factors leading to project success and failure and make recommendations for future improvements. Accountable for training new members of project management team; coached five employees to dateHands-on project experience in multiple industries:Multi-million dollar global data centers with critical IT loads ranging from 20MW – 200MWMission-critical emergency power lineup for a new military hospital Turnkey engine & radiator overhaul and controls upgrade for a military headquarters building Custom mobile genset packages (trailer-mounted) with heated auxiliary components for use on drilling sites in cold-weather zonesClass 1 Division 2 rated power packages with ATEX Zone 2 exhaust gas cooler designed to limit surface temperatures for use in hazardous area marine offshore drilling Tier 4 Final industrial engines fitted with NOx reducing SCR catalyst and custom remote control panelsLogging 40+ projects and 325+ pieces of equipment. Project length spans from 6 months to 3 years depending on the application and order size.

Provided concept-to-completion project management and engineering design tasks for midstream natural gas equipment facilities, compressor stations, processing plants, and transmission pipeline in the North Texas asset (Barnett Shale). Performed engineering calculations to size 2,000 – 3,000 BHP natural gas compressors, supply and discharge piping, flow control valves, and pressure relief devicesCalculated gas and liquid flow for sizing of natural gas liquid (NGL) separators using ProMax with TSWEET and PROSIM simulation software packageCreated, reviewed & marked-up piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs)Prepared project design specifications and bid packages for equipment vendors and construction contractors. Negotiating pricing and scope-of-work for mechanical, electrical and inspection contractorsSubmitted cost estimates, project schedule, and revenue forecast using an authority for expenditure (AFE) form for management approval for small projects (<$2M)Maintained all project related documentation including quotes, purchasing contracts, and close-out reportsOptimized 4,000 mile pipeline infrastructure using Synergi Gas network modeling software and linked SCADA data. Presented simulation results to the operations group for planning weekly pig launching/pipeline maintenance schedule and for determining the most efficient gas compressor and regulator operations. Resulted in minimized fuel cost, maximized profitability and system capacity of 3.8 Bcf/day