Mechanical Power Plant

ARTHUR T. FERRELL

**** ******** **., *********, ** 92056

abhigw@r.postjobfree.com, 760-***-****

SUMMARY

Mechanical and Piping designer with extensive layout and checking experience in petrochemical, power and

industrial fields; including 5+ years at refinery and power plant construction sites. CAD operator proficient with

SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Microstation and Intergraph PDS (since 1989).

EDUCATION

Los Angeles Harbor College...Mechanical Engineering (2 years)

Mt. San Antonio College...Manufacturing Technology Certificate

TRAINING

General Atomics...SolidWorks

El Camino College…Catia

Mt. San Antonio College...Mastercam, Smartcam, Surfcam, Micro-CADAM, Cadkey, AutoCAD

Brown & Root Braun...Intergraph PDS piping design & PDS equipment modeling

Ralph M. Parsons...Intergraph CAD workstations

Fluor Corporation...Compressor layout, pipe stress, layout & checking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010-present…General Atomics, San Diego, CA

Mechanical Designer- Updated solid models of chemical handling and Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO)

feed modules. Constructed piping and instrumentation in and between the modules, including supports, with

Solidworks routing software. Extracted piping isometric drawings for fabrication and assembly in PDF and

e-drawing format for Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program (CSDP) plant in Richmond, KY.

2008-2010...Fluor, Irvine, CA

Design specialist- Responsible for layout (using PDS piping models and Quantacad lasergrametry files) of

revamped desalter piping and installation of new Desalter in crowded crude unit. Prepared layouts of new Sulfur

Recovery Unit (using Intergraph PDS) including sulfur pit with steam jacketed liquid sulfur piping and

ControTrace vaporized sulfur piping for refinery expansion in Detroit.

2004-2008…General Atomics, San Diego, CA

Mechanical Designer- Responsible for layout of explosion proof room containing chemical and pipeway

modules, vibratory conveyors and Energetics Batch Hydrolyzer using AutoCAD 2004. Built solid models of

chemical handling and Supercritical Water Oxidation (SCWO) modules with structural steel, piping and

mechanical equipment using Solidworks from which assembly and fabrication drawings were made for

Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program plant in Richmond, KY.

2003-2004...Southern California Edison, San Onofre, CA

Mechanical designer- Updated construction and vendor drawings for nuclear and non-nuclear system upgrades

at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), including in-core instrumentation and salt water cooling

systems. Existing drawings (plan, elevation and isometric) are scanned, converted to raster (.tif) files and

revised with AutoDesk raster design 3 software and AutoCAD version 2002.

2001-2003...Fluor, Aliso Viejo, CA

Design specialist- Responsible for CAD layout and isometric extraction (using PDS piping models and

lasergrametry files) of revamped piping in crowded modularized units, including use of Microstation I/RAS B for

preparation of demolition drawings from raster (.tif) files, for Canadian tar sands to synthetic crude oil refinery

expansion. Prepared CAD layouts of Sulfur Recovery Unit (using AutoCAD, Microstation and Intergraph PDS),

devised methods for fabrication of steam jacketed piping components and developed means for extracting

isometric drawings of jacketed systems for refinery expansion in Venezuela.

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1995-2001...Technip USA, San Dimas, CA

Principal Designer- Received favorable comments from client for accessibility and operability aspects of

multilevel exchanger structure in Hydrogen Manufacturing Unit. In addition to layout; placed piping components

into Intergraph PDS piping model, ran interference detection software, extracted and annotated Isogen

isometric drawings and PDS plan drawings. Calculated pipe sizes and slopes of closed drain system for new

Hydrogen Plant at Canadian tar sands to synthetic crude oil refinery expansion.

1992-1994...Fluor Daniel, Irvine, CA

Design specialist- Prepared manual layout of Sulfur Recovery Unit, including steam jacketed piping, sulfur

condensers, sulfur degasification pit and sulfur storage tank (w/internal steam heating coils) for Shell Oil

Philippine refinery expansion. Redesigned feed receipt manifolds in Chemical Process Cell to be modularized,

thereby reducing number of spares required, for Nuclear Waste Vitrification Plant with AutoCAD release 12.

Designed Remotely Operated Piping Connector as replacement for existing connector that leaks excessively

and imposes high pressure drop through its tight 90-degree turn with straight through design that has self-

aligning (low leakage) properties for use in nuclear hot cells.

1991-1992...E&L Engineering, Long Beach, CA

Principal designer- Prepared demolition and phased construction drawings for retrofit of knockout drums at

reciprocating hydrogen compressors. Created 3-D models, extracted hidden line removed files and made

construction drawings with Microstation version 4. Prepared CAD drawings for deaerator replacement in boiler

plant (using AutoCAD version 10 and Microstation), including translations between CAD systems using DXF

neutral file format.

1991...Southern California Edison, Irvine, CA

Mechanical designer- Made layout and construction drawings for upgrades to nuclear piping systems at San

Onofre Nuclear generating Station, including cross-connection of cooling systems and addition of new safety

water injection tanks. drawings (plan, elevation, isometric and P&IDs) were made with Microstation version 3.3.

1990-1991...Fluor Daniel, Irvine, CA

Design specialist- Repaired plant layout studies, including reworking large high and low pressure

expander/compressors to change their operation from series to parallel flow for increased capacity at LNG

plant in Venezuela.

1989-1990...C.F.Braun inc., Alhambra, CA

Principal designer- Prepared 3D models of process areas (using Intergraph PDS equipment modeling and

piping design programs), including extraction of plan and isometric drawings with annotated text and

dimensions for half billion pounds per year ethylene plant.

1984-1989...Ralph M. Parsons Corp., Pasadena, CA

Lead piping CAD operator- Responsible for quality of work done by piping CAD operators, implementation of

automated file set-up procedures and coordination with other discipline lead operators for Chemical Stockpile

Disposal Program. CAD operator- Responsible for layout and preparation of orthographic plan, elevation and

detail drawings of Polution Abatement System and process Utility Building for Chemical Stockpile Disposal

Program (using Intergraph IGDS). Lead designer- Made layouts and was responsible for supervision of CAD

orthographic and isometric drawings of new LPG Merox unit for Mobil refinery expansion.

1984...Chevron U.S.A. Inc, San Francisco, CA

Field assignment- El Segundo, CA: Made layouts and prepared drawings for revamped onsite units, including

routing of pipes thru existing pipeways. Devised method to change steam coil arrangement in twin-cell furnace

from 3 pass to 2 pass for increased efficiency with least amount of new materials and rework time.

1983...Lajet energy Co., Dallas, TX

Field assignment- Warner Springs, CA: Designed pipe routings, prepared plan and isometric drawings and

inspected installation of piping and instrumentation at steam turbo-generators and air cooled condensers,

ahead of tight schedule, for SolarPlant 1.

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