Expert Details
Mechanical & Structural Engineering
ID: 733083
Texas, USA
Innovation is a natural result of the expert who seeks to fully understand the behavior of all physics-based events & phenomena in his field.
Equipment design & manufacturing
Oil drilling rig & related equipment design & manufacturing
Cranes & related equipment design & manufacturing
Hydraulic cylinders design & manufacturing
Analytical & CAE Skills & Tools
Physics-based Event Simulations
Finite element analysis (FEA)
Nonlinear FEA
Failure analysis
Fields of training
Mechanical & Structural Engineering
Welding design
Field
Specialized Services
Expert's 7-Step Engineering Design Verification - A best-practices system for engineering analysis excellence
Evaluation of the engineering FEA process, other analysis methods & related QA systems based on Expert's 7-Step Engineering Design Verification system
FE analyst training & continued support based on the Expert 7-Step Engineering Design Verification - A best-practices system for engineering analysis excellence
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1983 | Degree: Bachelor of Science | Subject: Mechanical Engineering | Institution: Texas A&M University |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
|---|---|---|---|
| Years: 2013 to 2016 | Employer: Orgeron Engineering, PLLC | Title: President | Department: All |
Responsibilities:All business - intellectual property & patent development, filing & licensing for drilling rig pipe handling equipment, consulting engineering design & FEA verification of various Shell offshore drilling rig equipment & systems, composite structure designs, sales, marketing, recruiting, contracting, legal, admin (except bookkeeping) |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2003 to 2013 | Employer: T&T Engineering Inc. (now of Schlumberger) | Title: V.P. Engineering | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:Approval & management of all engineering design & FEA verification of drilling rigs & related structures, machines, systems, components & equipment, intellectual property & patent development, assignments, performance, FEA, field & shipyard support, training & develop staff (15 engineers, 15 drafters), process & procedures recruiting, quotes, some sales & contracting |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1998 to 2003 | Employer: Integra Engineering, Inc. (now of T&T) | Title: President | Department: All |
Responsibilities:All business - consulting engineering- design & FEA verification of various structures, machines, components & equipment, FEA training, sales, marketing, recruiting, contracting, legal, admin (except bookkeeping) |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1994 to 1998 | Employer: Seatrax Cranes, Inc. | Title: Senior Project Engineer | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:Project management and mechanical, hydraulic & structural engineering, design of complete offshore cranes, ABS, DNV certifications, manufacturing & field/offshore support, FEA, quotes, some sales and contracting. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1991 to 1994 | Employer: Dreco inc. (now of NOV) | Title: Senior Engineer | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:Project management and mechanical, hydraulic & structural engineering design of drilling rigs & equipment, FEA, ABS, DNV certifications, manufacturing & field/offshore support, quotes, some sales and contracting. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1987 to 1994 | Employer: Entergy Corporation | Title: Senior & Welding Engineer | Department: Production Engineering |
Responsibilities:Installed first ASME Section IX Welding program for repairs, project mechanical, thermodynamic and failure engineering of steam turbines & boilers, FEA, fossil power plant support, vendor management, cost-benefit analysis |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1986 to 1987 | Employer: Ingalls Shipyard | Title: Senior Engineer | Department: Production Engineering |
Responsibilities:Project planning & instruction of ship-block construction work for all trades, PERT network logic & Gantt charts |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 1983 to 1986 | Employer: Marathon Letourneau Marine | Title: Mechanical Engineer | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:Product engineering of offshore cranes, hull/leg design, custom rack & pinion elevating systems, FEA, software programming |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2015 to 2016 | Employer: Techmar Industries, LLC | Title: V.P. Engineering | Department: Engineering |
Responsibilities:New product vision, strategy & development of drilling rig pipe-handling equipment, heavy equipment design, quoting, sales & contracting, recruiting, |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| ASME - American Society of Mechanical Engineers, current Member (30 yrs) NAFEMS - National Association of Finite Element Methods & Standards, former member (7 yrs) AISC - American Institute of Steel Construction, former member (6 yrs) AADE - American Association of Drilling Engineers, current Member (2 yrs) PMI - Project Management Institute, current Member (1 yr) |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| P.E. - Professional Engineer, current Registration in Texas, #81118, yrs 1996-2016 |
| Awards / Recognition |
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| “EAGLE” Award, by MP&L, of Entergy, 1990, for leadership in engineering support services implementing thermal-stress FEA for pressure vessel & piping repairs “CHOICES 1,000" Award by MP&L, of Entergy,1991, for presenting program to 1,000 9th graders encouraging them to make the choice to graduate high school |
| Medical / Professional |
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| N/A |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| 36 Patents Issued, 5 other Pending Patents Published Expert, K J, “BOLTED OR WELDED ASSEMBLY SIMULATIONS ............................ Overcoming Serious Obstacles to Advanced FEA Value”, presented at NAFEMS World Congress, 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA V. Petr, G.W. Mustoe, K.J. Expert, T.G. Rozgonyi, 2002, “Experimental and NUMERICAL STUDIES OF TRANSIENT SHOCK WAVE PROPAGATION in a Geomedium” ............................ Annual Conference on Explosive and Blasting Technique, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Expert, K J, “VALIDATION OF FEA OPTIMIZATION PROJECTS: Cost Effective Procedures” ............................ Presented at NAFEMS Seminar: Advances in Optimization Technologies for Product Design, October, 2001, Chicago, Illinois, USA Expert, K J, “HYDROGEN-INDUCED CRACKING in Cr-Mo Super-heater Header Tube-stub-to-Header Welds: A Case Study using Thermal Stress FEA”, ............................ ASME 1991 Pressure Vessel & Piping Conference, San Diego, California, USA |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert Witness case (2002) - Fishing boat accident root cause - Investigated, studied & reported to attorney for the injured Expert Witness case (2003) - Dredging barge accident root cause - Investigated, studied & reported to attorney for the injured Expert Witness project (2008) - Drilling mast raising failure (dropped mast) root cause - Investigated, studied & reported to owner Expert Witness project (2009) - Drilling mast raising failure (wire rope) root cause - Investigated, studied & reported to owner Expert Witness project (2010) - Drilling mast raising failure (hydraulic cylinder & system) root cause - Investigated, studied & reported to attorney for owner Expert Witness case (2016) - Drilling rig walking system - Investigated, studied & reported - Patent infringement evaluation |
| Training / Seminars |
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| ASME - Turbine & boiler repair to Section IX Boiler & Pressure Vessel code, yrs 1987-1991 AWS - Various power plant-based welding training sessions & seminars Algor (now AutoDesk Simulation Mechanical) - Advanced FEA courses in nonlinear, dynamic, transient & multi-physics (Event Simulation), yrs 1988-2002 Solid Edge 3D modeling software (1 week) - Houston, TX, yr 1999 Self-study - AutoDesk Simulation Mechanical, SolidWorks Pro, AutoCAD, FORTRAN, gear design, MS Project, MS Office, yrs 1987-2016 |
| Vendor Selection |
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| Vendor selection & specifications Jackup rig ($300,000) - new elevating gear unit - Full scale load test - strain gaging, load cells & monitoring, premature failure - root cause study consulting Super-critical turbine section ($2,000,000) - repairs to 1st stage assembly replacement - RFQ, proposal & quotation evaluations, recommendations Super-critical steam boiler Weld repairs & heat treatment ($1,000,000 total) - RFQ, proposal & quotation evaluations, direct supervision & approval Offshore cranes - Specifications for hydraulic raising cylinders, winch brakes, steel plate & beams Lift-boat ($1,000,000) - Vendor selection & specifications for jacking/climbing pinion set steel casting & machining Drilling rig structures ($40,000,000 total 3yrs) - Specifications for steel, heavy machined & welded fabrication of to AISC, AWS API Specifications 4F, 8C, 7K Drilling rigs ($2,000,000) - Vendor selection & specifications for Hydraulic cylinders & control valves - Telescopic & other, 3,000 psi Offshore TLP drilling rig - Vendor Selection & specifications for BOP handling design, fabrication, rigging, assembly, test |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Sales & marketing experience As Owner & Patent Licensor - Expert Engineering, Inc. - Patent licensing & sale of consulting engineering As Shareholder - T&T Engineering, Inc. - Patent licensing & sale of proprietary drilling rig equipment designs, sale of consulting engineering As Owner - Integra Engineering, Inc. |
Language Skills
| Language | Proficiency |
|---|---|
| English | Fully proficiency |
| French | Low proficiency |
Fields of Expertise
design verification testing, feasibility study, rapid product development, new product development, mechanical device design, device design, innovation, device patent, design engineering, American Petroleum Institute, mechanical trailer, crane design, hydraulic cylinder design, heavy equipment manufacturing, oil drilling rig, computational heat transfer analysis, nonlinear dynamic response, dynamic force analysis, finite element method, wire rope failure analysis, welding failure analysis, steel failure analysis, metal failure analysis, machine component failure analysis, gear failure analysis, root cause failure, failure analysis, finite element analysis software, simulation, SolidWorks, 3D design, computer-aided engineering software, computer-aided engineering, finite element modeling, finite element model correlation, finite element analysis training, nonlinear finite element analysis, finite element analysis, mechanical failure, mechanical metallurgy, wind load, field inspection, machinery design, welding engineering, structural engineering, mechanical engineering, mining equipment, ASME Section IX Code Welding, ASME pressure piping code, ASME boiler and pressure vessel code, iron metallurgy, glass-fiber-reinforced cement, composite material design for manufacturability, hydraulic valve, gas compressor, electrohydraulic valve, composite failure analysis