Director of Mechanical Services, Gulf Coast/Consulting Engineer

• Mar 2023 - Present

Mechanical Engineering Team Lead

• Dec 2022 - Mar 2023

• Managed team of ten unit mechanical engineers.• Reviewed and provided guidance on engineering designs

Senior Fixed Equipment Engineer- Global Refining

• Jun 2019 - Dec 2022

• Promoted to Senior Fixed Equipment Engineer charged with providing mechanical engineering expertise, oversight, mentoring, and support to personnel at 13 refineries. • Managed mechanical integrity section of corporate engineering practices/standards including updates, audits, and interpretations.• Trained, mentored, and coached site personnel, performed Fitness for Service evaluations, flew to the site to determine what to do, and provided repair recommendations or guidance (materials, welding, procedures on installation and the how-to's, etc.) working in conjunction with other subject matter experts (corrosion, inspection, materials) as a team to drive resolution• Served as turnaround support when sites didn’t have enough employees to support an outage, or they needed an expert onsite to handle a critical issue they thought would arise. • Worked as a team to audit compliance against industry codes and company practices. • Established and implemented corporate standards to include best practices, required engineering practices, and required standards or updated and revised existing ones as needed. • Orchestrated and conducted “fixed equipment engineering boot camp” training for engineers, inspectors, and people leaders which was targeted around damage mechanisms as well as inspection and repair considerations for process units also conducted a training course called “PREP” which is an introductory course to newly hired engineers on the basic aspects of refinery equipment, operations, damage mechanisms.• Active member and contributor in API and ASME; contribute to ASME PCC-1, API 660, API 661, and API 561 and chair for API TR-942C• Corporate mechanical SME for steam methane reforming furnaces Show less

Mechanical Integrity Engineer

• Aug 2016 - Jun 2019

• SME for Mechanical Engineering discipline including but not limited to equipment repair, fitness for service, joint integrity, risk-based inspection, equipment vibration, and fatigue. • Trained, mentored, and developed a top-performing team of junior mechanical engineers including technical, soft, and problem-solving skillsets. Refinery lead for bolted joint integrity program.• Resolved longstanding hammering and vibration issues at Coker which three EPCs were unable to do.• Proved that a critical, heavy wall reactor was fit for service through Level 3 Crack Like Flaw analysis utilizing FEA.• Modernized site bolted joint program to leverage concepts in ASME PCC-1 and PVRC. Show less

Inspection Supervisor

• May 2015 - Aug 2016

• Promoted to Inspection Supervisor charged with managing a diverse, five-person team of union inspectors and drove inspection compliance for a 90kbpd Coker, three CDUs totaling 440kbpd, and two vapor recovery units.• Spearheaded and managed planning and scheduling system for inspection maintenance requests including scaffold, insulation, radiography, rope access, and guided wave.

Maintenance and Reliability Engineer

• Jul 2011 - May 2015

• Recognized for improving unit reliability and designing repairs to maintain operation for crude and coking are• Avoided complete CDU shutdown during polar vortex through innovative online repair.• Refinery SME for steam and condensate systems, specializing in winterization systems.• Mentored five (5) contract engineers and three (3) new hires. Supervised two interns.

Lead Availability Engineer in Turnaround Engineering Group

• Apr 2009 - Jul 2011

• Served as Lead Engineer for one FCC, one UF, two CDU, and five VRU turnarounds• Developed and designed a vapor and liquid phase chemical cleaning process for FCC fractionator.• Implemented a valve and valve bulk requisition process and database module for the Turnaround Engineering Group.

Project Engineer

• Jun 2007 - Apr 2009

• Managed and completed small projects across all refinery units• Improved reliability and operability of refinery winterization systems through the leadership of the 2007 and 2008 Refinery Winterization Program.• Assembled refinery-wide exchanger bundle database and conducted bundle life prediction analyses using Weibull methodology.• Identified inefficiencies in “Control of The Work Permit Delivery Process” and implemented solutions to reduce contractor wait time from one hour to ten minutes. Show less

Availability Intern

• May 2006 - Aug 2006

Designed solution to increase availability and quality of potable water pressure. Collaborated with multi-discipline groups Designed solution to increase availability and quality of potable water pressure. Collaborated with multi-discipline groups

Mechanical Engineering Co-op

• May 2004 - Dec 2005

Designed products ranging from molded components to sheet metal enclosures Collected and analyzed information through experimentation & enabled process improvements Performed tolerance analyses Created & revised engineering drawings Designed assembly line which was estimated to increase production by 100% Designed multi-bend brake press tooling to increase production of sheet metal components Analyzed performance of and recommended solutions to existing assembly processes Designed products ranging from molded components to sheet metal enclosures Collected and analyzed information through experimentation & enabled process improvements Performed tolerance analyses Created & revised engineering drawings Designed assembly line which was estimated to increase production by 100% Designed multi-bend brake press tooling to increase production of sheet metal components Analyzed performance of and recommended solutions to existing assembly processes