1. Edwin E. Gutiérrez U.
edwin.gutierrez.ca@gmail.com / edwin.gutierrez@reliarisk.com / http://ve.linkedin.com/in/reliabilityengineer
58-412-529-2068.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATION:
♦ Senior Reliability Engineer and Former Rotating Equipment.
♦ BSc. in Mechanical Engineering with Master in Reliability Engineering.
♦ 16 years of industry experience in the area of Reliability Engineering Improvement Process Management, Asset
Maintenance Strategies, Performance Evaluation of Rotating Equipment, Condition Monitoring Strategies,
Maintenance Engineering and Managing Reliability Engineering Projects.
♦ Leader in the design and implementing of reliability improvements focused on increase system’s and equipment’s
availability, reliability and reducing the life cycle cost through the application of reliability engineering studies and
methodologies.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY AND EXPERIENCE:
2003- 2014. SENIOR RELIABILITY ENGINEER AT RELIABILITY & RISK MANAGEMENT S.A.
♦ Reliability Engineering support of core corporate processes in reliability, maintenance and asset management for
industrial facilities; management of reliability engineering projects by leading and facilitating multi discipline teams;
initiating and performing reliability studies and analysis to provide assurance of required process equipment
availability target and total cost of ownership.
♦ Designed and implemented reliability’s improvements, focused on increase system’s and equipment’s availability,
reducing the life cycle cost through the application of reliability engineering studies and methodologies.
♦ Developed effective asset maintenance plans and strategies for new and existing equipment (determining
equipment criticality, optimizing predictive, preventative and detective maintenance strategies).
♦ RAM specialist (reliability, availability and maintainability analysis), experience modeling production systems using
software such as RAPTOR 7.0 and RAMP 3.5, etc.
♦ Applied Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) methodology, extensive experience in facilitation, teaching and
developing FMEA & FMECA analysis (certified by ALADON) according to the standards SAE-JA1011, SAE-JA1012,
SAE J1739 and ISO-14224.
♦ Specialist and Instructor in Root Cause Analysis for different companies, clients, and technical problems.
♦ Performed RCA to eliminate or minimize repetitive failures and other technical problems that affect plant’s
operations (capacity, quality, maintenance or operation costs).
♦ Applied data analysis techniques, including statistical process control, reliability modeling and prediction, Weibull
analysis and failure reporting analysis and corrective action system (FRACAS)
♦ Provided input to a risk management plan that will anticipate reliability-related and non-reliability-related risks that
could adversely impact plant operations.
♦ Review projects for maintainability, providing input on new equipment selection, defining spare part requirements,
communicating PM/PdM expectations, participating in final check-out of new installations, defining maintenance and
related training requirements.
♦ Specialist & advisor in life cycle economical analysis and cost risk optimization.
♦ Applied risk based inspection methodology (RBI) on fixed equipment, using standards API 580 & 581.
♦ Experience with CMMS software: SAP-PM and Maximo.
♦ Support in dynamic performance evaluation and troubleshooting on rotating equipment: (vibration analysis (stable
and transient state)
1997-2003 ROTATING EQUIPMENT ENGINEER - PDVSA (OIL AND GAS COMPANY).
VENEZUELA.
♦ Rotating equipment engineer focus on condition monitoring for the main gas compression plants, electrical power
plant, steam plant and oil flow stations (Offshore Plants). Duties included:
• Support in dynamic performance evaluation and troubleshooting on rotating equipment: (vibration analysis level
III (stable and transient state), operational parameter analysis, oil analysis and endoscope inspection). Using
CSI 2115 & CSI 2120, TEAC recorder, Bently Nevada, Windrock/Recip Trap software and hardware, Olympus
and HP tools. These analysis were carried out on the following equipment: centrifugal compressor, gas
turbines, centrifugal pumps, gear boxes, gas and diesel engines, reciprocating compressor, reciprocating
Pumps, air-cooled-exchanger, etc.
• Endoscope inspections on Gas Turbines, such as: General Electric-LM2500, Rolls-Royce RB-211 and AVON,
Solar Turbines (Centaur 50 and Mars 90), Power Turbines RT-62, 48, DR-61, DR-125, DJ-270 and 290.
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2. • Carry out the tribology analysis for the used lube oil (spectrometry, viscosity, water detection, acid number (AN)
and particle counting analysis).
• Current analysis and magnetic flow on electric motors.
• Optimize the maintenance and inspection frequency on rotating equipment using APT Inspection Software.
• Development the maintenance plans based in reliability centered maintenance methodology (RCM II).
• Root cause analysis on rotating equipment’s problems.
• Support in dynamic performance evaluation and troubleshooting on rotating equipments.
• Planning and coordination the preventive maintenance on rotating equipment.
EDUCATION AND CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
♦ Master Reliability Engineer, Honors’ Mention. Simon Bolivar University - 2007. Caracas-Venezuela.
♦ Long Term Course, Reliability Engineering Methodologies: 2005-2006. Maracaibo-Venezuela.
♦ Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering: 1997. Maracaibo-Venezuela.
PUBLICATIONS:
♦ Technology Application of Risk Based Inspection (RBI) for Generating Optimal Plans Inspection for Fixed
Equipment in the Oil and Gas Industry.2014. Mexican Petroleum Congress.2014.
♦ Tutor of many Thesis of the Specialization Program of Reliability Engineering at Simon Bolivar University in
Venezuela.
♦ Paper” Risk Cost Optimization for the determination of maintenance or replacement frequencies” 2014. Published in
the Magazine “Maintenance in Latin America”. Volume 6 # 3.
♦ Technical Authority for the II Congress of Operational Reliability. 2012.
♦ Book New “Integral Reliability. A Practical Focus”. Author and Co-Author-2010.
♦ Paper “Cost Risk Optimization to determine the optimum maintenance or replacement frequency”. 2010.
♦ Coauthor of the Methodology "Risk Analysis Cost Benefit for Projects in the Oil and Gas Industry.2009.
♦ Book “Integral Reliability. A Practical Focus”. Author and Co-Author-2007.
♦ Paper “Integral Asset Care (IAC)”. 2006
♦ Paper “Criticality Analysis for the Care of Assets”. 2006.
♦ Paper “Redesign of Maintenance Strategies using the Methodology Reliability Maintenance Center, published and
presented in the 1st
Operational Reliability Congress of Pdvsa - Venezuela. 2001.
CERTIFICATIONS AND AFFILIATIONS:
♦ Member Venezuela’s Engineer College.
♦ Predictive maintenance specialist. Certified vibration analysis level II (CSI).
♦ Computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). User of SAP-PM and Maximo.
ANOTHER SKILLS:
♦ Troubleshoot and analyze equipment malfunction, failures analyses and machinery performance evaluation.
♦ Plan, coordinate and support machinery repair.
♦ Condition base spare parts planning.
♦ Maintenance planning based on condition and predictive analysis
♦ Knowledge of health, safety and environmental requirements.
♦ Knowledge of machinery industry standards.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
♦ Crystal Ball, RARE, Best Fit, RAPTOR 7.0, RAMP 3.5,
♦ Master Trend Software & RBM for CSI 2115 & 2120, ADRE Bently Nevada (GE): ADRE, Snap/shop, System 1,
Windrock/Recip Trap and TEAC Recorder.
♦ Software SAP, MAXIMO, Windows, MS Office and MS Project.
♦ Microstation 8.0.
LANGUAGES:
♦ Bilingual English-Spanish.
♦ Bilingual French -Spanish.
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