Experience

Residential and Ranch Real Estate Group

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Real Estate Broker / Owner

  • Apr 2022 - Present

  The Res and Ranch Group is a leading Real Estate Brokerage servicing the Austin and San Antonio Metro Areas, New Braunfels, Dripping Springs, Wimberley, Canyon Lake, and the Texas Hill Country. FROM CITY TO COUNTRY, WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED! The Res and Ranch Group is a leading Real Estate Brokerage servicing the Austin and San Antonio Metro Areas, New Braunfels, Dripping Springs, Wimberley, Canyon Lake, and the Texas Hill Country. FROM CITY TO COUNTRY, WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED!



Retro Green Construction, LLC.

• Dripping Springs, TX

• Owner

  • Jan 2022 - Present



All City Real Estate, Ltd. Co.

• United States
• Real Estate
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Res and Ranch Real Estate Group - Team Owner and Broker

  • Mar 2019 - Apr 2022

  REALTOR service the Austin and San Antionio Metro Areas and the Texas Hill Country. REALTOR service the Austin and San Antionio Metro Areas and the Texas Hill Country.



eXp Realty

• Austin, Texas Area

• Residential and Ranch Real Estate Group - Team Lead & Licensed Realtor

  • Mar 2018 - Mar 2019

  Specialize in Residential, Raw Land, Farm and Ranch, and Commercial Real Estate purchases and sales. Specialize in Residential, Raw Land, Farm and Ranch, and Commercial Real Estate purchases and sales.



The Russell Martin Home Selling Team - RE/MAX

• Austin, TX

• Licensed Realtor

  • Jun 2015 - Mar 2018

  Platnium Club Award Winner - 2016 Platnium Club Award Winner - 2016



Topaz Power

• Sr. Staff Engineer

  • Mar 2012 - Sep 2015

  In charge of developing and maintaining the major maintenance outage budgets, capital component refurbishment and procurement, providing engineering support and technical direction to the facilities managed by Topaz Power Management; Sapphire Power Holdings and Topaz Power Group. Duties include budget management with P&L responsibility, contract negotiation, capital improvement projects, outage management, repair, replacement and technology upgrades to fixed and rotating equipment, root cause failure analysis, and corporate engineering procedure rollout, implementation, and training.Accomplishments: - Provide services to ten facilities throughout Texas and the Mid Atlantic Region. The equipment being managed at these facilities consists of: ABB, GE frame and aeroderivative, Mars, and Westinghouse gas turbines; ABB, GE, Mitsubishi, and Westinghouse steam turbines; ABB, Nooter Erikson, Indeck, and Vogt HRSG’s; and an ABB gas fired boiler. The facilities produce a total combined net generation of 2250MW. - Negotiated and implemented Major Maintenance Agreements with GE and Siemens to cover the major equipment at multiple facilities throughout Sapphire Power Holdings. - Developed work scope for four GE 7FA Package 3 Compressor Upgrades, budget $3.5MM each, and GE MKVIe IO Pack Replacement for two sites, budget $2.5MM each. - Rolled out, implemented and trained the facilities on three corporate engineering procedures and four corporate engineering maintenance guidelines. The procedures are Management of Change (MOC), Management of Change for Temporary Pipe Repairs, and GE TIL & Service Bulletin Implementation and Tracking. The maintenance guidelines are HRSG Inspection, Rotating Equipment Inspection, Piping and Pipe Systems Inspection, and Relief and Vent Systems Inspection. Show less

• Plant Engineer

  • Apr 2011 - Mar 2012

  Responsibilities: In charge of engineering and project implementation, developing and implementing procedures and maintenance guidelines to reduce unplanned downtime and increase equipment reliability. Duties include capital improvement projects, outage management, repair, replacement and technology upgrades of fixed and rotating equipment, making software changes, performing loop checks and troubleshooting on the GE MKVIe control system.Accomplishments: - Developed and implementing three corporate engineering procedures and four corporate engineering maintenance guidelines. The procedures are Management of Change (MOC), Management of Change for Temporary Pipe Repairs, and GE TIL & Service Bulletin Implementation and Tracking. The maintenance guidelines are HRSG Inspection, Rotating Equipment Inspection, Piping and Pipe Systems Inspection, and Relief and Vent Systems Inspection. These procedures and guidelines will be implemented throughout the company, which includes corporate headquarters and all three generating facilities. - Reviewed gas turbine combustion hardware and identified that Combustion Inspections on the units were not needed due to the installed combustion components life cycle. This resulted in a savings to the company of over $16MM over the life of the GE Long Term Service Agreement. - Involved in the capital project justification, project scope development, and implementation of various capital projects throughout both facilities with a total project spend of $526M. All projects were completed without a safety incident, on time and on or under budget. - Provided maintenance support and technical direction on the mechanical and controls related equipment. The facility major equipment was comprised of GE 7FA gas turbines (4), GE D8 steam turbines (2), Westinghouse 235 steam turbine, Nooter Erikson HRSG’s (4) and an ABB gas fired boiler with a total net generation of 1600 MW. Show less



Oxy

• United States
• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chlor-Alkali / VCM / Cogen Maintenance Engineer & Cogen Production Engineer

  • Mar 2008 - Apr 2011

  In charge of developing and maintaining the Cogen Operational and Maintenance Budgets and Production Schedules, providing maintenance support and technical direction to the Chlor-Alkali and Cogeneration Maintenance Departments and managing the Welding Shop personnel. Duties included managing outages, capital improvement projects, the Mechanical Integrity program findings, maintenance and perform upgrades to fixed and rotating equipment, and writing and implementing Management of Change (MOC’s) projects. Accomplishments: - Outages planned and executed include GE 7FA Combustion and Hot Gas Path Inspections, Alstom DKE1-1 Steam Turbine Minor Inspection, and two five day Chlor-Alkali plant outage, with all completed with no safety incident, on time or ahead of schedule, and within budget that ranged from $850,000 to $2.4M. - Planned and developed work scopes for four upcoming outages: Total Plant Outage for Chlor-Alkali and Cogeneration, budget of $7.7M, two 7FA Gas Turbine Major Inspections, budget of $8.0M, each, and an Alstom DKE1-1 Steam Turbine Major Inspection, budget of $16.0M. - Managed four capital improvement projects totaling $400,000. The projects were a CVS Vent Header replacement, $225,000; Cell Liquor Header replacement, $100,000; 3rd Effect Hotwell Demister Pad installation, $50,000, and Wash Water Tank Piping modification, $25,000. All projects were completed without a safety incident, on time and on or under budget. - Involved in the AFE justification, project scope development, and implementation of various capital projects throughout the Cogeneration and Chlor-Alkali with a total project spend of $1.1M - Reduced the overdue Mechanical Integrity program findings from 15% to 0%, accomplished by increasing the visibility of the program, budgeting costs for improvements, developing a work scope, and executing the improvements in the agreed upon time frame. Show less



Sappi

• South Africa
• Paper & Forest Products
• 700 & Above Employee

• Reliability Engineer

  • May 2005 - Mar 2008

  In charge of reducing the Unplanned Mechanical Downtime and increasing the Production Uptime throughout the entire facility, which included the Utilities, Paper Mill and Release Departments and managing the Preventative Maintenance Department personnel. Solutions included implementing new technologies, developing a more effective and efficient work load, implementing Predictive and Preventative Maintenance, managing capital improvement projects, and Root Cause Failure Analysis training and implementation. Accomplishments: - Reduced Unplanned Mechanical Downtime in the facility from 10.48% to 3.12%, accomplished by developing a total machine downtime tracking matrix, reviewing the data on a daily basis, and performing a Root Cause Failure Analysis for any extended downtimes. - Led nine Root Cause Failure Analysis Investigations. RCFA Investigations were performed on various bearings, a paper machine dryer can, a wire and shake drive, a paper coater stick conveyor, and a coal pulverizer gearbox. - Managed eight capital improvement projects totaling $705,000, all of which were completed on time and on or under budget. - Participated as a team leader for two Kaizen projects; "5S" in the Utilities Red Buss Switch Gear Room and developing operator basic care rounds for a paper coating machine. - SAP R/3 software site Super-user, Preventative Maintenance platform. Show less



GE Power

• United States
• Electric Power Generation
• 700 & Above Employee

• Supervisor / Safety Team Leader

  • Feb 2004 - May 2005

  Supervision of fifty employees. Duties include matching the employee's strengths and weaknesses with the various manufacturing tasks, performance reviews, salary management, and working with the employees to develop best practices of manufacturing. Accomplishments: - In charge of making manufacturing decisions that keep the various airfoil (steam turbine blade) product lines flowing through the facility and to our end user, while incorporating Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma into the manufacturing process. - Developed and implemented Lean Manufacturing in an environment where the product is changed from one order to the next, resulting in a 5% productivity improvement, and a 7% increase in number of airfoil rows shipped. - Participant in two Lean Manufacturing Boot Camps; the first was the creation and implementation of a tooling cart and the second was creating the first Model Line for GE Energy. - Working with three different safety teams and the EHS department, identified and resolved any safety concerns, of which 89 Employee Safety Concerns were closed, with 94% of these closed within 30 days. - Lead the safety program and finished FY 2004 with a total of four recordable injuries which translates to an Airfoil Shop Injury and Illness Rate of 2.13%. There was no injury that for over 500 days that caused an employee to miss work. Show less

• Controls / DLN / Electrical / Mechanical Field Engineer & Project Manager

  • Aug 1999 - Feb 2004

  Project Manager in charge of installing Gas Turbine GE Speedtronic MKIV, MKV, and MKVI control systems. The control systems were installed to operate GE LM2500, Frame V, VI, VII and IX Gas Turbines. Duties included making software changes, loop checks, and troubleshooting.Accomplishments: - Project Manager and Lead Engineer on site, while working with a team of engineers from GE Power Systems, to design, install, commission, and develop an outage plan for installing a Liquid Fuel Recirculation System and a Liquid Fuel Check Valve cooling system. These systems were the first in world and the GE Gas Turbine Fleet. - In charge of dynamic combustion tuning of GE DLN Gas Turbines. - In charge of commissioning 480/240/120 VAC and 125 VDC motor control centers and the associated equipment connected to these control centers. Show less



Woodward Governor Company

• Loveland, CO

• Commissioning Engineer

  • Jun 1998 - Aug 1999

  In charge of installing six Gas and Hydro Turbine control systems these included a Woodward NetCon 5000, Micronet and GE Fanuc 90-70 series. Duties included making software changes, loop checks and troubleshooting. All of the projects were completed on time or ahead of schedule. Accomplishments: - Commissioned two GE LM2500 DLE+ gas turbines whose primary function was to drive a large compressor to move natural gas through the Trans Canada Pipeline, resulting in a 25% increase in overall plant efficiency and a 10% increase in the natural gas flow through the pipeline. - Commissioned a GE LM2500 gas turbine whose primary function was to inject natural gas into an oil well to increase the output of the well, resulting in a 71% increase in production output of the oil well. Show less