17617 Wortham Bend Road, China Spring, Texas 76633, United States
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Education & Recent Employment history
1991, MS, Texas A&M University, Health Physics
1988, BS, Texas A&M University, Nuclear Engineering
2019- Present: LD SSR Technical LLC, China Spring, Texas
Provide Reliability Engineering and System Safety Engineering Analysis for Autonomous Surface Vehicles for the Navy and DARPA. Performed Reliability Assessment on USV Ranger and Vanguard. Performed PRA Trade Studies for DARPA NOMARS Program. Providing Reliability Analysis for LUSV (Large Unmanned Surface Vehicle) Program and System Safety Analysis for MUSV (Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle).
2013- 2019: Oceaneering International, Houston Texas
Provided Reliability Engineering and System Safety Engineering Analysis for a wide variety of projects ranging from Subsea Field Development Equipment for Oil and Gas, Life Support Equipment for the Exploration Space Suit for NASA and Submarine Rescue Decompression Systems, Dry Dock Shelter and Autonomous Surface Vehicles for the Navy. Provide Reliability and Availability analyses on Major Theme Park amusement/dark rides.
2009-2013: Bastion Technologies, Houston Texas
Principal System Safety Engineer and Risk Analyst: Consultant to Oceaneering, Perform technical analyses and construct probabilistic and reliability models for the Constellation Space Suit System hardware and operations risks. This includes Failure Modes and Effects Analyses (FMEAs), Hazard Analyses (HAs) and Fault Tree Analysis (FTAs). Technical consultant for the Oil, Gas and Petroleum Reliability Group. Performing fit for service analysis and reliability models, FMEAs and FTAs for BPs Vessel Verification Program.
2006-2009: ARES Corporation, Houston, TX
Perform technical analyses and construct probabilistic models for the Constellation Program hardware and operations risks using Probabilistic Risk Analysis (PRA) methodologies for NASA S&MA. Constellation Project: Orion Launch Abort Vehicle (LAV), ground safety analysis for the PA-1 preliminary abort tests at White Sands Test Facility, 22 phase fault tree model for the Altair Lunar Lander Design Review and Loss of Mission, Loss of Crew. International Space Station ISS: I utilized SAPHIRE for fault tree and event tree analysis, to develop discrete models in support of the ISS PRA model and various trade studies.
2004-2006: Raytheon Technical Services, Houston TX
Principal Multi-Purpose Engineer: System Safety Engineer, Hazard Analysis and FMEA Reviews, Quality Safety Acceptance Reviews, ISO 9000 Compliance
1988 - 2006: various positions throughout the DOE and Industry
Early Pioneer in Probabilistic Risk Assessment at DOE Non-Reactor Nuclear Facilities, Hanford, Savannah River, Los Alamos and Others. Also worked in the Telecommunications Industry for SBC/AT&T. Full Resume available on Request