PROFESSION: SUBSEA ENGINEERING

POSITION:  CONSULTANT

EDUCATION: Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering 
(Georgia Tech, 1996)

EXPERIENCE:

Trendsetter Engineering - Houston Texas

Sep/03 - Present

Subsea Engineering Consultant

• Diana DB2ST3 HXT de-completion and re-completion
• Marshall MR1ST1 de-completion and re-completion
• Mica  MA2 de-complete,  production wing valve change out, and re-complete

FMC Corporation - Houston Texas

Jan/97 - Aug/03

Subsea Engineering Design and Applications (Senior Design Engineer)
 

• Project Engineer - Shell Angus 8 slot 10K manifold system, and jumpers.  Helped to establish metrology interpolation method for verifying acoustic jumper data.
• On-sight engineering support for Macaroni, and Europa manifold, jumper and sled projects
• Project Engineer - Shell Crosby 6 slot 10K manifold system, sleds, and jumpers
• Project Engineer - Philips Agate guideline HXT de-completion, tree refurbishment and re-completion
• Project Engineer - Amerada Hess HXT SIT
• Project Engineer - Shell Angus vertical tree workover using the dual bore riser system.
• Project Engineer - Kerr McGee old style conventional tree de-completions using dual bore riser system
• Project Engineer - ExxonMobil HXT completions
• Project Engineer - CAT (connector actuation tool) / Mechanical Connector jumper systems.  FMC new product line, wrote procedures, worked with product group and performed first jumper installations.
• Project Engineer - Shell Serrano and Manatee jumpers.
• Project Engineer - Shell mono-bore riser installation of Europa trees and Serrano coil tubing workovers.
• Design / Applications Engineer - Worked with manufacturing, and vendors, to improve productivity, and to resolve in-process manufacturing issues with component design, and manufacturing mistakes.
• Design / Applications Engineer - Worked with assembly personnel to troubleshoot and resolve design, assembly, testing, and operation issues associated with new and old designs.
• Design / Applications Engineer - Designed and approved load bearing and pressure containing assemblies, components, test fixtures, mechanisms and jigging system.
• Worked with after market to repair offshore equipment.
• Wrote assembly, testing, operating, installation, refurbishment, and de-completion procedures, as well as design documentation for pressure containing and load bearing components, assemblies, and mechanisms.

Pattons Incorporated,  Lithinia Georgia

Sept/87 - Aug/92

Air compressor traveling service technician

• Rebuilt and repaired reciprocating, screw, and vane type air compressors and vacuum pumps ranging from _ to 300 horsepower.
• Affected repairs on compressor system’s electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and mechanical components.

United States Navy

Aug/80 - Aug/86

Machinist Mate Nuclear Power: USS Arkansas CGN 41

   Training:

Machinist Mate A school (Great Lakes, Illinois)
Navy Nuclear Power School (Orlando, Florida)
Navy Nuclear Power Prototype (Idaho Falls, Idaho)
Hagan Automatic Boiler Control (San Diego, California)

• Engine room supervisor, coordinating the responses of steam and reactor plant watch standers during normal and emergency conditions.  Trained watch standers on steam and reactor plant equipment.
• Operated and repaired steam and reactor plant equipment.  This equipment included steam driven turbines, steam driven and electrical, single stage and multistage centrifugal pumps, positive displacement pumps, water seal pumps, reactor plant valves, steam plant valves, water distillation units, high and low pressure air compressors, small boilers, fire fighting equipment, oil purification and, lubrication systems.
• Trained as a pneumatic controls specialist and calibrated all of the steam plant pneumatic controls in #2 Engine room to the point of no alarms during heavy sea conditions.