Petrochemical Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance Consultant

Technical Consultant #2382

Mechanical process and manufacturing Engineer with over 35 years of experience in: MIQA (Mechanical Integrity and Quality Assurance) and quality control, industry codes compliance auditing and standards.
Mechanical Integrity, industry codes and standards, quality assurance, quality control, auditing, PSM, hose assembly, welding, fabrication, relief devices, pressure vessels, tanks, piping, valves, fasteners, gasketing, boilers.
Fulfilled over 200 Site assessments and evaluations addressing OSHA and process safety management overview.
Conducts MRO commodity audits and MERI's (Minimum Essential Receiving Inspections).

Undisclosed Company, Senior Mechanical Engineer, Present

Performing mechanical integrity evaluations, quality assurance, quality control, compliance auditing, industry codes and standards and process safety management.
Specific equipment evaluations as it pertains to OSHA Standard 29CFR 1910.119; PSM; hose assembly, welding, fabrication, relief devices, pressure vessels, tanks, piping, valves, fasteners, gasketing, and boilers.

N&H North America, Charleston, WV, MIQA Consultant, 2012 - 2015

Developed and implemented strategies for MIQA at all North American N&H sites.
Strategies such as training, on-boarding of new MIQA leadership, inspection and testing, building MIQA processes and capacity.
Continuing to support all aspects of MIQA integration at the N&H sites.

DuPont Company (Chemours), Belle and Charleston, WV, 1997 - 2012

Project Engineer
Process Engineer-Benlate®, Products
Maintenance Engineer

Oversaw the Power and Waste Treatment areas in the role of Maintenance Engineer.
Maintenance and Reliability Engineer for the Amines, Amides, Formaldehyde, VAZO®, Hydrogen & CO, Glycol Recovery, Glycolic Acid, DME and DMS, and Ammonia areas.
Site Plant Engineer responsible for all areas - DCSE, Utilities, Lucite and Crop Protection.
Business and Site Black Belt.
Site MIQA Consultant.
Legislative technical support to the DuPont Lobbyist as needed (recent work on WV AST Legislation).
Originator and Leader of the only NBIC Owner User Inspection Agency in WV for all DuPont facilities.
Led the site NBIC VR efforts.
Led the site MIQA team.
Led the DCSE PSM team.
Sales technical support for Teflon®.

Highlighted Achievements

Corporate ME&I Critical Materials of Construction Committee Lead.
Supported numerous sourcing Black Belt projects for MRO commodities by developing the audit processes and affecting the audits.
Affected most of the MRO commodity audits.
Developed 90% of the DuPont Engineering Standards MRO audit processes.
Developed 90% of the DuPont Engineering Standards MERI's (Minimum Essential Receiving Inspection).
DuPont NA facilities as an MIQA intensive auditor.

Credentials

Registered Professional Engineer, State of WV
Registered Professional Land Surveyor, State of WV
Six Sigma Black Belt
PSM MIQA Intensive Auditor
PSM (Process Safety Management) 2nd Party Auditor (all 14 elements)
Inspector of Steam Boilers State of WV
Commissioned Inspector for National Board of Boilers and Pressure Vessel Inspectors (lapsed recently with the move to this role)
API 653 Certified Inspector (flat bottom storage tanks)

Academic and Professional Affiliations

Previous academic activities: Vocational-Nuclear Power Plant, draftsman (Naval Facilities Engineering Southern Command), pipefitter's helper, welder's helper and welder (Charleston Naval Shipyard) and substitute school.