Accomplishments

Designed numerous surface and subsea actuated and manual gate valves, and hydraulic and pneumatic actuators
Designed and built a pneumatic flow measurement system for large valve testing
Designed and built a computer controlled high deposition rate four-head bulkwelding overlay weld machine
Designed and built a hydraulic stabilized platform for satellite antenna position control on ships
Designed and built a ship motion simulator for testing production units
Designed and built a patented arm mechanism for a downhole sonic transceiver tool
Developed Valve, Actuator, Choke, and Spring proprietary calculation software
Implemented, installed, commissioned and debugged Ladder Logic programs for elevator controls
Automated a Drum Sorting System for a local oil refinery with bar code scanning for product determination and inventory management
Developed and implemented a computer control system for a local chemical batch processing plant with exothermic reactor process control
Designed high temperature refinery control valves to meet ASME Section VIII, ANSI B31.3, API Codes, and various customer specifications, both local and international
Managed development of a QNX based monitoring and control system in C for satellite antenna stabilization platform, and designed the hydraulic stabilization platform
Redesigned a hydraulic winch system for the Shallow Well Perforating Truck to reduce maintenance costs
Implemented Quality Control Improvements
Created a complete C-Language PC data acquisition and control system for a dual 10,000 psi precision drilling core sample analysis pump, resulting in a new product line
Designed and oversaw construction of electrical power distribution systems for residential and commercial customers