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Chapel Hill, NC, US

Irving, Texas, US

Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. With a team of 16,000+ employees and operations over 50 countries around the world, Flowserve serves over 10,000 customers worldwide in Nuclear, Power, Oil & Gas, Chemicals, Water, and other general industries. Working as a Manufacturing.

• BID Group is one of the largest integrated suppliers to the wood processing industry and the leader in North America. With facilities throughout US and Canada, it provides one-stop comprehensive turnkey solutions to.
• Directed cross-functional teams across US & Canada and delivered 21 large capital CDK's and turnkey projects (over $100 MM) on time and under budget during fiscal year 2019, a company record that represents a 50%.
• Motivated and consolidated geographically distributed teams to build a coherent, high-performing team and reduced cost; created an environment of productivity and personal accountability that was instrumental in.
• Transformed DelTech design completely from 2D AutoCAD design to 3D SOLIDWORKS parametric design and fully integrated with Genius ERP system; reduced average engineering lead time from 10~12 wk to 4~5 wk via design.
• Drove to streamline the business operation and seamlessly integrate engineering with procurement/fabrication/shipping /construction using ERP; improved efficiency, transparency and business P&L performance.
• Standardized CAD modeling, BOM's, fabrication drawings, P&ID, I&C and field assemblies to improve quality and constructability.

Houston, Texas, US

• McDermott is a premier, fully-integrated provider of technology, engineering and construction solutions to the energy industry. For more than a century, McDermott has designed and built end-to-end infrastructure and.
• Managed the engineering structural team responsible for the design of all the process units and equipments (> $500 million value) used in the plutonium reprocessing facility; applied earned value management (EVM).
• Collaborated with multiple discipline teams (civil, architect, electrical, I&C, control, chemical, nuclear safety) for the design of complex chemical aqueous polish process, plutonium oxidation & power process, pellet.
• Interfaced with vendors, regulatory agencies, and clients to ensure structural integrity and code compliance of the design. Assess design changes, deviations and as-built conditions. Evaluated vendor nonconformance to.
• Developed general engineering guidelines, policies and procedures to improve engineering design and data integration. Trained and developed the engineering staff. Trouble-shot difficult technical issues from the field.
• Served as the Software Program Manager of ANSYS for the company; identified and reported several Class 3 errors to ANSYS Corporation.

• The Shaw Group was headquartered in Baton Rouge, LA with ~25,000 employees and $6 billion revenue in FY12. It provided engineering, construction, maintenance, technology, fabrication, and support services for clients.
• Managed the seismic team of 20+ junior and senior engineers in a multi-discipline engineering organization for the detailed design and modification of all process units and equipment used in the multi-billion-dollar.
• Led the team to perform static, seismic, impact, thermal, CFD, FSI analyses on design of various types of gloveboxes, automated material handling & process equipment, laboratory equipment, pressure vessels and piping.
• Accomplished 31 Laboratory units, 10 K-units on time and within budget. Led the team to accomplish the $22 million BWR/PWR modifications under baseline budget and ahead of schedule to meet DOE's milestone.
• Performed seismic analyses with ANSYS; developed custom ANSYS APDL macros for modeling, solving, post processing and improved efficiency; prepared structural calculations for gloveboxes, supports, cranes, equipment.
• Served as a seismic/earthquake specialist to interface with vendors, NRC and NNSA to make sure the design meeting the license application and regulations.

Columbia, SC, US

• SUMMARY: Conducted research as a main investigator on structural integrity evaluation and prediction on thin sheet materials with full scholarship funded by US Air Force and General Motors.
• Led research on structural integrity evaluation and prediction in thin-sheet structures funded by US Air Force and General Motor. Performed advanced FEA simulations for these projects as a major investigator.
• Accomplished static and dynamic experiments on various materials and obtained full-field measurements with 3D DIC system; simulated fracture propagation in thin-structures under large deformation using Ansys, ABAQUS.
• Developed a practical fracture criterion for predicting crack initiation and propagation trajectory for thin-sheet structures; implemented the criterion in custom FE codes with large strain/ large.
• Mentored junior students Pro/E, Ansys modeling techniques; instructed senior labs including wireless data collection, FFT analysis, differential/ wind tunnel tests with Gamecock racing cars.

Cincinnati, Ohio, US

• Assisted the Department Manager in managing over 50 employees for the daily operation in Oral Care department; improved manufacturing excellence by applying total productive maintenance (TPM) and IWS pillars.
• Managed equipment progressive and autonomous maintenance for multiple CREST production lines; improved production efficiency, reliability and flexibility through optimized planning & scheduling.
• Led the renovation of mixing tanks in tooth paste production to reduce waste and shorten downtime for required cleaning.

• Implemented and improved a 2D elastic-plastic FEA code in FORTRAN to calculate fracture parameters (CTOA, stress triaxiality, void growth rate) and to verify the ductile and brittle fracture failure mechanism under.
• Developed proprietary re-position software with C/C++ for 3D precise measurements and implemented in a commercial CAE package for reverse engineering.
• Optimized injection molds with AutoCAD, Pro/E and MOLDFLOW, Ansys; prepared training documentation for MOLDFLOW.
• Designed and optimized pressure vessels with Ansys finite element analysis following ASME VIII and other codes & standards.

Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering

Master Of Science - Ms, Process Equipment & Control (Minor: Electrical Engineering)

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Process Equipment & Control