Objective
Seeking a challenging position in the area if in-service fleet engineering support for Navy and Commercial ship repair and overhaul.
Experience
Northrop-Grumman /Newport News Shipbuilding, Newport News, Virginia Jan 02 – Present
Senior Engineer
Serves as the Integrated Product Team (IPT) Lead for advanced environmental pollution control systems for the next generation of nuclear aircraft carrier.
The IPT Lead is required to define:
•Scope of work, review and interpret design specifications and plans.
•Organizes, plans and conducts technical meetings with Navy personnel in developing system requirements, design diagrams and specifications that are consistent with mission parameters.
•Perform complex engineering calculations to support engineering design.
•Review detailed design drawings and calculations for technical adequacy.
•Work/lead cross-functional teams to support peripheral engineering disciplines, construction trades, automation, planning and sourcing efforts to support ship’s construction schedule.
•Solicit and review vendor proposals, resolving technical issues that insure the execution of contractual commitments.
Allied Aerospace Industries Incorporated, Newport News, Virginia Jan 01 – Nov 01
Project Engineer
•Responsible for managing engineering efforts on prototype design projects for NASA and GE Power Systems.
•Assessed work scopes, reviewed and provided technical consultation to determine engineering requirements to meet specific criteria.
•Lead meetings with multiple discipline technical personnel to achieve successful programs using a team building approach.
•Coordinated and statused technical efforts from conceptual design drawings to the manufactured product.
•Performed engineering calculations and reviewed drawings to meet quality assurance requirements.
CDI Marine Company, Portsmouth, Virginia Jan 99- Jul 00
Senior Project Engineer
•Provided consultation and engineering support to numerous Navy/Coast Guard shipboard and small-craft design projects.
•Surveyed vessel piping and mechanical systems for determine repair, replacement or redesign status.
•Performed required engineering calculations and created and drawings to facilitate new designs.
•Worked directly with customers on technical issues, work processes and removed scheduled constraints to ensure contract requirements were met.
Vessel Research Group, Wilmington, North Carolina
Mechanical Engineer
Designed specialized electro-mechanical systems for water-jet propelled commercial vessels. Supervised installations and field tested prototype designs for engineering evaluation. Testing included evaluating engine operating parameters and vessel performance characteristics.
Marine Systems Corporation, Boston, Massachusetts
Mechanical Engineer
Conducted vibration analysis on rotating machinery and auxiliary systems on board Naval vessels, performed structural surveys, piping surveys and acoustic valve leak detection surveys. Served as on-site Engineering Representative to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Boston Planning Group, aboard the U.S.S GUNSTON HALL (LSD-44). Acting as technical liaison and consultant between Naval Planning Group and contracting shipyard. Lead ship-check teams aboard Navy vessels for repair and conversion evaluation. Composed work specifications for shipyard repair contracts.
Education
EDUCATION:
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island. May 1986
(Minor: Naval Architecture)
Certification
Recieved U.S Coast Guard Master License - March 1994
Skils
Proficient in Microsoft Professional Software
Word, Excel, Power Point, Access and Microsoft Project.
Formally trained in marine diesel and steam propulsion repair, shipboard pumps and piping systems.
Experience working on-site with waterfront trades, and resolving technical issues between Navy offices and contracting shipyards.
Experience working with commercial small craft, including RHIBs, diesel/gasoline sterndrive, waterjet and outboard propulsion.