Coating Inspector

I am seeking a position to utilize my skills as a NACE Certified Coating Inspector, bringing to bear over 34 years experience in the Coating Industry and a well engrained sense of integrity and pride in my work.

1. 1972-2002; Painting Contractor; President of P. A. Grisso Painting Contractors, Inc. Projects: Southeastern Adhesives, Ridgeway, Virginia- blast & paint structural steel, process vessels, tanks; Celanese Corporation, Narrows, Virginia- application of glass flake epoxy on 6 tanks at acetone refinery; Intermet Corporation, Radford Virginia- vacuum blast and paint approximately 240,000 s.f. structural steel in plant rehab for Vulcan Engineering; Weyerhaeuser Corporation, Newbern, North Carolina- soda blast and paint vessels during Plant Optimization Project, Becon Construction/Kavaerner Pulping; Exxon Terminal, Roanoke, Virginia- recoat interface tanks; New Power Plant, Hurt, Virginia, Zachary Energy Systems; Blast and recoat at wastewater treatment facility for Charlotte Pipe, Charlotte, North Carolina; Blasting, painting and lining tanks, process piping and concrete basins in water and waste water treatment facilities in Danville, Radford, Altavista, Lynchburg, Henry County, Suffolk (vinyl ester liner), and Campbell County, Virginia; Special coatings (including FRP linings) for Virginia Polytechnic Institute School of Veterinary Medicine Dry-Rendering Facility; Blasting and painting structural steel during occupancy at the Roanoke Regional Airport, Virginia.
2. July 2002-Present; Coating Inspector, KTA-Tator, Inc
Inspection of surface preparation and application of 100% solids epoxy inside baghouse dust collectors at coal-fired power plant, Clarksville, Virginia; Inspection of surface preparation and painting of numerous bridges for Virginia Department of Transportation, Lead Inspector on several multi-structure projects; Coating condition assessments of bridges for the Orlando Expressway Authority, Florida; Coating condition assessments on 22 elevated water storage tanks for the Spartanburg Public Service Authority, South Carolina; Coating condition assessments of FRP linings inside fuel storage tanks at the Craney Island Naval Fueling Depot, Virginia; Inspection of spray metalizing process for Columbia University at shop Alabama; Shop inspection at steel fabricator facility of structural steel coatings for Oceana Naval Air Base; Inspection of plural-component linings of flocculation basins at the Staunton, Virginia Water Treatment Plant; Inspections and inspection oversight of water tank coatings in Bedford, Pulaski and Alleghany Counties, Virginia.

Virginia Western Community College
Virginia Commonwealth University

NACE International Certified Coating Inspector #7677
SSPC Certified Protective Coatings Specialist #1015-920-1395
Completed NACE Successful Coating and Lining of Concrete course
Completed NACE Marine Coating Inspection course
Completed NACE Bridge Inspection course
Completed SSPC C-2 Specifying and Managing Protective Coatings Projects
Completed SSPC C-3 Supervisor/Competent Person Training for Deleading Industrial Structures
Completed ICI Devoe Coatings Devmat 3-D application course

LANGUAGE ABILITIES
English (fluent)
Spanish (limited)
French (limited)
German (limited)
Greek (limited)

COMPUTER SKILLS
Knowledge of MS Office applications including Word and Excel
QuickBooks Pro
Expert Estimator
Construction Workbook (CWB-6)
E-mail and Internet

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
NACE International
SSPC Society for Protective Coatings

STANDARDS AND SPECIFICATIONS
NACE, SSPC, ASTM (past voting member of Committee D01, Paint and Related Coatings, Materials and Applications), Construction Specifications Institute

INSPECTIONS
Bridges, concrete and steel tank linings, water tanks, spray metalizing, steel shop inspections, coating condition assessments

EQUIPMENT
Non-destructive and destructive coating inspection instruments including wet and dry film gages, low and high voltage holiday/discontinuity detectors, Tooke gage, and hydraulic adhesion testers, abrasive blast equipment, vacuum blasters, paint sprayers (airless, conventional, HVLP)