General Manager
Yusuf Ahmad Alghanim & Sons
Total years of experience :26 years, 6 Months
• Oversee the complete Sales/Operation of the Electro-Mechanical service division.
• Meets financial objectives by forecasting requirements; preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analysing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Accomplishes human resources objectives by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, assigning, scheduling, coaching, and disciplining employees; communicating job expectations; planning; monitoring, appraising, and reviewing job contributions; planning and reviewing compensation actions; enforcing policies and procedures.
• Achieves operational objectives by contributing information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality and customer service standards; resolving problems; completing audits; determining system improvements and implementing change.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personnel network; participating in professional organizations.
• Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation, Orlando, FL - Power Generation Industry.
2000 - 2005
Thermal Equipment Engineering Group
As a cognizant engineer of the Thermal Equipment Engineering group, the area of work is on Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG), Steam Surface Condensers, Cooling Towers and Rotor Air Cooler Kettle Boilers.
• Prepare design technical specifications for the above equipment’s based upon customer specification and different design codes such as ASME section I (Boiler Code), Section VIII division I (Pressure Vessels), Heat Exchange Institute (HEI) standards, Tabular Exchange Manufacturing Association (TEMA) etc.
• Review of vendor drawings, erection procedures, shop fabrication procedure.
• Prepare process & instrumentation diagram and associated instruments list.
• Review vendors proposal technically and commercially in order to select a fit vendor
• Responsible of project management and review of all vendors deliverables.
• Responsible for interface with the vendor, A/E and trouble shooting related issues that might arise at site during project commissioning."
As a group Technical Lead for the Steam Surface Condenser and the Rotor Air Cooler Kettle Boiler Heat Exchangers, I had the following responsibilities:
• Prepare a standard design for both of these equipments in order to reduce the engineering hours and the cost involved.
• Standardizing the Selective Catalyst Reduction (SCR) System used in the Heat Recovery Steam Generator to minimize the exhaust Nox from the gas turbine.
• Perform Finite Element Analysis calculations on Heat Recovery Steam Generators to come up with the best Tube to Header Connection and have been published in the ASME magazine.
• Position also involved heavy customer contact centered on bid proposals, vendor specifications and client support.
• Support to marketing/sales groups in order to secure more orders and applications group during bid proposals stage.
• Involved in many “Site Readiness Review” and perform complete check of the HRSG, rotor air cooler and the condenser.
One of the main challenges was to come up with a first time engineering Air/Fuel heat exchanger design to be used in conjunction with a Fin/Fan cooler used to heat up the fuel gas for better performance and to set up the control philosophy description for both of these systems and perform site commissioning of the system. The system was used in two different projects in Mexico and were successfully commissioned.
2004-Present
Balance of Plant Group
As a cognizant engineer of the Balance of Plant group, my scope of work included working on Fuel Gas Heaters, Fuel Gas Compressors, Fuel Gas Skid system and system design of main steam, feedwater, condensate and fuel systems.
• Prepare system design specifications (Design Basis & Functional Requirements).
• Prepare flow schematics and equipment specifications with calculations to support the design.
• Coordinate with supply management to procure the equipment’s.
• Support Erection/Commissioning activities at site including inspection, resolution of site issues.
Yang Enterprises, Inc., Winter Springs, FL - Construction industry. Primary customers: Exxon Corporation, Mobil Corporation and Kennedy Space Center.
1998-2000
Assignments involved:
• Perform on-site inspections, and post analysis of the site.
• Work on mechanical as well as civil aspects of a design.
• Prepared contract documents, site investigation reports and bid proposals.
• Provided cost estimates for a government contract.
• Designed Gasoline Service Stations including site layout, grading plans, utilities plans, landscape plans, petroleum equipment schedules and convenience mart details.
• Concentrated on working with AutoCAD 14 and Micro Station to generate plans.
• Set up AutoCad training classes for all the employees.
• Involved on the design stage of space shuttle Fuel Tank analysis at NASA.
Westinghouse Power Corporation, Orlando, FL
1998
A six-month contract assignment within Strategic and Product Development group. (John Schwab, Manager) Contract consisted of working on 501G 2x1 Combined Cycle - Ironwood Power Project-AES.
Assignment involved modifications of proposed drawings made on AutoCad 14 version, heat balance cases, and process flow diagrams.
SGM Engineering, Inc., Altamonte Springs, FL - Commercial HVAC and Plumbing industry.
1997-1998
Worked as a mechanical engineer, while performing some drafting and analysis on final product delivered to clients. Acquired experience both in mechanical and electrical aspects of a design process. Have been delegated major assignments with significant client base.
MS in Mechanical Engineering. Concentration in Mechanical Systems. Dean’s List
BS in Mechanical Engineering. Minor in Mathematics. Dean’s List