1. Dennis W. Dobbs
15017 Cloverdale Road, Woodbridge, Virginia 22193 | (703) 201-8229 | dennisdobbs@verizon.net
Professional Education
1981
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
Bachelor of Science,
Mechanical Engineering
Licenses
Professional Engineer
North Carolina – 12951
Virginia – 037947
Maryland – 50025
Certified Maintenance and
Reliability Professional
Professional Courses
• Ethics in Engineering
• CSI Vibration Analysis
• Advanced Project
Management
• Technical Writing
• Expert Systems (DEC)
• Managing Interpersonal
Relationships
• Total Productive
Maintenance
• Positive Negotiation
• Business Law &
Contracts
• Statistical Quality
Control
• Implementing ISO 9000
• Reliability Centered
Maintenance
• Life Cycle Cost Analysis
• Advanced Accounting
• Budget & Finance Mgmt
• Advanced Management
and Supervision
• Group Action
• Apollo Root Cause
Experience Summary
35+ years experience in technical management that includes
engineering, maintenance, construction projects, reliability
improvement, and mechanical systems engineering and design. In depth
experience in maintenance and computerized materials management
systems including ground floor implementation and training.
Experienced in industrial maintenance management, development and
implementation of NDT predictive maintenance programs, development
and implementation of industrial maintenance planning, and
optimization of industrial logistics group. Responsible for project cost
and revenue projections, economic justification, and supervising design,
specification, and construction of numerous industrial systems
including chemical systems, high volume pumping systems, biological
nutrient reduction systems, dense and dilute phase conveying, bulk
material handling, power & free systems, pneumatic and hydraulic
systems, HVAC, and environmental control.
Relevant Career Experience
2016 – Present
Senior Technical Consultant, Ross Technical Services, Inc., Ellicott
City, MD, U.S.A.
Responsible for analyzing, reporting, and implementing new
management strategies for clients in large industrial firms. Provide
engineering Process System analysis, development, and design of
equipment to improve long-term continuous uninterrupted operation of
plant assets. Analyze capabilities of plant Operations and Maintenance
departments and provide instruction to Plant Operations, Maintenance,
Planning, & Reliability personnel. Specific instruction includes:
• Predictive Maintenance programs and techniques – Infrared
Analysis, Vibration Analysis, Oil Analysis
• Development, creation, and automation of:
o Operations and Maintenance Performance Reporting
o Statistical Predictive Maintenance programs
• Development of Maintenance and Operations Preventive
Maintenance and Standard O/H Job Plans
Identify needs and create engineering solutions and technical contract
specifications to perform maintenance tasks. Perform analysis of
materials management to improve efficiency and reduce costs.
Responsible for assessing clients' maintenance management program,
developing strategies to improve maintenance efficiency and reduce
costs, and implementing these strategies.
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2. Analysis
• GE Bently Nevada
System1
• Primavera Project
Management
• Wastewater Plant
Mathematics
Computer
Systems/Software
Knowledge
• Windows 10
• MS Project
• MS Access
• MS Visio
• MS Word
• MS PowerPoint
• MS Excel
• SQL
• Visual Basic
• Word Perfect
• CMMS TabWare
• MP2 Enterprise
• Photoshop
• PageMaker
• Adobe Acrobat Prof
• Dreamweaver
• Fireworks
• HTML
• Datafit
• Primavera
• Expedition
Organizations
• Society Of Maintenance
and Reliability
Professionals
• National Society of
Professional Engineers
• American Society of
Mechanical Engineers
Professional Publications
and Presentations
• 2005
Best Value Procurement
Per our Ross Technical Services Mission Statement - We excel in
providing experienced, trustworthy project support for the success of
our clients.
1998 – 2016 - Retired
Plant Planning & Reliability Supervisor, Department of
Environmental Services, Water Pollution Control Bureau,
Arlington County, VA, U.S.A.
Responsible for developing and providing engineering analysis and
solutions on plant design, maintenance of equipment, and operation for
the long-term continuous uninterrupted operation of plant assets.
Reviewed requests for proposal (RFP’s) for contracts, cost-estimates,
designs, and specifications for plant expansion and capital projects and
Master Plan and recommended or made changes based on engineering
standards and plant needs. Performed Life Cycle Cost Analyses on
selected plant equipment or facilities based on historical data, vendor’s
data, or other engineering data to achieve the lowest 20-year life-cycle
cost and Best Value Procurement. Developed, implemented, and
managed predictive maintenance (PdM) programs for rotating
equipment, instrumentation, and electrical equipment including
vibration analysis, lube oil analysis, thermography, corrosion
monitoring, condition monitoring, and preventive maintenance.
Provided technical support to Maintenance Supervisors and Craftsmen
while working closely with the responsible Planners in the field on day-
to-day activities. Provided leadership for troubleshooting and
conducting failure modes, effects, and cause analysis (FMECA), Pareto
analysis, root cause failure analysis, and other statistical analysis.
Developed engineered solutions to maintenance and operation problems
and produced engineering packages (design calculations, design
drawings or sketches, complete specifications, RFP’s) on projects.
1997 – 1998
Operations Manager, MManTec, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Corporate engineer responsible for development, execution, and
management of facility maintenance at 700+ Federal Express sites
(from New York to Key West and west to Memphis) through 200 field
mechanics and 4 field Maintenance Managers. Responsible for policies,
procedures, quality control, cost control, and training of maintenance
managers for maintenance execution and management. Responsible for
monthly client invoicing and documentation, for developing and
tracking monthly expenditure reports and productivity reports.
Responsible for CMMS (computerized maintenance management
system - MP2 from Infor) integrity and overall system management.
1996 – 1997
Sr. Maintenance Engineer, Jacobs-Sirrine Engineers, Greenville,
SC, U.S.A.
Responsible for developing a maintenance management organization,
materials management system, and implementing strategies in a large
industrial manufacturer to optimize maintenance efficiency and reduce
costs. This was accomplished by creating an equipment asset database,
improving maintenance management techniques, implementing PM and
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3. VWEA
WEFTEC
• 2009
Calculating the GHG
Emissions at a Virginia
Wastewater Treatment
Plant
VWEA
Professional References
Stephen James, PE
URS Corporation
2020 K Street NW, Suite
300, Washington, DC
ofc# 202-772-1332
cell# 202-834-0450
stephen.james@urs.com
Christopher W DiDio, PE
CWD Consulting LLC
cell# 443-983-7068
Chris@CWDConsultingLL
C.com
Patrick Lynham
Applied Industrial Tech.
1406 Leslie Ave
Alexandria, VA 22301
ofc# 703-548-4935
cell# 202-497-7249
plynham@applied.com
Languages
• English – read, write,
speak
• Indonesian – read, write,
speak
PdM programs, implementing a CMMS, setting up materials and spare
parts, and improving equipment operation through FMECA analysis,
maintainability analysis, and detailed SJP's and O/H plans for
turnaround/shutdown. Develop and present project proposals and
reports to clients which included manpower loading, schedule, cost
calculations, and project accomplishments. Client was Sterling Pulp
Chemicals, Inc.
1993 – 1996
Technical Services Manager, Sr. Technical Consultant, P. T. Alas
Buana Raya, Jakarta, Indonesia.
Responsible for hiring, training, and supervising 20 local engineers, one
accountant, and one administrative assistant in a new engineering
department in Indonesia (Java, Kalimantan, Sumatra). Responsible for
directing the engineers' project assignments and daily supervision of
progress and performance. Responsible for developing engineering
contracts containing cost/revenue budgets, schedule with Gantt and
CPM charts, detailed scope, and execution plan. Responsible for
developing and acquiring new engineering projects engineering in
Indonesia and neighboring countries. This was accomplished through
development of technical references, internal training programs,
external seminars, marketing tools, maintenance and reliability
improvement programs, maintenance and reliability analysis software,
and materials management improvement programs. Technical resource
for products developed in a project's execution including maintenance
SOP’s, detailed SJP’s and O/H plans for turnaround/shutdown, PM and
PdM programs, and implementing a CMMS. Principle Engineer in
design and development of a proprietary Failure Analysis and
Downtime Tracking software (Relasyst) and PM Scheduling software
(PMLevel), both multi-lingual. Single project revenues varied from
$10K to $2.5M.
Clients included Pertamina (Oil Company), Jasa Marga (government
toll road management and construction company), Federal Motor
(Honda Motorcycle Producer), Institut Teknologi Bandung
(Engineering Institute), and PUSRI (Chemical Processing Company).
1989 – 1993
Project Manager, Senior Maintenance Engineer, Maintenance and
Operations Technology, Fluor Daniel, Greenville, SC, U.S.A.
Supervised teams of maintenance engineers, materials engineers, and
technicians in implementing new management strategies for clients in
large industrial firms and manufacturers. Responsible for assessing
clients' maintenance management program, developing strategies to
improve maintenance efficiency and reduce costs, and implementing
these strategies. Many of the implementations were done in plants with
a union workforce. This was accomplished through improving
maintenance management by implementing PM and PdM maintenance
programs, improving materials management, and improving equipment
operation through RCM analysis and other reliability programs, and
detailed SJP's and O/H plans for turnaround/shutdown. Developed and
presented project contracts and reports to clients which included
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4. manpower loading, schedule, cost calculations, and project
accomplishments. Single project revenues varied from $10K to $4M.
Clients included Procter & Gamble, The New York Times, Pertamina
Oil Company (Indonesia), King Abdul Aziz University Health Sciences
Service Center (Saudi Arabia), Ford Motor Company, Pillsbury, Procter
& Gamble, Midland Cogeneration Venture, Knorr Best Foods, Takeda
Chemical Products, Aluminum Company of Canada (Alcan), and Mack
Trucks.
1981 – 1989
Assistant Maintenance Manager, Senior Mechanical Engineer,
Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), Badin, NC, U.S.A.
Supervised union craftsmen (+600) and foremen responsible for routine
plant maintenance, project maintenance activities, and Predictive
Maintenance. Responsible for implementing a new maintenance-
planning program, a new plant-wide CMMS, and a new PdM program.
Supervised design, specification, cost justification, installation, and
tracking of a variety of plant projects to improve existing processes and
install new processes. The projects included buildings, proprietary
equipment, bulk material handling systems, power & free conveying
systems, HVAC systems, environmental control systems, fluidized bed
reactors, pneumatic and hydraulic systems, and personal computer
systems. Annual project budgets averaged $4M; annual maintenance
budget $12M.
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