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David Rivers

La Marque,TX

Summary

Experienced Engineering Consultant, Software Engineer, and Tech Team Group Head with over 11 years of experience in Risk-Based Inspection Assessment and Asset Integrity Management in the oil and gas industry. Significant expertise in managing and delivering timely, high-quality Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) implementation and reassessment projects. Adept at developing custom IDMS QA tools and workflows for large-scale, multi-million dollar assessment projects, working collaboratively as the RBI SME liaison between engineering and software teams for Equity's PlantManager ASSET and RBI systems, and recognized for delivering exceptional quality work and innovative solutions for clients' most complex mechanical integrity needs.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Tech Team Group Head, Risk-Based Inspection Staff Software Engineer II & Developer

CorrSolutions
Houston, USA
11.2024 - Current
  • Leading a multi-disciplinary team of Software Developers and Data Analysts to develop the next generation of AI-Based Tooling and Web Applications and modernizing and centralizing our legacy, Excel-based tools for our consulting engineers and project managers with the goal of increasing data entry efficiency, decreasing data input error, and increasing personnel availability across the CorrSolutions team.
  • Worked with key Equity engineering and software stakeholders to develop a Corporate-Level IDMS migration service that emphasized data migration quality, consistency, and client collaboration.
  • Performed Enterprise Level database migrations from major IDMSs (PSAIM, PCMS, etc.) into Equity’s new PlantManager ASSET IDMS.
  • Managed a large multi-year PCMS Implementation revamp project (over $1 Million), utilizing a diverse team of RBI engineers, inspection specialists, and data analysts to systematically rebuild assets within major process units from the ground up, fixing everything from PCMS configurations and cleaning up major data gaps to redesigning and rebuilding equipment and piping modeling and performing scheduling.
  • Worked as one of the key RBI SMEs to provide critical software testing and QA/QC feedback for the PlantManager ASSET RBI module and was integral in ensuring the product being designed for our clients is both highly reliable and integrates seamlessly with the rest of PlantManager.
  • Worked with Software Business Development leads to present software demos and training to key customer stakeholders leading hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of software sales and IDMS migration and implementation work.
  • Worked as the primary software migration SME to move clients' production RBI databases from legacy Equity Software into Equity's latest PlantManager system, thus retaining tens of thousands of dollars worth of subscriptions.

Software Quality Manager/RBI Staff Software Engineer

The Equity Engineering Group
Houston, USA
08.2023 - 11.2024
  • Transitioned to Software Development to expand my skills in the technical software side of Equity Engineering and employ my programming and QA skills to leading and revamping our Software QA and Software Helpdesk Teams.
  • Operated as the Software QA Lead to optimize our QA capabilities in the areas of Unit Testing, End-to-End Testing, and UI Automated Testing, which lead to significantly smoother deployments of our new PlantManager 6 SaaS Asset Integrity Management System (AIMS).
  • Operated as Software’s HelpDesk Lead and Tier 2 tech support of any and all of Equity’s APIRBI and SAGE related client concerns; this entailed, one-on-one client support, standing up databases to reproduce bugs, provide software demos and training, and liaising between clients and our engineering SME teams to solve time-sensitive issues.
  • In 2024, I transitioned into an RBI Staff Engineer Developer role to accelerate the development efforts of transitioning our state-of-the-art APIRBI module from our desktop application code base into our web-based PlantManager 6 SaaS environment; during this time I leveraged my domain knowledge to provide significant feedback on design revamps and functionality enhancements to enable a more seamless integration of the RBI module into PlantManager ASSET.
  • I also performed a deep dive comparison case-study into key changes and bug fixes made between two Fortran code bases that were over 4 years apart to provide a key oil refining client with insight into the differences seen within their RBI 581 engineering calculations for Consequence of Failure; this proved critical in determining a Go/No-Go decision to upgrade their Enterprise PlantManager RBI System.

Risk-Based Inspection Engineer

The Equity Engineering Group
Houston, USA
09.2014 - 07.2023
  • Risk-based inspection project management (new implementation and reassessment RBI projects).
  • Collaborated with Inspection, Process Engineering, Operations, and Metallurgical experts, both internally and externally, to create a detailed RBI Analysis.
  • Was a key member of the RBI Team regarding the accurate modeling of various failure modes and Event Outcomes that helped quantify the amount of affected area due to a release of primary containment from a vessel.
  • On-site risk-based inspection evergreening of API RBI Databases.
  • Taught API 580/581 RBI Inspection methodology and Software Training courses, both nationally and internationally to a variety of plant personnel disciplines through Equity Training Institute, including engineering, management, and inspection.
  • Specialized in the technical areas of the team, which included developing QAQC tools, Inspection Planning Summaries, and project scheduling and KPIs for large multi-million dollar projects, both in-house and through collaboration with clients.
  • Worked on-site with a major Fortune 500 Refining company for two and a half years to support their multi-million dollar multi-year PCMS IDMS and RBI Reassessment project; I was in charge of leading a software development team at the site to create a robust QAQC tool that not only finds issues and recommends fixes, but created KPIs for management to make Go-No Go decisions on completion of milestones.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering – Materials Option

University of Tulsa
Tulsa, OK
05.2014

Skills

  • AspenTech HYSYS
  • Microsoft Excel
  • MS Visual Basic for Applications
  • XML programming
  • SQL Server database management
  • SQL Server querying and scripting
  • AI Tooling (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • MS Azure DevOps
  • Fortran
  • PCMS
  • PlantManager APIRBI and ASSET
  • GE APM
  • Database migration
  • QA testing

Certification

Engineer-In-Training (EIT) - Oklahoma

Timeline

Tech Team Group Head, Risk-Based Inspection Staff Software Engineer II & Developer

CorrSolutions
11.2024 - Current

Software Quality Manager/RBI Staff Software Engineer

The Equity Engineering Group
08.2023 - 11.2024

Risk-Based Inspection Engineer

The Equity Engineering Group
09.2014 - 07.2023

Bachelor of Science - Chemical Engineering – Materials Option

University of Tulsa
David Rivers