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A professional (Ph Degree) well qualified Senior Mechanical Engineer, with over 25 year's in-depth design, management, consulting, maintenance, and teaching experience.
Membership: APEGGA (Alberta Province) - License No: 84051
NATIONALITY: Canadian
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics 1986 University of Poznan,
Mechanical Engineering
Postgraduate Study
Advance Process Control, EBB780–Control Practice 2001 University of Pretoria, RSA
PRESENT POSITION
AMEC – Calgary, Canada March 2005 – till present
Mechanical Lead (Froth Treatment) – Kearl Oil Sands Project (Imperial Oil). Responsible for over 15 people's team work organization and quality of packages for:
rotating equipment: slurry, froth, hydrocarbons and water API and non-API pumps, liquid ring vacuum pumps and compressors, screw compressors, etc.; static equipment: pressure vessels and columns (ASME); heat exchangers (shell and tube, plate and frame); settlers; filters; mixers, etc.
Previous AMEC experience:
Project Engineer: Tailings System Transfer (Syncrude).
Package Engineer: Metering pumps (Shell), tailings transfer centrifugal pumps (Syncrude), fire protection systems (Shell, Imperial Oil), heat exchangers (Shell), pressure vessels, field and shop erected tanks, material bulk handling systems etc.
Technical Standards preparation: Slurry & Froth Pumps, Agitators, and Flotation Cells (Shell).
Welding Specialist: Splice welding on conveyor support structure under dynamic load analysis (Syncrude), Alternative Method of Attaching Liner Plates to PSC Bottom Cone (CNRL), WPS's approval (Shell).
Heat Tracing Study: Systems evaluation and recommendation (Imperial Oil).
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1) SASOL/MegChem - Secunda, South Africa Jan 2003– Jun 2004
Principal/Senior Engineer - supervision/leadership of 5 young engineers. Main duty:
* Consulting services for Sasol and around South Africa.
* Pursuance/implementation of new projects for petrochemical industry containing:
- high pressure vessels (ASME Div. 1, 2 and 3), heaters and heat exchangers (TEMA) mechanical design and analysis incl. welding procedure (for Sasol, IST Nuclear Testing Facilities – Power Plants, etc.),
- pipelines, incl. support, i.e. Natural Gas Cleaning System (Sasol, Mozambique Pipeline – ASME B31.3),
- valves, gauges, etc., i.e. Sasol valves system evaluation.
Software experience: COMPRESS, CodeCalc, Caesar, AutoCad, MicroStation, Solid Works, Unigraphics - Solid Edge, MathCad.
2) ISCOR, R&D, Mining Department – Pretoria, South Africa Apr 1995- Dec 2002
Chief Engineer, responsible for operation and troubleshooting of:
* Hydro-transport rotating equipment as slurry/water pumps, cyclones, etc. (Heavy Minerals Dept.)
* Pipelines analysis, design and optimization (ASME) including armature, valves and support structure (Heavy Minerals Dept.)
* Bulk material handling machinery (conveyors, screens, hoppers, etc.) (Mining Dept.)
* Optimization, design and supervising of manufacturing process (MBR and LAIES presses modification, casting and machining processes).
* Welding study - techniques optimization (i.e. cladding) refers to thermal stresses and deformation analysis.
* Steel constructions, industrial and transportation equipment support structure design and optimization (Prokon, MicroStation, MathCAD), including vibrations propagation (screen houses).
* Advanced Process Control – PID and SVD controllers' construction and implementation (for Sasol Level Buffering of a Recycle Process); construction and implementation objects for Generic System (G2).
* Projects initiation, management and implementation.
Software experience: Mathematical and 3D modeling, simulation and analysis of the industrial processes (functional analysis, numerical methods - FEA, Matlab-Simulink, G2, SysCAD).
3) TECHNOWLEDGE BK – Pretoria, South Africa Apr 1993 – Mar 1995
Importation Engineer, responsible for:
* Evaluation of offers and solutions refers to the industrial machinery (rotating equipment, bulk handling equipment, HVAC systems, pressure vessels, tanks, etc.) and optimization of engineering constructions.
* Translating (Polish / English) technical papers, tenders, negotiations, etc.
* Programming in Fortran and Basic.
4) Central Lab. of Food Processing Industries – Poznan, Poland Apr 1991 – Mar 1993
Maintenance Department Manager, responsible for team 54 peoples, provided:
* Supervision, planning and implementation of overhaul process.
* Co-ordination of work between the construction and mechanical sections.
* Responsible for mechanical condition of plant machinery.
5) SPOMASZ Pty. Ltd. – Poznan, Poland Apr 1990 – Mar 1991
Marketing Specialist/Design Engineer, responsible for:
* Organization of marketing services and conducting of negotiations.
* Engineering research, determination of thermal and mechanical stresses in various machines, technical documentation and modification of filling machines (dense fluids) and labeling machines.
* Diagnosis and monitoring of machines on basis of vibration analysis, reduction of noise in the engine room, analysis of diffusion non-organic components from packages to food products.
6) THE INSTITUTE OF APPLIED MECHANICS – University of Poznan, Poland Sept 1979 – Mar 1990
Lecturer/Researcher, responsible for:
Lecturing (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year): Theoretical Mechanics; Applied Mechanics; Strength of Materials; Fluid Mechanics; Theory of Vibrations and Noise. Organizing a research program for foreign students.
7) FACULTY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING – University of Bydgoszcz, Poland Sept 1976 – Aug 1979
Lecturer/Researcher, responsible for:
Lecturing (2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th year): Theoretical Mechanics; Strength of Materials; Structural Mechanics; Steel Constructions.
EXPERTISE
Industries Synthetic fuel production – Sasol/Lurgi gasification process; Crude oil/gas/water separation, pumping and storage; Transmission pipelines; Heavy minerals; Open pit and underground mine; Steel manufacturing
Equipment Rotating equipment – centrifugal pumps and compressors, liquid ring compressors and vacuum pumps, submersible pumps
Metering pumps
Static equipment:
Heat exchangers – shell & tube (TEMA), plate & frame
Pressure vessels and columns - refer to the ASME VIII Div. 1, 2 and 3
Tanks – API, shop and field erected
Mixers, filters, settlers, PSV and flotation cells, etc.
Material bulk handling equipment – conveyors, feeders and stackers
Cyclones, Fire Heaters, Metering Stations, etc.
Studies Preliminary engineering, Conceptual Design; CAPEC/OPEC Analysis; Strategy Planning Studies; DBM creation; Heat Tracing Studies, Thermal and Mechanical Stress During Cladding Process, etc.
Management Consulting Process Optimisation; Strategy Planning Studies
Instrumentation and Controls System analysis; P&ID and SVD controllers' construction and implementation
Liquid and Gas Custody Transfer Design and Engineering, Installation and Commissioning, Troubleshooting
QA/QC Program Development Engineering Standards, Equipment Specification, Design Practices, Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Planning, Workshop Safety Standards
Industrial Plant Processes Boilers, Compressors, Fired Heaters, Pumps, Tanks, Gas Turbines, Heat Exchangers; Mechanical Manufacturing, Assembly Lines
Engineering Applications Patran/Nastran, Prokon, G2, Matlab and Simulink, SysCAD, MathCad, CodeCalc, Compress
Pipeline Applications Caesar
Documentation Control Revision Processes, Word Processing, Editing, QA, Convero, Fusion
Drawing Tools MicroStation, Solid Works, Unigraphics - Solid Edge Power Point, Visio, Smart Sketch
Project Management Tools MS Project, Six-Sigma
LANGUAGES
Fluent in English, good in Russian.
NATIONALITY: CANADIAN
Married, no dependants; all degrees, diplomas, certificates, publications and references are available on requests.
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