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Houston, Texas, Us

Hiring, training, and empowering engineers to create state of the art expansion joints and exhaust manifolds for the aerospace, energy, and automotive industries.• Nadcap accreditation recertification for resistance seam welding and metallography.• Lead and obtained Nadcap accreditation for semi-automatic GTAW linear seam welding.• Process development specialist creating and running all manufacturing operations for first article components.• Creating welding specifications/schedules to AWS 17.1, 17.2, D1.1, D1.6, and ASME Section IX standards.

Houston, Texas, Us

• Obtained Nadcap accreditation for resistance seam welding and metallography.• Managing engineering workflow and approving all product and fixture designs.• Coordinating with procurement and production to facilitate safe, high-quality components are delivered to the customer on-time.• Creation of engineering training modules, class-room sessions, specifications, and forms to increase engineering efficiency both during on-boarding and in day-to-day tasks.

Houston, Texas, Us

Empowering engineers to create disruptive technologies aimed at modernizing the energy industry. Allocation of engineering and drafting resources for design, testing, and procurement activities to ensure on-time project development and delivery.• Managing design and development of K-BOS and StackLite product lines. Ensuring lessons learned are captured within new designs while minimizing cost through intelligent design and assembly.• Hiring of engineering and drafting resources. Onboarding of new personnel to ensure API Q1, ISO, and OSHA workplace compliance.• Developing processes and internal standards to ensure zero-defect designs, efficient communication of changes, and time optimization.

Houston, Texas, Us

Designing, analyzing, and drafting of industry-first wellhead and pressure control Kinetic Blow-Out Preventer. Extensive use of Autodesk Inventor and Abaqus FEA.• Testing and qualification of 13-10M K-BOS assembly to API 16A and 16A-TR1.• Creation of welding specifications and overseeing welding WPS/PQR creation for multiple welding processes for ferrous and nickel based steels in accordance with API 6ACRA, ASME II and ASME IX.

Creating sustainable lifestyles and long-term habits centered around fitness and nutrition through implementation of the CrossFit methodology and a balanced diet.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Optimized subsea tree systems to maximize recovered crude and creating end-user focused tooling, procedures, and manufacturing documents. Research and design of industry revolutionizing concepts and next generation well completion technologies.• Produced customer-specific Well Completion systems based on enhanced field designs considering reservoir characteristics, subsea bathymetry, and proposed production scenarios.• Developed next generation, industry-first tubing hanger and production stab system decreasing the number of trips to install a subsea tree and enabling orientation-less installation utilizing ASME Section VIII and API6A design codes.• Designed, FEA developed, and concept tested new annulus sliding sleeve with secondary open function resulting in qualification ready assembly and 25% improvement in reliability.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, Gb

Drove subsea choke engineering tender activities, FEED studies, refurbishments, and responsible for all technical queries. Analyzed field conditions and project requirements resulting in selection of tendered choke and supporting hardware.• Managed choke engineering transition from Houston to Asia Pacific region for FEED, tendering, and applications engineering activities generating a 30% reduction in engineering overhead.• Designed, qualified, assembled, and tested company first 5”-15K insert retrievable subsea choke. Consulting senior applications engineer during the development of industry-first 20K high-pressure, high-temperature subsea choke and horizontal, insert retrievable subsea choke.

Houston, Texas, Us

Managed in-bound work and resources to achieve zero defect, on-time delivery. Responsible for budgeting, scheduling, and resource allocation for global tenders, production issues, refurbishments, and application engineering R&D projects.• Led the development of 8”-10K non-retrievable choke, Cv-161 trim, Cv- 240 trim, and integrated (CAN Bus) LVDT sensor.• Developed choke sizing software using production and test data enabling calculation of Cv and choked flow conditions for single phase and multiphase flow generating 70% increase in accuracy.

Houston, Texas, Us

Collaborating with customers and systems engineering to create project specific choke systems. Tested new choke configurations, tooling, and running equipment. In-field troubleshooting and repair of international field issues. Function based redesign of hydraulic stepping actuator to reduce part count, leak paths, and assembly time.

Houston, Texas, Us

Research, testing, and qualification of global connector systems. Standardization and maintenance of global connector product line, documentation, and assemblies.

Houston, Tx, Us

Preventative and predictive maintenance using vibration analysis and thermography on vertical water pumps throughout the county. Cataloging equipment specifications and data, manuals, and designs for maintenance inventory

Master Of Science - Ms, Welding Engineering (Materials)

Master Of Science - Ms, Subsea Engineering

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mechanical Engineering