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Welcome to the website for Professional Engineer, Joseph E. Greenawalt.
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Work History (Post Military)This page highlights my work history since retiring from the Air Force, January 1993 to Present in reverse chronological order. (Please click on the job title to view the details or scroll down this page.)
Company name and type of business: Engineering and Management Consulting Address: 3417 Morfeld Drive Crowley, TX 76036-4582 Dates of Employment: From: 8/1/2008 To: Present Position Title: Consulting Engineer | Manager Consulting in Engineering and Management: Facilities, Energy, Reliability Maintainability, MEP/HVAC Salary: $40-$60 per hour Supervisor: NA Telephone: 817-688-3843 Number of employees: 1 Number of people supervised: NA Sales Volume: $120k target Reason for leaving: NA Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: NA Awards and Recognition: NA Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Help people to raise their levels of performance. I offer extraordinary capability to bring the best out of people, to bring people and resources together to solve problems to accomplish major improvements. I have received honors for excellence for such things as successfully managing a $100 million energy program, administering over 100 concurrent service contracts, and leading a 160-person base civil engineering operation. I Challenge the impossible and lead teams to create solutions. I garner excellent results where others may have fallen short. I continuously explore management science to acquire skills to engineer management processes. I create processes (involving people) to better serve customers while energizing employees to greater satisfaction and performance. I get it done. I am energized by helping people to raise their levels of performance. On time (safely) and within (approved) budget are the minimum expectations for every project. I possess the knowledge and skill to identify quickly the changes in scope and subsequent impacts to meet these expectations. I seek and expect an equitable exchange of values. · Acquire knowledge and useful skills to engineer the management processes. Many processes in use today have evolved from daily operations. I continue to explore management science. I engineer processes involving people to better serve customers. Motivate employees to greater satisfaction and performance. · Engage people in comprehensive planning (strategic planning, visioning, goals and objectives, master planning, contingency or emergency response planning, policy development, prioritization, etc…). I am skilled in developing decision packages for the replacement of aging infrastructure. I have proven experience in selecting qualified performance contractors who help modernize utility infrastructure from the savings in utility costs realized from the modernization. I have helped with safety and environmental compliance. I link these issues to business plans so that compliance will be an asset to the future of the business enterprise. I conduct training as necessary to achieve desired results. I host meetings and produce communication aids. I draft preliminary plans to stimulate involvement of stakeholders. I can create conflicts to spur dissatisfaction with status quo. I provide engineering studies to influence decision makers. I sponsor SMART/SMARTER goals setting sessions. Every facility over 10-years old can potentially benefit from this skill. There is power in shared goals and objectives. Clear priorities eliminate unnecessary conflicts. Conflict can be a useful tact to spur change. Accountability is measuring what we manage; managed change is improbable without accountability. · Repair lighting in church assembly hall. Client's facility had a history of Exit Light violations during safety inspections. 66% of the lights failed to light. There was minimal additional cost to retrofit versus replacement with like items. Replaced obsolete ballasts and fluorescent tubes. Installed energy efficient fluorescent lights. Rewired and balanced switching circuits. Replaced exit light fixtures with battery back-up. Added emergency lighting in the assembly hall. Restored/improved lighting levels (2X-4X). Reduced energy demand by nearly 50%. Assured reliable exit and emergency lighting. Restored/improved lighting control (selectable lighting levels and effects). · Improve process effectiveness and efficiency. Many processes evolved from daily operations and can be improved due to improved technology and information management. Define the process start to finish. Provide technical requirements. Reference policies or procedures. Define scope and estimate costs. Ensure visibility for scope, cost and schedule. Serve customers better while energizing people to greater satisfaction and performance · Improve workforce and management effectiveness and efficiency. The organizational mission, vision, goals, objectives and plans must be understood at all organization levels to promote shared values and highlight counterproductive activities and decisions. Evaluate understanding, compliance and feedback from organizational activities. Facilitate or provide training tailored to support the organizational mission, vision, goals, objectives and plans. Congruent and competent organizational performance, i.e. accurately reflects the organizational mission, vision, goals, objectives and plans. · Improve organizational planning effectiveness and efficiency. Organizational hierarchies tend to plan differently and create conflicting and counterproductive situations that spur division rather than cooperation. Facilitate strategic planning, visioning, goals and objectives, master planning, contingency or emergency response planning, policy development, prioritization, etc…). Visual evidence of immediate to long term effects of plans. Resource requirements become evident. Short falls become easy targets for corrections. · Plan for the replacement of aging infrastructure. Every facility over 10-years old can potentially benefit from this effort. Compare risks and costs of operation and failure to costs of replacement and reliable operation. Potential for planned replacement versus emergency replacement if ran to failure. · Secure a qualified performance contractor who will help modernize utility infrastructure from the savings in utility costs realized from the modernization. Technology needs have outpaced the operations and maintenance budgets demanded for them. I identify energy and maintenance cost saving opportunities from modernization of production stationary equipments and utility infrastructure. Reduced costs to operate more reliably and efficiently. · Solve chronic or recurring problems with people, processes or systems. Organizations often accept situations they are powerless to change. There are hidden and not so hidden costs from unresolved issues. I conduct cause and process mapping to identify issues and their root causes. I present a business case for taking action to address them. More effective and efficient organizational performance. Build confidence to attack nagging issues. · Ensure contractor performance on recurring contract. Experienced help with recurring contracts including control of change orders and recovery damages or overcharges. I approach project management from a customer or stakeholder point of reference. I anticipate potential conflicts and seek resolution plans. Gain control of change orders. Recover damages or overcharges. Attain equitable exchange of values. · Consider outsourcing and alternatives. Outsourcing provides many alternatives but can provide new sets of problems. Define needs and weigh many alternatives. Consider friendly and longer term alternatives. Resolve root cause(s) leading to decisions to consider outsourcing. Select best providers of solution(s). · Generate positive customer enthusiasm. It is unwise to think that no complaint means customer satisfaction. Repeat business and referral are invaluable in growing and sustain business. Develop a customer care strategy that seeks and realizes a higher standard. Engage teamwork in the delivery of services to customers. Reduced workforce turnover. Effective customer relations. Shared expectations and achievement. Better efficiencies, productivity and customer enthusiasm. · Ensure environmental compliance. Environmental non-compliance can consume business profits and turn customers away. Being a good neighbor is essential to conducting business. Develop company policy to send the right message about compliance. Help with safety and environmental compliance issues. Link these issues to business plans. Compliance will be an asset to the future of company enterprises. · Recover from unwanted events such as severe weather, vandalism or fire. Disaster strikes all businesses. The future health of a business depends on the resilience and resolve to recover quickly and continue serving its customers. Damage Assessment--help with recovery. Disaster confined to site and not imposed on customers. Company name and type of business: Provides technical staffing, engineering services and management consultants Address: 1500 Brown Trail Suite 210 Bedford, TX 76022 Dates of Employment: From: 3/24/2009 To: 7/23/2010 Position Title: Consulting Engineer | Manager Provide facility engineering and project management services to Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, TX Salary: $31 per hour Supervisor: Erma Boudreaux Telephone: 817-553-3010 Number of employees: NA Number of people supervised: NA Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: NA Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: NA Awards and Recognition: NA Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Provide Aircraft Final Assembly area in separate facility. Construction will encompass space currently in use. Developed several plan alternatives, integrated plans to address comments, compiled pros and cons for each alternative and pushed for decision. Modified selected areas to accommodate maintenance activities. Continuous manufacturing activities during construction. · Provide Aircraft Final Assembly in compressed space. Construction wall left enough space to support one Aircraft in Final Assembly. Developed several plan alternatives, integrated plans to address comments, compiled pros and cons for each alternative and pushed for decision. Modified selected areas to accommodate maintenance activities. Continuous manufacturing activities during construction. No disruption to move or split manufacturing teams between buildings. · Provide OSHA Fall Protection for workers on wings of aircraft. Target zero injuries in LM Aero. Historically a person has fallen from wing and was injured. Developed several alternatives with costs, compiled pros and cons for each alternative and push for decision. Decision makers have been provided the knowledge of how to provide fall protection, fall prevention and fall arresting systems to prevent serious injuries. A funding decision is anticipated. · Provide fall protection for workers on Mate and Final Assembly platforms. A team of stakeholders met and developed a concept to modify the EMAS Stations to improve fall prevention. I developed a statement of work for a contractor to design and build a prototype. I managed the design process and evaluated the prototype. I sketched a solution to the only objection. Decision makers have been provided a working prototype. A funding decision is anticipated. · Provide Video Assembly System Carts. The company is expanding the use of its 3-D graphics capability to assist in visually based assembly training. I wrote a statement of work to have the systems assembled. I inspected the inventory of parts and determined that necessary components were not supplied as stated. I worked with the stakeholders to resolve the shortfalls. The simple assembly task was confounded by the challenge to order and actually receive the necessary parts. The task grew from four to twelve systems. · Provide aircraft engine installation alignment aid. The safety and precision of aircraft manufacturing demands engineering controls to reduce human errors. I laid out a universal template for markings on the floor to guide alignment of engine carts to various models of aircraft. Provides for quicker and safer installation of engines in aircraft. · Provide power for the aircraft paint stands. Power is required to use the lighting and receptacles on the stands. I managed the design and installation of special dedicated receptacles for the maintenance stands. Prevented potential delay in aircraft manufacturing. · Provide power for the aircraft maintenance stands. Power is required to use the lighting and receptacles on the stands. I managed the design and installation of special dedicated receptacles for the maintenance stands. Prevented potential delay in aircraft manufacturing. · Provide aircraft maintenance cribs. Provision of storage areas nearby enhances the control of the manufacturing process and prevents damage or injuries from clutter. I wrote a statement of work to have the cribs built and then coordinated the work. Prevented potential delay in aircraft manufacturing. · Provide barrier between FOD Control and FOD Critical areas. Foreign Object Debris are known to put aircraft at risk of premature failures. I worked with the cribbing contractor to ensure that debris from a less critical area were blocked by a barrier. Assured less critical area was not a source for potential aircraft failure due to FOD. · Provide workstations in maintenance cribs. A secured workplace was required to support aircraft manufacturing in the remote work location. Provided power, Lighting, communications and data for 4 positions securely located within the cribs. Prevented potential delay in aircraft manufacturing. · Provide floor striping and striping removal to define new FOD Control and FOD Critical areas. Proper identification of FOD zones is essential to the program to prevent foreign object damage. I wrote a statement of work to have the correct FOD lines painted and then coordinated the work. Assured less critical areas were not a source for potential aircraft failure due to FOD. · Manage expedient design of OSHA Chromium VI Standard compliance project. The company established a deadline to comply with the new OSHA Chromium VI Standard. An expedited design effort was sought to ensure enough time to construct by the deadline. I wrote a statement of work to have the construction project designed to provide construction documents. I managed the design process to ensure coordination and timely completion. Final construction documents were received on schedule. · Provide new tow bar for aircraft transportation dolly. The tow bar was shared with another piece of equipment that potentially could delay a move if it were unavailable. I researched and designed a nearly duplicate tow bar. I coordinated the in-house fabrication of the tow bar. Prevented potential delay in aircraft manufacturing. · Planned construction wall for concrete construction in main aircraft manufacturing building. A dust or FOD barrier is required to separate the areas under construction from the manufacturing areas. I planned and coordinated the location of the barrier wall to support manufacturing and construction. The construction wall was added to the construction contract for the area. Prevented potential delay in construction and aircraft manufacturing. · Improve safety of workers on aircraft manufacturing platforms. A team of stakeholders met and developed a concept to modify the aircraft manufacturing platforms to improve fall prevention. I developed at statement of work for a contractor to design and build a prototype. I managed the design process and evaluated the prototype. I sketched a solution to the only objection. Decision makers have been provided a working prototype. A funding decision is anticipated. Company name and type of business: Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc., Contractor, Facility Management Services Address: 1000 Belleview Street Dallas, TX 75215 Dates of Employment: From: 9/6/2006 To: 8/1/2008 Position Title: Engineering Manager Critical Facility Energy, Reliability and Engineering Tech Programs Salary: $95,000 - $97,850 Supervisor: Michael Lehnhoff, David Rainone Telephone: 314-252-6754, 203-486-2850 Number of employees: NA Number of people supervised: NA (105 - 110) Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: Contract Position Terminated Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: Best Practices (Reliability and Energy) Awards and Recognition: Paper selected by AEE for Presentation and Publication 10/2008 at 31st WEEC Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Provide company Best Practices implementation oversight, training and audits. As Engineering Manager for Grubb & Ellis Management Services in support of a major portfolio, I was challenged to push portfolio compliance with Reliability Best Practices. I was neither a Customer’s Manager nor supervisor of Grubb & Ellis Facility Managers. I was a staff engineering manager without positional authority commensurate with assigned responsibilities. I was remotely located from six of seven sites in six states. I established the original measures of compliance and converted the stated goals into measurements on the dashboard. Using a model of progressive improvement, the dashboard showed who was on track to meet the goals and who was not. I worked persistently to get managers to address the potential reliability issues associated with high employee turnover and inadequate staffing. I assisted and mentored each Facility Manager and their staff with the successful completion of their corrective action plans. The people who owned the measurements and results generally responded to meet the goals. Raised Reliability Best Practice compliance from about 78% to 96.1% · Establish Best Practices for Energy Management in existing critical facilities. Acted as consultant to client in the development of their energy reduction program. Researched and developed Data Center Energy Conservation actions and measures of compliance. Developed first draft for revision and point of departure. Created awareness of energy costs and activities that use energy and water excessively. I helped publish Energy Management Best Practices. I established measurable performance indicators for Best Practices Compliance. · Develop and standardize engineering and technical qualification/certification processes. I served as Engineering Manager for Grubb & Ellis Management Services. Generally, our sites had poor definitions of contractual responsibilities. There seemed no limit to the content and scope of work requests from our customers to be accomplished within scope. I provided company implementation oversight, training and audits. I worked with our facilities engineering staffs at seven locations in six states to develop standardized engineering and technical certification processes. I supported the initial certification boards to ensure fair and reasonable testing for operator certifications. Over 50 engineering technicians /operators achieved certifications. · Reduce energy consumption and improve reliability of critical facilities and infrastructure. Existing Critical Facilities may have been engineered initially but have evolved unilaterally by operational changes unwittingly into facilities that are targeted today as large energy consumers. Existing solutions to the critical facility reliability challenges consume extra resources to ensure maximum equipment availability. As Engineering Manager for Grubb & Ellis Management Services, I had the opportunity study and address the reliability and energy engineering gap in critical facilities. There are many feasible engineering solutions to meet reliability design requirements that also achieve good energy efficiency results. I presented my findings (http://www.jegpe.com/images/ch84_greenawalt_k4.pdf) to the 31st World Energy Engineering Congress. · Provide engineering management support seven critical facility sites from virtually anywhere. My first supervisor at Grubb & Ellis was in Dallas, TX; my second was in Southbury, CT and the third was in St Louis, MO. I was privileged to access and transmit information via laptop computer so that I could work from any high-speed internet connection virtually anywhere. I met with people regularly using a teleconferencing account and received voicemails on my laptop. I kept plans and files updated on shared databases through my laptop. I also provided training and briefings with annotated PowerPoint files. I used spreadsheets extensively in managing site compliance data. Geographic separation was overcome securely through the internet. Travel costs were reduced significantly. · Provide interface with business partners in development of data center portfolio operational best practices. I participated on conference calls with team members from all over the world. I walked a fine line providing excellent service while highlighting success and shortfalls of our company’s services. I administratively supported the client’s teams with data and graphics for high-level briefings. I maintained the shared data base to ensure updates were posted promptly. Current and accurate compliance status was constantly available to decision makers for our clients and us. · Develop and manage the GEMS reliability assessment corrective action plan including target completion dates. Performance shortfalls required a corrective action plan. The client viewed these as high priority yet did not have a budget for the corrections. It was up to our site managers to develop the plans and justify resources to execute the plans. I facilitated the meetings between our management and our clients. I brokered agreements and commitments and document them in meeting reports. I tracked who owned the next actions and the due dates. Corrective action plans help both the client and the customer accountable for compliance. Many of the troublesome issues were systemic and perpetuated by the customer. · Develop chief engineer and assistant chief engineer training, qualification and certification programs. Turnover in our facility managers and chief engineering technicians was very high. Qualified replacements were very difficult to find. The long term solution was to grow our supervision and management from within. I developed performance measures and training checklists. I targeted training on issues and shortfalls identified by our management and clients. I identified the resources required to provide training in cost accounting and business management. Created potential for upward mobility in our critical facility operations and management workforce. · Coordinate and consult on the updating of operator handbooks and subsequent operator training and qualification certification program. Operator handbooks were the primary resource for initial and orientation training for new technicians. The chief engineering technician was responsible to ensure it covered all equipment and systems for which he and his crews were responsible. I visited sites and reviewed the Operator handbooks. I would inspect the site for new or omitted equipment and systems. I compared the handbook to their training checklists and reviewed training progress. I provided training and certification resources to assist in their workforce development. · Develop and manage the GEMS energy management and conservation strategy including target completion dates. These critical facilities pursued 24/7/365 reliability at all necessary costs. The cost of the business hardware dropped exponentially over time making energy consumption the largest element in their cost of doing business. I determined that the largest inefficiencies were due to operation measures intended to assure reliability of their critical loads. I determined that fear was the primary motivator and facts were not sought. No cost and low cost energy efficiency improvement measures were accomplished promptly. Energy consumption versus critical load requirements is tracked. · Resolve reliability issues with battery banks used to ensure continuous power to the datacenters. Many critical facility power systems have tons of batteries that provide power during the interruption of online power sources. The nature of the series parallel systems to achieve the desired voltage and current allows a single batter failure to interrupt the current supplied by many batteries. I researched battery systems by various manufacturers and identified the failure modes. I recommended a replacement strategy based on the minimum reliability requirements. I provided a simple measurement indicator to flag the time to replace battery banks. Battery life is tracked and departures from the failure model are watched closely to justify funds to replace battery banks. · Participate in professional reliability organizations, trade shows and seminars. Grubb & Ellis Management Services sought to promote itself though targeted participation in professional reliability organizations, trade shows and seminars. I wrote and submitted an abstract for consideration for the 31st World Energy Engineering Congress. It was selected for presentation. I wrote the paper and it was approve for publishing and presentation. I presented the results of my engineering management effort in support of critical data center facilities. Company name and type of business: Computer Sciences Parsons, LLC, Contractor, Civil Engineering Services Address: 72 ABW/CEC, PO Box 46038 Tinker AFB, OK 73145 Dates of Employment: From: 3/1/2002 To: 5/17/2006 Position Title: Chief Design and Construction SRM/Deputy Chief Engineer/VP/Chief Engineering Services and Energy Management Provide engineering and program management support of engineering services, design support, maintenance engineering, and energy management Salary: $75,000 - $81,600 Supervisor: William Ward, James Kennedy Telephone: 405-734-3672 Number of employees: NA Number of people supervised: Varied up to 30 Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: Position Eliminated Budget Responsibilities: $30,000,000 utility purchases, $24,000,000 utility resale, $25,000,000 Design, $40,000,000 Construction program. Committees served on: Reliability-centered Maintenance Board, Energy Working Group, Facilities Board and Energy Steering Group. Awards and Recognition: Computer Sciences Parsons Team of the Quarter (Engineering Design) 3rd Quarter 2005, Computer Sciences Parsons Team of the Quarter (RCM) 1st Quarter 2005, DynPar EXCEL Award for Excellence in 2004. Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Resolve several base operating support contract compliance issues. Hired as Vice President/Chief of Engineering Services at Tinker Air Force Base, OK by a former military supervisor. The main issues for our company were our actions in responses to verbal directions which when audited were found to be violations. I worked with customers and auditors to create solutions. I revamped the entire utility program to comply with regulations and our Statement of Work. I built Office Suite documentation that accepted utility data inputs while recording compliance. The Contracting Officer accepted our solutions to the numerous write-ups when the Government auditors praised our solutions. · The Contracting Office’s technical representatives sought deductions from contract payments for the alleged failure to provide deliverables on Energy Management. There was lack of progress on the Energy Program during the aftermath of the 9/11 installation security improvements. Our company had responsively diverted its resources as requested to support the security upgrade projects. I was successful in demonstrating that the deliverables were available. After failed attempts to get attendance at required meetings, I proved it was the installation commander’s responsibility to lead the Energy Steering Groups. Once the rightful program leadership was restored, I obtained approvals of the deliverables. I received our company’s 2004 Excel Award for these turn-a-round achievements. · Resolve many complaints. I worked with Government employees who saw many of their colleagues lose their jobs when our company received the base operating support contract. I established constructive relationships with the Government representatives by using our contract, applicable regulations and obtaining clarification of inherently governmental responsibilities. I resolved the contract performance issues with the Government. · Manage $30,000,000 utility purchases and $24,000,000 utility resale. The utility purchase and resale system had evolved from undocumented verbal agreements and directions from the government leadership. Provide engineering and program management support of engineering services for the US Air Force at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. I provided a fully compliant and auditable utility purchase and resale system. I resolved gaps in utility costs and reimbursements. · Manage $25,000,000 Design and $40,000,000 Construction program. The engineering design function was outsourced to an A&E company in another city. Construction management was split with major construction projects outsourced to the Army Corps of Engineers and the remainder under our contract. Provide engineering and program management support of engineering design and construction for the US Air Force at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma. The design and construction programs were completed. Scheduling and funding conflicts were resolved regularly to preclude extensive delays. · Improve the reliability of the central utility plant utility production systems. The plant reliability was poor and maintenance costs were consuming the Operations budget. I modeled the central heating/cooling and compressed air production processes using simulation software. I conducted reliability studies on central heating/cooling and compressed air production facility in support of Lean Transformation initiatives. I provided a report that detailed how to improve reliability of the Central Plant and dramatically reduce operating costs. · Served on Reliability-centered Maintenance Board. Provide engineering and program management support of maintenance engineering. The company's negotiated proposal included a reliability-centered maintenance program as part of maintenance engineering. I established baselines and measures of success by predictive testing and inspection technology. I demonstrated recurring cost avoidance from periodic scheduled testing and inspections. Maintenance costs continued to consume the operations budget, however, the company could cite large cost avoidances and resulting benefits from expenditures on other requirements. · Use available resources to create systems to accomplish cost accounting tasks. The existing legacy system used a set of manual calculations to allocate expenses. There was no supporting documentation prescribing the process. I built MS Office suite documentation that took data inputs and documented compliance. I worked with hostile customers and auditors to create solutions. I defined systems and processes in SOPs. I resolved several contract compliance issues to the satisfaction of our clients and auditors. · Improve maintenance effectiveness and reduce maintenance costs. Tinker AFB could not keep up with the deterioration of the Base primarily due to inadequate funding and funding strategies that were short sighted. The value of deferred maintenance requirements continued to grow. Led transition from preventive maintenance to reliability-centered maintenance employing predictive maintenance technology and applications.(infrared, ultrasonic, vibration, oil analyses, and motor circuit analysis). Targeted scarce resources to prevent catastrophic failures and subsequent budget absorption. Used predictive testing and inspection technologies to prioritize maintenance activities to maximize the use of available resources. · Emergency generator engine oil analysis tests failed two cycles in a row. It was first suspected that the oil was not changed as directed. I led the reliability-centered maintenance team employing predictive testing and inspection technology (infrared, ultrasonic, vibration, oil analyses, and motor circuit analysis). I found many new uses for thermal imaging and accurately predicted centrifugal chiller and air compressor failures with ultrasonic analysis. Further predictive testing and inspection determined that the failure of the thermostat on the engine oil heater damaged the oil. Oil analysis saved at least one emergency generator engine by revealing the rapid degradation of oil. · Ensure utility rates and resale rates are fair and reasonable and rate increases are necessary. The existing legacy system used a set of manual calculations to allocate expenses. Audits revealed that there was no supporting documentation prescribing the existing process. Our Company cited for noncompliance with prescribing directives. Provide all recurring and non-recurring utility contract support. Maintain purchased utility documentation. Review and develop technical provisions of utility contracts. Assist in negotiating utility contracts. Assist the government in providing litigation support. Manage utility resale agreements. Successfully intervened an electricity rate increase. This intervention created a political issue between the Installation Commander and the utility company CEO for successfully proving that the requested increase was not justified. Saved millions. · Ensure utility rates are fair and reasonable. Tinker AFB had a contract with a natural gas company to provide compressed natural gas for Government vehicles. I discovered that compressed natural gas was underutilized and costing thousands of dollars per month without benefit. I pushed to terminate the contract but got fierce resistance from the Base -environmental group. I proved that the Air Force was losing money on the deal. The environmental group enforced the use of compressed natural gas. The gas company voluntarily reduced the monthly fee by 50%. The use of compressed natural gas in vehicles then cost about 40% of the cost to use gasoline. A losing situation was converted to a win-win. · Maintain, manage, and execute an effective Base Energy Management Program. The Contracting Office’s technical representatives sought deductions from contract payments for the alleged failure to provide deliverables on Energy Management. Maintained, managed, and executed all required elements of the Air Force Energy Management Programs including metering, identifying and programming energy conservation projects, construction design reviews, and awareness programs. The base managed to show progress. Verification of energy conservation projects showed planned savings, however, energy increases from mission expansions exceeded these savings. · Improve energy conservation and awareness. The primary focus had shifted to base securing tasks and required construction. Energy costs were consuming Base operating budgets. Developed utility energy policies and master plans for customer’s adoption. Wrote and submitted article for the Base newspaper and the executive bulletin. Renewed energy awareness and accountability of the stakeholders. The Government exercised is responsibility to comply with it goals and requirements. · Support all applicable Department of Defense energy targets and Air Force and Air Force Materiel Command energy reduction goals for Tinker and its sites. Tinker AFB Contracting Office attempted to make compliance with Department of Defense energy targets and Air Force and Air Force Materiel Command energy reduction goals a contractor responsibility. Train facility managers on energy conservation and consult with them on aspects of facility operations related to energy management. Prepare quarterly reports on energy performance index, and Metering and Budgeting Program. I proved it was the Installation Commander’s responsibility to lead the Energy Steering Groups. Steering Group meetings were often productive and there was a shared understanding of the gaps. Company name and type of business: Contractor, Architect-Engineering Services Address: 1200 Summit Avenue, Suite 320 Fort Worth, TX 76102-4409 Dates of Employment: From: 2/1/2002 To: 2/21/2002 Position Title: Project Engineer Manager II Provide engineering and project management support to various facilities projects for Lockheed Martin at the government owned contractor operated (GOCO) site in Fort Worth, TX Salary: $65,000 Supervisor: Joe Almers, Paul Shirley, Ray Rarick Telephone: 817-698-6755 Number of employees: 40 Number of people supervised: NA Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: Bad Fit Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: NA Awards and Recognition: NA Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Provide engineering and project management services. Lockheed Martin hired AECOM to provide engineers to support moving the F-16 manufacturing line at the government owned contractor operated (GOCO) site in White Settlement, TX. I produced as built sketches of F-16 manufacturing positions and work platforms so that they could be exactly duplicated at another area in the factory. Manufacturing resumed in new areas without loss of learning curve. · Evaluate exhaust fan requirements for cleaning tanks. The new chemicals and tanks required ventilation to take fumes away from work areas. I studied the MSDSs for the chemical and determined the permitting requirements and the special materials required for the ventilation systems. The exhaust system is environmentally compliant and not prone to premature failure normally expected from standard ventilation systems handling these fumes. Workers are protected from exposure to harsh irritant gasses. · Investigate complaints of conference room being too hot and stuffy. The room was built without addressing the heating and cooling requirements for the planned population. Identified the ventilation, heating and cooling requirements. Identified feasible solution to provide comfort when the room was fully populated. The conference room was made ready for use to its full capacity. Company name and type of business: Lockheed Martin Technology Services, Technical Service Provider Address: 400 Virginia Avenue, SW, Suite 400 Washington, DC 20024 Dates of Employment: From: 5/1/2001 To: 1/31/2002 Position Title: Sr. Mechanical Engineer (VII) Provide engineering support to a Task Order issued by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to be accomplished under the NAS Implementation Support Contract (NISC) Salary: $65,000 Supervisor: Hugh Giggy, Damon Thomas Telephone: 202-646-2324 Number of employees: 15 Number of people supervised: NA Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: Contract Delivery Order was cancelled in the aftermath of 9/11. Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: NA Awards and Recognition: NA Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Evaluate Air Traffic Control Tower and Terminal Radar Approach Control facilities to develop repair and modernization requirements. As a senior mechanical engineer for Lockheed Martin Technology Services, I provided engineering support to a Task Order issued by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). I was a member of a multi-disciplined travel team that provided engineering evaluation of Air Traffic Control Tower and Terminal Radar Approach Control facilities. I provided technical evaluation of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, environmental control and management Systems, piping and plumbing, and fire detection and suppression systems. Scope and costs to modify the facilities for equipment upgrades and to accomplish facility renewal were provided to decision makers. · Work with the Federal Aviation Administration facility owners to ensure our survey and upgrade plans would support continuous execution of their mission responsibilities. Each Federal Aviation Administration facility has a critical mission that must remain operational to ensure the safety of regional air transportation travelers. I met and interviewed site personnel and discussed rules of engagement while working in their facilities. This included providing and revising schedules and giving daily updates. I also recommended energy conservation and efficiency improvements such as lighting retrofits, control systems, chiller replacements, boiler replacements, variable frequency drives, and thermal insulation. I addressed fall protection, lightening protection, grounding, bonding, arc flash, ground fault circuit interrupt, Uniform Facility Accessibility Standard and site security issues. Out briefings summarized the findings and recommendations, and reviewed the next steps in process. · Provide mechanical engineering support for the Terminal Applied Engineering Program (TAEP) at the National Team Level. My team was supporting the Central Region while many other teams support the others. We shared reports and estimates among the teams. I recommended solutions to system deployment and facility renewal requirements including detailed cost estimates, preparation and conduct of a Government Transition Evaluation for Terminal Facilities, the development and delivery of Reports and Cost Estimates, and the development and delivery of Terminal Facility Transition Plans with Implementation Center personnel. Supported the National Team Lead and provide mechanical engineering guidance to the members of the National Team. · Troubleshoot and resolve problems with cost estimating program. The engineering group provided a standardized cost estimating spreadsheet workbook. There seemed to be inaccuracies in the calculations. I studied the spreadsheets and discovered numerous logic errors. I corrected the references and calculations, added formatting enhancements and included a self check procedure to indicate ("Corrupted") loss of data integrity. The revised cost estimating spreadsheet provided credible and auditable values for budget plans. · Lead the coordination with Implementation Center, Regional and site personnel to ensure all comments are reviewed and resolved. All of the work progress was made available to stakeholders for comments. I ensured that all comments were recorded and addressed promptly and included in the final documentation. The decision packages were "owned" by the customer's engineering group and site operations personnel. Company name and type of business: Non Profit, Private Higher Education Address: 3000 Mountain Creek Parkway Dallas, TX 75211 Dates of Employment: From: 12/1/2000 To: 2/28/2001 Position Title: Director of Physical Operations Manage engineering, operation and maintenance of campus facilities. Salary: $65,000 Supervisor: J. Blair Blackburn, Gary Cook Telephone: 214-333-5122 Number of employees: NA Number of people supervised: 40 Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: Dismissed during probationary employment period Budget Responsibilities: Committees served on: Safety, Graduation Awards and Recognition: NA Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Establish a physical operation organization and comply with safety and environmental requirements. As the first Director of Physical Operations at Dallas Baptist University, Dallas, TX. I supervised 40 people in the operation and maintenance of campus facilities. The administration had ambitious plans for growth and desired recognition as a competitive university. I assessed the facilities management situation and set about correcting serious deficiencies. I initiated work information inventory including files and drawings. I drafted a file management plan to organize information for ready access. I established a worker safety program and provided initial safety orientation training to all Physical Operations personnel. · Establish a safe and worker friendly campus Physical Operations. The existing workforce had little knowledge of the hazards of their work on campus. I established a worker safety program and provided initial safety orientation training to all Physical Operations personnel. Following a serious injury of a worker, I advised the University of the required OSHA reporting requirements for lost time accidents. The University would not accept responsibility for government compliance requirements. · Establish an environmentally responsible campus Physical Operations. The University kept environmental records for the underground gasoline storage tank to renew their permit. I discovered problems with the environmental records for the underground gasoline storage tank. I advised the University of the required corrective actions and potential sanctions. The University would not accept responsibility for government compliance requirements. · Provide accessibility to all campus guests regardless of handicap. As the first Director of Physical Operations at Dallas Baptist University, I inherited staff but without organization or reporting structure. I raised ADA issues with new construction. I provided cost estimates for the risks from not taking corrective actions. The University would not accept responsibility for government compliance requirements. · Correct maintenance issues. The University experienced comfort control problems regularly in on the major facilities. I investigated this issue when it was related that the control air compressor failed, again. I accompanied the mechanic on a tour of the facility and the new air compressor continued to run during my visit. I suggested that there was a large air leak. He found it in the attic space. The air leak was responsible for the comfort control problems. This recurring maintenance item was eliminated. · Correct hillside erosion. The University is built on hilly site and during heavy rains experience slippery muddy erosion onto the walkways and unsightly hill sides due to difficulty in landscaping and growing vegetation. I evaluated the site and recommended the use of Asiatic Jasmine as an alternative ground cover to hold the soil and provide evergreen beauty to the hill side. The University landscaper investigated and tried many different types of ground covering plants and vines before arriving at suitable choice. Company name and type of business: General Contractor, Building Construction, and Maintenance Address: 1919 South 1st Street Waco, TX 76798 Dates of Employment: From: 9/15/1997 To: 11/30/2000 Position Title: Energy Engineer Assistant Director of Baylor University Physical Plant for campus utilities (114 buildings, 7.2 million sq ft) Salary: $50,000 - $55,000 Supervisor: Ken Pollard, Jim Pollock, Russ McLeod Telephone: 254-710-1361 Number of employees: 125 Number of people supervised: 16 Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: Lost contract to lower bidder Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: Safety, Energy Awards and Recognition: Waco Construction, Inc. won the Central Texas Better Business Bureau Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics, Sempra Energy Solutions won the Association of Energy Engineers 2000 Energy Project of the Year on the project at Baylor University Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Improve safety and reliability of the central cogeneration plant. At Baylor University (Waco Construction, Inc.), the Central Heating and Cooling plant had reached its capacity and experienced occasional problems in meeting demands for cooling and heating. I developed and coordinated $15 million energy performance contract type project. The project was to be accomplished without serious adverse impacts to university operations. The project was accomplished without serious adverse impacts to university operations. This project won the Association of Energy Engineers Energy Project of the Year award for the year 2000. · Improve campus facilities and systems. Unscheduled maintenance had grown to well overshadow scheduled maintenance. Developed deferred maintenance reduction projects and oversaw the implementation of a preventive maintenance program. Saw reemergence of scheduled maintenance as the primary maintenance activity. · Identify items to improve maintainability and reliability. Safety, reliability, and cost effectiveness had deteriorated over time. I recommended and provided capabilities to isolate system components; to provide standby, redundant, or back-up capabilities; to ensure adequate chemical water treatment; and to ensure adequate system controls including clean and dry air for pneumatic systems. Maintenance activities were simplified and more easily accomplished within normal work schedules. Repeatable maintenance activities contributed to improved plant safety. · Accomplish necessary maintenance and repairs without a shut down. Too much of the necessary maintenance and repair requires complete shutdown of a utility (heating, cooling, electrical generation or a combination thereof). I implemented projects during shutdowns to provide capabilities to isolate equipment for maintenance and repairs. Necessary maintenance and repairs may now be accomplished on our schedule without a shutdown. · Improve safety, reliability, and cost effectiveness of plant operations. Safety, reliability, and cost effectiveness had deteriorated over time. I analyzed the heating, cooling, and electrical generation operations of the Temperature Control and conducted job hazard analysis. I established basic orientation and training to ensure job hazards were understood. Plant employees became eyes and ears for ensuring safe and reliable operations. Many improvements were initiated and well justified at the working levels. · Upgrade the Temperature Control Center without lengthy or unplanned utility outages. As Assistant Director of Physical Plant for Baylor University, Waco, TX, I oversaw 24-hour operation of the Temperature Control Center, which produced electricity, chill water and steam utilities for nearly 4 million square feet of campus facilities. I coordinated over $15 million in energy infrastructure improvements, nearly $10 million at the TCC. The construction was accomplished with uninterrupted comfort heating and cooling and without electrical demand penalties. · Engage Performance Contractor to accomplish campus energy efficiency improvements. University funding was not approved. Our strategy was to get a performance contractor to determine the saving potential and fund (for a fee) the project. I wrote the statement of work highlighting the desired upgrades, repairs and improvements to be accomplished as part of the contract. I ensured that energy conservation opportunities were operationally sound and did not provide unacceptable hindrances to the normal business of our client, Baylor University. The Performance Contractor developed and designed a cost effect project to accomplish $15 million of energy efficiency improvements. The University chose to self-fund the project. · Keep the performance contract work on schedule and within budget. As Energy Engineer for Baylor University, I was a third party contractor without direct authority over the contractor. Provided cost-effective alternative solutions to problems encountered during the campus energy retrofit program. I was involved in resolving most of the conflicts involving campus customers and beneficiaries. I was successful by hearing, understanding and resolving campus customers' and beneficiaries' concerns. Working closely with the Performance Contractor, I increased our company revenues. · Accomplish Performance Contract work without a shutdown of utilities. The $10 million improvements at the plant included removal of 3 boilers, 2 chillers and two cooling towers; installing 3 chillers, 1 heat recovery boiler and two cooling towers; reworking steam, chill water, and condenser water piping; adding mechanical water purification equipment (side stream filters, condensate polisher, softener and dealkalizer), chill water pump, energy management system and variable frequency drives; replacing boiler feed water system (pumps and deaerator), blow-down systems, and condensate surge tank; and expansion/renovation of the control room. I coordinated activities and schedules with the campus stakeholders to ensure schedule compliance. I kept plant personnel involved in all problem solving activities and brokered many compromises and agreements. Maintained excellent relationships with the Performance Contractor and the subcontractors. Many potential show-stoppers were managed to prevent serious project impacts. · Obtain emission permits in a timely manner without punitive sanctions for past noncompliance issues. During the course of the University’s energy infrastructure improvement project, we discovered that the University did not have the required environmental permits for any of their boilers. We secured the services of environment engineering specialists to present the case for the new boiler permit and seek reconciliation for the operational violations of the existing boilers. We were successful in getting the permits in a timely manner and remarkably reduced sanctions for the years of violation. This project won the Association of Energy Engineers 2000 Energy Project of the Year. · Satisfy the beneficiaries of the lighting retrofit work. The simplest part of the project, lighting, turned out to be the most troublesome due to the difficulty in satisfying each of the beneficiaries of the work. Some offices seemed brighter than others did, which drove complaints of favoritism and challenges based on seniority. We were able to de-lamp some fixtures to satisfy complaints of being too bright. For the complaints of not being bright enough we were able relamp with brighter bulbs. We also satisfied color rendition index requirements of the art and interior design labs. The project reduced lighting cost by more than 50% campus wide. Lighting levels were improved. Air conditioning costs were also reduced. · Accomplish emergency repairs to combustion gas turbine cogeneration unit cost-effectively. Repairs required 2-week shutdown of combustion gas turbine cogeneration unit. Shut down would incur 3MW demand penalty. Turbine maintenance is normally planned and accomplished during off peak demand seasons. I developed business case to rent emergency generators during the shutdown. I won approval and coordinated the installation and refueling operations. The combustion gas turbine cogeneration unit was restored to full operating capability without incurring demand penalties. · Continuous 24-hour operation of Temperature Control Center (TCC) to produce utilities to satisfy campus demands. 24-hour Temperature Control Center operation to produce electricity, chill water and steam utilities for nearly 4 million square feet of campus facilities. Managed staffing and attendance issues including approval of overtime work. Developed policies and procedures to ensure plant supervision and staff decision would be consistent with company and university policies. The Temperature Control Center (TCC) at Baylor University continued to improve reliability and economic efficiency. · Provide support for four supervisory and eight skilled operator/mechanics. 24-hour Temperature Control Center operation to produce electricity, chill water and steam utilities for nearly 4 million square feet of campus facilities. I fully engage staff from all shifts in the planning for upgrades and repairs. I provided budget authority and decision guidelines. Voluntary turnover was virtually eliminated. Workface was vested in the upgrades and repairs of the plant. · Restore the central plant manager's competence and proficiency in plant operations. The plant had reached its capacity and experienced occasional problems in meeting demands for cooling and heating. During the course of modernization of the central utility plant at Baylor University, the Plant Manager became technically obsolete and lost the respect of his subordinates. Rather than disciplinary measures, I met with the central plant manager and we devised a plan to bring him up to speed and recapture respect. In essence, I hired a new manager to take over plant management during the remainder of the project. This gave the original plant manager a chance to focus on the operational changes and learning the new technologies. He was restored to his post at the end of the project fully equipped to lead. · Project consumption and cost of utilities for preparation of the campus budget. Campus utility costs had grown over the years to a significant portion of the campus operating budget. I evaluated utilities consumption patterns for Baylor University and projected budget figures for natural gas, electricity, and water for the budget. Consumption estimates were accurate within ±5%. Company name and type of business: Property Management Address: .4200 South Freeway Fort Worth, TX 76115 Dates of Employment: From: 7/1/1997 To: 9/14/1997 Position Title: Director of Operations Salary: $26,000 Supervisor: Robert Sturns Telephone: 817-255-3060 Number of employees: 25 Number of people supervised: 9 Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: My actual salary was less than half of the amount we agreed upon. Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: NA Awards and Recognition: NA Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Oversee facilities operations of the Fort Worth Town Center Mall. The mall operating hours were 9 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and Noon. to 5 p.m. on Sundays. I supervised a Lead man and eight maintenance workers in this endeavor. I ensured maintenance staffing from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Staffing was available to the lessees to assist with lighting and comfort issues. · Resolve chronic sewage back-up in the food court. Many attempts had been made to stop sewage from coming back through the floor drains in the food court in the lower level. There seems to be a link to cleaning the fountain. There were also recurring problems from upper level drains backing up resulting from flushing paper towels. I evaluated the chronic problems and focused on the sewage lift stations. I determined that undersized light-duty sump pumps had been installed when the original sewage pumps had failed. The ownership did not approve funds for original replacements. I recommended that an Architect/Engineer firm be engaged to restore these lift stations to original capacity and configuration. · Restore redundancy in chiller operations. The mall had been operating for many months on one chiller. The second chiller failed and there was loss of comfort when the one chiller could not meet cooling demands. I oversaw cooling operations of the Town Center. I justified and managed the restoration of the standby chiller which when completed, became the primary source of chill water. While chiller capacity was restored, the delivery systems were badly neglected, primarily due to lack of in-house capability to perform routine maintenance. · Accomplish annual boiler certification. The mall had redundant 500 horsepower boilers to serve the heating, hot water and humidification requirements. I oversaw the annual inspection of the two 500 hp boilers that serve the mall. The chemical water treatment of the boilers failed to control scaling and corrosion. As a direct result, the State Inspector ordered hydrostatic inspections. Boilers were certified when repairs were completed and hydrostatic inspection passed. · Prevent scaling and corrosion in the stationary equipment. The chemical water treatment of the boilers failed to control scaling and corrosion. I specified and recommended an improved water treatment program for the boilers, chillers, and cooling towers. Justified cost for a managed and monitored chemical water treatment service contract. · Improve reliability and maintainability. Control and isolation valve maintenance had been neglected. Many would not function or close. I had 8" isolation valves replaced so that the boilers could be isolated for maintenance or lay-up. Restored capability to isolate boilers for maintenance and capability for lay-up when not required for use. · Ensure shop safety. The guards had been removed from the grinders and table saws. There was no evidence that eye and hand personal protective equipment were available for employee use. I personally restored the safety guards on the table saw and bench grinder, and replaced the broken wheels on the oxygen-acetylene welding cart. Restored focus on safe operations and injury prevention. · Ensure safe electrical service operations. The electrical service truck's bucket controls were unserviceable and unrepairable. The electrical technician in the bucket was dependent on the person below operating the controls. I prohibited the use of the bucket truck because of unrepairable controls on the bucket. The risk of injury was obviously high. Failure to take corrective action would be libelous. I recommended condemning and disposing of the bucket truck. · Ensure safe electrical service operations. The battery powered mobile manlift was frequently out of service due to batter charge failures. Recommended and justified replacement of $2500 worth of batteries on the Condour personnel lift. After replacement, I discovered a wiring problem that had caused the previous set of batteries to fail and had it corrected. The wiring problem that caused premature failure and unreliability of the manlift was corrected. · Reduce maintenance costs and risk exposures. There was a weekly lighting survey to identify lights that were out. Replacing lights was nearly a full time job mostly accomplished during mall operating hours. I evaluated the costs and life expectancies of replacement lamps and directed the purchase of longer life lamps to reduced operations and maintenance costs. Longer life replacement bulbs though costing more reduced operations and maintenance costs. Company name and type of business: E Education America (Remington College), Technical Education Address: 300 E. Loop 820 Fort Worth, TX 76112-1225 Dates of Employment: From: 2/15/1997 To: 9/14/1997 Position Title: Electronics Instructor, Part-Time (Evenings) Instructor for semiconductors, digital communications and digital electronics modules Salary: $20,000 Supervisor: Frank Neavin, Mel Lembo Telephone: 817-451-0017 Number of employees: 60 Number of people supervised: 12 - 15 Students per class Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: I left for full time work opportunity Budget Responsibilities: NA Committees served on: NA Awards and Recognition: NA Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Report test and measurement results promptly. Instructors were paid only for classroom instruction (student contact) time and not for time spent on administrative functions such as grading exams and recording performance data. I developed and implemented automated student records using Microsoft Excel that was adopted for use by the electronics department. Each time a data element was added, the cumulative average and totals were updated. · Facilitate learning of technical discipline (electronics and digital applications). The course of instruction involved lectures, discussions, and laboratory work. I taught semiconductors, and communications and digital electronics modules for groups of up to 15 students. I created instructional aides and technical demonstrations to covey and reinforce learning objectives. Most students benefited from the supplemental instructional media and exercises. · Measure student performance and attendance. The focus on student records was on their receipt of the full course of instruction for which progress payment was earned. I prepared and administered tests, and recorded attendance and student performance. I used measurement results to repeat instruction on common failures. Students received certificates of completion based on attendance at instructional modules. Incompetent students received the same certification as the students that excelled. Company name and type of business: State Government, Higher Education Address: 700 North Walnut Grove Bloomington, IN 47405 Dates of Employment: From: 6/10/1996 To: 12/30/1996 Position Title: Director of Utilities Directed 50 people in the operation, maintenance, repair and improvement of the 450,000 pph central steam power plant, 18,000 ton central chilled water production plant, and utility distribution systems (steam, condensate, chilled water, electricity, water and sewerage) serving 9 million square feet of University facilities. Salary: $58,000 Supervisor: Charles E. Sheppard Telephone: 812-855-5013 Number of employees: 600 Number of people supervised: 50 Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: Return to the support of my immediate family following the deaths of my parents. Budget Responsibilities: $12 million in annual energy and utilities (Electricity, natural gas, coal, oil, water, and sewage). Committees served on: Safety, Training Awards and Recognition: Completed the APPA Institute for Facilities Management Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Eliminate hazards and improve plant safety. As Director of Utilities at Indiana University, I identified potential hazards with the boiler water treatment chemicals. I performed job hazard analyses at all work sites. I made many recommendations to improve safety in the power plant. The recommended changes were incorporated into the project to upgrade the boilers. · Eliminate chemical hazards and improve plant safety. There was evidence of serious chemical spill incidents with virtually all chemicals used. I recommended improvements to the chemical water treatment system including bulk deliveries and secondary containment systems. The recommended changes were incorporated into the project to upgrade the boilers. · Manage maintenance and repairs of the central steam power plant. The plant was an outdated coal plant that was recently upgraded to supplementally burn natural gas. The use of natural gas ensured more complete combustion and lower harmful emissions. I oversaw contracts to repair the ash handling system, replace the deaerator tank, and remove asbestos as well as in-house repairs to refractory, ash lines, traveling grates, conveyors, and boiler controls. Ensured continued safe and reliable operation and performance within the capability of the design of the plant. · Improve safety of maintenance and repairs at the central chiller plant. Recent design and construction of a large chiller addition did not adequately account for operational maintenance. Routine maintenance required shutdown and isolation of the chiller. I managed maintenance and repairs of the central chiller plant. I evaluated the screens on the cooling towers and recommended secondary screening be provided so that the screens could be cleaned safely without a system shut down. I also recommended a bypass line so that the bucket strainer could be cleaned without shutting down the condenser pump. Justified project to implement these recommendations based on avoided electrical demand penalties. Prevented attempts to perform hazardous operational maintenance (without a shutdown). · Improve the Physical Plant Safety Manual. The university safety manual has widely used content. I thoroughly reviewed the safety manual and its references and updated it to reflect the latest OSHA guidelines. The university safety manual is a widely used and referenced standard for universities in the USA. · Ensure Flood Planning is updated. The university is located in a national flood zone. It has large drainage canals to carry flood water away from the campus. I evaluated the floodways and found that they were nearly 50% filled with sediment and debris. The floodways need to be cleaned to ensure proper function during flooding conditions. I submitted the project and estimate to remove the sediment from the floodways. · Construct new steam lines. The campus infrastructure for steam was full of leaks and insulation failures. The steam system had to be operational during construction. I oversaw contracts to design and construct new steam lines down the main street of campus. Modular construction was chosen so that the steam tunnels could be constructed and cured offsite. The construction of the steam lines proceeded rapidly down the street. The open tunnel construction facilitated rapid welding, insulating and mounting of pipes. The project was accomplished with minimum traffic disruption and a minimal steam outage for cut over to the new lines. · Certify utility purchases. The university purchases electricity, gas, water and sewage services. I audited the utility bills to ensure the accuracy of meter readings, proper application of rates and fees and proper crediting of payments. The university was kept keenly aware of the cost consumption rates for all utilities. Company name and type of business: Non Profit, Private Higher Education Address: 2800 S. University Fort Worth, TX 76129 Dates of Employment: From: 1/2/1993 To: 6/1/1996 Position Title: Director of Mechanical/Electrical Systems Supervised Electrical and Mechanical Superintendents responsible for the direction of 35 craft workers in maintenance, repair and restoration of the heating, ventilating, refrigeration, air conditioning, plumbing, electrical, and underground utility systems. Salary: $40,000 - $45,000 Supervisor: Willett R. Stallworth Telephone: 817-257-7955 Number of employees: 230 Number of people supervised: 37, 35 in collective bargaining unit Sales Volume: NA Reason for leaving: My father’s health was failing. I needed to be closer, geographically. Budget Responsibilities: $3.5 million in annual utilities (Electricity, natural gas, water, and sewage) and $1.6 million in operations and maintenance. Committees served on: Safety, Quality, Training, and Security Awards and Recognition: Scholarship to 2nd of 3 1-week terms of the APPA Institute for Facilities Management; Paper selected by APPA for Presentation and Publication, Scholarship to Managing Managers, M.J. Neely Business School (Texas Christian University) Goal or Challenge █ Context/Situation █ Actions █ Result/Impact █ · Restore the group's sense of ownership and pride in their work and in the systems maintained for the University. As Assistant Director of the Physical Plant Department, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, I assumed leadership of a combative and recently unionized 36-member labor force that was ravaged from management problems. I became the third director in 3 years. Morale was very low and customer feedback was overwhelmingly negative. I was under great pressure from my supervisor to build cases to terminate employment of poor performing and insubordinate employees. I understood the litigation potential and the worker protections provided by the union and the law. I committed to terminate poor performing and insubordinate employees as necessary. I initiated TCU TEAMWORK, a total quality service vision. I implemented recognition techniques that were proven at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. We formally recognized the performance we most wanted to be repeated (the best work). I coached skills in evaluating and documenting performance in measurable terms (quality, quantity, and timeliness) and subsequent impacts on the customer. I supplemented policies: required written monthly recognition of at least two examples of each employee's best work and provided semi-annual one-on-one feedback. Recognition and feedback helped our General Staff Employees build their performance and helped their supervisors achieve continuous improvements in productivity, reliability, quality, and worker/customer attitudes. We benefited from improved employee attitudes and performance. In fact, our diverse labor force had no poor performing or insubordinate employees. Unscheduled maintenance requests dropped from over 3,000 to less than 400 per month. Annual appraisals were simplified. Employees’ monthly recognition helped justify higher ratings for top performers while clearly showing the adequate performer. Feedback documentation also identified supervisory strengths and weaknesses. As a result of improved management-employee relations, the employees decertified their union. I described our turn-a-round performance in the paper on Practical Employee Recognition published for and presented to the APPA annual meeting in Philadelphia in July 1995 (http://www.appa.org/files/PDFs/Greenawalt.pdf). · Prevent catastrophic electricity outage. As Assistant Director of Physical Plant for Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, I received disturbing results during summer maintenance from the insulation tests of the high voltage lines serving the main campus. The results indicated that failure of the high voltage lines was imminent and that new conductors were required to ensure continued operation. We moved quickly to plan the work and procure the resources. Our plans to shut down the campus high voltage feeders over Labor Day weekend were disapproved even though failure was predicted before Thanksgiving. When our plans for work during the Thanksgiving break were also disapproved, I restated the risks and persisted for a commitment for the next (Christmas) break. The high voltage lines failed in early December during the first day of final exams. Instead of a simple project to pull new conductors, there were emergency power generators to provide power for finals week, major trenching across campus to route new conduits for the high voltage. The emergency repair project easily cost 3-times our original emergency plan. · Identify and correct causes of customer dissatisfaction. As Director of Mechanical Systems at Texas Christian University, I found there was difficulty in keeping up with the cost and timeliness of required maintenance activities. We implemented many process changes to help our service technicians improve the quality and durability of their work. We bought better parts and tools, spent more time with customers to ensure we fixed the right things and the customers were satisfied. Productivity improved and unscheduled work was significantly reduced. · Reduce Deferred Maintenance. The maintenance and repairs of campus infrastructure had been under funded for years. Unscheduled maintenance dominated maintenance schedules. Led initiative that identified $15.7 million in deferred maintenance work. I prioritized the list to replace the most obsolete and unreliable equipment first. The deferred maintenance list included pump and air handler replacements, replacing leaky piping systems, upgrading controls, upgrading electrical panels and switchgear. · Reduce campus energy costs and consumption. The campus had many old chillers that were still reliable but much less efficient than most new chillers. I led planning for $15 million campus wide energy infrastructure upgrade to include CFC chiller replacements, chilled water loop modifications, and electrical system improvements. While decision makers acknowledged the potential benefits from the plan, they unwilling to commit the funds to execute the plan. · Seek alternative financing for energy infrastructure projects. The well-endowed debt-free university did not have funds to fix the infrastructure. I oversaw performance contractor's Architect/Engineer studies to improve energy efficiency and reduce operational costs when replacing major system components such as chillers and boilers. We used the enticing offer of the performance contractor to finance the project from savings to win financial commitment for the improvements. · Control chemical hazards. In my first weeks at the campus, the soles came off my new pair of shoes and new pair of western boots. They were compromised from walking in "water" on mechanical room floors. I specified and implemented an improved chemical water treatment program. Improvements included secondary containment systems, water softeners, and mechanic involvement. Reduced costs for water treatment by 20% ($9,000). Preventing and cleaning up chemical leaks and spills became urgent. · Eliminate moisture and mildew problems. The library had special collection of books and papers. Parts of the facility had recurring problems with mold and mildew. Two solutions were considered, installing a vapor barrier and installing a cost effective dehumidification system. Investigated chronic humidity control problems at the library and determined insufficient vapor barrier was the primary problem. Employed ozone generators temporarily after hours to kill mold and mildew. Employed dehumidifiers to reduce humidity. Humidity ratios closely tracked conditions outside the building, which was an indication of a vapor barrier failure. The facility did not have a vapor barrier. Dehumidification was the most feasible solution to control humidity and prevent mold and mildew. · Solve computer lab cooling problems. The business school had recently upgraded to provide personal computer access in classrooms. No Consideration was given to the additional air conditioning required to cool the additional computer loads. I managed the complete overhauled the cooling towers and service of the chillers. The peak cooling demands could not be met with the existing system. I recommended an ice thermal storage system for the business school to offset peak cooling demands and provide sub-cooled air to solve cooling capacity problems in the PC computer labs. · Improve campus safety after dark. There had been complaints of fear for personal safety after dark. Planned and oversaw the campus outdoor lighting survey that led to major improvements. Poorly lighted areas of the campus were corrected by installing additional lighting in walkways and remote parking areas. In addition, emergency telephones were installed. Links to Other Work History(Please click on the job title to view the details or scroll down this page.)
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