Andrew Olsen
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Uros Durdevic
First thing that comes to me about Andy is a hard-working person who performs and delivers under the pressure. I had the pleasure of meeting Andy Olsen back in 2009, when he hired me, and working under his management on development of the new generation radial gas turbine (2MW) until 2014. At that time Andy was working as a Program Manager and Engineering Team Lead. He showed willingness and dedication to execute the job efficiently and in the best possible way as well as he showed well organized skills and support to all his fellow colleagues. His engineering knowledge, experience and skills contributed to successful execution of different projects. I was particularly impressed by Andy’s ability to handle tight budget, deadlines and quite often quite demanding people. It was a pleasure having opportunity to work together with Andy until 2020 where I learned a lot about
Erick Webb
Andy is an incredibly talented and dedicated Chief Engineer & Development Program Manager. He lead the development of multiple technologies for our Oil & Gas and Renewables business efforts. His micro-turbine expertise is highly regarded in the industry and throughout the company we worked. I had selected Andy to be the Chief Engineer on our patented Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) >$200M program; he was instrumental in capturing the contract win and lead the development efforts. Andy has always been dedicated to the success of the business and is willing to fill many roles as needed.
Uros Durdevic
First thing that comes to me about Andy is a hard-working person who performs and delivers under the pressure. I had the pleasure of meeting Andy Olsen back in 2009, when he hired me, and working under his management on development of the new generation radial gas turbine (2MW) until 2014. At that time Andy was working as a Program Manager and Engineering Team Lead. He showed willingness and dedication to execute the job efficiently and in the best possible way as well as he showed well organized skills and support to all his fellow colleagues. His engineering knowledge, experience and skills contributed to successful execution of different projects. I was particularly impressed by Andy’s ability to handle tight budget, deadlines and quite often quite demanding people. It was a pleasure having opportunity to work together with Andy until 2020 where I learned a lot about
Erick Webb
Andy is an incredibly talented and dedicated Chief Engineer & Development Program Manager. He lead the development of multiple technologies for our Oil & Gas and Renewables business efforts. His micro-turbine expertise is highly regarded in the industry and throughout the company we worked. I had selected Andy to be the Chief Engineer on our patented Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) >$200M program; he was instrumental in capturing the contract win and lead the development efforts. Andy has always been dedicated to the success of the business and is willing to fill many roles as needed.
Uros Durdevic
First thing that comes to me about Andy is a hard-working person who performs and delivers under the pressure. I had the pleasure of meeting Andy Olsen back in 2009, when he hired me, and working under his management on development of the new generation radial gas turbine (2MW) until 2014. At that time Andy was working as a Program Manager and Engineering Team Lead. He showed willingness and dedication to execute the job efficiently and in the best possible way as well as he showed well organized skills and support to all his fellow colleagues. His engineering knowledge, experience and skills contributed to successful execution of different projects. I was particularly impressed by Andy’s ability to handle tight budget, deadlines and quite often quite demanding people. It was a pleasure having opportunity to work together with Andy until 2020 where I learned a lot about
Erick Webb
Andy is an incredibly talented and dedicated Chief Engineer & Development Program Manager. He lead the development of multiple technologies for our Oil & Gas and Renewables business efforts. His micro-turbine expertise is highly regarded in the industry and throughout the company we worked. I had selected Andy to be the Chief Engineer on our patented Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) >$200M program; he was instrumental in capturing the contract win and lead the development efforts. Andy has always been dedicated to the success of the business and is willing to fill many roles as needed.
Uros Durdevic
First thing that comes to me about Andy is a hard-working person who performs and delivers under the pressure. I had the pleasure of meeting Andy Olsen back in 2009, when he hired me, and working under his management on development of the new generation radial gas turbine (2MW) until 2014. At that time Andy was working as a Program Manager and Engineering Team Lead. He showed willingness and dedication to execute the job efficiently and in the best possible way as well as he showed well organized skills and support to all his fellow colleagues. His engineering knowledge, experience and skills contributed to successful execution of different projects. I was particularly impressed by Andy’s ability to handle tight budget, deadlines and quite often quite demanding people. It was a pleasure having opportunity to work together with Andy until 2020 where I learned a lot about
Erick Webb
Andy is an incredibly talented and dedicated Chief Engineer & Development Program Manager. He lead the development of multiple technologies for our Oil & Gas and Renewables business efforts. His micro-turbine expertise is highly regarded in the industry and throughout the company we worked. I had selected Andy to be the Chief Engineer on our patented Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) >$200M program; he was instrumental in capturing the contract win and lead the development efforts. Andy has always been dedicated to the success of the business and is willing to fill many roles as needed.
Experience
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Brayton Energy
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United States
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Engineer
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Aug 2021 - Present
Engineering development of a Turbo Alternator battery charger for an advanced electric vehicle. Engineering development of a Turbo Alternator battery charger for an advanced electric vehicle.
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Dresser-Rand - A Siemens Business
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United States
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Machinery Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior System Engineer
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Mar 2015 - Sep 2020
Multiple assignments using Sr Systems Engineer or Principal Engineer and/or Project Manager capabilities to help international teams solve complex gas turbine problems, often while in a root cause team process.
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Chief Engineer. CAES
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Aug 2013 - Mar 2015
Chief Engineer of >100MUSD Compressed Air Energy Storage Project in Texas• Systems integration responsibility for the steam turbines, compressors, heat exchangers, inlet filters, lube system skids, generators, UPS, and Accessories, working closely with OEMs & EPC.• 60MUSD turbomachinery and accessories hardware budget working closely with Sourcing.• Wrote very tight technical-project specifications, which for the Generator enabled a large price reduction of millions of USD off of the preliminary FEED quotes. Show less
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Program Manager, Development Projects, Norway
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Oct 2008 - Jul 2013
Managed a team of 10-20 Engineers and Specialists in Norway to Design, Manufacture and Test a new low emissions 2 MW industrial gas turbine and bring it into production.• Scope included all efforts needed to proceed from Concept to Design to Preliminary hardware to Test to ID and fix issues to Upgrade for Production to Performance demonstrations to Engine limited release to customers. • Full budget responsibility in the many MUSD.• Monthly reports and reviews with Executive Management and occasionally the CEO. Show less
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Ingersoll Rand
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United States
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Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Manager,Turbomachinery Engineering
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2000 - Oct 2008
Leader of the development team to Design, Demonstrate, Launch and then Production support of the 250kW recuperated microturbine. • Scope was very similar to the 2MW gas turbine development in Norway, except this was starting with a clean sheet of paper, recuperated and US based, with turbomachinery help from Norway. • Recruited by D-R Norway when 30 units were in production, now 350 units with >7 million Hours. Leader of the development team to Design, Demonstrate, Launch and then Production support of the 250kW recuperated microturbine. • Scope was very similar to the 2MW gas turbine development in Norway, except this was starting with a clean sheet of paper, recuperated and US based, with turbomachinery help from Norway. • Recruited by D-R Norway when 30 units were in production, now 350 units with >7 million Hours.
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Concepts NREC
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United States
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Mechanical Or Industrial Engineering
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1 - 100 Employee
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Manager Turbomachinery
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1996 - 2000
NREC Microturbine turbomachinery manager for the development program of the 70KW microturbine. NREC was owned by IR at this time. Similar job scope as the 250KW microturbine. NREC Microturbine turbomachinery manager for the development program of the 70KW microturbine. NREC was owned by IR at this time. Similar job scope as the 250KW microturbine.
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GE Power
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United States
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Electric Power Generation
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700 & Above Employee
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Staff Engineer Aircraft Engines
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1986 - 1996
Project Engineer working mechanical systems on small aircraft engines for both Production and in the Advanced Technology departments Project Engineer working mechanical systems on small aircraft engines for both Production and in the Advanced Technology departments
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Sikorsky
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United States
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Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineer Transmissions
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1982 - 1986
Design Engineer for the S61 Presidential, 53E, RSRA X-Wing Design Engineer for the S61 Presidential, 53E, RSRA X-Wing
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Education
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1988 - 1990
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MSME, Mechanical Tribology -
1980 - 1983
University of Vermont
BS, Mechanical Engineering
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