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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

New Orleans

Greater New Orleans Area

- Reviews and analyzes inspection and operating reports, statistics, and engineering data to ascertain that equipment and procedures ensure prudent, safe, and work-man-like operations.- Performs technical reviews of production operations and equipment including safety and antipollution devices, controls, and procedures and makes recommendations concerning approvals.- Reviews lessee’s applications for production systems to ensure that proposed equipment, controls, and procedures and safety and antipollution devices are designed and operated in accordance with applicable requirements, laws, and regulations.- Serves as team leader to investigate accidents, blowouts, and fires and prepares reports and recommendations concerning probable causes and corrective measures needed.- Advises and assists inspection personnel regarding the adequacy of production equipment and safety and antipollution devices and controls encountered in course of offshore production inspections.

New Orleans

- Review project plans and specifications prior to contract advertisement to determine feasibility of construction and recommend changes (Biddability, Constructability, Operability, Environmental review). Attend plan-in-hand site inspections for future contracts.- Coordinate the construction and quality assurance inspection of levee, sluice gate, swing gate, slope paving, and floodwall hurricane protection projects with local, state, and federal agencies throughout the contract duration. - Coordinate and leads an emergency operation levee inspection team - Coordinate safety inspections with the USACE Safety Office

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

- Performed preliminary sizing of safety relief valves and pumps, P&ID and PFD mark-ups, performing hydraulic calculations on existing and new lines to determine line pressure drops, line list and tie-in list modifications, and design folder preparation. - In-Plant Engineer- 6 months assignment- conducted pressure surveys, performed hydraulic calculations on existing lines to determine line pressure drop, sized flowmeters and control valves. Additional experience in developing data sheets for equipment and instrumentation for vendor quotes- Performed preliminary knockout drum evaluation, pump sizing and evaluation, updated the Heat & Material Balances, and scribing during the project’s HAZOP, basic heating coil design.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Aided in congressional constituent correspondence.- Led constituent group-tours of the U.S. Capitol.- Performed research on various topics at the Library of Congress.

University Of Mississippi, Oxford, Ms

- Separated organic material from soil samples taken from lake sediment.- Performed combustion experiments to prepare twigs for carbon-14 dating.

Starkville, Mississippi

- Aided in the design and construction of a continuous photochemical reactor to treat industrial wastewater. - Performed experiments for the baseline study for construction of the photochemical reactor.

Gainesville, Florida Area

- Worked with Air Particle Classification Device.- Investigated repeatability and efficiency of the classification of Boundary Layer Momentum Transfer (BLMT) Cyclone.- Used light scattering techniques with Coulter to analyze experimental data.

Master Of Science, Civil Engineering; Environmental

Bachelor Of Science, Chemical Engineering