Experience

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  Spencer-Ogden

  • Technical Writer / Technical Auditor

    • Sep 2014 - Present

    • It is my responsibility to provide technical writing and quality control auditing for the new construction and turn-over of technical and operational manuals from Southern Company to Mississippi Power.• This assignment requires the ability to accurately audit piping, instrumentation, isometric and electrical drawings as well as acceptance test reports, flange bolt reports, torque sheets, welding reports and calibrations sheets to ensure reliable compliance reporting.

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  Ensco plc

  • Contract Technical Writer

    • Jun 2014 - Sep 2014

    Ensco is the world's second-largest offshore drilling company. Its diversified asset base is largely jack-up rigs, drill ships and semi-submersible rigs. * Following multiple acquisitions Ensco required updating of their corporate and field manuals and documents. My responsibility was to update procedure manuals through research and interviewing SME's to identify gaps and rectify the issues. ; * The assignment required considerable research of state, federal and international regulations to ensure strict compliance by way of a ``Plain Speak'' language approach to ensure easy to understand communications. ;

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  Shea Writing & Training Solutions

  • Contract Technical Writer

    • Mar 2014 - Jun 2014

    The Fort Beeler NGL Plant is a cryogenic expander facility designed to extract liquid petroleum products from raw natural gas and at the same time producing pipeline quality gas. * My responsibilities included onsite interviewing of the SME's to create operational procedures for all phases of daily operations, emergency and maintenance shut-downs, and start-ups. ;

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  STAT

  • Procedure Writer

    • Feb 2014 - Mar 2014

    STAT is an engineering service company specializing in Subsea Integrity Management, subsea installations, subsea systems engineering and 3D technical animations. * My assignments included writing the installation procedures for a subsea production system off the coast of Argentina using ROV's. I also collaborated with engineering to write procedures for two subsea integrity management projects for Technip and one for a collapsed platform salvage decommission utilizing 3-D imaging generated from video, sonar and still photos for TOTAL. ;

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  Worley Parsons

  • Technical Writer

    • Jan 2013 - Feb 2014

    Worley Parsons is an international engineering and construction consulting company. * Working with both the GPO and P&M groups I wrote ``Safe Work'' structural, mechanical and piping construction procedures for the Bp platforms Thunder Horse, Horn Mountain and Marlin Hub. The procedures required technical clarity, regulatory and HSE guidance, and interfacing with client engineering and third party service providers. * Writing these procedures required my hands-on knowledge of construction vessels, demolition, salvage, lifting/rigging, structural, mechanical & piping installations, repairs and maintenance projects above and below the water line. ;

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  Cherokee Consulting

  • Project Manager, Technical Writer

    • Jan 2010 - Jan 2013

    • My assignments were as Company Representative, Project Manager, Technical Writer and Technical Auditor for foreign and domestic offshore and onshore projects.• Typical man-diving and ROV inspection projects were for Underwater Inspection In Lieu of Dry Dock (UWILD) for floating platforms and Subsea Integrity Management (SIM). • Project assignments were R&R of topside and subsea production/processing systems, structural construction/modifications often involving heavy lifts, lighting & collision avoidance system installations, pipeline intervention, pipe laying and abandonments, riser R&R, retrofitting cathodic systems, ship repairs and platform decommissioning.• My assignment with Tetra Technologies in Nantong, China when they built the 500’ derrick barge “Hedron” was to convert manuals and procedures from Mandarin to English for the barge’s winches, pumps, motors, black-water system, generators, safety equipment, galley equipment, communications and anchorage. Many items didn’t have procedures and required creating them from research and interviewing SME’s. • The Tetra assignment also included technical auditing, cataloging and inventory of the equipment and systems described immediately above. • GOM project assignments included auditing ship systems, dive systems, procedures and manuals, inventories, rigging plans and designing ship deck layouts for projects. • Client companies included Apache USA, BHP Billiton, Chevron, Bp, Paneco, Strategy Offshore, Atlas Engineering, Shell, Hunt, , Elf, Pioneer, Anadarko, Williams Pipeline, etc.

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  InterAct

  • Subsea Integrity Management Engineer

    • Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

    InterAct is a project management and engineering company. 2H is an engineering company specializing in designing risers and SIM. InterAct assigned me to 2H as Principal Subsea Integrity Engineer to help set up the Subsea Integrity Management system for a Bp contract.

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  Con-Dive LLC

  • Senior Project Manager / Technical Writer

    • Jan 2006 - Jan 2008

    • When the company was first formed I was initially brought in as Senior Project Manager and tasked with writing safety manuals for our corporate office and vessel fleet. • My responsibilities included the auditing of materials and supplies for company projects as well as periodic auditing of the fleet offshore dive systems safety processes. • In the aftermath of Katrina I performed a dual role as Offshore Project Manager on the 272’ construction vessel “TBAUD Sea”. I oversaw the set-up of the deck layout for inspections of over thirty platforms and their associated production systems. • The inspection process included writing assessment reports, proposing safe work repair processes and procedures as well as providing the materials list and design for the R&R. • Following the inspection campaign we reconfigured the vessel’s deck for construction, returned to sea and repaired the damages or decommissioned the assets. • Aside from the hurricane work we performed platform inspections, construction, riser R&R’s, salvage, pipeline repair, decommissioning and interventions.

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  Oceaneering International

  • Project Manager / Information Manager

    • Jan 2005 - Jan 2006

    • When the company was first formed I was initially brought in as Senior Project Manager and tasked with writing safety manuals for our corporate office and vessel fleet. • My responsibilities included the auditing of materials and supplies for company projects as well as periodic auditing of the fleet offshore dive systems safety processes. • In the aftermath of Katrina I performed a dual role as Offshore Project Manager on the 272’ construction vessel “TBAUD Sea”. I oversaw the set-up of the deck layout for inspections of over thirty platforms and their associated production systems. • The inspection process included writing assessment reports, proposing safe work repair processes and procedures as well as providing the materials list and design for the R&R. • Following the inspection campaign we reconfigured the vessel’s deck for construction, returned to sea and repaired the damages or decommissioned the assets. • Aside from the hurricane work we performed platform inspections, construction, riser R&R’s, salvage, pipeline repair, decommissioning and interventions.

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  Superior Energy

  • Project Manager / Procedure Writer

    • Jan 2003 - Jan 2005

    • As Project and Account Manager I was involved with onshore/offshore pipeline and downhole projects. Due to my ability to analyze hydrocarbon samples (including H2S) and provide chemical solutions in conjunction with Superiors proprietary intervention equipment; I was asked to set up a lab in Houston and then prepare chemical and equipment solutions for down-hole and pipelines projects from field samples.

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  Ocean Anti-Corrosion Technologies International

  • Founder

    • Jan 1988 - Jan 1992

    • Collaborating with Stolt, Oceaneering, Perry Tritech, Canyon Offshore, Alcatel, Rochester and other umbilical and ROV companies I developed and then manufactured ROV and WASP Suit umbilical and wire rope anti-corrosion protection lubricants. This included successfully modifying to improve an existing injection system for applying the non-hydrocarbon, long sheared polymer hydrophobic lubricant. • I wrote the MSDS sheets to US and international standards as well as the application, operational and maintenance schedules, and procedures for each of the products.