API510•API570•API653•NATIONAL BOARD•ABSA IBPV•MATERIALS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGIST•FRP
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Added: 5/8/2010
Last Updated: 5/8/2010
State:
AB Alberta
Country:
Canada
Status:
I am willing to Travel.
I am willing to work overseas.
Certifications
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Education
PERSONAL DATA:
Date of Birth: March 15, 1968
CERTIFICATIONS:
Qualified Operator RT: Cert. #00369
API 510: Cert. #5593
API 570: Cert. #21413
API 653: Cert. #22023
NBIC: Cert. #713
ABSA IBPV: Cert. #A-65560 (#000138)
Glass Lined Pressure Vessels: Qualified
Fiberglass Tank Inspection RTP1: Qualified
Elevator Inspection: Qualified
Overhead Crane/Lifting Devices: Qualified
EDUCATIONAL HISTORY:
1994-1996 Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)
Edmonton, Alberta
MATERIALS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (Diploma)
Course Outline: Metallurgy, Failure Analysis, Welding Metallurgy, Corrosion
Mechanisms, Statics, Chemistry, Instrumentation, Destructive Testing (Tensile
Testing, Heat Treating, Hardness Testing, Impact Testing and Weld Bend
Testing), NDE (RT, PT, MT, UT, PMI), Vibration Analysis, Machining, Plastics,
Ceramics, Technical Project (Creep Failure of Modified HK40 Alloy), Civil
(Concrete&Asphalt Testing), Photography, Report Writing and First Aid/CPR.
1993 – 1994 NAIT Edmonton, Alberta
Pre-Technology (Completed)
Course Outline: Chemistry, Physics, Statistics, Calculus, Electrical/Electronics,
Public Speaking, Drafting, English and Mathematics
1983-1986 St. Francis Xavier High School
Edmonton, Alberta
EXTRA COURSES:
August 2001 Firemaster
Red Deer, Alberta
Technical 1, Refinery High Aerial Rope Rescue
September 2000 Reliability Center
Hopewell, Virginia USA
Root Cause Failure Analysis Methods
September 2000 Code West
Edmonton, Alberta
API 653 Exam Prep. Course
March 2000 St. John Ambulance
Edmonton, Alberta
Level A CPR and Standard First Aid
September 1999 Code West
Edmonton, Alberta
API 570 Exam Prep. Course
November 1998 Code West
Houston, Texas
API 510 Exam Prep. Course
August 1998 UOP
Des Plaines, Illinois
Corrosion and Fouling
December 1997 UOP
Phoenix, Arizona
Inspection Techniques
February 1997 NACE
Des Plaines, Illinois
Basic Corrosion
November 2002 NBIC
Ivy State College, Indiana
Commissioned Inspector Preparatory Course
December 2002 Cameron NDE Associates
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Level II – LPI, MPI & UT
WORK EXPERIENCE:
2007 May – Current Glacier Group Ltd. (Inspection & Corrosion Services)-
OWNER
- Decided that I would start my own company to provide Inspection,
QA/QC, Corrosion, Welding and Failure Analysis services.
- 2006 June – May 2007 Nexen Inc Long Lake Project – Corrosion
Specialist, Fort McMurray, AB
- commission and development of Owner User Program
- provide Quality Assurance/Quality Control {QA/QC} Support for Pilot
Plant shutdown.
- Audit turnover packages (SAGD) from construction to commercial for any
deficiencies.
- Support/Develop Inspection Database
- verifying regulatory documentation is in place prior to start up.
- capture baseline information (UTT, RV prepops, design information)
- support commissioning start up team
- align Non Destructive testing (NDE) crews with our baseline audit
- write specific Inspection SOP’s
2005 Nov – June 2006 Catalyst Paper Inc. – Regulatory Technician, Campbell
River, BC
- monitor regulatory inspection programs
- develop QA/QC practices
- implement standard code repairs and monitor owner/user program
- monitor all welding performed on site
- create inspection programs for pressure vessels, tanks, piping, overhead
cranes, mono rail lifting devices and elevators
- monitor/audit shop fabrication and vendor surveillances
- managing maintenance crews during outages and directing work scope
- supervise NDE companies and project work on site
2002 June – Nov 2005 Pfizer Pharmaceuticals Inc. – Authorized
Inspector/Mechanical Integrity Inspector, Kalamazoo, MI USA
- Brought in to set up a reliability/mechanical integrity program for
existing plant (1958)
- develop SOP’s for mechanical integrity program
- worked for Pfizer as their authorized inspector on site, which included
coal fired boiler inspection and natural gas fired boilers.
- performed insitu metallurgy for plant on various high alloyed pressure
vessels
- performed QA/QC role
- develop weld procedures and test welder qualifications, performed our
own side bend test procedures
- perform failure analysis
- Level II MT, PT, UT
- Create database for inspection findings and assigning TML locations
- Monitor all R-Stamp repairs and approve various repair methods for
pressure vessel repairs
- Monitor and audit various shop fabrication
2002 Mar – June 2002 Cooperheat/MQS Inspection – API Inspection & QA/QC
Toledo, Ohio
- providing inspection support at Sunoco Refinery
- supervise NDE crews
- QA/QC support
- Monitor weld repairs and methods used
1996 Oct – 2002 Mar Petro–Canada – Materials Engineering
Technologist/Plant Inspector, Edmonton, AB
- Area inspector in: Butamer, HF Alkylation, Vacuum and Coker units
- maintaining all unit inspection records, failure and metallurgical analysis,
- building work scope for shutdowns, coordinating shutdown work
- reviewing of all equipment replacements (vessels, exchangers and
piping)
- performing RT, UT, MT, PT, VT, PMI and Thermographs
- back up for Maintenance Coordinator
- entering data into PCMS, SAP and company developed software
- shutdown support at other PCP refineries
- interpretation of third party inspection results (UT, RT,MT,VT,PT,PMI)
- keeping all code books up to date
- in charge of all inspection equipment (i.e. Calibrations, up keep and
ordering of new inspection equipment)
- operator experience in HF Alkylation and Butamer Process Units
- belong to the volunteer refinery rescue crew (Aerial Rescue, CPR & First
Aid)
1996 May – 1996 Oct CORRPRO CANADA INC., Engineering Department
Edmonton, AB
Corrosion Technologist (CP Certified)
- trained according to NACE CP methodology
- maintenance of various cathodic protection rectifiers
- performing various cathodic protection surveys of gas plants, refineries,
gas wells, pipelines, etc.
- using company developed software
- working alone, extensive traveling, electrical work
- field trouble shooting
- field installations, field surveys, manage daily installation activities
REFERENCES:
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