Employment

November 2003 to Fluor, Camberely.

Present PipeStress Engineer. (Contract)

Carried out stress analysis on critical lines in the power generating facility (B31.1) for the TCO project, Kazakstan, before moving on to projects in the oil and gas facility (B31.3).

Using Autopipe software and manual calculations where necessary.

May 2002 to November Online Consulting Engineers,

2003 Conoco, Humber Refinery

PipeStress Engineer. (Contract)

Carried out stress analysis to ASME B31.3 and other relevant codes on new and existing refinery piping systems and equipment.

Expected to check nozzle loads on fin-fans, shell & tube exchangers, steam turbines, pumps, and vessels, as part of the analysis, where necessary, and route piping to achieve allowable forces and moments at such equipment connections.

Have gained a good appreciation of refinery pipe work and units as much of the work involves site surveys of existing lines and equipment. Using Coade Caesar II software and manual calculations. Attended a 5-day Caesar II Statics course ran by Coade in September 2002.

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March 2002 to May 2002 List Design Consulting Engineers,

Conoco, Humber Refinery

Pipe Stress Engineer. (Contract)

Completed an extensive report on pipe stresses and displacements for a major project, using Caesar II software and hand flexibility calcs.

Aug 2001 to March 2002 List Design Consulting Engineers,

Corus, Scunthorpe.

Mechanical Design Engineer. (Contract)

Designing new tooling and methods to improve machining times of new generation of harder mill rolls. Used FEA and Microstation.

Feb 2001 to Aug 2001 List Design Consulting Engineers,

B.P. Salt End Refinery, Hull.

Mechanical Piping Design Engineer. (Contract)

Worked under contract to BP at their Salt End, Refinery.

Responsible for the design of plant piping, material selection, support steelwork, and relevant calculations.

2000 to Feb 2001 IMI Yorkshire Fittings Ltd, Leeds

MechanicalDesign and Development Engineer.

Responsible for the design and development of automated machinery, press tooling, CNC tooling and other bespoke tooling.

Responsible for tooling stress analysis using manual calculations. Experienced 2D and 3D draughting using AutoCad 14 and 2000,

and Mechanical Desktop.

1999-2000 Charles Thompson Ltd (Process Plant), Rotherham

Mechanical Project Engineer.

Responsible for the detail design of process plant piping. Responsible for the preparation of quotations for process plant. Drew up extensive piping ISO's, and cutting lists from customer P & ID's.

1997-1999 Veeanco Ltd (Specialist Marine Engineering), Chesterfield

Mechanical Engineer

Responsible for the development of technical procedures relating to the repair of large marine diesel engines, Sulzer, Pielstick, Mirlees, etc, to comply with the requirements of ISO 9000.

Education

Sep 2001- Present Open University

Master of Engineering Degree (M'Eng)

Subjects studied this year include Personal and career development in Engineering, Engineering Mechanics: Solids and Fluids, and Failure of Stressed Materials.

1995-1997 Sheffield Hallam University

B'Eng (Honours) Mechanical Engineering.

Core Modules: Manufacture, Material, and Environmental Engineering, Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Modelling, Thermodynamics, CADCAM, Structural Integrity, Finite Element Analysis, Engineering Design, Engineering Dynamics.

Options Taken: Mechanics of Materials, Power Hydraulics, Energy Management, Business Studies and Accoustics.

Final Year Project: "The Finite Element Analysis of Backward Extrusion Forging Tooling." (In conjunction with Aurora Forgings, Sheffield.)

The project identified the stresses found in forging press tooling under load and identified the minimum safe thickness of the bottom die. The project allowed larger diameter forgings to be produced without expensive re-design of press base.

1993-1995 Sheffield Hallam University

HND Mechanical Engineering.

The course was passed with an overall grade of merit. Core subjects included: Engineering Mathematics, Thermodynamics,

Engineering Principles, Mathematics, Mechanical Science, and an Engineering Project.

1991-1992 Stradbrooke College, Sheffield.

BTEC First in Science.

Subjects studied included Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics.

Skills

Extensive experience of following software: Word, Excel, Access, Project, Outlook, and Visual Basic. Extensive use of AutoCad 14, and 2000 plus Mechanical PowerPack, 2D and 3D. Good grasp of Finite Element Analysis using manual calculations and Patran, Abacus software.