Objective
shore based senior engineering position
Experience
Subject Matter Expert in the areas of ship structure, structural analysis, shipboard testing, habitability, weight control, stability, and damage control. Additional expertise exists in the areas of auxiliary machinery, propulsion machinery, piping, valves and other piping system components. Strong knowledge of the interrelationships of all shipboard systems
Command’s primary point of contact in the area of Shock criteria and testing, providing both internal and external stakeholders guidance in complying with the intent of Military Specification 901D (Shock Tests, Hi Impact, Shipboard machinery, Equipment and Systems, Requirements for)
Senior Team Member for Damage Control on CVN77 Delivery Team
Command’s primary point of contact for weight control and stability on CVNs IAW SUPSHIP SOM Chapter 21 paragraph 2.3
Review, evaluate and accept or reject technical data and correspondence prepared or presented by Northrop Grumman Newport News to determine the adequacy and acceptability in meeting contractual requirements and intended purpose of design
Primary 250 point of contact for Virginia Class Work Deferrals presented by NGNN. To facilitate this effort, developed a method to track, status and adjudicate overall impact of multiple work deferrals in an engineer department wide aggregate review.
07/03 – 10/05 Senior Engineer AMSEC LLC
Subject Matter Expert for CVN-21 Environmental, Safety and Occupational Health (ESOH) Programmatic Activities, specifically Failure Mode and Effects analysis of Hull, Mechanical and Electrical systems applicable to CVN-21.
Provide subject matter expertise in the areas of Maintainability, Manpower, Human Systems Integration, Total Owner Ship Costs and other programmatic concerns to CVN-21 design reviews.
Represent Northrop Grumman Newport News as subject matter expert for Manpower and Total Ownership Cost (TOC) as core member of Northrop Grumman Newport News’ Technical Performance Measure (TPM) optimization team.
Member of CVN 21 Program Total Ownership Cost team, supporting task leads and group with responsibilities of:
• Provide first draft of applicable CVN78 specification sections.
• Providing initial review of all NGNN design Decision Memorandums and Block Diagrams
• Evaluates structural, mechanical, electrical designs and installations for compliance with government and industry standards/specifications.
• Conducting analyses (Manpower, Total Ownership Cost, Human Systems Integration, etc.) for CVN 78 design / design modifications.
• Interfaces regularly with Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN) and Navy assets.
• Developing and maintaining group work schedule
• Monitoring Progress
Engineering lead for Cooperative Engagement Capability Pre Planned Product Improvement Training Task Analysis, providing technical support and authored final report for analysis of current and future training for CEC P3I
Responsibilities as a senior engineer include budgeting, proposal support, scheduling, work planning, technical guidance, task performance, and customer interaction.
As a technical contributor to projects, primary areas of expertise are in maintenance and maintenance program development, project planning, financial and other resource management, naval architecture and marine engineering, manpower & total ownership cost analysis.
02/03 – 07/03 Senior Logistics Engineer AMSEC LLC
(Future Carriers Division) Provide daily support of CVN-21 Program’s Total Ownership Cost (TOC) and manpower analysis efforts to Northrop Grumman Newport News. Responsible for assisting in a broad range of other Navy in-service & future carrier program’s design-logistics / analytical studies & support activities for a variety of sub-contracted ILS efforts.
Developed the CVN 21Cost Baseline for NAVSEA 017 that was ultimately presented to CAIG
Member of CVN 21 Program Lead Design Yard Maintenance and Maintenance Support team and CVN 21 Program Lead Design Yard Modernization Execution Team.
Developed financial status spreadsheet providing management with up to data on manpower and material dollars used, burn rate, and other financial information provided by Cost Point system.
11/98 – 01/03 Engineering Consultant American Management Systems
Engineering Consultant, Surface Ship Maintenance Improvement Support Team
On assigned contracts, responsibilities included:
• Negotiating terms of contracts with potential clients
• Writing work specifications
• Evaluating and adjudicating change orders
• Act as business agent for American Management Systems
• Develop schedule of work, balancing effort and duration with cost. When needed, determine critical path and evaluate risk to schedule and cost.
• Progress and evaluate work to anticipate, prevent and minimize cost overruns and delays
• Determine cost and manpower usage. Maintain records of cumulative cost and man hour usage.
• Resolve problems with regards to cost, quality, schedule and performance
• Provide technical and managerial expertise as defined in the contract
Conducted training classes in Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) for various organizations, including the US Navy, NASA, Oil drilling equipment manufacturers and hospitals. Trained on average 40 engineers and sailors each week in an active classroom environment. Technologies evaluated included all systems onboard today’s US Naval fleet. Some systems include:
• Structural
• Propulsion, including secondary systems in the nuclear plants
• Shafting and gears
• Diesel Engines and support systems
• Power Generation
• HVAC
• Fuel Oil
• Lube Oil
• Weapons systems
• Navigation
• Aircraft Launch and Recovery
• Damage Control Systems and Equipment
• Potable Water
• Hydraulics
• Switchboards and Electrical Systems
• Habitability components
• Sanitary Systems
• Galley equipment
Team leader for the 100% review and re-writing of DDG51 class Air conditioning and Refrigeration System Maintenance. Efforts resulted in an over 50% reduction in maintenance, while increasing system availability.
Lead engineer for a bottoms up review of the maintenance and repair of Kennedy Space Center’s cranes ad lifting systems.
Member of team that developed the Navy’s Maintenance Engineering curriculum. Prepared Level 1 RCM system specific lessons for each training session given from 1998 through 2001. Provided lesson specific support to development of level 2 and 3 RCM training.
Prepared NAVSEA 04M’s “Gas Turbine Condition Based Maintenance Plan”
Conducted business analysis on new technologies that claim to be improvements to equipment currently installed onboard US Navy vessels. Technologies analyzed were predominantly improvements to engineering or auxiliary equipment, including couplings, motors and materials.
Support Fleet Training Support Center, Atlantic (FTSCLANT) and Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) in completion of INSURV Inspections. For each discrepancy found, write clear problem statement, provide a solution and screen discrepancy to appropriate level of effort
Evaluated new technologies or practices used to reduce maintenance repair or rework.
Serve as a subject matter expert, furnishing technical advice to military and civilian clients concerning the intent and application of detailed procedures and specifications pertaining to structural, mechanical, electrical designs and installations such as:
• Structure and structural components
• Propulsion systems, including secondary systems in the nuclear plants
• HVAC
• Fuel Oil
• Lube Oil
• Habitability
• Navigation
• Damage Control Equipment
• Sanitary Systems
• Galley equipment
• Potable Water
Conducted research for new technologies proposed maintenance methods. Advise clients as to the most appropriate maintenance methods for the system in question, while ensuring that goals for reliability, sustainability and other logistical aspects were met.
Provided expert testimony for legal and insurance claims pertaining to the maritime industry.
Evaluated Request for Proposals and Developed proposals.
Selected to and completed American Management Systems Emerging Leaders program.
01/90 – 11/98 Senior Engineer, Waterfront Naval Architecture
Newport News Shipbuilding
Lead Waterfront Naval Architect for first of the class Double Eagle Product Tanker
Coordinated efforts of construction trades, test engineers and design engineers for successful completion of various major milestone shipboard tests accomplished during the construction period through Builders and Acceptance Sea trials.
Team Leader for Damage Control systems onboard Sealift Roll On/Roll Off Cargo Ship Project.
Plan, organize and control the demonstration of damage control systems onboard USNS GORDAN and USNS GILLILAND for builders and acceptance sea trials, coordinating efforts of approximately 30 salaried and hourly personnel along with the efforts of US Navy inspection teams and civilian crew.
This task required strong knowledge of the organizations involved and processes used by each, and developing processes that supported the requirements of each organization involved.
Lead Waterfront Naval Architect for all structural and paint system inspection of Newport News owned barges, evaluating the adequacy of coating systems and structure and making repair recommendations in preparation for annual ABS inspections
Lead Waterfront Naval Architect for all ship repair projects.
Estimate man-hours required for naval architectural tasks. Act as liaison between trades, ships crew, engineering and management for all Naval Architectural tasks.
Lead Waterfront Naval Architect for first of class Sealift Roll On/Roll Off Cargo Ship Project
Coordinated efforts of approximately 50 salaried and hourly personnel for successful completion of inclining experiment for first of the class Sealift Roll On/Roll Off Cargo Ship Project. This task required the establishment of and coordination of ISO 9000 certified processes that served the needs of many different organizations both internal and external to Newport News Shipbuilding.
Lead engineer for SSN, CVN and ship repair projects. Complete technical validation of all naval architectural drawings for the 688 class submarines. Complete dry-docking and undocking calculations and provide engineering assistance on assigned ships. Complete trim dive and trim dive report onboard new construction submarines.
09/90 – 12/92 Officer, U.S. Naval Reserve (active duty during Persian Gulf War)
Assistant Officer in Charge of the Military
Sealift Command Office in Ad Damman Saudi Arabia
Supervised eight enlisted personnel. Coordinate efforts of local and foreign government officials and coalition military forces in maintaining logistical support to Military Sealift Command (MSC) owned, operated and chartered ships.
Complete On-hire and Off-hire surveys of MSC chartered vessels. This effort required the review of ship’s logs and performing accounting of financial and physical resources used or to be used by the company on hire.
Prepare and present daily briefing of Military Sealift Command assets and operations in the South West Asia area. Coordinate efforts of four Military Sealift Command offices throughout the area of responsibility.
Over all position required managerial level expertise in resource allocation, customer interaction and maintaining customers expectations
06/87 – 01/90 Commander, Port Engineer Naval Surface Forces, Atlantic
As the Type Commanders Signature authority, responsible for the planning, execution and evaluation of depot level maintenance onboard assigned ships (LPH 2 class), ultimately completing an overhaul of ship systems on time and budget. Each repair availability had a budget more than $5M. Specifically planned, executed and evaluated LPH 2 DPMA, LPH 9 PMA and LPH 7 Emergent DPMA
As signature authority for the Type Commander my responsibilities for each effort required:
• Reviewing each entry of the ship’s current maintenance requirements.
• Interviewing and negotiating with the ship’s personnel to build a work package for the shipyard and for the intermediate level maintenance activities.
• Chairing the formal work definition conference.
• Developing the Accepted Work Package.
• Reviewing and approving work specifications.
• Integrating Depot level work with Intermediate Maintenance Activity work to ensure no conflicts.
• Review and approve all growth and new work orders.
• Review and approve all variations from specifications.
• Negotiating change orders as owner’s representative.
• Maintaining independent progress of shipyard work.
• Evaluating contractor and subcontractor work on a daily basis
• Progress and evaluate work to anticipate, prevent and minimize cost overruns and delays
• Determine cost and manpower usage. Maintain records of cumulative cost and man hour usage.
• Resolve problems with regards to cost, quality, schedule and performance
• Voting Member in the shipyard's performance award determination.
• Work hand and hand with Type Desk officer in budgeting and POM for future years
• Maintain constant vigilance over all funding types for each availability
09/85 – 06/87 On-Site Representative Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
Philadelphia Naval Shipyard representative for the FY-86 overhaul of USS IWO JIMA in Norfolk, VA. Provide engineering oversight of approximately 50 ship alterations.
Assist local Supervisor of Shipbuilding office in evaluating work accomplished be the shipyard. Resolve discrepancies for all ship alteration installations.
Design Liaison.
Provide engineering oversight and resolve discrepancies for all habitability related problems occurring on the Service Life Extension Project of USS INDEPENDENCE (CV 62) Naval Architect. Complete general arrangement and foundation drawings for various ship alterations on board non-nuclear aircraft carriers
Education
• 1998, Masters of Business Administration, Averett College
• 1985, Bachelor of Engineering in Naval Architecture, State University of New York Maritime College, NY
Certification
• US Coast Guard Third Assistant Engineer, Steam and Motor, Unlimited Horsepower
• 2008, Project Management (Basic) for DACM
• 2008, SUBSAFE worker
• 2007, Facilitator Training, “The Meeting Secrets Of Super Teams”, Information available at www.superteams.com
• 2006, DAWIA Level II Certification, Systems Planning, Research, Development and Engineering – Systems Engineering
• 2006, AQS Management, ISO 9001:2000 Internal Auditor
• 2004, Reliability Centered Maintenance, Level 1 and Level 2 Certification
• 1999, Project Management Workshop
• 1999, Team Leadership
• 1999, Business Ownership
• 1999, Building High Value Relationships
Skils