Experience

SOFEC, Inc.

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Research Engineer

  • Mar 2016 - Present

  Main responsibilities: Conducting hydrodynamic and mooring analysis; Developing detailed load cases for turret mooring evaluation, and motion analysis for floating facility, and designing and specifying mooring system for procurement; Developing and maintaining in-house software to facilitate the pre- and post-processing of engineering tasks; O&G project experience: Chevron Benchamas FSO (EPC, Design Engineer); Suncor Terra Nova FPSO (Aftermarket, OPB analysis); ENI Coral South FLNG (EPC, Design Engineer); ConocoPhillips Barossa FPSO (FEED, Design Engineer); Woodside Sangomar FPSO (FEED & EPC, Lead Engineer); Asset Integrity Digitalization (Design Engineer); Renewable energy experience: Floating offshore wind turbine 1) Global analysis of coupled aero-hydro-servo-elastic FOWT models 2) Developed in-house macro for Turbsim to facilitate the creation of full-field stochastic wind for simulations 3) Evaluated wind turbine vibration and its impact on mooring tension response Data science & machine learning: SOFEC asset integrity digitalization (ongoing) 1) Develop algorithms to post-process signals to gain insight into system performance 2) Build a machine learning model to predict mooring tension response based on signals from onboard instruments 3) Automate the creation of graphical summary of system performance



SOFEC, Inc.

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 100 - 200 Employee

• R&D Intern

  • Sep 2015 - Dec 2015

  Research Project: OPB Analysis for Life Extension Project of Terra Nova FPSO Internship Supervisor: Amir Izadparast Extended previous OPB analysis package to applications of Single/Dual Axis CSA Incorporate effect of low frequency vessel motion and update top angle (primary/secondary) transformation matrix Breakout angle/moment identification by chasing top mooring line and hawsepipe motion Evaluate contributions from different types of stresses (OPB, T-T & IPB) and effect of phase difference on predicted fatigue life



SOFEC, Inc.

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 100 - 200 Employee

• R&D Intern

  • Jun 2014 - Aug 2014

  Research Project : OPB (out-of-plane bending) Mooring Analysis Internship Supervisor: Amir Izadparast Detailed study of OPB JIP report and line theory in OrcaFlex Modeling of OPB spread mooring in OrcaFlex with nonlinear interlink stiffness Developed automated Matlab program (including GUI) to post-process data from OrcaFlex via API and conduct hysteresis transformation Fatigue life prediction of top mooring lines by rainflow counting method Research Project : OPB (out-of-plane bending) Mooring Analysis Internship Supervisor: Amir Izadparast Detailed study of OPB JIP report and line theory in OrcaFlex Modeling of OPB spread mooring in OrcaFlex with nonlinear interlink stiffness Developed automated Matlab program (including GUI) to post-process data from OrcaFlex via API and conduct hysteresis transformation Fatigue life prediction of top mooring lines by rainflow counting method



Wison (Nantong) Heavy Industry Company

• Nantong, Jiangsu Province, China

• Engineer assistant (intern) in Dept. of Technology Design Center

  • Jun 2012 - Jul 2012

  Assisted in global response analysis of buoyant tower of BPZ project Participated in conference of Procedure for Lowering Process of BPZ Topside Compiled files of Standardized Outfitting Steel Material Management Regulation Took classes of tribon in structural design Assisted in global response analysis of buoyant tower of BPZ project Participated in conference of Procedure for Lowering Process of BPZ Topside Compiled files of Standardized Outfitting Steel Material Management Regulation Took classes of tribon in structural design