Ryan Joseph Q. Tatel – Mechanical Engineer, Content Writer

Hello, I am Ryan, I am a Mechanical engineer with supervisory experience in the field of project management, maintenance, and reliability, planning and scheduling, manufacturing and packing operations, design, and engineering.

I started my career as a Mechanical engineer in a local Engineering, Procurement, and Construction firm (EPC) Mechanical design engineer, where I learned and understood how to effectively engineer and design equipment including but not limited to steam generating units, pressure vessels, heat exchangers, air handling units, flue gas handling units, gas treating vessel, and power piping. Here, we are guided by the international code like ASME, HEI, JIS, API, AS/NZS, PSME and Engineering principles we gain from University.

After my stint as a Mechanical Design Engineer, I challenged myself to do fieldwork to learn what it takes to handle and manage people. I applied as a Mechanical Engineer to one of the leaders of a Cement Manufacturing Company in the country. Here I was hired and admitted to their Cadetship program where we were trained and taught through fieldwork. The process that involves the manufacturing of cement, from Quarry to Packhouse down to customers, where we met people that recognize and trust the brand. During those days, I was trained to handle and manage contractors, service providers, and colleagues as part of the Maintenance team.

After this cadetship program, I was trained and positioned as a Mechanical Inspector Engineer, where I do specific inspections like vibration analysis, thermal analysis, and oil analysis. As an inspector, I do generate work orders based on first level inspection and second level inspection using a Computerized Maintenance management system called Maximo. I became part of our Reliability centered maintenance where I facilitate root cause analysis (RCA), Pareto analysis, and cost-benefit analysis together with my manager and division manager. Because of this, I was pulled out and transferred to the New Works department as Mechanical Project Engineer to be part of the preparation and planning, and implementation of Debottlenecking Projects of our Pyro-processing (kiln debottlenecking). From this experience, together with our consultants from KHD, we studied the existing plans and structure and proposed improvements on the equipment that may limit or hinder the debottlenecking project. This includes demolition of transport equipment, relocation of utilities like water tanks and bunker fuel pumps to name a few. As part of the team of New works, I was given an opportunity to handle major Capex and Opex projects and I was trained for project planning and scheduling, using MS Project, Cost estimating and material take-off, Contractors Negotiation, and management and project management using S-curve and contractors and process safety.

Because of the pandemic, Improvement projects within the plant were halted. I was transferred to be a Dispatch Engineer in our Packinghouse to serve as a catalyst of improvement on Operation. Here I am the Operations Engineer reporting directly to our Division Dispatch Manager. As part of the Dispatch Operations engineer role, I manage and supervise the subcontractors that provide operation of our packing house. I manage and coordinate maintenance schedules and packing schedules for the involved parties (plant’s production, supply chain, and customers). I also conduct slow-down analysis and time and motion studies to improve the speed of our GIGO and increase our dispatch volume.

Aside from my engineering role in the plant, I also do part-time jobs in the field of designs of Mechanical, electrical, Plumbing, and Fire Protection systems (MEPFPs). I can do 2d and 3d designs, cost estimates, and material takeoff, and engineering analysis. I also accept online tutoring jobs (in the field of Mechanical engineering, thermodynamics, fluid machinery, and Engineering mathematics, currently I am a tutor in Course hero that is located in California.) and thesis-making assistance projects. The latest thesis that I made was a study related to the early diagnosis of single-phase motor using vibrations analysis interpreted in Matlab.

I can perform mathematical documentation in languages like KaTEX and laTEX. I also have a programming background in MATLAB, VBA, MS EXCEL, Javascript, and Anaconda python.

I hope I could be part of this inspiring virtual team and hoping for success working with the Virtual Assistant Team.

For a copy of Ryan’s resume please click here.