Objective
To work with a shipyard or ship repair facility team where my education and experience would enhance the team's efforts to complete construction or repair of vessels, with high quality and within contracted schedules and costs requirements.
Experience
Mechanical Engineer, U.S. Coast Guard – Sept. 2003 to Mar. 2007
Propulsion Systems Project Engineer assigned to oversee the design and construction of the U S Coast Guard’s new “Legend” Class of 418’ cutters. A member of the Coast Guard’s Engineering Logistics Command, Machinery Branch, Baltimore, MD, but located with the prime contractor’s engineering staff at the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Pascagoula, MS. Reviewed and critiqued the shipbuilder’s propulsion system design drawings for machinery and piping systems, materials and arrangements, and reviewed and analyzed engineering/technical data to assure conformance to contractual requirements and good marine engineering practices. This propulsion system is a COmbined Diesel And Gas turbine (CODAG) type with two diesel engines and one gas turbine all connected together through a sophisticated reduction gear set that drives two shafts with controllable pitch propellers. Witness component tests at vendor plants and tests of completed installations on the ship.
Marine Engineering Division Manager, U.S. Navy, Supervisor of Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, MS. - 1978 to 2003.
Provided technical oversight and approval of the shipbuilder’s design drawings, analysis and other engineering/technical data used for the design, construction, conversion, overhaul, repair and testing of main propulsion systems, auxiliary machinery and distributive piping systems in U.S. Navy and Government owned ships. New construction programs worked include CG 47, DDG 51, and LHD 1 Classes. Performed engineering/technical oversight for these systems on numerous government owned ships for the U.S. Army and Military Sealift Command, built to commercial shipbuilding (vs. MILSPEC) standards. I am very familiar with Gen. Spec standards for military ships and ABS and SOLAS standards for commercial ships design. Knowledgeable of steam propulsion systems, gas turbines, diesel direct and diesel electric systems, shafting and bearings systems, steering systems, bow thrusters, fixed pitch and controllable pitch propellers and most other ship propulsion and auxiliary machinery systems, and distributive piping systems. I have supervised up to 12 subordinate employees.
Education
B. S. in Marine Engineering, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Certification
• Was a certified “Steam Generating Plant Inspector” for the U.S. Navy.
• Was a U.S. Coast Guard licensed Second Assistant Engineer Steam and sailed as an engineer on U.S. flagged merchant ships.
Skils
In addition to my job of reviewing much the technical documentation required to design and build or repair ships propulsion systems machinery and ships auxiliary systems, I was also required to witness factory acceptance tests of some of this equipment and to witness and accept shipboard installation tests, including sea trials, prior to the ships delivery to the government.
• Co-chairman of the “Papers Committee” at the 2003 American Society of Naval Engineers Gulf Coast symposium.
• Awarded the Navy’s “Value Engineer of the Year” award for 1988.
• Received several performance awards throughout my career with the Navy and Coast Guard.