20 years of collective experience, expertise and knowledge to work for your company. My ability to produce innovative and effective designs, work as a team player, and meet deadlines, together with my attention to detail, have contributed to my successes in engineering. I have performed and directed a wide variety of activities, including development and implementation new systems and technologies. I possess outstanding design, analysis, and problem-solving abilities, and am adept at determining specifications, preparing diagrams and schematics, and authoring all documentation. I am skilled at working with clients, technical, and business teams to provide information and solutions to potential and existing issues. I have directed teams, projects, and departments, and am familiar with supervise all managerial functions, training, and scheduling. I am an effective organizer and planner.

1. In January 2003, I began my career as a designer apprentice at Northrop Grumman and after
completion of this program in 2006; I enrolled in the drafting and design program at Mississippi Gulf
Coast Community College. In 2007, I graduated from MGCCC with an Associate of Applied Science
degree in Drafting & Design.
This was a major milestone, respectively, due to hard work and dedication by receiving multiple degrees.
Prior to obtaining these goals, I was a Pipefitter. I worked in the pipefitting craft for over a decade.

2. MGCCC’s program provided me with
the skills to draw plans on paper and
computers. Some of the courses that
the curriculum exposed me to was
elementary surveying, architectural,
mechanical, structural, pipe and civil
drafting.
MGCCC’s program promoted flexibility
in drafting skills and provided a well
rounded background in drafting for the
graduate. This education has been
immensely helpful in my career by
allowing the liberty to gain
fundamental to advance levels of
drafting and design in several
disciplines.

3. As a pipe designer at Northrop Grumman, I operated in the knowledge and awareness of the processes
and technology that are employed by the company. Northrop Grumman’s LHA6 Design Group was responsible for
taking the Concept or Preliminary Design as an input and developing the Detail Design during Functional,
Transitional, and the Production Drawing and NC Aid Development phases as well as supporting Engineering Test,
Field Engineering, Supply Chain, and Ship Construction. . This is accomplished by reviewing and using
computer layouts using pipe specifications, administrative and technical practices, design instructions, pipe
diagrams, and supplier information. These tasks are performed on computers using drafting software called AutoCAD.
The following software was utilized during my work as a designer:
 AutoCAD
 Calma
 Catia
 Microsoft Office Suite (Power Point, Access, Excel, & Word)
 Adobe PDF

4. After attending Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC), I went on to further my education at
the University of Southern Mississippi.
• Bachelor of Science, Applied Technology, Cognates include: Design, Technology, Project
Management, and Business, University of Southern Mississippi, Gulf Coast Branch
– Honor Graduate 5/2010
Photo Above: Elementary AutoCAD drawing I completed while attending college

5. • Northrop Grumman’s LHA6 Design Group had the ability to modify its AutoCADsoftware for personal
use. A project manager has been assigned the responsibility to meet the current needs of the group with
application upgrades that further automate and improve company processes of design. This was done
by using AutoLISP or Visual LISP. AutoLISP is a powerful programming language that allows you to create
your own commands and routines, tailored to the needs of the group. VLISP is an integrated
development environment that provides an easy-to-use interface that helps create code, debug errors,
and test programs.
• I was presented with exposure to gain a familiarity with this process.

6. An accomplishment I am proud of is as a project manager and mentor , I was able accomplish as the lead, the
benchmark, for professional accountability in my department.
Strategy and project management
As my former company faced a slow and stagnant economy, I was able to lead projects with 100% accountability
and my personal score was the highest within the entire department. I was placed on projects for project
management leadership and counsel for professional strategies to be implemented within specific projects.

7. • I have been involved in high-level projects. The steps within one particular project called for me to be in the initial,
ground-breaking, design for the LHA & LHD Navy Amphibious Ship at Ingalls (formerly Northrop Grumman)
Shipbuilding.
• The project required the ship to be designed using AutoCAD 2D design.
– interpret the requirements and design the ship from the system drawings that were constructed from
military specifications.
– the first phase required to create composites based on different piping systems that could in later phases be
used to develop detailed piping drawings per piping systems.
– detail drawings were created and submitted to planning and later to the piping department for construction
purposes.
– respond to field problems that made the initial design impossible to install.
– change papers had to be created to document and track changes to design/reconcile changes
– revision of the drawing and the composite to indicate that the baseline drawing had been changed to meet
the specs and field issues that prevented the initial design to be installed as first designed.

8. • A group of five employees were tasked to by upper management to assist in the conversion and training. Within
this hand-picked selected group, I emerged as the leader of the selected few.
– We were tasked to find a solution of how our department could become more efficient of certain files which
were initially Calma 3D files into AutoCAD files. We were put into a team of five people who were pretty efficient
doing the conversion work due to software conversion.
– We were asked to evaluate our co-workers by inquiring what was their process and why a large number of
employees were having irreconcilable issues with the conversion.
– After formulating what processes would best work together, we had to write the process and instruct others how
carry these processes out so we could have a unified process system and produce efficiency in the turnover of
these drawings.
– The conversion process consisted of – Once the program converted the file to the AutoCAD file, there were no
standards for each item on the drawing. We were tasked to make the drawings come up to AutoCAD standard
for Ingalls shipbuilding which required us to make sure everything was in its proper layers, proper colors.
– We had to put the file, initially, in the model and as it progressed and/or required everything that did not go
within the model we had to bring those things into the layout tab out of the model then whatever the
requirement were within the model we had to leave it in the model

9. Although I began an extensive
journey to become a seasoned
professional design engineer, I
must admit my love for drafting
was unearth early on.
While in high school, I hand
drafted a couple’s dream home.
Although they offered to pay me,
I was not allowed to accept any
financial compensation for my
drawings yet it motivated me to
fulfill my goal of becoming a
drafter/designer.
Above: Drawings I provided for remodeling a home

10. I have shared with you how I worked my way up from being a Pipefitter.
When I first came to Ingalls Shipbuilding, I was a young adult that went
through the pipefitting apprenticeship, then I earned two Associate
degrees. While earning those degrees, I worked in Weight Control, (as
shared earlier) Design Apprenticeship program, then Design Engineer for
over a decade afterward, I became a Systems Engineer II.
As I am recommended by peers, colleagues, managements, and
departmental leaders one of my greatest accomplishments is having the
respect of them because of the integrity and quality of my work.
Having stated this, its always my goal to bring added value to any company
that has provided an opportunity for me to be employed by them. Just as
they have invested in me, I invest in them by producing quality and
efficient work.