Gilbert Colon-Paisan
System Engineer
The Woodlands,TX
Summary
Current Systems Engineer with an active DoD clearance supporting US Navy surface ships fleet readiness. Experienced in hull, mechanical, and electrical (HM&E) systems with prior experience as a test engineer on Navy aircraft carriers and in commercial construction. Proficient in complex engineering systems with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
1
1
Language
Work History
System Engineer
Serco-NA, Inc
01.2024 - Current
- Serving as contractor providing technical support to US Navy Surface Ship Fleet.
- Part of a team that work closely with the US Navy Technical Community in delivering quality readiness support to sailors.
- Support the surface ship community by providing oversight of life cycle analysis, maintenance and resolution of high visibility issues, serving as a liaison with personnel from across the Surface Warfare Enterprise (NAVSEA, Naval Surface Warfare Centers, Type Commanders, Fleet, Regional Maintenance Centers, SURFMEPP, Planning Yards), and other Naval Field Activities and interfacing with Naval Activities and NAVSEA Program Offices to support modernization efforts, Fleet emergent task and Advisory planning and execution of resolution for all Surface classes.
- Perform technical engineering analysis and installation drawings, standard installations procedure reviews.
Provide oral and written recommendations concerning the Navy Data Environment and Entitled Process.
Provide technical support review, impact analysis for shipboard systems, operation maintenance/repairs on surface ships. - Draft Naval Fleet Advisory messages delineating administrative objectives and policies and procedures in response to equipment/machinery failures and safety issues. Compose Naval Advisory Messages utilizing Naval CMP message writing program. Maintain the Electronic Advisory Record Repository and Tracking System (eARRTS) for all surface ships.
- Track Departure from Specifications (DFS) through eDFS in eFORM and Naval Surface Warfare Center Maintenance and Reliability Database (MRDB).
- Develop Hazard Assessment Report (HAR) in eFORM through eHAR supporting administrative objectives and policies and procedures in response to safety of personnel and equipment and providing mitigation or eliminating the hazard.
- Develop PowerPoint and Excel Spreadsheets that track progress and capture historical data for various hull, mechanical and electrical systems. Collaborate with stakeholders regarding technical, logistics, and other fleet issues and coordinate resolution of these issues.
- Extract operational data, conduct research and analysis utilizing government websites, and provide analyses to stakeholders. Using Critical Thinking skills, break down problems into smaller components and work with stakeholders to resolve technical issues.
- Attend meetings, draft written meeting minutes and reports. Participate in working groups, forums, analytical activities as required to accomplish contract.
Structural/Project Engineer
Newport News Shipbuilding
7 2022 - 01.2024
- Worked in Waterfront Value Stream in sustain and maintain of dry docks and piers across shipyard
- Worked in providing high level estimates, planning, design and construct support on projects and finishing them within budget and on schedule.
- Responsible for project concept design and scheduling, drawing development and approval of complex design criteria, calculations and final drawings issued for constructions.
- Developed RFQ packages for bid and award process.
- Provided technical work instructions, commissioning and construction checklists, and turnover of assigned project work.
- Inspected or directed inspection of construction and installation progress to ensure conformance to established drawings, specifications, and schedules.
- Coordinated and managed multiple technical functions including geotechnical, civil, mechanical, electrical, industrial engineering disciplines, along with it's maintenance and operations department.
- Received training courses of AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor in support of modeling docks and piers components to support in technical work instructions
- Mentor for student's senior capstone of the Catholic University of America in developing new universal capstans around the drydocks requested by our customer in support of the hauling and towing navy ships.
System Test Engineer
Newport News Shipbuilding
11.2020 - 07.2022
- Test Engineer for Advance Weapons Elevator (AWE) on aircraft carrier new construction, consisting of troubleshooting system components and perform test in accordance to ship specifications.
- Obtain test director qualifications for Ford Class aircraft carriers.
- Conducted combined tests in accordance with Newport News Shipbuilding test procedure and Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) System Operability Test and Verification and Validations.
- Prepared test schedules or test plan for combined test program.
- Prepared and conducted test briefs with NAVY personnel and Newport News Shipbuilding trade force prior to test.
- Generated test inspection reports for retesting system components for elevators.
- Perform wireless testing and voltage standing wave ratio on RCoax and RFS cables with its return loss using Anritsu and TDR for optimal operation of wireless system of lower stage elevators.
- Perform wireless configuration test on wireless system for lower stage elevators.
- Review and wrote alterations for weapons elevator and actuator test in accordance with ships specs and inspection reports.
- Support in technical guidance and advised user of alternative approaches when troubleshooting and grooming.
- Perform troubleshooting on electrical components on elevator equipment space cabinets and wireless system for weapon elevators.
Facilities Engineer
Huntington Ingalls Industries
07.2019 - 11.2020
- Worked in aircraft carrier new construction facilities value stream in planning, designing and managing construction of new facilities to support aircraft carrier programmed increased capacity for aircraft carrier program.
- Worked on design/build project for new 75M production facility and personnel space to support two-ship carrier buy, consisting of lifting super modules with 300-Ton crane and trades force support building next to it, increasing quality of life and efficiency for aircraft carrier program.
- Worked on demo of 99-year old chimney to eliminate future failure of it and damage personnel, equipment and buildings.
- Worked in planning, designing and construction of improvements for roadway to support self propelled modular transporter (SPMT) performance carrying over 800 tons of modules.
- Worked in design & construction of new management for electrical, gas and air lines to be hanged overhead by doing high level estimates and schedule.
Service Provider & Project Lead
G&N General Contractors Inc
12.2015 - 05.2019
- Worked with Abbott, Cooper Vision, Valcor-Samcor and PepsiCo. clients to improve capacity for facilities.
- Pepsi Co.- Worked on blast and coating inside cooler rooms to eliminate contaminant hazards on product.
- Abbott- Build office rooms and machinery room to increase space capacity for new facility and add new assets to accelerate production time.
- Cooper Vision- Build concrete foundations for new pressure vessels in mechanical patio.
- Valcor-Samcor- Project Lead
- Analyzed project to determine resource requirements and procured necessary equipment and software.
- Provided team with coaching and direction.
Capstone-Senior Design
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.
08.2018 - 12.2018
- Global Corporation focused in medical innovations for structural heart disease and surgical monitoring.
- Worked with group of students in the improvement of the cycle time of an injection molding to a 30% reduction time, which created the end caps for PC tubes for valves.
- Made design of experiments with data collected for different batches of experimentation of end caps.
- Made cost analysis for caps when 30% reduction time was achieved.
Engineering Intern
Huntington Ingalls Industries
06.2018 - 08.2018
- Collaborated with senior engineers on projects by providing drawings of outfitting berth and information on assets used and documented on SAP.
- Did case study consisting on collecting data on how many bikes were inside shipyard and where biggest population of bikes in order to try and reduced maintenance cost.
University Project- Powertrain Engineer
RUM Racing Baja SAE Team
08.2017 - 05.2018
- Team that designs and builds a recreative, all-terrain car for the goal to compete in the "Collegiate Design Series".
- Worked on the powertrain division to decide the new components researched to apply and designed a system that could reach an optimum speed and horsepower to complete every event in the competition.
- Developed a Simulink program for the powertrain system implemented on the Baja to find the power output and validate it by testing it on a dynamometer.
- Designed brake pedals, master cylinders, false floor for protection of the master cylinders.
- Done structural static and modal analysis of false floor in NX and ANSYS to find factor of safety and verify it didn't cause resonance with the engine.
University Project - Assistant Engineer
UPRM Moon Buggy Design Team
01.2016 - 05.2017
- Team that builds human-powered rovers for competition hosted by NASA.
- Worked on the wheel's team to decide the new improvements and optimization of the rover design.
- Manufacture prototype of wheel with aluminum sheet and High-Density Polyethylene Tubes (HDPE).
- Manufactured customized hubs.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
Mayaguez, PR 08.2013 - 05.2019
Skills
Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook,MATLAB, ANSYS, NX, AutoCAD, Autodesk Inventor, CREO
Welding, Fiberglass, Drywalls, Concrete
Injection Molding
Fluent in English
Ladder Logic (PLCs), SAP, Arduino
HVAC
Project Management
Certification
OSHA 30 Construction, Safety and Health
Timeline
System Engineer
Serco-NA, Inc
01.2024 - Current
System Test Engineer
Newport News Shipbuilding
11.2020 - 07.2022
OSHA 30 Construction, Safety and Health
09-2019
Facilities Engineer
Huntington Ingalls Industries
07.2019 - 11.2020
Capstone-Senior Design
Edwards Lifesciences Corp.
08.2018 - 12.2018
Engineering Intern
Huntington Ingalls Industries
06.2018 - 08.2018
University Project- Powertrain Engineer
RUM Racing Baja SAE Team
08.2017 - 05.2018
University Project - Assistant Engineer
UPRM Moon Buggy Design Team
01.2016 - 05.2017
Service Provider & Project Lead
G&N General Contractors Inc
12.2015 - 05.2019
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
University of Puerto Rico - Mayaguez
08.2013 - 05.2019
Structural/Project Engineer
Newport News Shipbuilding
7 2022 - 01.2024