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reviews, requesting and monitoring budgets and working with marketing to ensure proposals get printed and shipped on time. Alvarez also must update and maintain all sales prospects for office forecasting, processing new awards, prepare and give sales update presentations to the project managers forum as well as the bi-weekly sales meetings. He is involved in proposal activities that include working with all disciplines to prepare write-ups, man-hour estimates, execution plans, organizational charts and schedules for proposals. At that point, Alvarez will prepare management review packages that include global pricing models that demonstrate his understanding of the cost build up and how Fluor will make a profit depending on the commercial structure taken or requested by the client. The graduate of New Mexico State University with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering has had a variety of technical experiences. These include the analysis of: storage and loading systems of liquid propane and butane as well as LNG cryogenic piping systems; surge analysis and for- mulated loads from the surge analysis for adequate design; and multiple reciprocating compressor piping systems.
Laura Bullock Project Engineer Fluor
Laura Bullock is an Ironwoman, and not just when she competes in the Amateur Triathlon World Championships for Argentina and the United States. During her six years with Fluor Corporation, a professional services firm, provid-
ing engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance, as well as project management services, she has been involved in a spectrum of activities. These include proposal development, project scope definition, schedule planning, coordination of engineering activities, development of project execution plans and other project documents. Presently, Bullock works on the project management side of the Summit Texas Clean Energy Project. It integrates Siemens gasification and power-generating technology with carbon capture technologies to effectively capture 90 percent of the carbon dioxide at a 400-megawatt plant to be built near Midland-Odessa, Texas. The captured carbon dioxide is used in enhanced oil recovery work. Bullock’s earlier posts included sales support and she started out as a process design engineer on oil refineries. Prior to Fluor, she was a sales engineer for Nalco Chemical Company and as a process improvement specialist for Kawasaki. The native Argentine, who recently became an American citizen, graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a minor in physics and computer science.
Roger Farish
Plant Design & Pipe Engineering Lead Fluor
Roger Farish is currently working on the Edison Project, a biotechnology facility to be con- structed near Seoul, South Korea. In his position as plant design and pipe engineering lead he is responsible for piping design, piping materi-
als engineering, pipe stress engineering, piping material control and leading plant design and piping engineering personnel. His portfolio also covers developing and updating, providing man-hour estimates, and the schedule of piping engineering activities. Farish acts as the point of contact for project clients in the areas of equipment layout, piping, valves, pipe support/hangers, pipe stress analysis, and overall material selection/ substitution. Other posts he has held at Fluor include plant design and
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piping engineering lead in Fluor Nuclear Power, materials and stress engineering lead on Sipchem’s Jubail Acetyls Complex Acetic Acid Plant where he managed part of the high alloy pipe fabrication purchase order and served as the acting point contact for all project disciplines on mate- rial selection and substitution issues. Prior to Fluor, he worked for Bechtel. He was responsible for design engineering and construction engineering for facilities located at the Energy Department’s Savannah River Site. A professional engineer, Farish graduated summa cum laude from Tulane University with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in mechanical engineer- ing. He currently is working toward his Master’s of Business Administra- tion at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Valentin M. Bustamante Systems Senior Staff Engineer General Dynamics
The certified systems engineer has 13 years of experience developing software for digital communications systems and experience in embed- ded and cellular networks. His responsibilities at General Dynamics’ C4 Systems division in Scottsdale, Arizona, include building or improving systems critical for U.S. military operations and national defense. Con- structing those complex information systems requires analyzing customer needs and creating and communicating system specifications to design- ers, developers and testers. His skill set contains experience in system design, development and leadership of software systems, including specifications for battlefield management systems, sensor management, and communications systems. Before General Dynamics, Bustamante was a principal staff software engineer at Motorola, Inc. where he led a software integration team to develop and deliver four cellular handsets and features including software build plans, and interface with marketing, manufacturing, and other disciplines to develop release strategies. He is the holder of one patent, filed in 2005, for a rapid push-to-send data ex- change method and apparatus in a multi-wireless network environment, and two disclosures, which are the written description of an invention. Bustamante has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University-Las Cruces and a systems engineering certificate from Arizona State University.
Jorge Navarro Idaho National Laboratory
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is operated by Battelle Energy Alliance. INL is one of the Department of Energy’s 10 multi-program national laboratories. The lab performs work in each of the strategic goal areas of DOE: energy, national security, science and environment. INL is the nation’s leading center for nuclear energy research and development. Jorge Navarro, 31, was born in Mexico and after high school worked as a computer data capture analyst, before enrolling in University of Guanajuato mining engineering school. But the min- ing exploration aspect of science was not for him and he switched his major to chemical engineering and moved onto the University of Utah. There he received his bachelor’s degree and entered the nuclear engineering graduate program where he is pursuing a Ph.D. In 2008, Navarro arrived at INL as a space nuclear research summer fellow and worked on a NASA space-related project. Since then he has worked on upgrading the methods and codes for the Advanced Test Reactor (ATR) where his job is to develop and apply non-destructive gamma spectroscopy techniques in order to validate the new ATR modeling tools and to support the ATR fuel management process. In 2009, Navarro became an American citizen.
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