SUMMARY:

• Contract Engineer since the early 1980s working as a Mechanical Engineer and Environmental Engineer for DOD, DOE, and NRC as well as on commercial projects. Project Management experience both nationally and internationally in IT and Engineering concentrations. Oil and Gas: crude oil international brokerage, investments and well monitoring. Available for relocation and immediate hire as contractor or direct employee.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

TASK: IT Project Management: Planning and Scheduling Cost Estimating Verification of Compliance Response Mechanical Engineering Internal/external auditing Inspections surveillance/ readiness reviews Technical Procedures Writing And Editing Environmental Safety Emergency Preparedness Regulatory Compliance Safety Tracking/Trending

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Contract Engineer

Responsibilities:

• National and international contract engineering to private corporations in industry, manufacturing and government subcontracts. Duties included technical report writing, safety analysis, comparative design analysis, cost estimating, regulatory compliance and auditing. Adaptive medical device design in coordination with rehabilitation hospitals. Designed and manufactured medical appliances for use by handicapped persons. Research and development projects with telecommunications and IT industries. Pursuit of personal interests and s.

Technical Lead

Confidential, West Des Moines IA

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead for Migration Team system wide implementation of Software Data Management. Quality Assurance of translated information between XML/HTML5 using DITA oXygen software program. Devised and maintained reporting system with MS Access and MS Excel programs. Created Prototype process for migration anticipating further projects for data migration corporate wide. Software packages included RoboHelp, Sharepoint, CSS and JavaScript.

Technical Writer

Confidential, Bismarck, ND

Responsibilities:

• Supported design and implementation of software upgrade and implementation for Confidential Care Act utilizing system development and software development best practices methodology including Agile Process. Defined business requirements and converted them into a technical system requirement that would be passed on to developers through the process of technical documentation.
• Updated according to current regulation Medicaid Eligibility, SNAP, TANF, LIHEAP, Medicaid, Child Care, and Child Support programs. Reviewed design documents presented and captured any changes in current software design and integration of artifacts created as part of the system and software development. Performed comparison analysis between documentation with revised requirements as necessary. Collaborated with State personnel and Confidential project managers to create strategy and approach ensuring all design decisions and changes were captured in documentation. Designed templates and other management documentation as appropriate to complete assigned tasks. Developed and wrote programs and manuals for implementation and function of software system. Software packages included Sharepoint, JIRA and Visio.

Technical Writer

Confidential, Paducah Kentucky

Responsibilities:

• Captured agreements and requirements for performing work as expressed in the approved contract of FDPP Integrated Safety Management system using Agile Concept Process. Conceptualized, authored and delivered through implementation procedures for administrative, design, operating, quality control and work instructions. Professional collaboration and integration of the knowledge and experience from multiple disciplines, line management, subject matter and workers responsible for ensuring procedures are correct and usable tasks to be performed safely and effectively. Developed/originated controlled performance documents ensuring changes, revisions and cancellations of documents per applicable requirements including TSR and CONOPS.

Confidential, Bellevue NE

Responsibilities:

• Tended to the care and medical situations of elderly parents. Managed the investment portfolios and legal affairs in several states, as well as their summer and winter residences. Assisted the war effort through the handling of stateside business affairs of civilian contractors deployed to the war zones. Technical review/editing of advertising brochures for engineering services. Authored course books and exercise programs for MS Suite for community center classes. Developed tracking system for class attendance and presentation for same.

Confidential, Englewood CO

Contract Engineer

Responsibilities:

• National and international survey inspections for major projects including commercial and government clients. Project Management on multi - million dollar commercial project completed ahead of time and under budget. Performed IT and embedded systems inspections of major state facilities including penitentiaries and mental health hospitals.
• Chaired and co-chaired kickoff and closure meetings with client sites establishing scope of project with site business managers and facilities superintendents, determining staff representatives best equipped to assist in inspections, developing site plans for survey and minimized disruption in facility operations. Created tracking system in accordance with corporate guidelines to ensure maximum efficiency in verification of compliance response status. Created chain of event tracking determining and recording legal liability protection in event of litigation. Audited national and international multi-billion corporations in South America.

Confidential, Aiken SC

Contract Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Researched and prepared fee reports for submittal to DOE. Researched and formatted manifest for transportation of low level hazardous waste water DOT, EPA and NRC regulations. Created a hazardous/radioactive tracking system requiring applications of scientific and legal definition and adherence to regulatory compliance. Researched and developed engineering surveillance program for vaults design for disposal of low level waste based on information tracking systems of vault disposal method.

Confidential, Richland WA

Contract Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for response to DOE audits, QUEST reports, internal audits and Conduct of Operations inspections. Supported occurrence notifications reporting, tracking and trending; coordinated and performed readiness reviews, internal audits and inspections. Provided documentation to remove items for QUEST and maintain currency with actions. Provided support in the area of ORPS, ALARA, Safety, Tracking/Trending and evaluation, tracking completion of all actions contained with the reports and maintained comprehensive/auditability file for each report. Responsible for the development, revision and implementation of visitor/subcontractor, WHC indoctrination and program. Developed a personnel tracking system for short term personnel occupancy in a high level radiation area. Determined qualifications and requirements for visitors in the plant, personnel tracking and locating criteria, and security requirements. Worked with programming staff to create timelines and deadlines, project verifications as needs were refined and redefined.

Confidential, Denver CO

Technical Editor/Writer

Responsibilities:

• Principal technical writer and editor for personnel tracking system for Department of Defense. Documented the Foxpro based system comprised of multilevel parameters of system administration and included global options, files, reports, utilities, system administration, security import and export functions, index databases, default path and backup/restore databases. Authored and edited functional specification, design specification, user manuals and help screens. Developed manuals and schedule/tracking of courses. Maintained client contact to clearly define the needs as requirements were altered or modified through engineering change orders.

Confidential, Denver CO

Technical Editor/Writer

Responsibilities:

• Technical review, editing, formatting design criteria for facilities including special use buildings and laboratories for private firm operating DOE plutonium processing plant. Created conclusive engineering reports breaking technical detail into terminology intelligible to highly educated professional outside of engineering fields for purpose of Congressional approval and funding. Prepared technical reports defining contractual agreement in accordance with federal regulations for use by civilian construction firm for next phase of project. Researched and verified engineering standards and codes as applicable to the civil, architectural, structural, mechanical and electrical disciplines. Verified congressional acts and standards including Confidential to meet or exceed appropriate hazardous materials standards.

Confidential, Plant Golden CO

Contract Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Researched and accumulated data for engineering project justification and cost justification for private firm subcontracted to DOE. Reviewed, edited and formatted documents for formal presentation to Congress. Translated technical engineering data into terminology and chronology easily interpreted by professionals other than engineers for purpose of construction fund requisition. Researched, documented and edited procedures for maintenance engineering to meet or exceed regulatory compliance. Presented safety policies and procedures in such a manner as to be easily implemented by management and craft level personnel.

Confidential, Denver CO

Contract Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis of International Space Station structure by component/part breakdown developing part number integrated to definition by breakdown study, drawing trees and dictionary for submittal for congressional approval and . Documented each component for product design including engineering change orders. Design/implementation SDI.