Welcome!

Welcome to this new blog for Shell & Tube Heat Exchanger people. I have been involved in this type of work since before I was conceived... I have so many people in my family who do this type of work that I literally grew up learning about it before I went to work doing it myself at the age of 18.

I started in the Machine Shop on a radial drill. I moved up to the CNC drills, then to the boring mills & lathes. Eventually I became a leadman at the age of 23 and then a permanent night shift supervisor. After a while I started drawing the attention of the engineering manager and other supervisors and was offered a job as a draftsman (no cut in pay of course). I took him up on the offer and have worked in engineering ever since. I'm almost 29 years old now and still find many aspects of the design and manufacture of shell & tube heat exchangers both interesting and fascinating.

I have worked over the years on building up my knowledge of engineering & manufacturing, and also my knowledge of computers. I learned how to write computer programs & applications and how to fix computer hardware and network various office machines and equipment.

I have designed, written code, and developed several mechanical engineering & design software applications specific to shell & tube heat exchangers. Among my best is the CAD/CAM software I developed to generate programs for the CNC equipment. The code used for these applications was written in several programming languages; among them is Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 & .NET, AutoDESK's AutoLISP for AutoCAD, and various Microsoft Office applications' programming environments, such as Microsoft Excel & Excel VBA.