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Florida

Blackshear, Georgia

• Drove initiatives to improve quality of products and efficiency in production by assessing the results for gaps and identifying solutions to innovate with new processes. Worked collaboratively with the team and mold.
• Completed all engineering projects by overseeing all aspects of process control, technical review of engineering deliverables, risk assessment, and activity coordination to ensure support for mission-critical functions.
• Adapted to different industry very quickly and played a hands on role in installations such as assisting in the design of a new four beam, travelling overhead crane system.
• Pushed projects through the pipeline with strong oversight of all day to day operations according to assessed scope of deliverables of on-going and planned maintenance, monitoring deviations from targets.

Jeanerette, LA

• Directed all design and production projects, maintenance, training, and safety/compliance activities on the Potomac and RTA New Orleans River ferries, supervising a team of eight. Worked closely with executive.
• Improved products and added value through defining technical design plans and roadmaps to accomplish project goals in scheduling, process flow oversight, and facility optimization.
• Enhanced junior engineer integration by developing a program for training new staff to operate cross-functionally while guiding them to develop the necessary success skills to deliver performance results.
• Introduced efficient aluminum modelling and construction techniques that resulted in an increase in shop floor efficiency.

Morgan City, Louisiana

• Achieved initiatives in projects by managing the team of three across activities including design, development, application, and modeling. Reduced deviations from targets by developing and executing a business plan.
• Decreased the duration of the design cycle for marine vessels and streamlined the process of delivering the production information to the yard using new application of solid modeling techniques.
• Designed Swiftship’s 210’ Fast Crew Boats and structurally redesigned Swiftship’s 175’ Fast Crew Boats to current ABS rules.
• Reduced ship motions for offshore personnel transfers with a design strategy that gained patent.
• Shortened the decision-making process by developing planning options to highlight methods to achieve key strategic initiatives within budget and time constraints.

Bridgeport, Connecticut

• Acted as a technical process and engineering project management resource for the marine structural engineering projects. Successfully coordinated documentation, reporting of engineering budgets, projected costs.
• Successfully executed projects by leveraging extensive project management, operations, and maintenance skills to deliver initiatives on time and within budget.
• Achieved initiatives in implementing industry standard best practices as related to design, safety standards, energy efficiency, team communications.
• Mitigated risk exposure by assessing activities, estimating preliminary costs, and preparing engineering plans within project budget and schedules.
• Tracked recurring issues to drive resolutions at the root-cause level of functionality during repairs, installations, and preventive maintenance to optimize productivity.
• Advanced efficiency by streamlining numerous processes with techniques that were subsequently adopted as company standards and applied across all projects.

Bsc, Marine Technology

Hnd, Civil Engineering