Structural Designer

CAREER SUMMARY

Highly creative Design Specialist with over forty years experience in marine design.  Provides effective communications skills, and able to work independently as well as leading a team.  Serves as a detail-oriented problem solver with solid organizational and planning skills.  Provides a solid record as a dedicated and dependable professional, eager to accept new challenge.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Diamond Offshore, Houston, Texas

Senior Designer

• Design of platforms, tanks, shelters and hatches on rigs and drill ships.   Aug. 2014-April 2015

SBM Offshore, Houston, Texas                                                                              Feb. 2013-May 2014

Senior Designer

• Checking drawings of offshore platform.
• Conversion of tanker into Shell drill ship.  Design of bow thruster,

             masts, conversion of web frames, decks, bulkheads.  Design of

            foundations for lift pumps, generators and hose reel.  (AutoCad 2013)

Huntington Ingalls Industries (Avondale) New Orleans, La                                Nov. 2011-July 2012

Senior Designer

• Structural design and revision of foundation drawings for LPD.

            Using AutoCad 2006.

Lonestar Marine Shelters, Galveston, Texas    

Senior Designer                                                                                                        August 2011

• Design of blast proof shelters for Shell offshore drilling rigs.

            Special requirements of high strength steel.  (AutoCad 2008)

Marinette Marine, Marinette, Wisconsin                                                               Feb-May 2011

Senior Designer

• Structural design of Littoral Combat Ship for U.S. Navy.

            Structure and foundations, using AutoCad 2008 and Shipconstructor.

Waller Marine, Houston, Texas                                                                              2009/10

Senior Designer

• Structural design of lift ship for the oil industry
• Ship alteration for offshore supply vessel.  Added thruster in stem.

McClure, Houston, Texas                                                                                        2008

Senior Designer

• Conversion of offshore supply vessel.
• Designed structure for drill ship.
• Designed foundations and structure for drilling rigs.

North American Shipbuilding, Larose, Louisiana                                                  2007 

Structural Designer

• Structural design of offshore supply vessels.

Gusto, Houston, Texas                                                                                              2007

Consultant

• Designed foundations and moon pool structure for drill ships.

Exmar, Houston, Texas                                                                                             2006  

Senior Designer

• Designed pontoon addition for offshore drilling rig.
• Designed mast to nest the boom of a crane for a drill ship.
• Drafted miscellaneous foundations.

Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi                                                                      1988-2005

Design Specialist

• Designed combat ships for the US Navy; DD, CG and LHD.
• Drafted ship structures as well as alteration plans for CG and DD.
• Invented a sliding radar platform on the mast of a combat ship.
• Designed foundations for equipment, machinery and panels.
• Formulated plans for the stem of the CG52.
• Converted the Metric System into the English System in estimate for Israeli Navy contract.
• Material take-off for drill ships and offshore platforms, numerical control and weight control.
• Estimated supplies for commercial contracts.

Bender, Mobile, Alabama                                                                                            1987

Lead Designer

• Converted offshore supply vessels into factory fishing trawlers.
• Supervised draftsmen.

Ingalls, Pascagoula, Mississippi                                                                             1982-87          

Senior Designer

Other Firms                                                                                                             1966-82

Career in Shipbuilding began in 1966, with most of this time spent working at National Steel and Shipbuilding. Much of this time was spent designing cargo ships and naval ships. Unique projects involved converting the Queen Mary into a hotel/museum, and designing ferries for the state of Washington.

OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Knowledge of ABS and US Navy Specifications, and ASTM, ANSI and SAE standards

Worked at shipyards in Holland as ship fitter/layout man, both new and repair

Proficient in AutoCAD, Microsoft Word and Wordperfect

Author of Planets, Ages, and Empires, Authorhouse, May 2009

EDUCATION

Graduate PBNA (Polytechnic), the Netherlands, equivalent Technical College

Major in Naval Architecture

Continuing Education: AutoCAD, Gulf Coast Community College, Gautier, Mississippi

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in Dutch