Resume

Alphonse Aliperti, PE
236 Stamford Avenue
Stamford, Connecticut 06902
aaliperti77@gmail.com
203.359-1631 (H)
201.916.0385 (C)

EXPERIENCE

ALIPERTI CONSULTING ENGINEERS, LLC (Current)
Provide a variety of engineering services for power generation, power delivery, process and facility projects.

POWER ENGINEERS, Inc. /Burns and Roe Enterprises, Inc. (1997-2017)
VP/Director of Engineering/Project Manager

Managed large multi-discipline Engineering Division consisting of 150- 400 engineers, designers, drafters and contract staff in several offices. Responsible for competitive proposals including strategy, “top-down” and “bottoms-up” engineering and capital cost estimates, work plans, schedules, proposal preparation and presentations to clients. Responsible for several major clients.

Directed Engineering and Design efforts for a wide variety of new and upgraded facilities including:

Power Plants:

Combined Cycle Gas Turbine Plants
Simple Cycle Gas Turbine Plants
Reciprocating Gas or Diesel Plants
Renewable Power including Solar, Wind and Fuel Cell
Coal Fired Power Plants
Nuclear Power Plants

Energy Related Projects:

Transportation including rail, bus depots, tunnels and airports
Educational facilities including Universities and K-12
Federal facilities for Department of Energy (DOE)

Process facilities:

Chemical including monomers, polymers, plastics, and chlorine/caustic
Pharmaceutical including bulk and dosage form
Oil and gas including refinery upgrades
Food and beverage including candy, sweeteners and tea

Major Achievements:

Integrated Engineering departments after acquisition of Burns and Roe by POWER Engineers including resolving cultural and methodology differences.

Implemented Integrated SmartPlant engineering software including 3D Design/Modelling to improve productivity and accuracy.

Managed the update of Company Standards and Procedures as part of a quality improvement initiative to comply with both ISO 9001 and ASME NQA-1; Company received “N-stamp” as a result.

Developed techniques for analyzing and documenting Hazardous Locations for power plants; currently used as the model for NFPA/OSHA compliance.

Implemented Power Distribution Concept (PDC) for electrical supply equipment on gas turbine power plants, saving costs over “stick-built” design; PDCs are now the norm for the power plant industry.

Representative Projects:

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems America-Energy and Environment Division

As Client Service Manager and Project Manager secured and executed environmental projects as well as coal power plant conversion projects.

GE Power and Water

As Client Service Manager and Project Manager assisted GE in developing Combined Cycle reference plant designs using latest GE state of the art “F” and “H” gas turbine technology.

Doosan Engineering and Services

Led the POWER (BR) team that established an alliance with Doosan including licensing technology for design of fossil power plants, that resulted in a $50MM increase in revenue for the Company.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA)

As part of the multi-company team for the Second Avenue Subway, provided conceptual design in the electrical, controls and HVAC areas. Work was performed at the Second Avenue design center in lower Manhattan.

U.S. Department of Energy

Engineering Director for Depleted Uranium Hexaflouride (DUF6) plants in Ohio and Kentucky to convert DUF6 waste products to stable and usable chemical products.

School Construction Authority of New York City (SCA)

Provided detailed engineering and inspection services for NYC school upgrades including:

School boiler conversions from coal to natural gas
Computer additions to classrooms (Smart Schools program)
Air conditioning to classrooms to allow summer school programs (Cool Schools).

JOHN BROWN Engineering & Construction /Crawford &Russell, Inc. (4/84-10/95
Engineering Manager/Project Manager/Principal Engineer

Handled projects within the pharmaceutical, food, biotechnology and chemical industries that included bulk processing, manufacturing, packaging, laboratories, warehouse, and plant office areas. Managed the electrical and instrumentation departments peaking at 85 engineers and designers.

Major Achievements:

Planned and implemented the company Quality Improvement Process based on Philip Crosby Associates principles. Specifically responsible for motivating staff to improve work process utilizing several techniques such as: quality action team meetings and facilitation, quality newsletter articles, bulletin board displays, and employee recognition. Also taught Quality Work Group education classes.
As a Quality Auditor, participated in the successful company efforts to secure ISO 9001 quality certification. John Brown was the first USA process contractor to gain certification.
Analyzed CAD vendor software and hardware, performed benchmark tests, and recommended systems supplier. Implemented the conversion of electrical engineering activities to computer assisted tasks utilizing CAD systems. Directed the development of an automated drawing process to produce diagrams and plans from database, thus providing considerable time and man-hour savings as well as improve quality; process is now the standard.
Specified and directed the automation of the capital cost estimating process through in-house software development utilizing ORACLE database software. The new program improved estimate accuracy and reduced preparation time by 50%.

Project Manager/Engineer

Served as Project Manager for several hazardous locations audit and upgrade projects involving multi-unit chemical plants for ARCO Chemical Company and GE Plastics.
Directed a fast-track Control System Upgrade project for a large latex facility; coordinated activities of all involved disciplines especially electrical, instrumentation, and process control. The existing control system was converted to a new state-of-the art Distributed Control System (DCS) with data collection by an upstream management information system (MIS). Conversion was planned for, and achieved with, minimal plant downtime.

Representative projects include:

Energy Research Fuel Cell Plant in Connecticut
GE Environmental Services Flue Gas Desulfurization Plants in China
ABB Environmental Systems Flue Gas Desulfurization plant in Pennsylvania
Union Carbide plant upgrade and maintenance projects in NJ
Olin Chemical chlorine-caustic plant in Alabama
Borg Warner ABS plants in Illinois and Scotland
General Electric Lexan plants in Indiana and Alabama
G.D. Searle NutraSweet plant in Georgia
Goodyear polyester plant in West Virginia
Borden Chemical PVC plant in Louisiana
G.D. Searle pharmaceutical in Puerto Rico.

EDUCATION:

University of Connecticut, (UCONN) MBA with honors; December 1993
City College of New York (CCNY), Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical)
Stebbing and Partners International, Quality Management Systems Auditor Training; August 1992
Philip Crosby Associates Quality College, Quality Improvement Process Management; October 1990
OSHA 10 hour Construction Safety and Health; September 2015

LICENSES:
Professional Engineer in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and several other states.

PROFESSIONAL
Institute of Electrical and Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE

AFFLIATIONS:
National Fire Protection Association – NFPA
National Society of Professional Engineers – NSPE (Past chapter-president)