william mims

Design/Applications Engineer for heat exchanger and pressure vessel manufacturer, performing heat exchanger load\duty sizing calculations, BJAC ,software and hand calcs. and supplying drafters proposal ACAD. pressure vessel design drawing for customer tube and shell heat exchanger quotations. ASME pressure vessel design, sizing, shell reinforcing/flange calculations using COMPRESS software and sec. VIII hand calculations for stripping towers, heaters, falling film condensers and thermo-syphon reboilers.

for rocket engine propulsion test department. Responsibilities include mechanical design calculations, writing technical specifications, and layout/assembly drawings installation schedules using Time-Line software, installing systems to support engine firings. Systems designed and installed include pressure vessel design to ASME sec. VIII, piping/pressure systems to ASME 31.1/31.3, hydraulic calculations, exhaust gas diffusers/heat exchanger sizing/design, over-head bridge crane design and various structural steel/aluminum designs.

Design calculations, drawing revisions, and construction management for 1000 CFM drainage pumping stations, hospital complete HVAC design, and a garbage compacting plant design.

Overseas contract as pump manufacturer's project manager/ USAID owner's representative for irrigation pumping stations construction. Provided on site construction and pump installation expertise to Egyptian Government and contractors during construction of 37 irrigation pumping stations

Office and field engineering for petro-chem design and construction management company. Electrical designer, Houston, doing power one-lines\plans, wiring schematics, and lighting plans. Six month contract; a plant electrical designer performing field design changes and as-built drawings and NG pipeline start up contract

Yard project engineer for an oil field fabricator. Procured materials, interpreted drawings for fabricators, made piping spool drawings, did field design changes and as built steel drawings. Performed bid cost estimates. Jobs included 40 man off shore living quarters, drill rig heliports, and well head platform structural modifications.

Civil Construction Inspector during construction of the Waterford III Nuclear Power Plant. Performed soil density testing. Performed re-bar installation to drawings, concrete yield, slump, and air content test. Logged test piles and hydraulically loaded piles.

Performed engineering calculations, work procedures and federal procurement specifications, for all equipment and floating plant used by the corps. in it's flood and navigation control effort. Wrote dry dock specifications for hydraulic cutter head ship and work boats, rotating equipment installations, barge ramps, canal locks and steel structures.

in the Technical Support Unit of the Bulk Distributions Division. Providing engineering drawings and scope of work (Design Packages) for bulk terminal plants, metering transfer facilities and air fueling storage facilities, for fluids LNG, diesel, gasoline, JP4. Design packages are used for plant turn arounds, petroleum storage tank repairs (API 650, API 653), and loading/unloading metering/piping systems modifications, per ARAMCO Engineering Standards.

Mechanical design, including sizing and stress calculations, drawing layout, material and equipment purchasing specifications of all HVAC, EMCS, plumbing, piping systems and facility utilized at the NASA rocket engine test site. Piping systems design were for chillwater/heating water for central plant, cryogenic fuels, designs and modifications. Heat loads, chiller, boiler selections and specifications. Equipment room designs, equipment layout and piping diagrams, and ventilation systems.

Site Manager of 6 man forward deployed Al Udeid engineering team, and Mechanical Engineer on the AFCAP program to augment, on site, U.S. Air Force airbases civil engineering staff during Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom wars; secret security clearance required. Prepared design requirements documents. Master planning, building's mechanical system design for HVAC, water, and plumbing systems for new metal buildings. Design requirement packages for contractor bid RFQ's include heat load calculations, equipment schedules, plan and detail drawings, Statements of Work, Corps. of Engineers cost estimates (Progen) I.G.E. Developing design packages for immediate problem corrections to mechanical systems, HVAC, water and sewage systems.