SUMMARY:

• Design Product and Develop Production Processes
• Enthusiastic about new ideas with strong analytical and quantitative problem - solving skills.
• Demonstrate ability to work effectively with people at all levels in an organization and active leadership to establish direction and achieve results.
• Operate under tight timelines and aggressive schedules.
• Experience with multiple stages in the product life cycle, materials selection | design | manufacturing, product development, design of experiment, DOE, statistical analyses, sound understanding of the interaction between process variables and material performance.
• Hands-on experience related to highly regulated industries, oil & gas, automotive, aerospace, steel Industries.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Heat Treatment, Thermomechanical Processing, Forming, Welding and fabrication, Corrosion, Powder Metallurgy.
• Failure Analysis, Mechanical Test, Fatigue | Fracture Mechanics, 3D Surface Profiling | Microstructural Characterization
• Engineering knowledge of Aluminum alloys, AISI 3xx Austenitic Stainless steels, AISI 4140 High Strength steels, Weldable Wear-resistant High Manganese steels, 3rd generation Advanced High Strength (AHS) steels, automotive application, API steels, oil and gas application.
• Powder Composite Materials: WC-Co, W-Cu for wear resistant and high temperature applications, respectively.
• EWI Welding Certificate, ISO 9001, ASTM, AWS 1.1, 1.5, 5.1, NACE 0175 and API 5L, 1104, 571 standards.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Mechanical Testing: Tensile, Compression, Hardness, Impact Charpy, Fracture Toughness, Wear Test, cross-sectioning

Non-Destructive Evaluation: (NDE) RT | UT | MT | PT

Manufacturing Processes: Caliber-Rolling, Plate Rolling

Electron Microscopy: SEM | 3D-SEM | EDS | WDS | EPMA | EBSD | FIB | TEM

Optical Microscopy (OM): DIC Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

X-ray | XRF: Dislocation Density and Texture Measurement, Phase Identification, Analytical Chemistry

Training: Process Engineering, Corrosion Engineering, Commercial Overview, Economic Analysis, Minitab

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Materials Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conduct failure analysis, materials characterization, and development and processing of metals and composites for a wide range of clients in the energy, automotive, aeronautical, marine, petrochemical, construction, electronics, fire protection, green technology, consumer products, and medical device industries.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Senior Materials Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with commercial and operation teams in North America and Asia to develop pipeline with enhanced wear resistance for oil sands operation.
• Developed and implemented welding PQR & WPS and line pipe specification for the slurry pipeline.
• Ensured quality control QA/QC and developed inspection programs.
• Played leadership roles in coordinating several welding training programs in corporation.
• Pipeline Integrity / Reliability: Developed and implemented weldable wear-resistant high manganese steel, improved product quality, extending life-time of the slurry pipeline. Increased productivity by decreasing maintenance time. Saved $1-2B in oil sands operation costs.
• Designed and fabricated high manganese steel welding consumables for manual / automatic welding.
• Conducted root-cause failure analysis (RCFA), identifying factors that cause failure in oil sands and sour service pipelines and flexible pipes. Provided guidelines for pipeline operation, inspection, maintenance, and repair to implement corrective and preventative actions in compliance with procedures and regulations.
• Monitored wear and corrosion damages in the slurry pipelines that influence reliability of pipeline.
• Pipeline Database: Led a cross-functional effort to build a sour service pipeline materials database, a data analysis tool, record and organize pipeline project documents.
• Improved design / qualification of steels for sour service pipelines.
• Ensured information flow across the corporation.
• Took initiative to inspect, calibrate, and optimize lab equipment and experimental automation to improve outputs of experiment.
• Developed processes, procedures, test plans for novel research applications.

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Materials Scientist

Responsibilities:

• Developed corrosion resistant high strength ASTM A1035 steel rebar at cascade steel rolling mill for structural applications.
• Participated in several ASTM, NACE, and AWS standard committees for steel rebar, conducted quality control, and helped intellectual properties (IP) team to patent the company products.
• Provided welding protocol for ASTM A1035 steel rebar according to AWS D1.1 & D1.4.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Research Associate

Responsibilities:

• Defined relationship between mechanical properties and microstructure of 3rd generation advanced high strength steels.
• Characterized multi-phase microstructure (ferritic, austenitic, martensitic) with electron microscopy techniques.
• Developed AHSS, in collaboration with Confidential with high strength-ductility balance by microstructural engineering for automotive industry.

Confidential

Junior Researcher

Responsibilities:

• Conducted extensive microstructural characterization with XRD, SEM, EBSD, TEM.
• Investigated fracture mechanic by 3D-SEM, EBSD, Auger Microscopy.
• Fabricated 2GPa strength bolt and fastener with 150J impact toughness and resistant to hydrogen embrittlement.