PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

PROJECT ENGINEER/MANAGER

PROCESS ENGINEERING & ANALYSIS — THERMAL ENGINEERING

Mechanical engineering and process engineering design, project and construction management experience. Project management for four "Brown Field" and three "Green Field" projects for major manufacturing clients. Experienced in the following areas of project engineering:

· Project/Construction Management

· Lead negotiations between client and equipment suppliers

· Develop and write construction specifications

· Project budgets

· Project schedules

· Chair pre-bid meetings

· Spreadsheet bid comparisons

· Water-cooled equipment design and detailing

· Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) design

· Ladle Metallurgy Furnace (LMF) design

· Develop and write performance specifications for major and auxiliary melt shop process equipment

· EAF and LMF installation and start up assistance

· Ancillary equipment design, installation, and start up assistance

· Work directly with operations to increase production and lower cost

· Trouble shoot operator and equipment problems

· Develop Melt shop and Thermodynamic computer modeling

· Provide EAF and LMF fourth hole evacuation and canopy system design and baghouse design

· Perform Baghouse and Air Pollution Control system analysis

· Provide Heat Transfer / Thermodynamic design and calculations on any water-cooled equipment

· Provide Complete Plant General Arrangement layout

· Provide complete melt shop General Arrangement layout

· Facility and Process Feasibility studies

· Process and Melt shop production increase studies

· Perform Crane motion studies

· Perform Plant wide material flow studies

· Provide new technology analysis

Over 32 years of experience in the manufacturing and process industry. Employed as a consultant performing process engineering, operations assistance, equipment design/start up supervision, and numerous plant and equipment studies and analysis.

Accomplishment highlights include:

Extensive operating design for Ameristeel (formally Florida Steel) at all five of their U.S. plants. Projects ranged from process improvement design for melt shop operations to a three year program of installation, start-up and process optimization of the Consteel® process at the plant in Charlotte, NC.

Co-author and copyright of a "Heat Transfer/Thermodynamic©" computer program that designs water-cooled off gas systems. This program has been in extensive use in the melting and refining industries since 1991 throughout the USA and Japan.

Author and copyright of an "Electric Arc Furnace (EAF) - Chemical & Electrical Energy Balance Program With & Without Scrap Preheating©" for Melt Shop Modeling.

Co-inventor of a "Bulk Loader to charge Lime into an Electric Arc Furnace, United States Patent # 6,155,765 dated December 5, 2000.

Facility Includes:

• Fuchs Twin Shell AC EAF Tapping 175-Ton Heats

• Ladle Metallurgy Furnace (LMF) Station

• VAI Slab Caster

• ITAM Reheat Furnace

• Danieli United 4 High Steckel Mill
  • Coordinated project team overseeing and managing:
  • Rolling Mill process equipment installation, alignment, cold commissioning, and start up.
  • Engineer, design, and furnish CAD drawings on 32 small and medium sized ancillary equipment necessary for Steckel Mill operations. for IPSCO operations and maintenance personnel.
  • Developed performance specifications and bid packages for a Plate Processing Line and a Coil Processing Line.

• A 90 Ton / Fuchs EAF "Brown Field" Project (North Star Steel-Youngstown (June 1998-June 1999)

Facility Includes:

• EAF
• LMF converted from an EAF

• Alloy Handling System

• Senior Process Engineer on site.

• Completed Evaluation and Report: "Existing Baghouse System Study"
• Melt Shop General Arrangement
• Coordinated Sub-Contractor Bid Packages and Evaluations
• Chaired all Pre-Bid Meetings
• Development and set up of the Project Budget
• Set up and coordination of all Project Scheduling activities

• Provided Performance Specifications for Alloy System and LMF

• Birmingham Steel/Memphis "Green Field" Project 1,200,000 Tons Per Year (April 1995-March 1996)

Facility Includes:

• Fuchs Finger Shaft® AC Furnace Tapping 150-Ton Heats
• LMF
• VTD
• 5 Strand Bloom Caster

• Blooming Mill

• Senior Process Engineer on site.

• Property Procurement
• Overall Plant and Site General Arrangement Layouts
• Assisted with Project Schedule and Budget
• Plant Wide "Material Flow Study"
• Melt Shop "Crane Motion Study"
• Wrote Major & Ancillary Process Equipment Performance Specifications

• Trico Steel "Green Field" Project 2,200,000 Tons Per Year (November 1994-March 1995)

Facility Includes:

• Two —EAF’s Twin Electrode DC Tapping 170-Ton Heats / NKK
• LMF Station
• Thin Slab Casters
• Tunnel Furnaces
• Hot Strip Rolling Mill

• Responsible for Overall Plant General Arrangement Layout
• Plant Wide "Material Flow Study"
• Gathered Data for a Scrap Yard and Melt Shop "Crane Motion Study"
• Wrote Performance Specifications for Ancillary Melt Shop Equipment

• Assisted with furnace design
• Designed furnace bottom refractory profile
• Assisted with furnace start up

• Design, procurement, and installation of canopy & side draft fume evacuation system
• Design, procurement, and installation of side draft evacuation system at a New LMF
• Start up and process control development for Consteel® process to run efficiently

• Design, procurement, and installation of canopy & fourth hole fume evacuation system
• Auxiliary equipment design, installation, and start up experience includes:

• Overall Plant Wide Existing Production Analysis (IPSCO-Montpelier Plant 1997-98)
• "Baghouse Study"

• A Bulk Loader to Charge Lime into an EAF (Birmingham Steel-Birmingham 1996)
• U.S. Patent # 6,155,765 dated December 5, 2001. Start Up was April 1997.

• Process Equipment Heat Transfer & Thermodynamic Calculations

• Nucor-Yamato Steel 7/91
• Nucor Steel-Hickman 3/92
• Stelco/Western Region-Alberta, Canada 4/92
• Lukens Steel-Coatesville, PA 4/92
• Florida Steel-Baldwin 11/92
• K.S.L. Kakogawa Works-Fastmet® Direct Reduction Facility 9/94

• Structural Calculations for Modifications
• Heat Transfer Calculations & Fume Exhaust System Design

Central Piedmont Community College Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry

Rowan Cabarrus Community College AutoCAD

Iron and Steel Society

Association of Iron and Steel Engineers

Holder of a U.S. Patent

Holder of Copyrights on two computer programs

"How to Establish a Good Foamy Slag Practice", Iron & Steelmaker, February 1997.