Todd Smith Email & Phone Number

Geismar, Louisiana, United States

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Reorganizing the service center for a Visual Management Flow System by facilitating kaizen events, creating shadow boards, re-positioning machines and organizing point of use tooling to improve efficiency up to 30%.• Engineer, draft, and oversee the fabrication of setup reduction fixtures and specialized shop tooling.• Structured and implemented a quality program, as well as, perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and maintain metrics for rework & warranty accounts.• Manage the development, justification, sourcing, & implementation of facility capital improvement projects.• Train new Client Service Managers and develop the tools for them to quote and manage a repair project.• Review and approve all vendor material certification and certificates of conformance for contracted work to ensure compliance to D-R specifications.• Developed the service center global process maps and supplemental training material that was instrumental in testing the Oracle operating system being implemented, identifying touch points between Oracle and non-Oracle activities, and training personnel.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Primary liaison between internal/external clients and the shop to determine client requirements, resolved technical requests, and discussed on-going work, up-coming turnarounds, scope changes, hold points, etc.• Obtained client Purchase Orders and perform contract review to approve Terms & Conditions. • Prepared a concise, yet descriptive set of work instructions for the shop covering necessary client requirements, while still complying with OEM technical specifications, standards, and approved shop practices.• Reviewed shop inspection documentation in order to develop a list of OEM recommended repair activities and parts necessary for final reassembly.• Coordinated input from multiple disciplines to provide ideas and solutions to optimize the repair of equipment for improvements in quality, efficiency, cost, safety, and delivery. • Quoted the price and delivery for the inspection and repair activities associated with internal/external services and parts for client’s rotating equipment ranging in size from a few hundred dollars to $2.7M.• Prioritized and coordinated up to 60 on-going jobs and turnarounds to meet client expectations.• Procured, scheduled, & managed internal & external workflow activities to ensure they are carried out according to the Scope of Work and applicable OEM standards.• Monitored shop cost accounting and achieved 134% revenue growth associated with outside services, parts, and shop work performed while exceeding Service Center margin goals by 4%.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

• Prepared proposals for clients to alter compressor capabilities to meet new operating conditions.• Visited client sites to assess steam turbine wear and recommended required repairs to regain efficiency and reliability.• Evaluated client steam turbine and reciprocating equipment for the purpose of advising repair cost and time frame for service center repairs.• Overhauled and aligned reciprocating compressors, steam turbines and electric motors at client sites.

Wellsville, New York

• Designed and upgraded a steam turbine governor trip and throttle valve.• Evaluated and revised material heat treat process for improving governor valve cage longevity.• Reviewed the design, wrote a repair standard, and created an advertisement for an upgraded steam turbine governor valve exerciser.• Advised Service Centers of approved repair procedures for Dresser-Rand Steam Turbine product line.

Painted Post, New York

• Managed a development project for increasing the valve life of a lean burn reciprocating engine.• Updated clients and account managers concerning the progress of development projects and potential for mutually beneficial on-site testing.• Designed an exhaust manifold particle catcher to prevent particles from damaging the turbocharger of a reciprocating engine.• Coordinated personnel involved in finite element analysis, materials engineering, materials testing, and drafting to improve the factor of safety for reciprocating engine pistons experiencing failure.

Olean, New York

• Assessed client centrifugal compressor needs and recommended product upgrades.• Quoted two year recommended spares that clients should have on hand for their centrifugal compressors to minimize down time.• Operated centrifugal compressors at varying parameters on the test stand to obtain data for performance calculations to ensure that the compressor meets design expectations.