Experience

Summary of Experience:

· Construction/Fabrication

· Estimating/Planning

· CAD Management

· Plant Maintenance 

· Project Execution

· 2D & 3D Drafting 

· Plant Layout Design

· Mechanical Design

· Process & Service Piping Design

Andrus Drafting & Design LLC, Atlantic Beach, Florida 2017 – Present

President, CAD Administrator, Estimating Manager, Contract Manager, Project Manager, & Senior Designer 

Responsibilities:

· Operating a small business, including financial record keeping, tax preparation, marketing, social media accounts, staffing, timekeeping, and invoicing.

· CAD Management, managing AutoCAD and AutoCAD Plant 3D software, creating component catalogs and specifications, and creating client-based template projects. Creating formal procedures and work instructions.

· Create project cost estimates for potential clients.

· Create contract documents and/or review client contract documents, provide terms and conditions revisions, and approve contracts.

· Managing small design projects based on client requirements, this includes deliverable packages, schedules, progress reports, timekeeping reports, client meetings, design reviews, and document control.

· Generate designs based on client requirements, perform project 2D and 3D AutoCAD drafting tasks.

Symrise Inc, Atlantic Jacksonville, Florida 2017 – Present

Senior CAD Designer Plant & Piping

Responsibilities:

· Generating designs and deliverables for small plant projects using AutoCAD, Navisworks, Plant 3D, and CloudWorx software.

· Provide feedback on vendor and contractor project estimates.

· Provide CAD support for Autodesk software, this includes creating standard project templates, 3D component catalogs & specifications, creating CAD procedures and work procedures, and providing support to other CAD designers.

· Generate standard details, such as pipe support details, auxiliary steel details, piping specialty component details, and instrument installation details.

· Creating engineering lists, such as line lists, valve lists, and instrument lists.

· Providing project design, fabrication, and erection support to contractors during construction and commissioning.

Randstad Engineering, (ESI & Vanderlande), Kennesaw & Marietta, Georgia 2016 - 2017

Senior Piping Designer & System Layout Engineer 

Responsibilities:

· Contract position to design and layout commercial baggage and package conveying systems.

· Contract position to design and layout package boiler systems.

· Create 3D CAD catalogs and specifications.

· Create standard pipe support details.

GE Power/Alstom Power, Knoxville, Tennessee 2007 – 2016

Lead Senior Piping-Mechanical Designer 

Responsibilities:

· Lead piping and mechanical design activities for multi-million-dollar fossil fuel flue gas environmental control system projects.

· Lead piping and mechanical activities for carbon capture technology and gas turbine SCR technology R&D projects.

· Work with project management, engineering, and clients to provide optimal designs on time and within budget.

· Provide design support to Construction Managers during installation and start-up.

Lead Plant Layout Designer

Responsibilities:

· Work with process engineers, mechanical engineers, and structural engineers to create optimized plant layouts for multi-million-dollar fossil fuel flue gas environmental control system projects.

· Provide design support to Construction Managers during installation and start-up.

Day & Zimmermann/Mustang, Waynesboro, Virginia & Chattanooga, Tennessee 2000 - 2007

Piping-Mechanical Designer 

Responsibilities:

· General mechanical and piping design activities.

· Work with reliability engineering to maintain and improve existing plant equipment with a focus on safety, operability, and maintainability.

· Create scopes of work and material take-offs for small capital projects.

· Request bids and review bids for small capital projects.

· Responsible for maintaining P&ID drawings to PSM (process safety management) standards and in as-built conditions.

· Provide design support to plant maintenance during outages and overhauls.

· Provide field design support other engineering firms and construction contractors during capital projects.

· Act as field liaison between the plant, engineering firm, and construction contractor during capital projects.

· Controlled all plant drawings issued to and received from outside engineering firms for capital projects.

· Performed field walk downs of all high hazard piping systems and equipment for an entire plant facility and revised plant P&ID’s to meet PSM requirements.

Brown & Root Construction, (DuPont) Waynesboro, Virginia 1995 - 2000

Responsibilities:

· Generate pipe isometrics and pipe spool details for a large industrial fabrication shop.

· Generate general mechanical details for a large industrial fabrication shop.

· Provide field conditions such as existing pipelines and existing equipment locations to engineering firms for capital projects.

· Review and check design documents from engineering firms for construction activities on capital projects.

· Provide plant and project document control services.

· Estimate man-hours of mechanical construction activities for industrial capital projects.

· Calculate schedules for mechanical construction activities for industrial capital projects.

· Plan work tasks for mechanical construction crews for industrial capital projects.

· Review actual and forecasted manpower for mechanical construction activities for industrial capital projects.

· Report mechanical construction progress to project management for industrial capital projects.

· Maintain inventory of a large insulation warehouse for piping and equipment insulation and insulation accessories.

· Stage insulation and insulation accessories for construction crews for their daily tasks.

· Fabrication of metallic piping in a large industrial fabrication shop.

· Installation of process and service piping for maintenance and capital projects.

I have worked in the following industries:

• Industrial Construction & Fabrication
• Manufacturing
• Chemicals & Polymers
• Steam & Power
• Pollution Controls
• Carbon Capture Technology