PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Conduct design reviews with project team, prepare and report on budgets and completion of projects work items.
• Manage activities of outside vendors and suppliers, assuring services and supplies are delivered on time and cost.
• Analyze cost - benefit of capital improvements and evaluate economy of equipment replacement.
• Support start-up and troubleshooting activities and manage field work and construction issues. Proposal contract development, strategic planning, and cost-benefit analysis.
• Writing of functional specifications, project standards, specification of control equipment, safety interlock systems and instrumentation, process controls design and system commissioning.
• Developing new capital projects and improvements to existing processes for teh client. Design, size, and order equipment and implemented control strategies to decrease downtime, increase productivity, and reduce costs.
• Providing technical support for start-ups and process and equipment evaluations. Specified, justified, and recommended new equipment purchases based on process and cost analyzes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

System Design/Startup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completing a conversion consisting of teh following field assessments walk downs, instrumentation design, conduit, loop diagrams, wiring, controls, panels, electrical cabinets and final logic diagrams. and redline drawings.
• Responsible for function FAT and SAT tests and loop checks and tuning for all points responsible for teh design and implementation of all logic and graphics plus teh design criteria and all associated documents.
• Responsible for teh design and integration for teh DCS and PLC for teh Control System and BOP integrating different systems.
• Creates and/or modifies control system configuration and operator interface parameters as needed (adding/modifying additional control loops, adding, deleting /changing graphics, etc.) plus tuning teh control system to design standards.
• Developed functional and detailed design requirements, configure, program and implement MES systems validation and implementations. Plus provide documentation and hands on of personnel on new system.

Confidential, New Orleans, LA

Lead Process Control Engineer

Responsibilities:

• New design, field assessments walk downs, instrumentation design, conduit, loop diagrams, wiring, controls, panels, electrical cabinets and finally logic diagrams.
• Responsible for teh coordination of drawing and technical issues between field, vendors, and teh operations group. Including Instrument specification & sizing of all Instruments purchased and reviewed, included Valves, Relief Valves, Level, and Pressure, calculations. Incorporating new design standards saving ½ teh man hours and costs by a third.
• Implemented all range changes and field modifications for teh support of start-up and troubleshooting activities. Define project scope and deliverables, develop and refine design specifications, create and execute work schedules and ensure
• Creates and/or modifies control system configuration and operator interface parameters as needed (adding/modifying additional control loops, adding, deleting /changing graphics, etc.) plus tuning teh control system to maximize teh operation
• Coordination between Client and Process Design Teams for teh development of new capital projects packages, analyze product lifecycle improvements to existing processes, and select and procurement components and equipment with project owners and work groups, prepare and report on budgets and completion of project milestones implemented control strategies to decrease downtime, increase productivity, and providing cost savings of 2.5 to 3 million dollars. and cutting man hours in half

Confidential, Norco, LA

Owners System Acceptance/Startup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Acted as owner’s engineer for teh coordination of drawing and tech issues between field, vendors and teh operations group - consisting of doing design, field assessments walk downs, instrumentation/controls design, conduit, loop diagrams, wiring, controls, panels, electrical cabinets logic diagrams. Sign off of design documents including redline pickups.
• Instrument specification and sizing of all Instruments purchased and reviewed,of Valves, Level, and Pressure calculations.
• Having train end users and operations in optimization, troubleshooting, tuning and analysis of process control issues
• Responsible for implementation of all logic/graphics/range changes plus teh design criteria for teh DCS and PLC related to teh Control/Safety System and BOP Skids integrating many different process controls platforms.
• Create and/or modifies control system configuration and operator interface parameters as needed (adding/modifying additional control loops, adding, deleting /changing graphics, etc.) plus tuning teh control system to maximize teh operational efficiency. Review system alarm history and addresses cause and effect issues plus debottling effort
• Trained end users and operations in optimization, troubleshooting, tuning and analysis of process control issues. Technical support for start-ups and process equipment evaluation utilizing. Reviews of system alarm history and cause and effects.

Confidential, Baton Rouge, LA

Startup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an Instrumentation Engineer in a Refinery and Special Chemical environment developing new capital projects and improvements to existing processes for teh client on site - Consisting of teh following items designed, sized, and ordered equipment and implemented control strategies to decrease downtime, increase productivity, and reduce costs
• Optimized current processes through trials; developed trial plans, coordinated testing plan, personnel, performed statistical analysis, and wrote reports. Providing technical support for start-ups and process and equipment evaluations. Specified, justified, and recommended new equipment purchases based on process analyzes
• Creates and/or modifies control system configuration and operator interface parameters as needed (adding/modifying additional control loops, adding, deleting /changing graphics, etc.) plus tuning teh control system to maximize teh operational efficiency. Reviews system alarm history and addresses cause and effect issues.
• Coordination between Client and Process Design Teams for teh development of packages, analyze product lifecycle, and select and procurement components and equipment, Conduct design reviews with project owners and work groups, prepare and report on budgets and completion of project milestones.
• Support start-up and troubleshooting activities on site. Between a design team based in India and Process Design group in Baton Rouge. Incorporating a new improved work group process saving 1/3 of man hours plus half of teh budget costs
• Oversee system equipment installation and start up consisting of configures, FAT and SAT tests, and loop checks, troubleshoots all components of teh control system /balance of plant items.

Confidential

Process Control Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Oversee teh Conversion and Upgrade of programming and Fat/Sat testing for GE Fram 5. Plus teh overhaul and update of 10 generator units. acting as a owners engineer for teh coordination of drawing and tech issues between field, vendors and teh operations group - consisting of doing new design, field assessments walk downs, instrumentation/controls design, conduit, loop diagrams, wiring, controls, panels, electrical cabinets and logic diagrams. Having saved ¼ of teh man hours and savings of a 1/3 for teh cost of new design due to control improvement in design process.
• Developed new capital projects and improvements to existing processes for teh Plant. Designed, sized, and ordered equipment and implemented control strategies to decrease downtime, increase productivity, and provide costs saving.s
• Create and/or modifies control system configuration and operator interface parameters as needed (adding/modifying additional control loops, adding, deleting /changing graphics, etc.).Having been responsible for function tests plus tuning teh control system to maximize teh operational efficiency of teh plant power grid with cost savings of six hundred thousand
• Having developed packages, analyze product cycle, and select and procure components and equipment, plus design review. Specified, justified, and recommended new equipment purchases based on process for all me and E portion of all work products
• Train end users and operations in optimization, troubleshooting, tuning and analysis of process control issues. Technical support for start-ups and process and equipment evaluation utilizing. Reviews of system alarm history and cause and eissues.
• Upgrade programming and implementation of four small cap budget projects for Provox to Delta V conversation.
• Programmed and familiarly with switchgear and motor control centers, including protective relay concepts and interlocks.