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Elliot Svensson, P.E. - Engineer - Data Analysis - Project Management

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Location: Richmond, California, USA

Relocation: East Bay, North Bay, SF, or remote

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Elliot Svensson, P.E. Richmond, CA 94803 Mobile: (510) 761-9357 [email protected] https://www.linkedin.com/in/elliotsvensson SUMMARY: PROJECT ENGINEER / MANAGER Results-oriented project engineer, project manager, and owner s representative with ten years of experience in design, estimating/budgeting to $10 million, project engineering, and eld engineering for projects to $100 million, and six years additional experience developing automated mechanical systems. - MEP Experience includes mechanical, electrical, piping, and civil/structural disciplines. - Mechanical work includes oil re nery projects to $1B in the San Francisco Bay Area. - Projects consisted of both retro t and new construction work involving process and utility piping to 24 inches. Electrical projects include in-plant interconnection up to 1000 kW. - Capable of performing mechanical piping design and design review. - Managed design teams up to (10) designers and engineers for SWAT Energy, Jacobs, and Eichleay. Completed MOC process and design package quality review for projects to $25 million. - Performed responsible thermodynamic, hydrodynamic, historic plant productivity, and ASME vessel modi cation / repair calculations as well as big data analysis. With Corteva Pittsburg and Chevron Richmond, gained 2 years of experience as single point-of- contact with permitting agencies for building permits and in-water work in the SF Bay Delta. With Anvil Engineering at Shell Catalysts and Technologies in Pittsburg, Calif., gained 1 year of experience as sole construction manager for in-situ process and equipment changes. Experience is supported by pro ciency in the following computer software programs: MS Word*, MS Excel*, MS SharePoint*, MS Access*, SAP (ERP)*, AutoCAD*, SolidWorks (with Simulation and PDM), Primavera (P6), NavisWorks, Bluebeam Revu, Excel Online, JMP Statistical Discovery, Google Sheets*, Google BigQuery*, SQL*, MATLAB*, IBM Maximo Asset Management, KMS MOC, Python*, JupyterLab* (* indicates experience in programming and automation) Berkeley grad (B.S. Mechanical 04) Project Engineer & Project Manager December 2022 - February 2024 Anvil Corporation full-time on-site with Shell Catalysts and Technologies - Pittsburg, CA Responsible to execute projects in design phase as well as construction phase in an active chemical plant ranging from $1 million to $15 million. Provided financial and technical leadership, interfacing with all relevant stakeholders at the chemical plant as well as with the engineers and designers proposing new designs. Conceived and executed a novel machine guarding mechanism for a major human hazard identified late in the project cycle. Served as construction manager to complete in-situ process modifications involving 30-year-old equipment upgrades, including changes to screening equipment on a powder-processing line. Project Engineer & Project Manager May 2021 December 2022 Blue Apron LLC, Richmond, CA Led process automation projects at multi-site SQF-certi ed food manufacturing company. Standardized contractor safety and GMP indoctrination. Conducted data analysis for productivity and logistics tracking using Looker together with SQL. Simulated new ful llment center robots against historic data prior to investing, using Python. Completed trials of novel machine vision system for tracking boxes to pallets. Project Engineer & Project Manager June 2018 June 2020 Eichleay, Pittsburg, CA As leader for small capital projects at the 100-year-old Dow Chemical / Corteva Agriscience plant: Engineering Supervised consultants on process equipment projects up to $3 million from FEL construction. Maintained SharePoint library of relevant project les needed by outside consultants. Coordinated design review and operations planning for new equipment integration. Management Tracked subcontracts and forecast spending. Managed schedule and planned for contingency. Acted as focal point for engineering team safety program and produced weekly safety content. Managed permits for in-water work in the SF Bay Delta with public agencies. Project Engineer Feb 2017 May 2018 WorleyParsons (now known as Worley), Chevron Richmond Re nery, Richmond, CA As member of the project management team to a $1 billion brown eld re nery project: Represented the project to city building department in order to obtain approval and eld documentation of two hundred permits and permit revisions. Created a macro to dramatically reduce drawing e ort for drawings that locate permit elements. Tracked, prioritized, and streamlined permit applications from cradle to grave. Project Engineer Oct 2014 Feb 2017 Jacobs (acquired by Worley in 2018), Chevron Richmond Re nery, Richmond, CA As management representative to small and large capital projects: Engineering Performed technical planning and basis-of-engineering for complex projects to be executed during shutdown. Checked design packages against 3D-model, project speci cations, and eld conditions. Analyzed cost vs. bene t of reliability improvements intended to reduce outages of 50-year-old hydrogen compressors. Interpreted production records and work order history for the estimation. Management Led a design project to provide 30% estimates for electrical, instrumentation, xed equipment, and rotating equipment improvements for four aged 6000hp hydrogen booster compressors. Coordinated cross-checking to ensure that each design discipline is incorporated into a complete construction package: chemical, mechanical, civil-structural, electrical and instrumentation. Resolved technical issues with local and corporate subject-matter experts and other stakeholders. Provided mechanical and managerial eld support for $35 million piping replacement project. Engineer, Manufacturing / Systems Design / HMI June 2013 Oct 2014 Heliodyne, Richmond, CA As lead engineer at a manufacturer of original solar hot water components, controllers and systems: Engineering Created supplier speci cations for diverse components using SolidWorks: screwed pipe ttings with O-ring seals, extruded aluminum components, sheet metal parts, die cast aluminum, electrical enclosures, packaging, custom cross-section rubber gaskets, etc. Performed FEA and testing to validate design criteria. Sized piping and pumps for rooftop arrays with heat exchangers, instrumentation and tanks. Developed a SalesForce application for phone tech support screening and product issues tracking. Product Management Troubleshot and developed improvements to legacy PLC systems: control code, data management, consumer & commercial HMI-over-HTML, web-based monitoring / monitoring web server. Applications Support Walked new builds for quality control. Commissioned systems. Trained installers and owners. Product Engineer Manufacturing & Construction Reliability June 2010 June 2013 SunPower Corporation, Richmond, CA As problem-solving quality engineer within this manufacturer of utility-scale solar power components: Design Engineering Originated & implemented mechanical improvements to cost, quality, and schedule. Applied GD&T for quality improvements with this ISO 9001 manufacturer. Analyzed and delivered a welding design change to mass-manufactured structures using SolidWorks. Failure Analysis and Recovery Interpreted standards and company speci cations for construction, manufacturing, and QC of steel Components manufactured both in the eld and in factories. Performed eld investigation, CAPA and RCA for various failures of bolt, screw, and weld joints. Identi ed and executed a continuous improvement (CI) initiative for a critical control instrument. Developed diagram-rich maintenance and retro t procedures for existing products. Project Engineer August 2007 December 2009 SWAT Energy, Richmond, CA As design team leader for capital projects at Chevron Richmond Re nery: Provided engineering leadership for the design team of a $25 million project. Coordinated piping design, civil/structural, process, stress, and other disciplines. Interfaced with operators, engineers, and quality personnel to satisfy stakeholder requirements. Reviewed drawings to identify issues with quality, manufacturability, cost, serviceability, code compliance, client acceptance, and technical quali cation. Process Kit Engineer May 2005 June 2007 Engenuity Systems, Fremont, CA As mechanical design engineer at this start-up for processing LCD display glass semiconductors: Envisioned, designed and tested chemical process equipment in SolidWorks and AutoCAD. Evaluated design criteria using nite element analysis (FEA) and conventional hand calculations. Assembled and tested designs. Produced product documentation. Designed retro ts and improvements for eld deployment. An Engineering Manager s Toolbox Leadership Customer Needs and Project Scope Decision Register Project Framing: Risk / Success Criteria Project Execution Systems Resource Forecasting Con ict Resolution & Compromise Talent Development Team Decision / Consensus Leadership Technical Procurement Planning Statistical Methods Risk Prioritization Turnover Documentation Subcontract Varieties & Options Contract Change Management P&IDs and PFDs PivotTables in Excel SQL Data Acquisition Skills Root Cause Analysis Failure Mode and E ects Analysis (FMEA) Custom Tracking Spreadsheets / Apps Scheduling Software: MS Project & Primavera (P6) Layouts and Plans Plant Management of Change Documentation SAP Enterprise Resource Planning University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering August 2000 - December 2004 Central Contra Costa Sanitary District Co-Op Engineering Internship Program Plant Operations Dept. Internship (Instrumentation Engineering) January 2004 June 2004 California Board for Professional Engineers & Land Surveyors Professional Engineer, Mechanical License # 35321 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Member 2005 Present Keywords: continuous integration microsoft California Colorado