Melissa Hertel Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Greater Seattle Area

✔ Performance‐focused leader with more than twenty years of experience leading multidisciplinary teams in every aspect of project scope and budget development, contract review, assessment and compliance, planning, scheduling, and leading teams to complete complex projects on schedule, establish and maintain clear lines of communication, be responsive to client needs and timetables and meet budget objectives.✔ Articulate communicator skilled in providing listener specific technical information to clients, regulators, and business partners in support of informed, balanced decision-making.✔ Challenging project enthusiast energized by novel or demanding assignments. Respected by superiors and peers for creativity, clear thinking and innovative solutions to problems, and the ability to develop an effective team of people capable of producing strong and efficient results.✔ Proven director, manager, trainer, and mentor of multidisciplinary teams encouraging team to meet aggressive performance metrics and to reach or exceed established goals.Research Project Manager including one designed to determine whether a minimally modified deck cargo barge accompanied by the appropriate tugs is suitable deliver Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) components offshore in feeder service.The analysis included:* Dynamic Motions Analysis – under tow and alongside a Wind Turbine Installation Vessel (WTIV)* Maneuvering Simulation – bringing loaded barge to standoff zone and to make “soft landing”* WTIV/Feeder Weather Down Time (WDT) Simulation – combining the power of discrete event simulation with a frequency domain motions study The study includes a base case that compares the throughput of a Foreign WTIV supported by a Jones Act compliant Cargo Feeder System to a Jones Act compliant WTIV working alone. The four-volume study is here:https://nationaloffshorewind.org/projects/technical-validation-of-existing-u-s-flagged-barges-as-a-feeder-solution-for-the-u-s-offshore-wind-industry/

Seattle, Wa

• Project Manager and Lead Project Engineer for design of LNG America’s 297’x54’ 2,400 m3 Gemini Class Bunker Barge.• Project Manager and Lead Project Engineer for design of King County Environmental Laboratory’s 45’x18’, 28 knot, Foil-Assisted Catamaran Research Vessel SOUND GUARDIAN including arrangements, specifications development and RFP support and construction supervision.• Project Manager and Lead Project Engineer and Owner’s Representative for design and construction of California Department of Water Resource’s 60’x24’, 22 knot, Catamaran Research Vessel SENTINEL including arrangements, specifications development, RFP support and construction oversight.• Project Manager and Lead Project Engineer and Owner’s Representative for design and construction of San Francisco Fire Department’s 88'x25', Class II Super Pumper FIREBOAT 3 "St Francis" including hull lines, arrangements, hull structure, speed/power predictions, specifications development (including noise treatments), RFP and contracting support and construction supervision.• Project Manager and Lead Project Engineer for design of Portland Fire and Rescue’s 55-ft, 40+knot, Class III Fast Attack Fireboats KWANSUM and SKUKUM ATS including arrangements, specifications development and RFP support.• Project Manager, Lead Project Engineer and Owner’s Representative for design and construction of Los Angeles Fire Department’s Fast Attack Fireboats 1, 3 & 5 and Seattle Fire Department’s CBRNE Fast Attack Fireboat ENGINE 1. • Owner’s Representative for construction of SFD’s 108'x27' Class I Large Platform Fireboat LESCHI and engineer for CBRNE system, noise control and treatment, and fireboat stability.

Fairfax, Va

Project Manager for design and development of the Mobil Offshore Marine Simulation (MOMS2) software.Project Manager for simulation studies of transportation systems (production facility and storage, loading harbor, fleet of ships, receiving harbor, storage and user) with random events (high wind/waves, low visibility, proximity of marine cyclones or icebergs, plant breakdowns) and other restrictions (vessel drydockings, daylight maneuvering in ports, production or demand schedules).Presented results of complex simulation studies to international joint venture development teams in the U.S., Italy and Qatar.Developed method for optimizing LNG transportation system based on upside/downside analysis (high fleet utilization/acceptable number of days with empty storage).

Greater Seattle Area

Bremerton, Wa

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Greater Seattle Area

United Kingdom

Seattle, Wa

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Naval Architecture And Marine Engineering

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma (Honor Society)

Master'S Of Arts, Theology/Theological Studies