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Professional Work History
Engineering and Technical Experience
Professional Organizations
Honors, Papers and Presentations
Professional Work History
1996-current Kemper Imageering, Inc., Baton Rouge, La.
•Position: President and Principal Engineer
•Principal Responsibilities: Lead engineer, responsible for all work by staff and contract employees.
•Principal Technical Areas: Mechanical design, Machine design, Structural design, Vessel and Piping Design & Analysis (API and ASME), Failure Analysis, Product design and development, Finite Element Analysis, Solid Modeling, Kinematic Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Hydraulics, Reliability and Fit For Service studies, Accident Reconstruction, Project Management
2000-current Co. A/489th EN BN (CBT) (CORPS), US Army Reserves, Hot Springs, AR
• Position: Commander
• Principal Responsibility: Responsible for all personnel, equipment, and activities of the unit, including accountability, training, maintenance, planning, and counseling. Responsible for over $75 million in assets. Serves as the Engineer Staff Officer for the supported manuever commander.
1998-2000 Det 1./A CO/489th EN BN (CBT) (CORPS), US Army Reserves, Arkadelphia, AR
• Position: Commander
• Principal Responsibility: Responsible for all personnel, equipment, and activities of the unit, including accountability, maintenance, planning, and counseling. Directly commands and controls all actions during tactical situations, providing survivability, mobility, and countermobility for US and Allied manuever forces as well as serving as the Engineer Staff Officer for the supported manuever commander.
1994-1998 285th Engineer Co. (CSE), US Army Reserves Baton Rouge, LA
• Position: Operations Officer, Platoon Leader
• Principal Responsibility: Second in command, plan and execute short- and long- term company and platoon operations while integrating into company and group planning.
Other Responsibilities: Construction Officer, Equal Opportunity Officer, Mobilization Officer, Safety Officer, Family Support Officer, Rater/Senior Rater/Reviewer for personnel.
1992-1996 KnightHawk Engineering, Inc., Baton Rouge, LA
• Position: Mechanical Engineer (EIT), later Marketing Director
• Principal Technical Areas: Pipe Stress, Piping & Vessel Design and Modifications (ASME & API), Hydraulics, Finite Element Analysis, Structural Design and Analysis, Machine Design, Kinematics, Field Work, Project Management.
Other Responsibilities: Technical Editing, Marketing, Presentations, Photography.
1990-1992 Self-Employed/College Student, Baton Rouge, LA
• Freelance photographer for Baton Rouge Morning Advocate and State Times,
Associated Press, various magazines.
• Freelance writer and graphic designer.
• Self-financed 100% of tuition, books, fees, plus most living expenses. Sr. Cadet, USAR.
1988-1990 U.S. Army, Fort Bragg, NC
• 82nd Airborne Division Public Affairs Office. Assistant NCO in charge, Darkroom Supervisor, Primary Trainer for new personnel. Co-ordinated and executed print and video coverage.
• The Paraglide. (Post newspaper, circ. 25,000.) Staff writer and photographer, Features Editor, Darkroom Supervisor.
1987-1988 Freelance Journalist, Writer, Photographer/College Student, Baton Rouge, La.
1983-1987 U.S. Army
Cadet, combat engineer
Engineering and Technical Experience
Machine Design and Kinematics
-Design of crane-mounted conveyor for sugarcane baggasse.
-Design of compactor for oilfield material.
-Design of linkages for verticle lift system.
-Conceptual design of recycling process.
-Conceptual design of biomass processor.
-Conceptual design of novel clamshell bucket design for specific range of applications.
-Evaluation and redesign of locking mechanism of a rotating vehicle barrier.
-Evaluation and redesign of arresting cable and supports.
-Devlopment of material handling system for recycling process (patent pending.)
-Design of a rotating structure used as a fabrication jig for constructing heat exchangers.
-Design of a complex folding apparatus for mounting airfoils on moving equipment.
-Evaluation, design, and redesign of process agitators and associated equipment.
-Evaluation of clamshell bucket movement and relative digging effectiveness.
-Evaluation and redesign of rotating vehicle barrier gates.
-Evaluation of vertical-swing pressure vessel heads to large through-process retorts.
-Kinematic studies of clamshell buckets under load.
-Kinematic studies of verical- and horizontal-pivot gates under varying loads.
-Kinematic studies of vehicle impacts.
-Kinematic studies of linkages/power transmission under varying loads.
-Design of hoist mechanism.
-Vehicular impact studies.
-Welding, fastener, shaft, cam, and spring design and analysis.
Failure Analysis
-Root cause analysis of a failed telescoping platform support in mineshaft.
-Analysis of vehicle arresting system prototype.
-Root cause analysis of thermally-induced localized failure of water jacket on a reactor.
-Root cause analysis of a failed piping tee in a petrochemical blow-down line.
-Root cause analysis of cracked tubing in heat exchanger.
-Root cause analysis of failed furnace tubing.
-Root cause analysis for failed linkage in power transmission.
-Analysis of failed bolting on process equipments mounts and structural supports.
-Analysis of failed welds on structural members subjected to upset loads.
-Analysis of failed welds within equipment and with equipment mounts.
-Root cause analysis with subsequent redesign of process coils within reactors.
-Root cause analysis of failed structural members.
Reliability Analysis (including Fatigue, Design Audits, Fit For Service)
-Life extension study of ball mill grinder.
-Evaluation of a new offshore pipeline laying system.
-Reliability study to demonstrate to federal agency why a client's prototype needs no further testing for certification.
-Reliability study for increasing a compressor's service pressure.
-Evaluation of a non-standard crane support system.
-Evaluation of composite material vessel head to be retrofitted with an agitator.
-Reliability study of incorrectly-made modifications by vendor on API 650 vessel for compliance with API 653 repairs.
-Evaluation of non-standard structural supports for agitators on vessel heads.
-Evaluation of structural steel moment connections for non-standard application.
-Reliability study for a new 30 cubic yard clamshell crane bucket design for 3rd party review.
-Evaluation of supports for process equipment.
-Evaluation of supports for navigation and warning equipment.
-Evaluation of downhole tool at proofload.
-Evaluation of plastic part for failure mode and magnitude of critical load.
-FMEA analyses in accordance with MIL-STD 882D.
-Evaluation of a commercial diving bell for US Coast Guard certification.
-Evaluation of topsides equipment (marine applications) for fatigue and stress corrosion cracking.
-Evaluation of lifting equipment for stress, strain, load conbination sensitivity, fatigue sensitivity, and crack/defect sensitivity.
Finite Element Analysis (Structural and Thermal)
2-D Heat treatment of skirted vessel.
2-D Forging for heat exchanger inlet.
3-D Vessel wall modification. (API 653)
3-D Evaluations of stairs, platforms, and supports in industrial service. (OSHA, API 650)
3-D Design of composite rail beam. (AISC ASD, 9th Ed)
3-D Detailed nonlinear thermal and stress analysis of failed piping tee.
3-D Design audit of heat exchanger supports for ocean shipping.
3-D Stress analysis and redesign of composite material vessel head modification.
3-D Thermal & Stress analysis of heating coil for phosgene reactor (ASME Section VIII, UG-22)
3-D Analyses of steel and aluminium structures under varying loads.
3-D Nonlinear analysis of vehicle barrier to predict crash test results. (NCHRP Report 350-TL2)
3-D Thermal & Stress analysis and redesign of piping systems (ASME B31.1, B31.3)
3-D Thermal & Stress analysis of process furnaces interior piping and tubing.
3-D Thermal & Stress analysis of cracking unit piping and tubing as part of a failure analysis.
3-D Nonlinear coupled buckling analysis of telescoping platform support as part of a failure analysis.
3-D Stress analysis of clamshell bucket and bucket arm as part of a design audit.
3-D Stress analysis of pipeline laying equipment, multi-component assemblies as part of a design audit.
3-D Stress analysis of hydrogen compressor for re-rating the service pressure.
3-D Stress analysis for non-standard moment connections for code compliance (AISC ASD, 9th Ed.)
3-D Stress analysis of tanks for design of non-standard reinforcement for agitators.
3-D Stress analysis of a non-standard beam splice for crane application (AISC ASD, 9th Ed.).
3-D Thermal & Stress analysis of a jacketed chemical reactor as part of a failure analysis.
3-D Stress analysis of a commercial diving bell. (ASME PVHO)
-3D Stress analysis of linkages under varying loads.
3-D Stress with thermal preload of rotating vehicle gate for static and dynamic responses.
3-D Thermal & Stress analysis of process coils within reactors.
3-D Fatigue analysis of large commercial retort design. (ASME Section VIII, Div. 2)
3-D Fatigue analyses of weldment failures (static, thermal, and dynamic-based fatigue mechanisms).
3-D Nonlinear stress analsis of plastic part for failure load.
2-D Stress analysis of pressure vessels under severe cyclic loads.
3-D Nonlinear modeling of structural dynamics of rotating framework, including tension preload.
3-D Stress analyses of pipeline sections under static and dynamic loads.
3-D Stress and thermal analysis of process coils experiencing localized failures.
3-D Stress analysis of downhole tool.
3-D Stress and thermal analysis of plastic extrusion die.
3-D Stress analyses for inhouse design modifications of shop equipment or on-site equipment.
3-D Fatigue analysis coupled with nonlinear mechanical response of mechanical linkages.
3-D Fatigue analysis of topsides (marine service) equipment.
3-D Linear and nonlinear modeling of a lifting equipment component for stress, strain, fatigue, and cracking.
Pipe Stress and Piping Design, Modification, and Repair
-ASME B31.1, B31.3, AWWA
-Redesign of piping in tank farms and production units.
-Static and dynamic analyses with subsequent redesign of process piping.
-Static and dynamic analyses with subsequent redesign of blowdown lines.
-Statoc amd dynamic analyses of pipelines.
-On-site pipe stress analysis.
-Pipe stress models of process furnaces and cracking units. (Borsig, Selas, & Kellogg)
Vessel & Heat Exchanger Design, Repair, and Modification
-Crude oil storage, Water storage, Chemical storage, Process coils, and Process reactors.
-API 620, 650, 653; ASME Section VIII (Div. 1, 2, 3), ASME PVHO.
-Vessel design, optimization, vessel repair (API 653), vessel life expectancy study
-Heat exchanger design; heat exchanger component design. (ASME, TEMA)
-Burner evaluation (combustion and heat transfer calculations)
-API Plan 53 pot design. (ASME and non-ASME compliant versions)
-Fatigue analyses, reliability analyses, Fit For Service analyses
Hydraulics and Fluid Flow (including CFD)
-Design Audit of hydraulically-operated clam shucking plant.
-Design Audit of water lines for a nuclear facility
-Design Audit and subsequent redesign of hydraulic-powered vehicle barrier.
-Power calculations, efficiency calculations, and sizing of pumps and hydraulic equipment.
-Hydraulic loss calculations for piping, tubing, and open channels.
-Process analysis for fluid and thermal characteristics and their interaction with equipment.
-Dynamic analysis of process blowdown equipment.
-Analysis and design of plastic extruder head.
-Aerodynamic analysis of commercial trucking equipment attachment.
-Computational Fluid Dynamic modeling of oil and heat flow within a journal bearing for a university research project.
-CFD modeling of multiple design variations of air foil, to include variations of the use of slots, gaps, and attack angles over a variety of conditions.
-CFD modeling of heat exchanger.
-CFD modeling of a diesel-fired heater for pipeline blowdown operation.
-CFD modeling of compressed airflow through distribution header.
Structural
-Shell and head calculations for pressure vessel walls and vessel components. (API, ASME Div. 1, 2, 3)
-Beam design, analysis, and selection.
-Moment connections for steel structures. (AISC ASD, 9th Ed.)
-Design and analysis of plate, rod, piping, tube, and sheet metal applications.
-Fatigue analyses, reliability analses
-Beam bending calculations and optimization for crane applications.
-Beam bending calculations and optimization for pressure vessel and vessel bed supports.
-Beam bending calculations for pipe support flexibility analysis.
Forensic
-Technical investigations and research, to include incident site investigations.
-Failure analyses of equipment and equipment components.
-Reliability studies and design audits.
-Mathematical modeling and computer-based simulations/recreations.
-Technical analysis and interpretation of photographs, videos, and animations, including photogrammetry.
-Preparation and production of technical presentations and animations (2-D and 3-D).
Civil (through Army Corps of Engineers)
-Concrete walls, slabs, and foundations.
-Road design, construction, and repair; earthmoving operations; pit operations.
-Drainage studies, design, and construction
-Basic bridge design, evaluation, and construction.
-Explosive and non-explosive demolition.
Project Management
-Planned, managed, and presented technical projects involving 1-7 technical professionals.
-Planned, managed, and inspected fabrication and various design developments from concept phase to final construction and testing.
-Planned, managed, and executed construction projects involving 5-60 workers and supervisors, including instances when work was split over several sites in different states.
-Planned, managed, and executed equipment manufacturing/fabrication projects involving multiple vendors and service providers.
-Planned, managed, and submitted multi-discipline proposals.
-Planned and managed multi-tracked technical training programs.
-Planned and supervised military engineering projects to include: concrete retaining walls; drainage rehabilitation; road construction, road improvements; building rehabilitation; bridging; explosive and non-explosive demolitions; combat engineer operations.
-Planned and supervised military training for heavy equipment operator proficiency, time management, project management, weapons qualification, and deployment operations.
Professional Organizations
American Society of Metals (ASM)
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Louisiana Engineering Society (LES)
National Space Society (NSS)
National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
The Order of the Engineer
Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)
Society of American Military Engineers (SAME)
Society of Reliability Engineers
International Society of Explosives Engieners
Honors, Papers and Presentations
"Materials of the Future" 1997 World Science Fiction Convention (Science Panel Track) Aug. 1997 (Panel discussion)
"Engineering Applications of Animation." 1999 Louisiana Joint Engineering Societies Conference. Feb. 1999. (Presentation only)
Keynote speaker, Baton Rouge Student Section of ASME, May 1999
2000 Young Engineer, Baton Rouge Chapter of the Louisiana Engineer Society
2001-2002 President, Baton Rouge Capter of the Louisiana Engineering Society (plus other offices)
Regional speaker for the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES), "Professional Licensure" 2001, 2002
Selected and participated in reviewing and validating the national Principles and Practice Examination for Mechanical Engineering. (NCEES, Atlanta, Ga., 2002)
"The New PE Exam." Presented to the Baton Rouge Chapter of ASME.
"The Application of Annealed Cables for Vehicle Arresting Barriers." 2002 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exhibition. Nov. 2002 (Published paper and presenation) (To be published at event)
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