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New Windsor, Md, Us

New Windsor, Md, Us

Westminster, Md, Us

Westminster, Md, Us

Columbia, Md, Us

● Independently manage schedule, budget, workforce, progress, and goals for simultaneous multiple global simulator projects through providing project leadership, delegation and guidance to engineers, vendors and subcontractors.● Successfully increase project profit margins and introduce revenue opportunities while effectively decreasing company costs via process improvement and exploring alternative production methods. ● Consistently meet project payment and internal milestones to insure adhesion to schedule and project budget in an effort to optimize company profits with experience in both fixed price and time and material contracts.● Continuously monitor project utilization, risk and financial runway to successfully manage engineers’ workload, overall company manloading and project budgets and forecasts.● Successfully managed 15+ independent projects in 2016.● Increased average project margins while generating over new revenue via project change orders and new business opportunities in 2016.● Effectively manage and mentor 9 multi-disciplined engineers with a variety of skills, backgrounds, and personalities.● Reduce production cost by consistently promoting best practices and introducing continuous process improvement.● Exceptional communication skills amongst all company personnel, customers and third party contractors/vendors.

Columbia, Md, Us

Columbia, Md, Us

Profound engineer with extensive experience in both production and management of high fidelity power plant and process simulator projects. I’ve completed and managed multiple worldwide projects using GSEs proprietary software to model all parts of power plants with a variety of thermodynamic, fluid mechanic, electrical, control, logic and graphical systems. I have experience integrating and debugging multiple types of digital controls systems (DCS) in close coordination with a variety of managers, customers, vendors and contractors. John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant Retune – American Electric Power (AEP)/Emerson• Independently scheduled, scoped, modeled and integrated a new auxiliary boiler, turbine control upgrade, and turbine emergency trip soft panel for the newest most advanced ultra-super critical coal power plant in the world.• Responsible for reviewing and identifying all plant updates shown on P&IDs, control sheets, panel drawings, one lines, and DCS Screens to determine amount of work required, cost of project, and additional resources needed.• Provided detailed monthly reports and directed regular conference calls highlighting progress, milestones, future work and potential project impacts and solutions while independently making critical decisions regarding schedule conflicts and pushes.Cardinal Unit 1 and Unit 3 Retunes – American Electric Power (AEP)/ABB • Specifically requested by AEP to independently manage and engineer simulator retune based on my previous performance.• Successfully estimated budget necessary and time required for a time and material project to optimize profits.• Simultaneously scheduled, scoped, modeled, and integrated two different plant and DCS upgrades based on separate new plant controls, physical plant changes, and customer supplied discrepancy reports.

Columbia, Md, Us

GSE AB – Internal Lead Engineer Consultant – GSE Power Systems European Division, Nyköping, Sweden:• Lead management and project process training to experienced nuclear, fossil and process simulator lead engineers, engineer managers and vice president of our company’s European division. Discussion included how to successfully plan, scope, schedule, budget, and execute a full scope simulator project.• Provided technical training to new nuclear, fossil and process engineers of a variety of backgrounds from bachelors, masters and PhD degrees.• Responsible for finding project process flaws within the company and make decisions on how to enhance them.Rabigh Unit 1 Power Plant Full Scope Simulator – Saudi Electric Company (SEC)/SIEMENS – Lead Engineer/Engineering Manager:• Specifically selected to lead project start up tasks for the SEC Rabigh Unit 1 Power Plant full scope simulator based in Saudi Arabia.• Solely responsible for developing project schedule, performing critical reviews of materials to refine a scope, cost analysis, and developing data requests for a project that spanned four continents with numerous customers, vendors and subcontractors.• Scoped, distributed and organized materials and tasks to a subcontracting firm while assigning responsibilities and deadlines. • Provided engineering managers with self-developed technical questions and scope redefinition for their trip to meet with customer. • Lead multiple status update meetings and provided last technical meeting before project kickoff meeting.• Provided support for multiple projects in the form of leading technical training for newly hired PhDs, performing critical reviews of ongoing work, overseeing hardware/software setup and supplying continuous remote support.

Columbia, Md, Us

John W. Turk Jr. Power Plant Full Scope Simulator – American Electric Power (AEP)/Emerson• Scoped, designed, developed and implemented the main steam, feed water, turbine dynamics and circulating water system for the newest most advanced ultra-super critical coal power plant in the world.• Successfully integrated model on site at ABB with little guidance from engineer managers.• Successfully designed, modeled, tested and implemented first forced draft cooling tower model ever created at GSE Systems.• Independently invented and created a customizable plant heat balance critical parameter tracker for multiple power levels now set as standard production with AEP jobs.

Columbia, Md, Us

Cardinal Unit 3 Power Plant Full Scope Simulator – American Electric Power/ABB• Scoped, designed, developed and implemented the air and gas, Flue Gas Desulfurization (FGD), furnace, and ammonia hydrolyzer systems.• Created new technique for interfacing an air/gas and FGD model to help eliminate system instabilities present in previous projects.• Provided overtime support integrating Ammonia on Demand (AOD) Hydrolyzer model.• Co-developed P&ID markup technique now considered company standard.

Greenbelt, Md, Us

Selected for internship to contribute to the ExPRESS Logistics Carrier (ELC) program. An ELC is an unpressurized attached payload platform for the International Space Station (ISS) that provides mechanical mounting surfaces, electrical power, and command and data handling services for science experiments on the ISS.• Developed and performed material strength tests while conforming to strict quality assurance regulations and documentation criteria.• Successfully critically analyzed Human and Robotic Interface requirements for space hardware installation and delivery for use on the ISS.

Bachelor Of Science, Mechanical Engineering

Education record

Education record