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Title and Location		PIPELINE REPLACEMENT Department of Defense Facility, Louisiana
Project Description		Remove two 10" diameter pipelines and provide a single 12" diameter steel line of approximately 1.8 miles length. Pipeline transports JP-8 from barge dock to aviation fuel storage tanks.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead mechanical engineer for first phase of design. Persuaded client to bury the pipeline (instead of original scope requirement for aboveground line) to enhance physical protection of line and reduce construction and maintenance costs.
Construction Cost		$2,800,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		PETROLEUM FACILITY PROJECTS Various U.S. Department of Defense Facilities, Republic of Korea
Project Description		A set of 57 Air Force and Army petroleum facility repair and upgrade projects. Thomas J. Davis (TJD) of Seoul, Korea was the Army Corps of Engineers' prime engineering firm on the projects. Enterprise Engineering, Inc. (EEI) was contracted by TJD for their fuel facility design expertise. The projects which I provided design services on included major renovation/replacement of three helicopter refueling facilities, two bulk storage facilities, eight refueler/tanker loading systems, nine truck/railcar/pipeline receipt systems, an aviation hydrant fueling system, a branch connection on the Trans-Korea Pipeline, eleven ground vehicle refueling stations, and an emergency pipeline relocation to accomodate a new taxiway
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Design Manager for the entire set of projects & Consulting Mechanical Engineer for 34 of the projects. As design manager, I aided the project manager in briefing and supervising eight mechanical engineers, three civil/structural engineers and two electrical engineers who, along with myself, provided consulting services on the various projects. I reviewed work of other mechanical engineers and provided general project coordination reviews. Developed and maintained procedures for effective use of the internet for communication and collaboration amongst EEI personnel in Maine and Alaska and TJD personnel in Seoul. Travelled extensively to Korea for facility site visits and close coordination with TJD design teams.
Construction Cost		$41,000,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		INSTALL FILTER SEPARATORS Department of Defense Facility, Florida
Project Description		Amend construction contract to install filter separators for treating marine diesel fuel at bulk storage facility.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead mechanical engineer: Fit new equipment into tight 3-D envelope, while maintaining recommended operational and maintenance clearances.
Construction Cost		$300,000
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Title and Location		INSTALL FILTRATION EQUIPMENT Department of Defense Facility, Alaska
Project Description		Renovation of piping system to install filtration and watewater handling/storage system, and provide miscellaneous enhancements.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Mechanical Engineer: Found way of installing euipment in an already tight space, while improving ergonomics and operability of system. Received kudos from owner and piping contractor for quality of design.
Construction Cost		$250,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		EMERGENCY PIPELINE REPAIR Department of Defense Facility, South Carolina
Project Description		Fast-track project to support client in dealing with a casing discovered on an eight inch jet fuel pipeline. Casing was discovered during road widening work, so time was of the essence.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Engineer: Convinced client to remove casing before pipeline was paved over. Structural analysis showed casing was not required. Helped get project completed, from recognition of problem to completion of construction within a couple weeks.
Construction Cost		$20,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		REPLACE FUEL TANKAGE Department of Defense Facility, Alaska
Project Description		Military construction project to provide three 80,000 Bbl jet fuel storage tanks, pumphouse, truck fill stand, product recovery system, two-mile long 12" supply pipeline and 1.5 mile long 10" issue pipeline.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Mechanical Engineer in preliminary design phase of project.
Construction Cost		$18,000,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		RELOCATE PIPELINE Department of Defense Facility, South Carolina
Project Description		Fast-track study and design project to determine impact of upcoming road widening project on adjacent pipeline and repair/relocate pipeline as required.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Design Manager and Mechanical Engineer: Kept project focussed and on track to complete work ahead of the South Carolina Department of Transportation road building schedule.
Construction Cost		$700,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		REMOVE/REPLACE UST's; PROVIDE TRUCK UNLOADING Department of Defense Facility, South Carolina
Project Description		Fast track project to remove five underground storage tanks (UST's) prior to pending non-compliance date. Tanks replaced with double wall UST's. Also provided gravity-drop system to offload fuel trucks and filtration for receipt and recirculated fuel.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Mechanical Engineer: Developed innovative product reclaim and fuel receipt (gravity drop tank) systems.
Construction Cost		$811,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		CONSTRUCT METER AND BARGE LOADING ARM Department of Defense Facility, South Carolina
Project Description		Provision of custody transfer metering systems for two jet fuel pipelines and an articulated arm for loading fuel barges.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Design Manager & Mechanical Engineer: Analyzed numerous metering technologies, developed performance specification which procured high quality custody transfer metering system using turbine meter. Also developed barge loading arm specification.
Construction Cost		$150,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		REPAIR TANKS/DIKES 1 - 7 Department of Defense Facility, South Carolina

Project Description		Provision of leak-monitored tank double bottoms, floating pans, shell stiffening, product level gauging capability, containment upgrades and miscellaneous piping upgrades.

My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Mechanical Engineer: Developed improved techniques for piping seismic restraint, tank internal piping assembly/support and containment basin piping penetration. Also reduced the number of piping drawings to half those originally projected.
Construction Cost		10,500,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		JET FUEL STORAGE INSTALLATION FUEL FARM REPLACEMENT Department of Defense Facility, Maine
Project Description		Study and upgrade of new fuel facility which experienced environmental accident shortly after completion.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Design Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer for study and design work. Primary author of facility O&M manual. Upgrades incorporated improvements on military standard design, which were proven during system commissioning. Received kudos from Navy's P.M. for my performance.
Construction Cost		$1,200,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		AIRCRAFT PARKING APRON, JET FUEL STORAGE COMPLEX AND REFUELER VEHICLE PARKING Air National Guard Facility, New York

Project Description		Provision of eight position parking apron and nine acre facility for fueling and deicing tanker aircraft. Truck and intra-base pipeline receipt, 100,000 gallons of aboveground fuel storage, five-point hydrant issue with refueler vehicle back-up.

My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Design Manager and Lead Mechanical Engineer for facility and hydrant loop portions of project. Primary author of facility operation and maintenance manuals. Hydrant system incorporated improvements on military standard design, which were proven during system commissioning. These improvements have since been incorporated in other facilities.
Construction Cost		$10,000,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		JET FUEL STORAGE COMPLEX AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM Air National Guard Facility, Maine
Project Description		Provision of facility for fueling and deicing tanker aircraft. Truck and cross-country pipeline receipt, 800,000 gallons of aboveground fuel storage, hydrant issue with refueler vehicle back-up.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Mechanical Engineer and primary author of facility operation and maintenance manual. Hydrant system incorporated improvements on military standard design, which were proven during system commissioning. Project nominated for annual Air Force design award.
Construction Cost		$6,000,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		UPGRADE POL FACILITY Department of Defense Facility, New York
Project Description		Upgrade and extension of the facility's equipment shed to replace pumps with API 610 standard and provide filter separators, while remaining partially on-line.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Engineer. My draftsman and I were complimented by the contractor for the accuracy of the piping drawings, an important factor when it came to inserting the spooled piping within the prescribed system downtime limitations.
Construction Cost		$560,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		JET FUEL STORAGE FACILITY Air National Guard Facility, Massachussetts
Project Description		Provision of facility for fueling fighter aircraft. Two truck receipt stations, 100,000 gallons of aboveground fuel storage, two refueler vehicle issue stations.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Mechanical Engineer and primary author of facility operation and maintenance manual. Helped brainstorm a traffic flow technique which condensed size of site and has been employed in subsequent facility designs.
Construction Cost		$2,600,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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Title and Location		TRUCK OFF-LOAD FACILITY Department of Defense Facility, Maine
Project Description		Fast track provision of a temporary facility for off-loading up to two fuel trucks simultaneously into existing "cut and cover" storage tanks. Stop-gap measure to replace cross-country pipeline receipt until new fuel facility was completed.
My Role and Accomplishments of Note		Lead Mechanical Engineer: Facility design worked well and was complimented by operators. They preferred it to the new fuel facility's off-loading system.
Construction Cost		$200,000
Employer		Enterprise Engineering, Inc.
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