Responsible for the integrity of all pressure equipment in utility systems critical to refinery operation (steam, electricity, water, air, and gas) as well as naphtha hydrotreating/reforming units at the largest refinery in North America.Specific responsibilities include providing technical assurance on any new construction or modifications to existing equipment, as well as using a risk based approach to monitor the condition of existing equipment. During outages, required to use all available data to make high dollar/high consequence engineering decisions in a time-sensitive environment to provide safe, reliable refinery operation.Lead/participated in root cause analysis of failures, and applied learnings from site and industry to proactively make changes to equipment and/or process to prevent future failures.Knowledgeable in:-Corrosion Mechanisms-Metallurgy-ASME/API standards for piping and pressure vessel design, fabrication, inspection, and repair-Non-destructive examination-Fitness for service ("run or repair" scenarios)-Hot tapping/in-service welding/line stop technology-Welding/weld procedures-Vibration analysis-Stress analysis

Devised, planned, and executed critical experiments for multiple projects in order to further fundamental scientific understanding of silicon photonic fiber optic technology.Gave weekly presentations to project teams on experimental results, advised next steps to take based on statistical analysis of data gathered.Gained experience in DMAIC, DESGN, and MEE problem solving methodologies.Authored a technical report on the results of the experimentation and research.

Gained hands-on experience working on North America's first ever non-wood pulping pilot line. Responsibilities included calculations for mass flow, chemical and water concentrations and additions, and consistency, as well as providing direction to contract labor and occasionally operating the process. Personally gave tour of process to President of KC Professional and other senior management.

Created basic AutoCAD drawings and assisted with pipe flow and combustion calculations for recausticizing filters and recovery boilers.

Worked as part of a two man crew responsible for ensuring little league baseball games started and ended on time and were completed without incident. Either called balls and strikes or worked in the field.