Houston Offshore Engineering

Staff

The staff of Houston Offshore Engineering distinguish themselves in two ways:

Individually, they are experts in their disciplines, recognized in the industry in all key offshore engineering disciplines: Naval Architects, structural engineers, marine systems engineers and riser engineers.
Together, they are seamlessly integrated into a team through many years working side by side on world class projects.

Even before Houston Offshore Engineering started business more than six years ago, the technical leads were already working together as the deepwater systems team at a major EPCI contractor (responsible for NaKika semisubmersible, Kizomba A and B TLPs and the Magnolia TLP). The benefits of the longstanding relationship between discipline leads, working together to solve tough challenges designing offshore platforms, cannot be overstated. Houston Offshore Engineering is much more than a collection of highly qualified individuals, the company represents a seamless design team ready to support your project.

Learn more about our management team:

John W Chianis, PE
President

Ngok W Lai, PE
Manager of Operations

Philip B Poll
Manager of Projects

Jun Zou, Ph.D.
Manager of Naval Architecture

Joey E Lopez
Manager of Design

When-Yen Tein, PhD, PE
Sr. Principal Structural Engineer

Peter A. Kitchen
Manager of Marine Systems

Wink F. Miller
Senior Principal Structural Designer

Shan Shi, PhD, PE
Manager of Riser Systems

Chuck Brown
Sr. Principal Piping Designer

Ronald Vrijland
Principal Structural Engineer

HT Chen
Senior Principal Naval Architect

Bambang A Sarwono
Engineering Advisor